Tarangini Sriraman
Biographic Data
| ID | 128485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tarangini Sriraman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tarangini |
| FAMILY NAME | Sriraman |
| SIGNATURE | SRIRAMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6034-7573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shifting Temperance Landscapes: Locating Caste and Gender within the Spatial Politics of Drink in the Madras Presidency
This article examines spatio-political formulations of drink in caste terms during the 1930s in the Madras Presidency (region) in colonial South India. It advances two arguments. The first argument is that the temperance agitation, driven by the regional wing of the dominant nationalist party organization, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, relied on physical, legal, and social formulations of space expressed in caste terms. One such articulation…
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India
This article traces what I term the affective activism of volunteers, civil society organizations, and lorry drivers engaged in relief work to assist stranded migrant workers wanting to travel home during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdown in India. I define affective activism as an archival practice that is driven by relief figures' affects of fear, anger, and aspirations-in this instance, toward their legal and adm…
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book argues that state conventions of issuing identification documents and administering poor subjects by absorbing popular knowledge practices did not manifest themselves abruptly or evenly. The very terms and connotations of people demanding certain genres, making and re-making identification documents cannot be read independently of the historical and socio-spatial contexts in which relations between the state and its sub…
Emotions in the Time of ‘Licence Raj’
What happens when low-ranking officials encounter (identification) documents in a society saturated by emotion-laden practices of kinship and ritual? Documents of rationing summoned deep interpretive traditions of governance and enabled the fluid negotiation of administrative boundaries of rules. In addition, they unlocked emotions of food officials that were ‘culturally motivated’ and ‘socially articulated’ (Lutz and White 1986: 409) and conjure…
In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India
A petition-like application? Rhetoric and rationing documents in wartime Delhi, 1941–45
This article looks at rhetorical devices employed by certain classes of claimants in applications for rationed commodities in wartime Delhi in the last decade of colonial rule. In the face of a war-driven colonial frenzy to regulate and constrict all essential and non-essential commodities, rhetoric in application-writing flourished. The covering letters accompanying application forms for rations resembled petitions in their appeals to sovereignt…
Feeling the rules: Documentary practices of rationing and the 'signature' of the official
This article seeks to find the metaphorical 'signature' of the food official in the intricate materialities of everyday life and particularly, in one such familiar realm, the production of documents. While doing so, this article considers the worlds of instinct, emotion and conscience as well as kinship and family in shaping official roles and welfare processes. This article argues that documentary practices of rationing provided the space for th…
Enumeration as Pedagogic Process: Gendered Encounters with Identity Documents in Delhi's Urban Poor Spaces
This paper argues that the various encounters of female slum residents residing in Delhi’s margins with identification documents shape certain instrumental and symbolic forms of knowledge about the city. Urban poor women’s encounters with identity documents produce ‘piecemeal pedagogies’ in which these women try to educate themselves and each other about bureaucratic channels and application procedures in and through handling documents. Such enco…
A petition-like application? Rhetoric and rationing documents in wartime Delhi, 1941–45
This article looks at rhetorical devices employed by certain classes of claimants in applications for rationed commodities in wartime Delhi in the last decade of colonial rule. In the face of a war-driven colonial frenzy to regulate and constrict all essential and non-essential commodities, rhetoric in application-writing flourished. The covering letters accompanying application forms for rations resembled petitions in their appeals to sovereignt…
Feeling the rules: Documentary practices of rationing and the 'signature' of the official
This article seeks to find the metaphorical 'signature' of the food official in the intricate materialities of everyday life and particularly, in one such familiar realm, the production of documents. While doing so, this article considers the worlds of instinct, emotion and conscience as well as kinship and family in shaping official roles and welfare processes. This article argues that documentary practices of rationing provided the space for th…
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India
This article traces what I term the affective activism of volunteers, civil society organizations, and lorry drivers engaged in relief work to assist stranded migrant workers wanting to travel home during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdown in India. I define affective activism as an archival practice that is driven by relief figures' affects of fear, anger, and aspirations-in this instance, toward their legal and adm…
Feeling the rules: Documentary practices of rationing and the 'signature' of the official
This article seeks to find the metaphorical 'signature' of the food official in the intricate materialities of everyday life and particularly, in one such familiar realm, the production of documents. While doing so, this article considers the worlds of instinct, emotion and conscience as well as kinship and family in shaping official roles and welfare processes. This article argues that documentary practices of rationing provided the space for th…
Enumeration as Pedagogic Process: Gendered Encounters with Identity Documents in Delhi's Urban Poor Spaces
This paper argues that the various encounters of female slum residents residing in Delhi’s margins with identification documents shape certain instrumental and symbolic forms of knowledge about the city. Urban poor women’s encounters with identity documents produce ‘piecemeal pedagogies’ in which these women try to educate themselves and each other about bureaucratic channels and application procedures in and through handling documents. Such enco…
A petition-like application? Rhetoric and rationing documents in wartime Delhi, 1941–45
This article looks at rhetorical devices employed by certain classes of claimants in applications for rationed commodities in wartime Delhi in the last decade of colonial rule. In the face of a war-driven colonial frenzy to regulate and constrict all essential and non-essential commodities, rhetoric in application-writing flourished. The covering letters accompanying application forms for rations resembled petitions in their appeals to sovereignt…
Conclusion
The conclusion of the book argues that state conventions of issuing identification documents and administering poor subjects by absorbing popular knowledge practices did not manifest themselves abruptly or evenly. The very terms and connotations of people demanding certain genres, making and re-making identification documents cannot be read independently of the historical and socio-spatial contexts in which relations between the state and its sub…
Emotions in the Time of ‘Licence Raj’
What happens when low-ranking officials encounter (identification) documents in a society saturated by emotion-laden practices of kinship and ritual? Documents of rationing summoned deep interpretive traditions of governance and enabled the fluid negotiation of administrative boundaries of rules. In addition, they unlocked emotions of food officials that were ‘culturally motivated’ and ‘socially articulated’ (Lutz and White 1986: 409) and conjure…
In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India
This article traces what I term the affective activism of volunteers, civil society organizations, and lorry drivers engaged in relief work to assist stranded migrant workers wanting to travel home during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdown in India. I define affective activism as an archival practice that is driven by relief figures' affects of fear, anger, and aspirations-in this instance, toward their legal and adm…
Shifting Temperance Landscapes: Locating Caste and Gender within the Spatial Politics of Drink in the Madras Presidency
This article examines spatio-political formulations of drink in caste terms during the 1930s in the Madras Presidency (region) in colonial South India. It advances two arguments. The first argument is that the temperance agitation, driven by the regional wing of the dominant nationalist party organization, the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, relied on physical, legal, and social formulations of space expressed in caste terms. One such articulation…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Bureaucracy (3 works)