Nita Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nita Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nita |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Banaras of the Artisans
The Artisans of Banaras
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
Reviewed by: Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook Nita N. Kumar (bio) Kolin, Philip C. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. A striking element of Philip Kolin's Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is its deployment of the term "contemporary" to overview an entire century of work by [End Page 361] African American women playwrights. Beginning with the …
The Scholar and her Servants
The hypothesis of the paper is twofold. By juxtaposing the two subject-positions of mistress and servant, moving between one and the other to highlight how each is largely constructed by the interaction, we illuminate the questions of margin and centre, silence and voice, and can ponder on how to do anthropology better. But secondly, to the work of several scholars who propose various approaches to these questions, I add the particular insight of…
Provincialism in Modern India
Provincialism', or the separation of inferior spaces from normative ones, is seen in this essay as a key trope for interpreting modern Indian history. Provincialism, or provinciality, is a space recognizable instantly. It is marked by slowness, by absence of the new and recent, by what is seen on the national level as a brake-effect in an otherwise promising march forwards. Cities, which is what I concentrate on in this essay, are characterizable…
Mothers and Non‐Mothers
This essay brings together and complicates three stories within South Asian education history by gendering them. Thus modern education was actively pursued by mothers for their sons; indigenous education should be understood as continuing at home; and women were crucial actors in men's reform and nationalism efforts through both collaboration and resistance. Gendered history should go beyond the separate story of girls and women, or the understan…
The Logic of Retribution
Black Arts Movement of the 1960s has been criticized for substituting a neo-African for what was identified as Western essentialism. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is among those who have critiqued the Black Arts Movement for promoting a poetics rooted in a social realism, indeed, in a sort of mimeticism, in which the relation between art and life was a direct one (102). place of the sociopolitical and empirical binarism of and white, Gates advocates un…
Learning Modernity? The Technologies of Education in India
Cet article propose une interprétation/étude ethnographique des écoles dans une ville provinciale du nord de l’Inde afin d’examiner l’utilisation des « technologies » de l’éducation, notamment autour des bâtiments, espaces et rituels. Selon l’auteur, si les élèves ont des difficultés à manipuler quotidiennement ces technologies, la difficulté est encore plus grande au niveau de leur vie ou de leur carrière, parce que les écoles ne parviennent pas…
Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia
Ashes of Immortality
Lessons from Contemporary Schools
L'A. etudie l'organisation des etablissements scolaires implantes, en Inde, dans la region de Benares. Il examine les programmes d'enseignement qui sont proposes. Il analyse l'organisation de l'espace des differentes ecoles. Il compare la signification de cet espace chez les enseignants et chez les enfants
Women as subjects
The Life of a Text
Class and gender politics in the Ramlila
While debating between different titles for this paper, I found myself struggling to keep 'Ramlila' out of the name. For me my paper was about serious things: gender categories and their sustenance, political domination and resistance, negotiated constitutions of rationality and decency; not, as might seem from a title 'Ramlila', about a traditional performance in dusty spaces repeating a familiar, reactionary myth. The recognition of my dilemma …
Identity, Consciousness and the Past
Gods on Earth
The Artisans of Banaras. Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986
Labour, capital, and the Congress
Meanings of Pilgrimage
Open Space and Free Time
The Artisans of Banaras
Provincialism in Modern India
Provincialism', or the separation of inferior spaces from normative ones, is seen in this essay as a key trope for interpreting modern Indian history. Provincialism, or provinciality, is a space recognizable instantly. It is marked by slowness, by absence of the new and recent, by what is seen on the national level as a brake-effect in an otherwise promising march forwards. Cities, which is what I concentrate on in this essay, are characterizable…
Open Space and Free Time
Mothers and Non‐Mothers
This essay brings together and complicates three stories within South Asian education history by gendering them. Thus modern education was actively pursued by mothers for their sons; indigenous education should be understood as continuing at home; and women were crucial actors in men's reform and nationalism efforts through both collaboration and resistance. Gendered history should go beyond the separate story of girls and women, or the understan…
Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia
Lessons from Contemporary Schools
L'A. etudie l'organisation des etablissements scolaires implantes, en Inde, dans la region de Benares. Il examine les programmes d'enseignement qui sont proposes. Il analyse l'organisation de l'espace des differentes ecoles. Il compare la signification de cet espace chez les enseignants et chez les enfants
Class and gender politics in the Ramlila
While debating between different titles for this paper, I found myself struggling to keep 'Ramlila' out of the name. For me my paper was about serious things: gender categories and their sustenance, political domination and resistance, negotiated constitutions of rationality and decency; not, as might seem from a title 'Ramlila', about a traditional performance in dusty spaces repeating a familiar, reactionary myth. The recognition of my dilemma …
Identity, Consciousness and the Past
The Artisans of Banaras. Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986
Meanings of Pilgrimage
Open Space and Free Time
The Artisans of Banaras. Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986
Labour, capital, and the Congress
Gods on Earth
Class and gender politics in the Ramlila
While debating between different titles for this paper, I found myself struggling to keep 'Ramlila' out of the name. For me my paper was about serious things: gender categories and their sustenance, political domination and resistance, negotiated constitutions of rationality and decency; not, as might seem from a title 'Ramlila', about a traditional performance in dusty spaces repeating a familiar, reactionary myth. The recognition of my dilemma …
Identity, Consciousness and the Past
Women as subjects
The Life of a Text
Lessons from Contemporary Schools
L'A. etudie l'organisation des etablissements scolaires implantes, en Inde, dans la region de Benares. Il examine les programmes d'enseignement qui sont proposes. Il analyse l'organisation de l'espace des differentes ecoles. Il compare la signification de cet espace chez les enseignants et chez les enfants
Learning Modernity? The Technologies of Education in India
Cet article propose une interprétation/étude ethnographique des écoles dans une ville provinciale du nord de l’Inde afin d’examiner l’utilisation des « technologies » de l’éducation, notamment autour des bâtiments, espaces et rituels. Selon l’auteur, si les élèves ont des difficultés à manipuler quotidiennement ces technologies, la difficulté est encore plus grande au niveau de leur vie ou de leur carrière, parce que les écoles ne parviennent pas…
Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia
Ashes of Immortality
The Logic of Retribution
Black Arts Movement of the 1960s has been criticized for substituting a neo-African for what was identified as Western essentialism. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is among those who have critiqued the Black Arts Movement for promoting a poetics rooted in a social realism, indeed, in a sort of mimeticism, in which the relation between art and life was a direct one (102). place of the sociopolitical and empirical binarism of and white, Gates advocates un…
Mothers and Non‐Mothers
This essay brings together and complicates three stories within South Asian education history by gendering them. Thus modern education was actively pursued by mothers for their sons; indigenous education should be understood as continuing at home; and women were crucial actors in men's reform and nationalism efforts through both collaboration and resistance. Gendered history should go beyond the separate story of girls and women, or the understan…
The Scholar and her Servants
The hypothesis of the paper is twofold. By juxtaposing the two subject-positions of mistress and servant, moving between one and the other to highlight how each is largely constructed by the interaction, we illuminate the questions of margin and centre, silence and voice, and can ponder on how to do anthropology better. But secondly, to the work of several scholars who propose various approaches to these questions, I add the particular insight of…
Provincialism in Modern India
Provincialism', or the separation of inferior spaces from normative ones, is seen in this essay as a key trope for interpreting modern Indian history. Provincialism, or provinciality, is a space recognizable instantly. It is marked by slowness, by absence of the new and recent, by what is seen on the national level as a brake-effect in an otherwise promising march forwards. Cities, which is what I concentrate on in this essay, are characterizable…
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
Reviewed by: Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook Nita N. Kumar (bio) Kolin, Philip C. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. A striking element of Philip Kolin's Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is its deployment of the term "contemporary" to overview an entire century of work by [End Page 361] African American women playwrights. Beginning with the …
The Banaras of the Artisans
The Artisans of Banaras
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