Chitralekha
Biographic Data
| ID | 2948795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chitralekha |
| FAMILY NAME | Chitralekha |
| SIGNATURE | CHITRALEKHA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding
This essay examines particular ways in which the hermeneutic philosophy of understanding envisaged by Hans-Georg Gadamer in Truth and Method is useful to approach reflexive modes of understanding of this contemporary moment of countercritique. Questions in the essay arise within an autoethnographic context of repression of critique at a university in Delhi and possibilities of understanding that I relate to my ethnography in Gujarat, a site of ho…
Self-writing in Tral, Kashmir
This article is an engagement with persistent efforts to (re) write history that I encountered in the form of letters, notes, poetry, and sketches given to me by ordinary students I met in the politically troubled region of South Kashmir, many of whom had come to be protestors and stone-pelters. It reflects on these reflexive engagements of students with their own lived histories, and in relation, on what they may suggest for understanding of the…
Why does the subject speak? Prejudgement in fieldwork with Naxalites and Hindu rioters
This article explores the shifting trajectory of dramaturgical encounters with 'subjects' in two disparate contexts of violence in contemporary India: Naxalites in Jharkhand and Bihar; and participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. It argues that why (and thereby what) the subject speaks has to be located within the larger text of performances in the 'field', involving the prejudgement (in a Gadamerian sense) of both researcher and subject. Limit…
Committed, Opportunists and Drifters
Who are the Naxalites today? What drives them to take on a life that, even given the adversity of their prior life conditions, seems very bleak? What are the real tenets of the ideology that make it possible for them to kill? Why are they prepared to die for it? This article is an attempt to bring out the standpoint of foot soldiers of the Naxalite movement. It categorises a sample of forty Naxalite armed cadre met with across Jharkhand and parts…
Why does the subject speak? Prejudgement in fieldwork with Naxalites and Hindu rioters
This article explores the shifting trajectory of dramaturgical encounters with 'subjects' in two disparate contexts of violence in contemporary India: Naxalites in Jharkhand and Bihar; and participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. It argues that why (and thereby what) the subject speaks has to be located within the larger text of performances in the 'field', involving the prejudgement (in a Gadamerian sense) of both researcher and subject. Limit…
Committed, Opportunists and Drifters
Who are the Naxalites today? What drives them to take on a life that, even given the adversity of their prior life conditions, seems very bleak? What are the real tenets of the ideology that make it possible for them to kill? Why are they prepared to die for it? This article is an attempt to bring out the standpoint of foot soldiers of the Naxalite movement. It categorises a sample of forty Naxalite armed cadre met with across Jharkhand and parts…
Committed, Opportunists and Drifters
Who are the Naxalites today? What drives them to take on a life that, even given the adversity of their prior life conditions, seems very bleak? What are the real tenets of the ideology that make it possible for them to kill? Why are they prepared to die for it? This article is an attempt to bring out the standpoint of foot soldiers of the Naxalite movement. It categorises a sample of forty Naxalite armed cadre met with across Jharkhand and parts…
Why does the subject speak? Prejudgement in fieldwork with Naxalites and Hindu rioters
This article explores the shifting trajectory of dramaturgical encounters with 'subjects' in two disparate contexts of violence in contemporary India: Naxalites in Jharkhand and Bihar; and participants in the 2002 riots in Gujarat. It argues that why (and thereby what) the subject speaks has to be located within the larger text of performances in the 'field', involving the prejudgement (in a Gadamerian sense) of both researcher and subject. Limit…
Self-writing in Tral, Kashmir
This article is an engagement with persistent efforts to (re) write history that I encountered in the form of letters, notes, poetry, and sketches given to me by ordinary students I met in the politically troubled region of South Kashmir, many of whom had come to be protestors and stone-pelters. It reflects on these reflexive engagements of students with their own lived histories, and in relation, on what they may suggest for understanding of the…
Prospects of an Anthropology of Understanding
This essay examines particular ways in which the hermeneutic philosophy of understanding envisaged by Hans-Georg Gadamer in Truth and Method is useful to approach reflexive modes of understanding of this contemporary moment of countercritique. Questions in the essay arise within an autoethnographic context of repression of critique at a university in Delhi and possibilities of understanding that I relate to my ethnography in Gujarat, a site of ho…
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Cambodian History and Society (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works)