Anshu Malhotra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anshu Malhotra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anshu |
| FAMILY NAME | Malhotra |
| SIGNATURE | MALHOTRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History
Journal Article Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Get access Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxvi, 280. Cloth $99.00. Anshu Malhotra Anshu Malhotra University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages …
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India
In her conclusion, Leela Prasad reprises the story of the monkey-god Hanuman's tail and the tale he narrated of Rama's life. Through his inflammatory tail Hanuman subjugated the might of the demon king Ravana, and his hypnotic tale immortalized the story of Rama. The power of storytelling, Prasad shows, has the ability to demolish the hubris of hegemons, opening up space for “counter-hegemonic sovereignty that is at once epistemic and resilient” …
Amritsar1984: A City Remembers
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World." South Asian Studies, 36(2), pp. 220–221
Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948." South Asian Studies, 36(1), pp. 116–117
Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Journal Article Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Get access Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii, 229. $95.00. Anshu Malhotra Anshu Malhotra University of Delhi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historic…
Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
Neeti Nair (2011), 343, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, $55.00/£40.95 In 1947, the Indian Punjab was carved out to create Pakistan, and further lopping off of sub-regions in 196
Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice
Addressing the notion of 'Punjabiyat', this text examines if there exists an 'idea of Punjab' or 'ideas of Punjab' that connects people from the region, now scattered across the globe
Purnima Dhavan. When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699–1799
On the (apocryphal?) Baisakhi day of 1699 when the tenth guru of the Sikhs, Gobind Singh, is said to have created the Khalsa, a myth was born, polyvalent in its hermeneutic possibilities. Purnima Dhavan invokes this myth in her book's title with the metaphor “when sparrows became hawks.” It is constitutive of the self image of the Sikhs as men of uncompromising masculinity: the miraculous transformation of the Sikhs into hawks brought about by th…
Bhakti and the Gendered Self: A Courtesan and a Consort in Mid Nineteenth Century Punjab
Bhakti is viewed as a movement that is subversive of orthodoxy, and inverts the societal norms prescribed by thedharmashastras. This paper looks at the Bhakti movement's long history and transformations into the nineteenth century in Punjab. If womanlydharmawithin the normative tradition is defined by sexual containment through marriage and wifehood, the accumulated Bhakti legends and hagiographies are examined to see the place of the prostitute …
Telling her tale? Unravelling a life in conflict in Peero’s Ik Sau Saṭh Kāfiaṅ. (one hundred and sixty kafis)
This article explores the manner in which Peero, a denizen of nineteenth century Punjab, in her 160 Kafis tries to communicate aspects of her own story and life through the diverse cultural resources at her command. The questions of self-representation and self-fashioning are central to this text, and Peero speaks of certain events in her life by relating sagas and evoking moods familiar in the cultural landscape of Punjab. Peero, self-confessedl…
The Emergence of Bazaar Literature: Jhagrras, Kissas and Reform in Early Twentieth Century Punjab
Every Woman Is a Mother in Embryo: Lala Lajpat Rai and Indian Womanhood
The Moral Woman and the Urban Punjabi Society of the Late Nineteenth Century
The Satyarth Prakash of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj, was not just a book of Religion. Rather, it was meant to be a moral code of conduct, a guide for the Aryan People to adhere to. As such, the Swami had taken pains to spell out the model character of an Aryan woman, among other things. He had given the Iwoman question' a centrality because he perceived women to be the key to the maintenance of caste purity; and becau…
Bhakti and the Gendered Self: A Courtesan and a Consort in Mid Nineteenth Century Punjab
Bhakti is viewed as a movement that is subversive of orthodoxy, and inverts the societal norms prescribed by thedharmashastras. This paper looks at the Bhakti movement's long history and transformations into the nineteenth century in Punjab. If womanlydharmawithin the normative tradition is defined by sexual containment through marriage and wifehood, the accumulated Bhakti legends and hagiographies are examined to see the place of the prostitute …
The Moral Woman and the Urban Punjabi Society of the Late Nineteenth Century
The Satyarth Prakash of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj, was not just a book of Religion. Rather, it was meant to be a moral code of conduct, a guide for the Aryan People to adhere to. As such, the Swami had taken pains to spell out the model character of an Aryan woman, among other things. He had given the Iwoman question' a centrality because he perceived women to be the key to the maintenance of caste purity; and becau…
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World." South Asian Studies, 36(2), pp. 220–221
The Emergence of Bazaar Literature: Jhagrras, Kissas and Reform in Early Twentieth Century Punjab
The Moral Woman and the Urban Punjabi Society of the Late Nineteenth Century
The Satyarth Prakash of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj, was not just a book of Religion. Rather, it was meant to be a moral code of conduct, a guide for the Aryan People to adhere to. As such, the Swami had taken pains to spell out the model character of an Aryan woman, among other things. He had given the Iwoman question' a centrality because he perceived women to be the key to the maintenance of caste purity; and becau…
Every Woman Is a Mother in Embryo: Lala Lajpat Rai and Indian Womanhood
The Emergence of Bazaar Literature: Jhagrras, Kissas and Reform in Early Twentieth Century Punjab
Telling her tale? Unravelling a life in conflict in Peero’s Ik Sau Saṭh Kāfiaṅ. (one hundred and sixty kafis)
This article explores the manner in which Peero, a denizen of nineteenth century Punjab, in her 160 Kafis tries to communicate aspects of her own story and life through the diverse cultural resources at her command. The questions of self-representation and self-fashioning are central to this text, and Peero speaks of certain events in her life by relating sagas and evoking moods familiar in the cultural landscape of Punjab. Peero, self-confessedl…
Punjab Reconsidered: History, Culture, and Practice
Addressing the notion of 'Punjabiyat', this text examines if there exists an 'idea of Punjab' or 'ideas of Punjab' that connects people from the region, now scattered across the globe
Purnima Dhavan. When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699–1799
On the (apocryphal?) Baisakhi day of 1699 when the tenth guru of the Sikhs, Gobind Singh, is said to have created the Khalsa, a myth was born, polyvalent in its hermeneutic possibilities. Purnima Dhavan invokes this myth in her book's title with the metaphor “when sparrows became hawks.” It is constitutive of the self image of the Sikhs as men of uncompromising masculinity: the miraculous transformation of the Sikhs into hawks brought about by th…
Bhakti and the Gendered Self: A Courtesan and a Consort in Mid Nineteenth Century Punjab
Bhakti is viewed as a movement that is subversive of orthodoxy, and inverts the societal norms prescribed by thedharmashastras. This paper looks at the Bhakti movement's long history and transformations into the nineteenth century in Punjab. If womanlydharmawithin the normative tradition is defined by sexual containment through marriage and wifehood, the accumulated Bhakti legends and hagiographies are examined to see the place of the prostitute …
Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
Neeti Nair (2011), 343, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, $55.00/£40.95 In 1947, the Indian Punjab was carved out to create Pakistan, and further lopping off of sub-regions in 196
Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Journal Article Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Get access Ruby Lal. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii, 229. $95.00. Anshu Malhotra Anshu Malhotra University of Delhi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historic…
Text and Tradition in Early Modern North India
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948." South Asian Studies, 36(1), pp. 116–117
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World
The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World." South Asian Studies, 36(2), pp. 220–221
Amritsar1984: A City Remembers
Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History
Journal Article Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Get access Louis E. Fenech. The Cherished Five in Sikh History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxvi, 280. Cloth $99.00. Anshu Malhotra Anshu Malhotra University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages …
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India
In her conclusion, Leela Prasad reprises the story of the monkey-god Hanuman's tail and the tale he narrated of Rama's life. Through his inflammatory tail Hanuman subjugated the might of the demon king Ravana, and his hypnotic tale immortalized the story of Rama. The power of storytelling, Prasad shows, has the ability to demolish the hubris of hegemons, opening up space for “counter-hegemonic sovereignty that is at once epistemic and resilient” …
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