Malavika Karlekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 186464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malavika Karlekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malavika |
| FAMILY NAME | Karlekar |
| SIGNATURE | KARLEKAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Women's Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Photographs as narratives in social science research
It is only over the last three decades that sociology and social anthropology have taken seriously the photograph, its neglect due in part to methodological issues. In this paper, I look at how these visual narratives are to be viewed, understood and interpreted by the researcher, leading to conundrums of subject position, verisimilitude of an image and indeed, availability of visual material. My reading of photographs has led me to the conclusio…
A Photographer’s Muse
In this article, I examine the role of the photograph in the life of the well-known painter, Amrita Sher-Gil. As, from an early age, she was the photographer’s willing muse, an analysis of a selection of images helps in the construction of another narrative, one that is distinct from her art, and might even be contrary to the aura that surrounds artists of her calibre. I look at cameos of her brief, yet complex life as seen by her photographer-fa…
Photograph Albums as Memory Banks
Afterimage of Empire
Reviewed by: Afterimage of Empire: Photography in nineteenth-century India by Zahid R. Chaudhary Malavika Karlekar Afterimage of Empire: Photography in nineteenth-century India By Zahid R. Chaudhary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Soon after India became a colony of the British, it became a favoured destination for painters, lithographers and itinerant travellers—both men and woman, often emboldened with sketch pad and pencils.…
Autobiography as Social Commentary
This paper discusses a dictated autobiography, written at the turn of the twentieth century. It is the reminiscences of Nistarini Debi, who narrates in no uncertain terms her life as a Kulin widow in Bengal. She describes her childhood, serial polygamy among the Kulins, her unhappy life with various relatives and her joy at living on her own. Through an analysis of her writings, the paper is able to gain insights into an important segment of Beng…
Paradigms of learning
Foreword - Maria Lourdes Almazan Khan and Nitya Rao I: THE TOTAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN: AN OVERVIEW - Malavika Karlekar Ernakulam Revisited: A Study of Literacy in the First Totally Literate District in India - Michael Tharakan Beyond Literacy: The Adult Literacy Movement in Nellore and Its Impact - Alex George Total Literacy Campaign: Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu - L S Saraswathi Revisiting Ajmer Total Literacy Campaign - Sadhna Saxena Total Literacy in …
A Note on the Empowerment of Women
Over two decades of the womens movement across India we have seen an increasing emphasis on the promotion of grassroots level organisations for womens development and discussions on womens status and empowerment. The phrase status of women though a clich6 has its uses despite countrywide variations. On the whole irrespective of what the specifics are status involves roles expectations entitlements rights and obligations; awareness of these is ach…
Education of a Civil Servant's Daughter
Nineteenth-century Bengal was a period of change, conflict and accommodation both among the bhadralok - literally translated to mean the gentle folk, the middle classes - as well as between them and the British rulers. The world view of the bhadralok and its search for a new paradigm had its material basis in changes in existing land relations, the emergence of the market and of urban spaces as well as the spread of education and literacy. Often …
Reflections on Kulin Polygamy—Nistarini Debi's Sekeley Katha
La polygamie kulin (polygamie chez les Brahmanes Bengalais de haut rang, d'origine aristocratique ou noble), aujourd'hui abolie, violait le sens de l'integrite et la dignite des femmes. En 1881, les Brahmanes contituaient 6% de la population du Bengal. Les Rarhi et les Barendra en constituaient la majorite, et c'est parmi ces sous-groupes et notamment les Rarhi que la polygamie etait largement pratiquee. Apres avoir presente une historiographie d…
Case Studies of Women's Empowerment in India
(1995). Case Studies of Women's Empowerment in India. Asian Journal of Women's Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-151
The Relevance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Convocation Address of Vice-Chancellor H.J. Reynolds (University of Calcutta, 10 March 1883)
Voices from Within
Short reviews
David A. Gerber (ed.), ANTI‐SEMITISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1986, 428 pp. John Darby. INTIMIDATION AND THE CONTROL OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1986, 183 pp., £25. Kenneth Liberman, UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 344 pp., £29.95. Zig Layton‐Henry and Paul…
Poverty and Women's Work. A Study of Sweeper Women in Delhi
Voices from Within
A Note on the Empowerment of Women
Over two decades of the womens movement across India we have seen an increasing emphasis on the promotion of grassroots level organisations for womens development and discussions on womens status and empowerment. The phrase status of women though a clich6 has its uses despite countrywide variations. On the whole irrespective of what the specifics are status involves roles expectations entitlements rights and obligations; awareness of these is ach…
The Relevance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Poverty and Women's Work. A Study of Sweeper Women in Delhi
Short reviews
David A. Gerber (ed.), ANTI‐SEMITISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1986, 428 pp. John Darby. INTIMIDATION AND THE CONTROL OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1986, 183 pp., £25. Kenneth Liberman, UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 344 pp., £29.95. Zig Layton‐Henry and Paul…
Voices from Within
Convocation Address of Vice-Chancellor H.J. Reynolds (University of Calcutta, 10 March 1883)
Reflections on Kulin Polygamy—Nistarini Debi's Sekeley Katha
La polygamie kulin (polygamie chez les Brahmanes Bengalais de haut rang, d'origine aristocratique ou noble), aujourd'hui abolie, violait le sens de l'integrite et la dignite des femmes. En 1881, les Brahmanes contituaient 6% de la population du Bengal. Les Rarhi et les Barendra en constituaient la majorite, et c'est parmi ces sous-groupes et notamment les Rarhi que la polygamie etait largement pratiquee. Apres avoir presente une historiographie d…
Case Studies of Women's Empowerment in India
(1995). Case Studies of Women's Empowerment in India. Asian Journal of Women's Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 127-151
The Relevance of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Education of a Civil Servant's Daughter
Nineteenth-century Bengal was a period of change, conflict and accommodation both among the bhadralok - literally translated to mean the gentle folk, the middle classes - as well as between them and the British rulers. The world view of the bhadralok and its search for a new paradigm had its material basis in changes in existing land relations, the emergence of the market and of urban spaces as well as the spread of education and literacy. Often …
Paradigms of learning
Foreword - Maria Lourdes Almazan Khan and Nitya Rao I: THE TOTAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN: AN OVERVIEW - Malavika Karlekar Ernakulam Revisited: A Study of Literacy in the First Totally Literate District in India - Michael Tharakan Beyond Literacy: The Adult Literacy Movement in Nellore and Its Impact - Alex George Total Literacy Campaign: Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu - L S Saraswathi Revisiting Ajmer Total Literacy Campaign - Sadhna Saxena Total Literacy in …
A Note on the Empowerment of Women
Over two decades of the womens movement across India we have seen an increasing emphasis on the promotion of grassroots level organisations for womens development and discussions on womens status and empowerment. The phrase status of women though a clich6 has its uses despite countrywide variations. On the whole irrespective of what the specifics are status involves roles expectations entitlements rights and obligations; awareness of these is ach…
Autobiography as Social Commentary
This paper discusses a dictated autobiography, written at the turn of the twentieth century. It is the reminiscences of Nistarini Debi, who narrates in no uncertain terms her life as a Kulin widow in Bengal. She describes her childhood, serial polygamy among the Kulins, her unhappy life with various relatives and her joy at living on her own. Through an analysis of her writings, the paper is able to gain insights into an important segment of Beng…
Afterimage of Empire
Reviewed by: Afterimage of Empire: Photography in nineteenth-century India by Zahid R. Chaudhary Malavika Karlekar Afterimage of Empire: Photography in nineteenth-century India By Zahid R. Chaudhary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Soon after India became a colony of the British, it became a favoured destination for painters, lithographers and itinerant travellers—both men and woman, often emboldened with sketch pad and pencils.…
Photograph Albums as Memory Banks
Photographs as narratives in social science research
It is only over the last three decades that sociology and social anthropology have taken seriously the photograph, its neglect due in part to methodological issues. In this paper, I look at how these visual narratives are to be viewed, understood and interpreted by the researcher, leading to conundrums of subject position, verisimilitude of an image and indeed, availability of visual material. My reading of photographs has led me to the conclusio…
A Photographer’s Muse
In this article, I examine the role of the photograph in the life of the well-known painter, Amrita Sher-Gil. As, from an early age, she was the photographer’s willing muse, an analysis of a selection of images helps in the construction of another narrative, one that is distinct from her art, and might even be contrary to the aura that surrounds artists of her calibre. I look at cameos of her brief, yet complex life as seen by her photographer-fa…
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