Ankur Datta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ankur Datta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ankur |
| FAMILY NAME | Datta |
| SIGNATURE | DATTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | South Asian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5338-8091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph
What are the connections between different ethnographic texts of a particular society that emerge in different times? How do these connections play out in practice in the writing of ethnography, and methodologically in ethnographic research and analysis? These questions will be explored in relation to the study of societies based in Jammu and Kashmir, and with specific interest on the Kashmiri Pandits. This article focuses on T.N. Madan’s book Fa…
The limits of recovery: Coming of age, aspirations and (im)mobility among displaced Pandit youth in Jammu
How do the displaced recover tangible and intangible losses incurred in displacement? What does the process of recovery involve, especially for members of displaced families who come of age after displacement and face the burden of recovery? This paper engages with these questions in relation to the Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, better known as the Kashmiri Pandits. Following the outbreak of conflict, the vast majority of this community f…
The Dull Pain of Simmering Anger: Affective and Emotional Experiences among Displaced Kashmiri Pandits
The displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits, the Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, following the insurgency remains a controversial event in the region, especially with regards to the cause of their 'exodus.' While the Pandits have lived since then in Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere, remaking their lives that were disrupted in displacement, they inhabit a complex political location. Pandit political expression, especially for those outside Kashmi…
Resisting occupation in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir has for long been an area of interest, following the end of British colonialism in South Asia and the birth of the new nation-states of India and Pakistan. The dispute over Jammu
That was natural . This is just artificial ’: Displacement, memory, worship, and connection at a Kashmiri Hindu shrine replica
This paper explores how religion influences place-making for forced migrants, taking the case of a replica of a prominent shrine built by displaced Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir. I explore how the replica provokes a discussion among forced migrants about their relationship to homelands left behind and to places of exile. I also show how place-making for the displaced is marked by uncertainty and creative engagement
Mind the Gap: Navigating the Quantitative and the Qualitative in Survey Research
Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom
Uncertain Journeys: Return migration, home, and uncertainty for a displaced Kashmiri community
This article explores situations in which forced migrants revisit places and homes they had fled from, drawing on research carried out among Kashmiri Hindus, better known asPandits, who were displaced following the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990. Due to the breakdown of law and order, selective attacks, and a climate of fear, most of the community had relocated from the Kashmir valley to the south in Jammu and to even cities su…
Dealing with dislocation: Migration, place and home among displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir
This article addresses two questions: first, how do communities facing protracted displacement deal with the experience of migration and place-making? Second, how do notions of home mediate this relationship? I approach these questions by taking the case of Kashmiri Pandits, the upper caste Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, who were displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989-90 and a significant section of whom wer…
Ethical Dilemmas of the Encounter: Ethnography, Fieldwork and Political Violence
Dealing with dislocation: Migration, place and home among displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir
This article addresses two questions: first, how do communities facing protracted displacement deal with the experience of migration and place-making? Second, how do notions of home mediate this relationship? I approach these questions by taking the case of Kashmiri Pandits, the upper caste Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, who were displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989-90 and a significant section of whom wer…
Uncertain Journeys: Return migration, home, and uncertainty for a displaced Kashmiri community
This article explores situations in which forced migrants revisit places and homes they had fled from, drawing on research carried out among Kashmiri Hindus, better known asPandits, who were displaced following the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990. Due to the breakdown of law and order, selective attacks, and a climate of fear, most of the community had relocated from the Kashmir valley to the south in Jammu and to even cities su…
Mind the Gap: Navigating the Quantitative and the Qualitative in Survey Research
Resisting occupation in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir has for long been an area of interest, following the end of British colonialism in South Asia and the birth of the new nation-states of India and Pakistan. The dispute over Jammu
That was natural . This is just artificial ’: Displacement, memory, worship, and connection at a Kashmiri Hindu shrine replica
This paper explores how religion influences place-making for forced migrants, taking the case of a replica of a prominent shrine built by displaced Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir. I explore how the replica provokes a discussion among forced migrants about their relationship to homelands left behind and to places of exile. I also show how place-making for the displaced is marked by uncertainty and creative engagement
Ethical Dilemmas of the Encounter: Ethnography, Fieldwork and Political Violence
Dealing with dislocation: Migration, place and home among displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir
This article addresses two questions: first, how do communities facing protracted displacement deal with the experience of migration and place-making? Second, how do notions of home mediate this relationship? I approach these questions by taking the case of Kashmiri Pandits, the upper caste Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, who were displaced due to the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989-90 and a significant section of whom wer…
Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom
Uncertain Journeys: Return migration, home, and uncertainty for a displaced Kashmiri community
This article explores situations in which forced migrants revisit places and homes they had fled from, drawing on research carried out among Kashmiri Hindus, better known asPandits, who were displaced following the outbreak of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in 1990. Due to the breakdown of law and order, selective attacks, and a climate of fear, most of the community had relocated from the Kashmir valley to the south in Jammu and to even cities su…
Mind the Gap: Navigating the Quantitative and the Qualitative in Survey Research
Resisting occupation in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir has for long been an area of interest, following the end of British colonialism in South Asia and the birth of the new nation-states of India and Pakistan. The dispute over Jammu
That was natural . This is just artificial ’: Displacement, memory, worship, and connection at a Kashmiri Hindu shrine replica
This paper explores how religion influences place-making for forced migrants, taking the case of a replica of a prominent shrine built by displaced Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir. I explore how the replica provokes a discussion among forced migrants about their relationship to homelands left behind and to places of exile. I also show how place-making for the displaced is marked by uncertainty and creative engagement
The Dull Pain of Simmering Anger: Affective and Emotional Experiences among Displaced Kashmiri Pandits
The displacement of the Kashmiri Pandits, the Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, following the insurgency remains a controversial event in the region, especially with regards to the cause of their 'exodus.' While the Pandits have lived since then in Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere, remaking their lives that were disrupted in displacement, they inhabit a complex political location. Pandit political expression, especially for those outside Kashmi…
The limits of recovery: Coming of age, aspirations and (im)mobility among displaced Pandit youth in Jammu
How do the displaced recover tangible and intangible losses incurred in displacement? What does the process of recovery involve, especially for members of displaced families who come of age after displacement and face the burden of recovery? This paper engages with these questions in relation to the Hindu minority of the Kashmir valley, better known as the Kashmiri Pandits. Following the outbreak of conflict, the vast majority of this community f…
Ethnographic inheritances in Kashmir: The academic and social life of an ethnographic monograph
What are the connections between different ethnographic texts of a particular society that emerge in different times? How do these connections play out in practice in the writing of ethnography, and methodologically in ethnographic research and analysis? These questions will be explored in relation to the study of societies based in Jammu and Kashmir, and with specific interest on the Kashmiri Pandits. This article focuses on T.N. Madan’s book Fa…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)