Aparna Devare
Biographic Data
| ID | 353865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparna Devare |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparna |
| FAMILY NAME | Devare |
| SIGNATURE | DEVARE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hyderabad |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ambedkar’s Navayana
Unpacking the colonial genealogies of political science
Alternative notions of sexuality and personhood
This article examines the meteoric rise and enormous popularity of a Marathi stage actor and singer, Bal Gandharva, in early twentieth-century western India. Gandharva was distinctive because he was a male artist who dressed and acted as a woman on stage and was adulated by both women and men for his powerful female roles. The article argues that Gandharva embodied ‘fuzzy’ boundaries between man and woman, drawing from indigenous traditions of ge…
Understanding differing conceptions of violence through Self–Other relations in Gandhi and Fanon
This article compares and contrasts Gandhi’s and Fanon’s views on violence by placing these ideas within a larger framework of how each viewed the Self and its relationship with the Other. I argue in the article that Gandhi did not view the Self as clearly separable from the Other; the Self was internal to the Other and hence violence to the Other would also affect the Self. This was one of the underlying reasons behind his adopting a philosophy …
Exploring Past Myths through Giambattista Vico and Jyotiba Phule
In this article, I examine the writings of the 18th-century Italian thinker Giambattista Vico and the 19th-century Indian thinker/social reformer Jyotiba Phule about myths, temporality, and the past. Both these thinkers turned to historicising myths in order to engage with debates in the present. Both viewed myths as reflecting social relations of power and domination, and sought to understand their material realities, emphasising human agency, c…
Civility against Caste
Suryakant Waghmore's book Civility against caste marks an important attempt in trying to understand the nuances of political mobilization on caste grounds in India. Waghmore undertakes a study of c
Secularizing Religion
In this article, I suggest that Hindu nationalism, like many other religious extremist ideologies, is a modern discourse rooted in modern categories such as a homogenous national identity, objective science and history, hyper-masculinity, and secularism. To demonstrate the above claims, I undertake a close analysis of the writings of V.D. Savarkar, a key founder of “Hindutva” or Hindu nationalism. I show how he retools Hinduism by removing all as…
Historicity meets its limits
Post-modernists have been more effective at deconstructing modernity's foundations, including its notions of historicity and the separation of history and faith, while exhibiting scepticism towards affirming alternative conceptualizations of past and present, including those that may be rooted in religious or spiritual world-views. In this article I argue that in the non-west, where modernity and its categories have not always enjoyed a hegemonic…
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Secularizing Religion
In this article, I suggest that Hindu nationalism, like many other religious extremist ideologies, is a modern discourse rooted in modern categories such as a homogenous national identity, objective science and history, hyper-masculinity, and secularism. To demonstrate the above claims, I undertake a close analysis of the writings of V.D. Savarkar, a key founder of “Hindutva” or Hindu nationalism. I show how he retools Hinduism by removing all as…
Historicity meets its limits
Post-modernists have been more effective at deconstructing modernity's foundations, including its notions of historicity and the separation of history and faith, while exhibiting scepticism towards affirming alternative conceptualizations of past and present, including those that may be rooted in religious or spiritual world-views. In this article I argue that in the non-west, where modernity and its categories have not always enjoyed a hegemonic…
Civility against Caste
Suryakant Waghmore's book Civility against caste marks an important attempt in trying to understand the nuances of political mobilization on caste grounds in India. Waghmore undertakes a study of c
Exploring Past Myths through Giambattista Vico and Jyotiba Phule
In this article, I examine the writings of the 18th-century Italian thinker Giambattista Vico and the 19th-century Indian thinker/social reformer Jyotiba Phule about myths, temporality, and the past. Both these thinkers turned to historicising myths in order to engage with debates in the present. Both viewed myths as reflecting social relations of power and domination, and sought to understand their material realities, emphasising human agency, c…
Understanding differing conceptions of violence through Self–Other relations in Gandhi and Fanon
This article compares and contrasts Gandhi’s and Fanon’s views on violence by placing these ideas within a larger framework of how each viewed the Self and its relationship with the Other. I argue in the article that Gandhi did not view the Self as clearly separable from the Other; the Self was internal to the Other and hence violence to the Other would also affect the Self. This was one of the underlying reasons behind his adopting a philosophy …
Alternative notions of sexuality and personhood
This article examines the meteoric rise and enormous popularity of a Marathi stage actor and singer, Bal Gandharva, in early twentieth-century western India. Gandharva was distinctive because he was a male artist who dressed and acted as a woman on stage and was adulated by both women and men for his powerful female roles. The article argues that Gandharva embodied ‘fuzzy’ boundaries between man and woman, drawing from indigenous traditions of ge…
Unpacking the colonial genealogies of political science
Ambedkar’s Navayana
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (4 works)