A Vaidya
Biographic Data
| ID | 27333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Vaidya |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaidya |
| SIGNATURE | VAIDYA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3350-5462 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fantasy constitutions
In his final speech as chair of the assembly that drafted India's Constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar described a contradiction between the formal equality that the Constitution guaranteed and the country's socioeconomic inequality. This article follows two interpretive traditions of India's Constitution: the first, developed by the Supreme Court in challenging land reform legislation, is the doctrine of “basic structure” which holds that the Constit…
Theorizing Law, Social Movements, and State Formation in India
With the rise of Hindu nationalist statecraft under the Modi regime, India finds itself at a perilous conjuncture that compels a critical rethinking of the political economy of the world's largest democracy. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for doing so, centered on a Gramscian rethinking of the relationship among law, social movements, and state formation in the longue durée of Indian democracy. Working across three hegemonic t…
New Villages for Old
In 2011 some two hundred villagers in North India set upon lower-caste neighbors who had hoped to escape landlessness and caste-based exclusion by claiming nearby lands available to them under India's landmark 2006 Forest Rights Act. After their homes were destroyed and their fields razed, the low-caste villagers-who had once hoped for change-traded their new lives for old ones, and contemplated futures of indefinite violence. This article tracks…
New Villages for Old
In 2011 some two hundred villagers in North India set upon lower-caste neighbors who had hoped to escape landlessness and caste-based exclusion by claiming nearby lands available to them under India's landmark 2006 Forest Rights Act. After their homes were destroyed and their fields razed, the low-caste villagers-who had once hoped for change-traded their new lives for old ones, and contemplated futures of indefinite violence. This article tracks…
Theorizing Law, Social Movements, and State Formation in India
With the rise of Hindu nationalist statecraft under the Modi regime, India finds itself at a perilous conjuncture that compels a critical rethinking of the political economy of the world's largest democracy. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for doing so, centered on a Gramscian rethinking of the relationship among law, social movements, and state formation in the longue durée of Indian democracy. Working across three hegemonic t…
New Villages for Old
In 2011 some two hundred villagers in North India set upon lower-caste neighbors who had hoped to escape landlessness and caste-based exclusion by claiming nearby lands available to them under India's landmark 2006 Forest Rights Act. After their homes were destroyed and their fields razed, the low-caste villagers-who had once hoped for change-traded their new lives for old ones, and contemplated futures of indefinite violence. This article tracks…
Fantasy constitutions
In his final speech as chair of the assembly that drafted India's Constitution, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar described a contradiction between the formal equality that the Constitution guaranteed and the country's socioeconomic inequality. This article follows two interpretive traditions of India's Constitution: the first, developed by the Supreme Court in challenging land reform legislation, is the doctrine of “basic structure” which holds that the Constit…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Caste (2 works) · Constitution (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work)