Juned Shaikh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3092433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juned Shaikh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juned |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaikh |
| SIGNATURE | SHAIKH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bombay 1982–83
strike erupted on the cusp of two transitions. On the one hand, it occurred at a time when textile manufacturing was steadily shifting from the city’s mills to power looms in and around Mumbai. On the other, it heralded a change where urban real estate became one of the most profitable sectors of the economy. Mill owners jumped on the bandwagon to profit from mill land. The mill workers grasped that they were on the cusp of momentous change, even…
Wage Earners in India, 1500–1900
Shailaja Paik. The Vulgarity of Caste
Social realism and labour strikes in interwar Bombay
Civility against Caste
Provincializing Indian History
In The Calling of History Dipesh Chakrabarty develops themes he explored in his iconic book Provincializing Europe. That book was passionate and playful, radical and frustrating at the same time, because the promise of decentering Europe was tempered by the realization that it was indispensable to our thought and life worlds. In The Calling of History, it is Europe in general and Rankean positivist history in particular that are rendered indispen…
Imaging Caste
This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which…
Who Needs Identity? Dalit Studies and the Politics of Recognition
The essay reviews three recent contributions to the study of dalits (former untouchables) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and situates the monographs in the context of two important events. Firstly, the books are seen as crucial interventions to the emerging field of Dalit Studies. The books help us understand how marginalized groups construct identities, inhabit subjectivities, and articulate their worldviews. Secondly, the field …
Democracy and the Recasting of Caste in India
The three books under review offer a fascinating account of how the processes of democracy and the practices of the modern Indian state have refashioned caste as an important feature of social stratification and self-definition. But the implication of the recasting of caste varies in the three accounts. According to Zoya Hasan, caste is an important marker of socio-economic backwardness and the policies of affirmative action that are based on thi…
Imaging Caste
This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which…
Democracy and the Recasting of Caste in India
The three books under review offer a fascinating account of how the processes of democracy and the practices of the modern Indian state have refashioned caste as an important feature of social stratification and self-definition. But the implication of the recasting of caste varies in the three accounts. According to Zoya Hasan, caste is an important marker of socio-economic backwardness and the policies of affirmative action that are based on thi…
Who Needs Identity? Dalit Studies and the Politics of Recognition
The essay reviews three recent contributions to the study of dalits (former untouchables) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and situates the monographs in the context of two important events. Firstly, the books are seen as crucial interventions to the emerging field of Dalit Studies. The books help us understand how marginalized groups construct identities, inhabit subjectivities, and articulate their worldviews. Secondly, the field …
Imaging Caste
This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which…
Provincializing Indian History
In The Calling of History Dipesh Chakrabarty develops themes he explored in his iconic book Provincializing Europe. That book was passionate and playful, radical and frustrating at the same time, because the promise of decentering Europe was tempered by the realization that it was indispensable to our thought and life worlds. In The Calling of History, it is Europe in general and Rankean positivist history in particular that are rendered indispen…
Civility against Caste
Wage Earners in India, 1500–1900
Shailaja Paik. The Vulgarity of Caste
Social realism and labour strikes in interwar Bombay
Bombay 1982–83
strike erupted on the cusp of two transitions. On the one hand, it occurred at a time when textile manufacturing was steadily shifting from the city’s mills to power looms in and around Mumbai. On the other, it heralded a change where urban real estate became one of the most profitable sectors of the economy. Mill owners jumped on the bandwagon to profit from mill land. The mill workers grasped that they were on the cusp of momentous change, even…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Caste (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)