Shankar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2734747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shankar |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankar |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKAR |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6751-4151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
The Underemployment-Job Satisfaction Nexus
Remembering Barbara Harlow
My Birth is My Fatal Accident
Life narratives ranging from autobiographies and biographies to blogs and pictorial art have historically played a vital role in both the affirmation as well as interrogation of caste identities. However, serious study of life narratives in relationship to caste is still relatively underdeveloped. The scholarship on caste (or the varna-jati complex) is vast, as is the study of life narratives as a genre—it is the conjunction of the two that espec…
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Against Stenography for the Powerful
Award-winning journalist P. Sainath discusses the degree to which journalism has become “stenography of the powerful,” which not only forwards corporate interests but also standardizes the writing of news in ways that kill the very elements of style and commitment that marked the best journalism of earlier generations. His recent responses to such corporatization include the creation of “The People’s Archive of India,” which enlists the citizens …
Thugs and Bandits
Scrutinizing the discourses around so-called thuggee and the Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi in colonial and postcolonial India respectively, this essay explores the uses and abuses of life narratives, as embodying discourses, in the elaboration as well as contestation of law-and-order regimes. In the context of this argument, the essay proposes epicolonialism as a neologism capable of shedding particular light on continuities as well as disjunctures b…
The Underemployment-Job Satisfaction Nexus
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Thugs and Bandits
Scrutinizing the discourses around so-called thuggee and the Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi in colonial and postcolonial India respectively, this essay explores the uses and abuses of life narratives, as embodying discourses, in the elaboration as well as contestation of law-and-order regimes. In the context of this argument, the essay proposes epicolonialism as a neologism capable of shedding particular light on continuities as well as disjunctures b…
My Birth is My Fatal Accident
Life narratives ranging from autobiographies and biographies to blogs and pictorial art have historically played a vital role in both the affirmation as well as interrogation of caste identities. However, serious study of life narratives in relationship to caste is still relatively underdeveloped. The scholarship on caste (or the varna-jati complex) is vast, as is the study of life narratives as a genre—it is the conjunction of the two that espec…
Thugs and Bandits
Scrutinizing the discourses around so-called thuggee and the Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi in colonial and postcolonial India respectively, this essay explores the uses and abuses of life narratives, as embodying discourses, in the elaboration as well as contestation of law-and-order regimes. In the context of this argument, the essay proposes epicolonialism as a neologism capable of shedding particular light on continuities as well as disjunctures b…
Against Stenography for the Powerful
Award-winning journalist P. Sainath discusses the degree to which journalism has become “stenography of the powerful,” which not only forwards corporate interests but also standardizes the writing of news in ways that kill the very elements of style and commitment that marked the best journalism of earlier generations. His recent responses to such corporatization include the creation of “The People’s Archive of India,” which enlists the citizens …
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Remembering Barbara Harlow
My Birth is My Fatal Accident
Life narratives ranging from autobiographies and biographies to blogs and pictorial art have historically played a vital role in both the affirmation as well as interrogation of caste identities. However, serious study of life narratives in relationship to caste is still relatively underdeveloped. The scholarship on caste (or the varna-jati complex) is vast, as is the study of life narratives as a genre—it is the conjunction of the two that espec…
The Underemployment-Job Satisfaction Nexus
Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Job satisfaction (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works)