Ravi Nandan Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravi Nandan Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravi Nandan |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shiv Nadar University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards a Genealogy of Indian Sociology Knowledge as Nationalism, Nationalism as Knowledge
Dead in Banaras
Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters, and mysteriously so such encounters come true. ‘Dead in Banaras’ is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the ‘dead’ across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue, and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well-known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural …
Covid-19
As we live and die through the continuing pandemic, one particular affect that relates us globally is of the dead awaiting their funerary repose. Assessing the pandemic, Arif (2020) in an early reflection proposes that we might benefit in our assessment of the ‘bio-social’ of the pandemic by admitting to the sovereignty of the virus. Borrowing this premise, I suggest further that the sovereignty of the virus is acutely manifested in the commingle…
Sociology of Religion Today
This conversation attempts to critically map out the field of sociology/anthropology of religion as it is practised in select institutions of learning in India. The focus is not merely on the classical works in the field but also on classroom practices. In particular, it engages with the ways in which the canonical works in the field have been articulated through multiple pedagogic forms and institutional sites
Many lives of the dead in Banaras
The article seeks to redraw some key discussions on death in Banaras by focusing on the subject matter of the 'dead' rather than that of death. Pitched in the shadow of select earlier works on anthropology of death pertaining to Banaras, the general probing centres on the query whether the three realms of dying, death and dead can be delinked and thus seen in a certain relative autonomy from each other. Further, how do the anthropological account…
Modes of Processing the Dead
A persistent concern of social anthropology of death has been to map dying and death within the meaningful matrices of myth, ritual actions and communitarian regeneration. This article embedded within the said legacy, departs from the convention in minor ways. It seeks to locate the agency of the dead as a specific kind of subject–object, focusing on the newly dead rather than on the dying and the fresh ancestors. The newly dead are those for who…
Roma Chatterji, Speaking with Pictures
Dead in Banaras
Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters, and mysteriously so such encounters come true. ‘Dead in Banaras’ is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the ‘dead’ across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue, and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well-known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural …
Many lives of the dead in Banaras
The article seeks to redraw some key discussions on death in Banaras by focusing on the subject matter of the 'dead' rather than that of death. Pitched in the shadow of select earlier works on anthropology of death pertaining to Banaras, the general probing centres on the query whether the three realms of dying, death and dead can be delinked and thus seen in a certain relative autonomy from each other. Further, how do the anthropological account…
Modes of Processing the Dead
A persistent concern of social anthropology of death has been to map dying and death within the meaningful matrices of myth, ritual actions and communitarian regeneration. This article embedded within the said legacy, departs from the convention in minor ways. It seeks to locate the agency of the dead as a specific kind of subject–object, focusing on the newly dead rather than on the dying and the fresh ancestors. The newly dead are those for who…
Roma Chatterji, Speaking with Pictures
Many lives of the dead in Banaras
The article seeks to redraw some key discussions on death in Banaras by focusing on the subject matter of the 'dead' rather than that of death. Pitched in the shadow of select earlier works on anthropology of death pertaining to Banaras, the general probing centres on the query whether the three realms of dying, death and dead can be delinked and thus seen in a certain relative autonomy from each other. Further, how do the anthropological account…
Sociology of Religion Today
This conversation attempts to critically map out the field of sociology/anthropology of religion as it is practised in select institutions of learning in India. The focus is not merely on the classical works in the field but also on classroom practices. In particular, it engages with the ways in which the canonical works in the field have been articulated through multiple pedagogic forms and institutional sites
Covid-19
As we live and die through the continuing pandemic, one particular affect that relates us globally is of the dead awaiting their funerary repose. Assessing the pandemic, Arif (2020) in an early reflection proposes that we might benefit in our assessment of the ‘bio-social’ of the pandemic by admitting to the sovereignty of the virus. Borrowing this premise, I suggest further that the sovereignty of the virus is acutely manifested in the commingle…
Dead in Banaras
Ethnographies fatefully rely on chance encounters, and mysteriously so such encounters come true. ‘Dead in Banaras’ is an instance of just such a fateful chance encounter. In its inception, it set out to follow the ‘dead’ across multiple social locations of crematoria, hospital, morgue, and the aghorashram in order to assemble a contemporary moment in the funerary iconicity of the well-known North Indian city of Banaras. The crematoria in plural …
Towards a Genealogy of Indian Sociology Knowledge as Nationalism, Nationalism as Knowledge
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Dead body (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)