Santhosh Abraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santhosh Abraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santhosh |
| FAMILY NAME | Abraham |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAM S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Basti mediators: Building narrative land histories and incremental archives to challenge state categories of land and resist eviction
Building on the critical scholarship in urban studies about intermediaries, this paper explores the relationship between intermediaries and urban land struggles. Intermediaries as enablers of land tenure change contest land’s bureaucratic categories. They challenge the state categories of land through a narrative mode and in an archival mode. The narrative mode comprises oral-historical knowledge of the settling in of people in the Basti, creatin…
Regulation and resistance: Defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals: Mappila Muslims and Legal Encounters in Early British Colonial Malabar
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals: Mappila Muslims and Legal Encounters in Early British Colonial Malabar
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
Regulation and resistance: Defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals: Mappila Muslims and Legal Encounters in Early British Colonial Malabar
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
Regulation and resistance: Defactorisation in the beedi industry of colonial Malabar, 1937–1941
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
Basti mediators: Building narrative land histories and incremental archives to challenge state categories of land and resist eviction
Building on the critical scholarship in urban studies about intermediaries, this paper explores the relationship between intermediaries and urban land struggles. Intermediaries as enablers of land tenure change contest land’s bureaucratic categories. They challenge the state categories of land through a narrative mode and in an archival mode. The narrative mode comprises oral-historical knowledge of the settling in of people in the Basti, creatin…
State (computer science (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Business (1 works)