Anjali Bhardwaj Datta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anjali Bhardwaj Datta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anjali Bhardwaj |
| FAMILY NAME | Datta |
| SIGNATURE | DATTA A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: A Country of Her Making
This Introduction frames a collection of papers that explore the roles played by women—as volunteers, organisers, bureaucrats, politicians and citizens—in shaping the emerging ideologies and structures of independent India. Although women’s participation is both understudied and inadequately theorised in existing scholarship, the papers in this collection demonstrate that the decades following India’s Independence witnessed the participation of w…
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi
Partition produced newer anxieties for Delhi’s Muslims as they became subject to the everyday violence of both state and society, exacerbated by the rise of Hindu nationalism and the organised demarcation of Muslim-dominated areas as ‘exclusionary’ and ‘contested’ zones. While the city was fraught with violent conflicts and exclusionary politics, gender was also being redefined and renegotiated. This article will query the particular lived experi…
Genealogy of a Partition City: War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi
This paper makes interventions in our understanding of the histories of Partition. Rather than treating 1947 as a moment of temporal rupture, it argues that processes that were set in motion during the two World Wars persisted into the post-colonial period and proved critical in determining the shape of contemporary Indian urbanism. While the post-Partition Indian state, obsessed with planning capital spaces, used rehabilitation as an instrument …
Useful' and 'Earning' Citizens? Gender, state, and the market in post-colonial Delhi
The Indian state treated the partition of Punjab as a 'national disaster' and training for refugee women was deemed essential to restore the social landscape; yet the kind of help it offered to refugee women rested on its clear assumptions and biases about the kind of work that was appropriate for them: women were offered training in embroidery, stitching, tailoring, and weaving, as these are associated with feminine and household-based skills. T…
Renegotiating the Self: Recovery and Restoration—The ‘Gendered’ Histories of Partition
The paper examines the life histories of women who faced the worst of violence, abduction and then forced recovery and restoration during and after Partition. The entire process brings to the surface the place that women's sexuality occupies in a largely patriarchal world, as women become the repositories of national, communitarian and familial honour It attempts to study the conflicting and ambiguous relationships between the state, social worke…
The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi
Partition produced newer anxieties for Delhi’s Muslims as they became subject to the everyday violence of both state and society, exacerbated by the rise of Hindu nationalism and the organised demarcation of Muslim-dominated areas as ‘exclusionary’ and ‘contested’ zones. While the city was fraught with violent conflicts and exclusionary politics, gender was also being redefined and renegotiated. This article will query the particular lived experi…
Useful' and 'Earning' Citizens? Gender, state, and the market in post-colonial Delhi
The Indian state treated the partition of Punjab as a 'national disaster' and training for refugee women was deemed essential to restore the social landscape; yet the kind of help it offered to refugee women rested on its clear assumptions and biases about the kind of work that was appropriate for them: women were offered training in embroidery, stitching, tailoring, and weaving, as these are associated with feminine and household-based skills. T…
The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India
Renegotiating the Self: Recovery and Restoration—The ‘Gendered’ Histories of Partition
The paper examines the life histories of women who faced the worst of violence, abduction and then forced recovery and restoration during and after Partition. The entire process brings to the surface the place that women's sexuality occupies in a largely patriarchal world, as women become the repositories of national, communitarian and familial honour It attempts to study the conflicting and ambiguous relationships between the state, social worke…
Genealogy of a Partition City: War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi
This paper makes interventions in our understanding of the histories of Partition. Rather than treating 1947 as a moment of temporal rupture, it argues that processes that were set in motion during the two World Wars persisted into the post-colonial period and proved critical in determining the shape of contemporary Indian urbanism. While the post-Partition Indian state, obsessed with planning capital spaces, used rehabilitation as an instrument …
Useful' and 'Earning' Citizens? Gender, state, and the market in post-colonial Delhi
The Indian state treated the partition of Punjab as a 'national disaster' and training for refugee women was deemed essential to restore the social landscape; yet the kind of help it offered to refugee women rested on its clear assumptions and biases about the kind of work that was appropriate for them: women were offered training in embroidery, stitching, tailoring, and weaving, as these are associated with feminine and household-based skills. T…
Introduction: A Country of Her Making
This Introduction frames a collection of papers that explore the roles played by women—as volunteers, organisers, bureaucrats, politicians and citizens—in shaping the emerging ideologies and structures of independent India. Although women’s participation is both understudied and inadequately theorised in existing scholarship, the papers in this collection demonstrate that the decades following India’s Independence witnessed the participation of w…
Nation and Its ‘Other’ Women: Muslim Subjectivity and Gendered Agency in Delhi
Partition produced newer anxieties for Delhi’s Muslims as they became subject to the everyday violence of both state and society, exacerbated by the rise of Hindu nationalism and the organised demarcation of Muslim-dominated areas as ‘exclusionary’ and ‘contested’ zones. While the city was fraught with violent conflicts and exclusionary politics, gender was also being redefined and renegotiated. This article will query the particular lived experi…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · State (computer science (3 works)