Yugank Goyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 367677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yugank Goyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yugank |
| FAMILY NAME | Goyal |
| SIGNATURE | GOYAL Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flame University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9707-5030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘A Breakwater of Ignorance: ’ W.W. Hunter, Epistemic Anxiety, and Gazetteers in mid-Nineteenth Century India
How much did the colonial state ‘truly’ know about India? This question underpinned Sir William Wilson Hunter’s early foundational work, The Annals of Rural Bengal, which marked his entry into colonial knowledge production. In this text, Hunter offered a searing critique of the Company’s ‘unreliable’ and ‘incomplete’ knowledge. This article argues that such anxieties about ignorance, sharpened in the post-1857 imperial order, enabled the colonial…
A theory of legal apparitions: Regulation and escape in Indian divorces
When people do not approach a formal court of law to settle their disputes, and cannot enter into out-of-court settlements either, what do they do? I find that people install court-like processes which mimetically follow the court procedures, executing the settlement as if the decision were rendered officially. By examining such practices in the case of divorce-related disputes in India, I advance a theory of legal apparitions, a phenomenon in wh…
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Responsibilization through regulatory intermediaries in informal markets: Examining the governance of prostitution in India
Independent” sex work outside red light areas in big cities in developing countries is an understudied phenomenon. Through a survey of independent sex workers in Delhi, India, this paper sheds light on the governance of independent prostitution. It shows that in the sex work industry, which is informal in nature and faces a complex legal architecture, regulatory intermediaries (RIs) drive both regulation and responsibilization strategies. On beha…
Of Modernity, House Prices and Suspending Singularity of Time
Why do we buy houses as opposed to renting one? This question, in its simplistic formulation captures, inter alia, some of the most fundamental emotions of temporal values that we impose on ourselves. Yet, the question has attracted little scholarly scrutiny. The article, using this question as a case, attempts to excavate the silences of our imagination of time in the cacophony of modernity. Time has had varying versions of existence in the mode…
The Coal Mine Mafia of India: A Mirror of Corporate Power
An investigation of the source of power of mafia-type organizations may reveal how other non-state actors can operate as if they are independent of the state. This study of the coal mafia in Dhanbad, India shows that power often derives from socially hierarchical relationships involving debt and/or caste. It also demonstrates how state policies that are thoughtlessly implemented may solidify existing hierarchies. By analogy, modern corporations g…
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Responsibilization through regulatory intermediaries in informal markets: Examining the governance of prostitution in India
Independent” sex work outside red light areas in big cities in developing countries is an understudied phenomenon. Through a survey of independent sex workers in Delhi, India, this paper sheds light on the governance of independent prostitution. It shows that in the sex work industry, which is informal in nature and faces a complex legal architecture, regulatory intermediaries (RIs) drive both regulation and responsibilization strategies. On beha…
The Coal Mine Mafia of India: A Mirror of Corporate Power
An investigation of the source of power of mafia-type organizations may reveal how other non-state actors can operate as if they are independent of the state. This study of the coal mafia in Dhanbad, India shows that power often derives from socially hierarchical relationships involving debt and/or caste. It also demonstrates how state policies that are thoughtlessly implemented may solidify existing hierarchies. By analogy, modern corporations g…
The Coal Mine Mafia of India: A Mirror of Corporate Power
An investigation of the source of power of mafia-type organizations may reveal how other non-state actors can operate as if they are independent of the state. This study of the coal mafia in Dhanbad, India shows that power often derives from socially hierarchical relationships involving debt and/or caste. It also demonstrates how state policies that are thoughtlessly implemented may solidify existing hierarchies. By analogy, modern corporations g…
Of Modernity, House Prices and Suspending Singularity of Time
Why do we buy houses as opposed to renting one? This question, in its simplistic formulation captures, inter alia, some of the most fundamental emotions of temporal values that we impose on ourselves. Yet, the question has attracted little scholarly scrutiny. The article, using this question as a case, attempts to excavate the silences of our imagination of time in the cacophony of modernity. Time has had varying versions of existence in the mode…
Informal land leasing in rural India persists because it is credible
Responsibilization through regulatory intermediaries in informal markets: Examining the governance of prostitution in India
Independent” sex work outside red light areas in big cities in developing countries is an understudied phenomenon. Through a survey of independent sex workers in Delhi, India, this paper sheds light on the governance of independent prostitution. It shows that in the sex work industry, which is informal in nature and faces a complex legal architecture, regulatory intermediaries (RIs) drive both regulation and responsibilization strategies. On beha…
A theory of legal apparitions: Regulation and escape in Indian divorces
When people do not approach a formal court of law to settle their disputes, and cannot enter into out-of-court settlements either, what do they do? I find that people install court-like processes which mimetically follow the court procedures, executing the settlement as if the decision were rendered officially. By examining such practices in the case of divorce-related disputes in India, I advance a theory of legal apparitions, a phenomenon in wh…
‘A Breakwater of Ignorance: ’ W.W. Hunter, Epistemic Anxiety, and Gazetteers in mid-Nineteenth Century India
How much did the colonial state ‘truly’ know about India? This question underpinned Sir William Wilson Hunter’s early foundational work, The Annals of Rural Bengal, which marked his entry into colonial knowledge production. In this text, Hunter offered a searing critique of the Company’s ‘unreliable’ and ‘incomplete’ knowledge. This article argues that such anxieties about ignorance, sharpened in the post-1857 imperial order, enabled the colonial…
Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Intermediary (2 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)