Kalathmika Natarajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261990 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kalathmika Natarajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kalathmika |
| FAMILY NAME | Natarajan |
| SIGNATURE | NATARAJAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2535-1187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Problematising the ‘Pariah’ State: Vocabularies of Caste in International Relations and Indian Diplomacy
The term ‘pariah’ is a staple in the vocabulary of International Relations ( IR ), for example in phrases such as ‘pariah state’, ‘pariah diplomacy’ and ‘nuclear pariah’. In revealing anxieties about ‘pariah-hood’, it is also commonplace in Indian imaginations of international status and ‘rising power’. Yet such discourse has paid little attention to the caste origins and traumatic histories of the term or indeed what its continued circulation an…
The Caste of Diplomacy
What does caste have to do with diplomacy? This special issue is an effort to guide discussions more systematically in thinking through the relationship between caste and diplomacy and, more specifically, Indian diplomacy. Accordingly, this introductory article lays out the reasons for interrogating Indian diplomacy through the prism of caste and reveals the ways in which diplomacy as a site has remained an exclusively upper caste space. In an ef…
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947-1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy
This article examines the postcolonial Indian state's 20-year-long discretionary passports policy until 1967, often in collaboration with the British government in its efforts to limit growing numbers of Indian immigrants. While a vast scholarship has shown the racialized limits to mobility perpetuated by the passport and visa system against 'coloured immigrants', this article considers the Indian state's own restrictions over the emigration of a…
Digital Public Diplomacy and a Strategic Narrative for India
States articulate their identity and foreign policy interests in the international system, seeking to influence the perceptions of others and to create an environment in which their goals and efficacy as an actor are viewed as legitimate. In the age of mass communication technologies and new media, the public diplomacy initiatives utilised to communicate these narratives have gone digital. This article studies how India has utilised this new medi…
Digital Public Diplomacy and a Strategic Narrative for India
States articulate their identity and foreign policy interests in the international system, seeking to influence the perceptions of others and to create an environment in which their goals and efficacy as an actor are viewed as legitimate. In the age of mass communication technologies and new media, the public diplomacy initiatives utilised to communicate these narratives have gone digital. This article studies how India has utilised this new medi…
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947-1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy
This article examines the postcolonial Indian state's 20-year-long discretionary passports policy until 1967, often in collaboration with the British government in its efforts to limit growing numbers of Indian immigrants. While a vast scholarship has shown the racialized limits to mobility perpetuated by the passport and visa system against 'coloured immigrants', this article considers the Indian state's own restrictions over the emigration of a…
Digital Public Diplomacy and a Strategic Narrative for India
States articulate their identity and foreign policy interests in the international system, seeking to influence the perceptions of others and to create an environment in which their goals and efficacy as an actor are viewed as legitimate. In the age of mass communication technologies and new media, the public diplomacy initiatives utilised to communicate these narratives have gone digital. This article studies how India has utilised this new medi…
The privilege of the Indian passport (1947-1967): Caste, class, and the afterlives of indenture in Indian diplomacy
This article examines the postcolonial Indian state's 20-year-long discretionary passports policy until 1967, often in collaboration with the British government in its efforts to limit growing numbers of Indian immigrants. While a vast scholarship has shown the racialized limits to mobility perpetuated by the passport and visa system against 'coloured immigrants', this article considers the Indian state's own restrictions over the emigration of a…
Problematising the ‘Pariah’ State: Vocabularies of Caste in International Relations and Indian Diplomacy
The term ‘pariah’ is a staple in the vocabulary of International Relations ( IR ), for example in phrases such as ‘pariah state’, ‘pariah diplomacy’ and ‘nuclear pariah’. In revealing anxieties about ‘pariah-hood’, it is also commonplace in Indian imaginations of international status and ‘rising power’. Yet such discourse has paid little attention to the caste origins and traumatic histories of the term or indeed what its continued circulation an…
The Caste of Diplomacy
What does caste have to do with diplomacy? This special issue is an effort to guide discussions more systematically in thinking through the relationship between caste and diplomacy and, more specifically, Indian diplomacy. Accordingly, this introductory article lays out the reasons for interrogating Indian diplomacy through the prism of caste and reveals the ways in which diplomacy as a site has remained an exclusively upper caste space. In an ef…
Caste (3 works) · Diplomacy (3 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (2 works) · International relations (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works)