Oliver Godsmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 1255334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Godsmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Godsmark |
| SIGNATURE | GODSMARK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Derby |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2972-1699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Global Maoist optics among diaspora: The Indian Workers’ Association during India’s food ‘crisis’, 1965–69
This article considers the responses of the Indian Workers’ Association (Great Britain) (IWA) to food scarcities in India during the late 1960s. It reveals Maoist optics informed IWA critiques, departing from coexistent appraisals articulated in leftist circles in India. In doing so, the article demonstrates the relevance of worldviews, idioms, and paradigms emanating from global conjunctures beyond places of origin among diaspora. IWA luminaries…
Fragmented Sovereignty, Ḍakaitī (Banditry), and ‘Criminal Tribe’ in a ‘Minor’ State of Late Colonial India
Scholars have often considered twentieth-century sovereignty in colonial contexts as increasingly connected to the modern, territorially bounded state, stimulated by the influence of European rule. Yet there remained more malleable and amorphous sovereign configurations well into the twentieth century. Focusing on the case of Indore, a ‘minor’ state in late colonial central India, this article reveals the ongoing dynamism of ḍakait (‘bandits’) wi…
Civis Indianus sum'?Ambedkar on democracy and territory during linguistic reorganization (and partition)
This article considers Ambedkar's ideas about the implementation of democracy in India, in the context of the linguistic reorganization of provincial administrative boundaries. In doing so, it looks to emphasize the importance of territorial configurations to Dalit politics during this period and, in particular, the consequences of 'provincialization', which has received little attention within the existing literature. Rethinking space by redrawi…
Searching for Synergies, Making Majorities: The Demands for Pakistan and Maharashtra
This paper re-examines the demand for Pakistan as part of a wider ‘federal moment’ in India by addressing its connections with the contemporaneous calls for Samyukta Maharashtra in the context of the Cabinet Mission of spring/summer 1946. It highlights how the twinned processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the inter-war years informed these demands. Both Muslim and Maratha representatives looked to locate and create autonomous …
Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960
This book delivers ground-breaking perspectives upon nascent conceptions and workings of citizenship and democracy during the colonial/postcolonial transition. It examines how processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the interwar years contributed to demands and concerns and offers a broadened and imaginative outlook on India’s partition. Drawing upon a novel body of archival research, the book ultimately suggests Pakistan might …
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy by Aishwary Kumar
Reviewed by: Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy by Aishwary Kumar Oliver Godsmark Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy By Aishwary Kumar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 Aishwary Kumar’s intellectual history makes a novel and exciting contribution to the progressively expanding literature concerning Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), a Dalit1 lawyer, political thinker and social refor…
Citizenship, Reservations and the Regional Alternative in the All-India Services, ca. 1928–1950
This paper unearths an alternative paradigm through which to consider the discussions and debates between members of the Indian public, government bureaucrats and Congress Party politicians about the rights and interests of Indian citizens both before and immediately after India's Independence in 1947. It argues that much of the recent historical work on citizenship during this period has been preoccupied with issues of nationality and religious …
Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, 1775-1914
Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies
Civis Indianus sum'?Ambedkar on democracy and territory during linguistic reorganization (and partition)
This article considers Ambedkar's ideas about the implementation of democracy in India, in the context of the linguistic reorganization of provincial administrative boundaries. In doing so, it looks to emphasize the importance of territorial configurations to Dalit politics during this period and, in particular, the consequences of 'provincialization', which has received little attention within the existing literature. Rethinking space by redrawi…
Loyalism and the Formation of the British World, 1775-1914
Explores loyalism as a social and political force in eighteenth and nineteenth century British colonies and former colonies
Citizenship, Reservations and the Regional Alternative in the All-India Services, ca. 1928–1950
This paper unearths an alternative paradigm through which to consider the discussions and debates between members of the Indian public, government bureaucrats and Congress Party politicians about the rights and interests of Indian citizens both before and immediately after India's Independence in 1947. It argues that much of the recent historical work on citizenship during this period has been preoccupied with issues of nationality and religious …
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy by Aishwary Kumar
Reviewed by: Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy by Aishwary Kumar Oliver Godsmark Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the risk of democracy By Aishwary Kumar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 Aishwary Kumar’s intellectual history makes a novel and exciting contribution to the progressively expanding literature concerning Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), a Dalit1 lawyer, political thinker and social refor…
Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960
This book delivers ground-breaking perspectives upon nascent conceptions and workings of citizenship and democracy during the colonial/postcolonial transition. It examines how processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the interwar years contributed to demands and concerns and offers a broadened and imaginative outlook on India’s partition. Drawing upon a novel body of archival research, the book ultimately suggests Pakistan might …
Searching for Synergies, Making Majorities: The Demands for Pakistan and Maharashtra
This paper re-examines the demand for Pakistan as part of a wider ‘federal moment’ in India by addressing its connections with the contemporaneous calls for Samyukta Maharashtra in the context of the Cabinet Mission of spring/summer 1946. It highlights how the twinned processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the inter-war years informed these demands. Both Muslim and Maratha representatives looked to locate and create autonomous …
Civis Indianus sum'?Ambedkar on democracy and territory during linguistic reorganization (and partition)
This article considers Ambedkar's ideas about the implementation of democracy in India, in the context of the linguistic reorganization of provincial administrative boundaries. In doing so, it looks to emphasize the importance of territorial configurations to Dalit politics during this period and, in particular, the consequences of 'provincialization', which has received little attention within the existing literature. Rethinking space by redrawi…
Fragmented Sovereignty, Ḍakaitī (Banditry), and ‘Criminal Tribe’ in a ‘Minor’ State of Late Colonial India
Scholars have often considered twentieth-century sovereignty in colonial contexts as increasingly connected to the modern, territorially bounded state, stimulated by the influence of European rule. Yet there remained more malleable and amorphous sovereign configurations well into the twentieth century. Focusing on the case of Indore, a ‘minor’ state in late colonial central India, this article reveals the ongoing dynamism of ḍakait (‘bandits’) wi…
Global Maoist optics among diaspora: The Indian Workers’ Association during India’s food ‘crisis’, 1965–69
This article considers the responses of the Indian Workers’ Association (Great Britain) (IWA) to food scarcities in India during the late 1960s. It reveals Maoist optics informed IWA critiques, departing from coexistent appraisals articulated in leftist circles in India. In doing so, the article demonstrates the relevance of worldviews, idioms, and paradigms emanating from global conjunctures beyond places of origin among diaspora. IWA luminaries…
Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)