Kanika Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kanika Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kanika |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2066-6382 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social orphanhood as an aftermath of the Kolhati tribal women’s objectification
The present study focuses on social orphans as a marginalized group emerging from the multifaceted objectification of Tamasha dancers within the Kolhati community, a De-notified Nomadic Tribe (DNT). Social orphans are children who are often illegitimate, and their lower-caste status further deprives them of essential care and support. The article argues that these children negotiate entrenched vulnerabilities and create pathways of opportunities …
From Prohibition to Digitalisation
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when mechanised record‐keeping and the increasing use of photography by the mass media threatened to d…
Unheard Voices
Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the Covid-19 pandemic in India in 2020
Global population health during the COVID-19 pandemic is poorly understood because of weak mortality monitoring in low- and middle-income countries. High-quality survey data on 765,180 individuals, representative of one-fourth of India’s population, uncover patterns missed by incomplete vital statistics and disease surveillance. Compared to 2019, life expectancy at birth was 2.6 years lower and mortality was 17% higher in 2020, implying 1.19 mill…
The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts
In Asokan K.M. v. State of Kerala (2017) at the behest of a disgruntled Hindu father whose daughter had converted to Islam and married a man of her choice, the Kerala High Court (HC) cast the daughter, Hadiya, as a ‘vulnerable’ woman before annulling her marriage. In this article, I place the infamous Hadiya case within a broader history of love-jihad – an ascendant Hindu nationalist conspiracy in India that asserts that Muslim men wish to conver…
Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register
In From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts, Rahela Khorakiwala brings together germinal works on the uses of architecture and iconology in and by law with thick descriptions and a close study of the semiotics and symbolisms of the three colonial High Courts (HCs) in Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). This visual analysis of the court si…
Oral health related quality of life in oral submucous fibrosis patients using Ohip tool
The objective of the present study was to assess the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) patients. A convenient sampling technique was used to recruit the clinically diagnosed patients of OSMF (n = 50). Based on the medical treatment, the patients were randomly divided into two study groups (group A and B). The group A patients received hyaluronidase (1500 IU) and Group B patients received submucosal int…
Food Culture Studies in India
Food Culture in India
Governing Conjugality
This article focuses on the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) as a colonial legal transplant and examines how ideas of social and moral hygiene manifested in the debates around the doctrine in late-nineteenth century England and India. Originating in ecclesiastical law, the doctrine of RCR provides remedies and sanctions for the deserted spouse when one party has violated the obligation to cohabit as husband and wife. Through a cri…
The US vice presidential debate
The Vice Presidential debate on 7 October 2020 between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence was historic. For the first time in U.S. history, the electorate heard a Black woman candidate running for the second-highest political office in the country. Based on an analysis of the debate transcript, we argue that the micro-dynamics of this high-stakes forum reveal how white masculine dominance and white fragility may limit a Black wom…
Burdening the poor
Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India
Married at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai refused to go and live with her husband who had filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights against her in 1884. This paper analyses the transplantation of the notion of restitution of conjugal rights into Hindu personal law in India at a time when child marriage was rife and there was no minimum age of marriage. Within this context Rukhmabai's case symbolises an important interjection in its attempt to…
Arrivals and Departures
This paper attempts to understand the space of the airport, and locate the interaction of an individual that inhabits this space, particularly when this space of transit becomes more than a static portal. The space of the airport is architecturally informed with a universal language and this language dictates the movements of the individual. The dynamics of this spatial language is intentionally designed to be trans-historic, devoid of a past, an…
Mother India
The ‘Indian Question’ in the Caribbean Sociology
Power Elite in Rural India
The US vice presidential debate
The Vice Presidential debate on 7 October 2020 between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence was historic. For the first time in U.S. history, the electorate heard a Black woman candidate running for the second-highest political office in the country. Based on an analysis of the debate transcript, we argue that the micro-dynamics of this high-stakes forum reveal how white masculine dominance and white fragility may limit a Black wom…
Mother India
The ‘Indian Question’ in the Caribbean Sociology
Power Elite in Rural India
The ‘Indian Question’ in the Caribbean Sociology
Arrivals and Departures
This paper attempts to understand the space of the airport, and locate the interaction of an individual that inhabits this space, particularly when this space of transit becomes more than a static portal. The space of the airport is architecturally informed with a universal language and this language dictates the movements of the individual. The dynamics of this spatial language is intentionally designed to be trans-historic, devoid of a past, an…
Mother India
Burdening the poor
Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India
Married at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai refused to go and live with her husband who had filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights against her in 1884. This paper analyses the transplantation of the notion of restitution of conjugal rights into Hindu personal law in India at a time when child marriage was rife and there was no minimum age of marriage. Within this context Rukhmabai's case symbolises an important interjection in its attempt to…
Food Culture Studies in India
Food Culture in India
Governing Conjugality
This article focuses on the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) as a colonial legal transplant and examines how ideas of social and moral hygiene manifested in the debates around the doctrine in late-nineteenth century England and India. Originating in ecclesiastical law, the doctrine of RCR provides remedies and sanctions for the deserted spouse when one party has violated the obligation to cohabit as husband and wife. Through a cri…
The US vice presidential debate
The Vice Presidential debate on 7 October 2020 between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence was historic. For the first time in U.S. history, the electorate heard a Black woman candidate running for the second-highest political office in the country. Based on an analysis of the debate transcript, we argue that the micro-dynamics of this high-stakes forum reveal how white masculine dominance and white fragility may limit a Black wom…
Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register
In From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts, Rahela Khorakiwala brings together germinal works on the uses of architecture and iconology in and by law with thick descriptions and a close study of the semiotics and symbolisms of the three colonial High Courts (HCs) in Bombay (now Mumbai), Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Madras (now Chennai). This visual analysis of the court si…
Oral health related quality of life in oral submucous fibrosis patients using Ohip tool
The objective of the present study was to assess the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) patients. A convenient sampling technique was used to recruit the clinically diagnosed patients of OSMF (n = 50). Based on the medical treatment, the patients were randomly divided into two study groups (group A and B). The group A patients received hyaluronidase (1500 IU) and Group B patients received submucosal int…
Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the Covid-19 pandemic in India in 2020
Global population health during the COVID-19 pandemic is poorly understood because of weak mortality monitoring in low- and middle-income countries. High-quality survey data on 765,180 individuals, representative of one-fourth of India’s population, uncover patterns missed by incomplete vital statistics and disease surveillance. Compared to 2019, life expectancy at birth was 2.6 years lower and mortality was 17% higher in 2020, implying 1.19 mill…
The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts
In Asokan K.M. v. State of Kerala (2017) at the behest of a disgruntled Hindu father whose daughter had converted to Islam and married a man of her choice, the Kerala High Court (HC) cast the daughter, Hadiya, as a ‘vulnerable’ woman before annulling her marriage. In this article, I place the infamous Hadiya case within a broader history of love-jihad – an ascendant Hindu nationalist conspiracy in India that asserts that Muslim men wish to conver…
Unheard Voices
Social orphanhood as an aftermath of the Kolhati tribal women’s objectification
The present study focuses on social orphans as a marginalized group emerging from the multifaceted objectification of Tamasha dancers within the Kolhati community, a De-notified Nomadic Tribe (DNT). Social orphans are children who are often illegitimate, and their lower-caste status further deprives them of essential care and support. The article argues that these children negotiate entrenched vulnerabilities and create pathways of opportunities …
From Prohibition to Digitalisation
This article traces the shifting relationship between the courts, the public, and the media in England and Wales from the 1925 prohibition on courtroom photography to the contemporary regime of livestreamed and recorded proceedings. It situates the introduction of the ban on courtroom images within the first administrative turn of the judiciary, when mechanised record‐keeping and the increasing use of photography by the mass media threatened to d…
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