Nandini Bhattacharya
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3692976 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nandini Bhattacharya |
| PRENOMES | Nandini |
| SOBRENOME | Bhattacharya |
| ASSINATURA | BHATTACHARYA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Dundee |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
James McHugh. An Unholy Brew
Journal Article James McHugh. An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions. Get access James McHugh. An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 416. Paper $43.99. Nandini Bhattacharya Nandini Bhattacharya University of Houston, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, I…
“Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression
This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a precalculus mathematics class at an Hispanic Serving Research Institution. The intervention was designed because the standard precalculus mathematics class had a high failure rate, especially for Latinx students, which was serving as a barrier for declaration of a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics major. The high failure rate indicates …
Laurence Monnais. The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals analyzes how modern medicine transformed medical consumption in colonial Vietnam in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. In the introduction, Laurence Monnais reminds us of Luisa White’s call to examine colonialism and its legacies through medicines and medical technology, since they elicited conflicting discourses (p. 28). Following that lead, three principal themes run through the…
Semantics of Modified Numerals in Bangla
Ecce Homo-Behold the Human! Reading Life-Narratives in Times of Colonial Modernity
The essay explores Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnacaritra-published in 1886-the life of a humanised god, as engaged in cross cultural dialogues with John Robert Seeley's Ecce Homo, Natural Religion, and The Expansion of England in particular, and the broader European tendency of naturalising religions in general. It contends that the rise of historicised life writing genres in Europe was organically related to the demythologised, verifiable go…
Risk, Incorporated
In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011) and Chetan Bhagat's novel Two States: The Story of My Marriage (2009) form key texts in this analysis. These texts serve as good examples of a wide repertoire of high- and…
Rachel Berger, Ayuveda Made Modern
Ayuveda Made Modern argues for a historicisation of Ayurveda and its location within the conflictual terrain of Indian modernity. In the process, the author has located the transformation of Ayurveda; namely, its identification with Hindu genealogy and the wider acceptance of its practitioners as medical experts by local government within the politics of one region. The context for the modernisation of Ayurveda are first, the anticolonial movemen…
The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907–1942)
This article traces the transformation of liquor and industrial alcohol into a commercial product in twentieth-century colonial India. Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human consumption) remained prominent in political discourse and in the public sphere in this period. Temperance activists, Gandhian nationalists and medical authorities critiqued government revenue extraction from consumable liquors and advocated either partial or total prohibition…
Between the Bazaar and the Bench
This article analyzes why adulteration became a key trope of the Indian drug market. Adulteration had a pervasive presence, being present in medical discourses, public opinion and debate, and the nationalist claim for government intervention. The article first situates the roots of adulteration in the composite nature of this market, which involved the availability of drugs of different potencies as well as the presence of multiple layers of manu…
From Materia Medica to the Pharmacopoeia
Historians of indigenous medicine in colonial India have looked more closely at the changes, reinventions and reformulations of institutions of Ayurveda and Unani than at the cognitive content of the drugs themselves. The few historians who have examined the changing content of indigenous medicines have conceptualised the creation of materia medica of Indian drugs through two tropes: one of circulation (of specific drugs) through epistemological …
On Making Sense
Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism
This article posits that the hill station of Darjeeling was a unique form of colonial urbanism. It shifts historiographical interest from major urban centres in colonial India (such as Bombay or Calcutta) and instead attempts a greater understanding of smaller urban centres. In the process, it also interrogates the category of hill stations, which have been understood as exotic and scenic sites rather than as towns that were integral to the colon…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
Narin Hassan, Diagnosing Empire
This book attempts to situate several travel narratives and ‘amateur’ medical practices by various British women from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in Asia and Africa. The narrators are well known and often studied: from Lady Mary Wortley Montague and Emmeline Lott, to the late Victorian Emily Burton. By discussing their narratives together in this book the author wishes to ‘expose the centrality of domestic practices to the shaping…
Nation Misplaced
Histories and aesthetics of space intersected in South Asian decolonization. The contest for space has continued to be reflected in South Asian cinema from the 1950s to the present. Spatial politics and the aestheticization of spaces both reflect current politics and urban policies and also glance back at colonial and postcolonial histories of national fragmentation and nation-formation. In this essay the relationship of art and politics – of que…
Teaching History in Schools
Within a decade after Independence, some of the finest historians in India got involved in writing new history textbooks for school children. As a new India began to dust off its colonial legacy, many historians felt the need to critique colonial perceptions of the past, rethink existing narratives of history, and develop a secular national imagination. Horrified by the violence of Partition, when thousands of Hindus and Muslims killed each other…
Meendhara
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's Alien
The kind and degree of contradiction that exists between the historical specificities of immigrant displacement and racialization and canonized forms of national culture generates formal deviations whose significances are misread if simply assimilated as modernist or postmodernist aesthetic modes. . . . Asian American work emerges out of very different contradictions of modernity: out of the specific conditions of racialization in relation to mod…
A ‘Basement’ Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora women watch Bollywood
This article results from survey‐based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct – and not merely consume – new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood‐watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam o…
Maternal plots, colonialist fictions
(2001). Maternal plots, colonialist fictions: Colonial pedagogy in Mary Martha Sherwood's children's stories. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 381-415
Behind the veil
Postcolonial agency in teaching Toni Morrison
Postcolonial agency in teaching Toni Morrison
Teaching History in Schools
Within a decade after Independence, some of the finest historians in India got involved in writing new history textbooks for school children. As a new India began to dust off its colonial legacy, many historians felt the need to critique colonial perceptions of the past, rethink existing narratives of history, and develop a secular national imagination. Horrified by the violence of Partition, when thousands of Hindus and Muslims killed each other…
A ‘Basement’ Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora women watch Bollywood
This article results from survey‐based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct – and not merely consume – new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood‐watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam o…
From Materia Medica to the Pharmacopoeia
Historians of indigenous medicine in colonial India have looked more closely at the changes, reinventions and reformulations of institutions of Ayurveda and Unani than at the cognitive content of the drugs themselves. The few historians who have examined the changing content of indigenous medicines have conceptualised the creation of materia medica of Indian drugs through two tropes: one of circulation (of specific drugs) through epistemological …
The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907–1942)
This article traces the transformation of liquor and industrial alcohol into a commercial product in twentieth-century colonial India. Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human consumption) remained prominent in political discourse and in the public sphere in this period. Temperance activists, Gandhian nationalists and medical authorities critiqued government revenue extraction from consumable liquors and advocated either partial or total prohibition…
Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism
This article posits that the hill station of Darjeeling was a unique form of colonial urbanism. It shifts historiographical interest from major urban centres in colonial India (such as Bombay or Calcutta) and instead attempts a greater understanding of smaller urban centres. In the process, it also interrogates the category of hill stations, which have been understood as exotic and scenic sites rather than as towns that were integral to the colon…
Nation Misplaced
Histories and aesthetics of space intersected in South Asian decolonization. The contest for space has continued to be reflected in South Asian cinema from the 1950s to the present. Spatial politics and the aestheticization of spaces both reflect current politics and urban policies and also glance back at colonial and postcolonial histories of national fragmentation and nation-formation. In this essay the relationship of art and politics – of que…
Maternal plots, colonialist fictions
(2001). Maternal plots, colonialist fictions: Colonial pedagogy in Mary Martha Sherwood's children's stories. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 381-415
Behind the veil
"Ethnopolitical Dynamics and the Language of Gendering in Dryden's "Aureng-Zebe
The line between the primitive and the degraded feminine is a thin one, habitually elided in dominant discourse. ... Through that chain of colonial associations, whole cultures became feminized, blackened and impoverished-each denigrating construction implying and invoking the others. True womanhood had to be protected ... not only from the debased subjectivity and dangerous sexuality of the lowerclass prostitute, but from all other similarly ins…
Postcolonial agency in teaching Toni Morrison
Postcolonial agency in teaching Toni Morrison
Behind the veil
Maternal plots, colonialist fictions
(2001). Maternal plots, colonialist fictions: Colonial pedagogy in Mary Martha Sherwood's children's stories. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 381-415
A ‘Basement’ Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora women watch Bollywood
This article results from survey‐based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct – and not merely consume – new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood‐watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam o…
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's Alien
The kind and degree of contradiction that exists between the historical specificities of immigrant displacement and racialization and canonized forms of national culture generates formal deviations whose significances are misread if simply assimilated as modernist or postmodernist aesthetic modes. . . . Asian American work emerges out of very different contradictions of modernity: out of the specific conditions of racialization in relation to mod…
Meendhara
Teaching History in Schools
Within a decade after Independence, some of the finest historians in India got involved in writing new history textbooks for school children. As a new India began to dust off its colonial legacy, many historians felt the need to critique colonial perceptions of the past, rethink existing narratives of history, and develop a secular national imagination. Horrified by the violence of Partition, when thousands of Hindus and Muslims killed each other…
Nation Misplaced
Histories and aesthetics of space intersected in South Asian decolonization. The contest for space has continued to be reflected in South Asian cinema from the 1950s to the present. Spatial politics and the aestheticization of spaces both reflect current politics and urban policies and also glance back at colonial and postcolonial histories of national fragmentation and nation-formation. In this essay the relationship of art and politics – of que…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
Narin Hassan, Diagnosing Empire
This book attempts to situate several travel narratives and ‘amateur’ medical practices by various British women from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in Asia and Africa. The narrators are well known and often studied: from Lady Mary Wortley Montague and Emmeline Lott, to the late Victorian Emily Burton. By discussing their narratives together in this book the author wishes to ‘expose the centrality of domestic practices to the shaping…
Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism
This article posits that the hill station of Darjeeling was a unique form of colonial urbanism. It shifts historiographical interest from major urban centres in colonial India (such as Bombay or Calcutta) and instead attempts a greater understanding of smaller urban centres. In the process, it also interrogates the category of hill stations, which have been understood as exotic and scenic sites rather than as towns that were integral to the colon…
Contagion and Enclaves
Colonialism created exclusive economic and segregatory social spaces for the exploitation and management of natural and human resources, in the form of plantations, ports, mining towns, hill stations, civil lines and new urban centres for Europeans. Contagion and Enclaves studies the social history of medicine within two intersecting enclaves in colonial India; the hill station of Darjeeling which incorporated the sanitarian and racial norms of t…
On Making Sense
Between the Bazaar and the Bench
This article analyzes why adulteration became a key trope of the Indian drug market. Adulteration had a pervasive presence, being present in medical discourses, public opinion and debate, and the nationalist claim for government intervention. The article first situates the roots of adulteration in the composite nature of this market, which involved the availability of drugs of different potencies as well as the presence of multiple layers of manu…
From Materia Medica to the Pharmacopoeia
Historians of indigenous medicine in colonial India have looked more closely at the changes, reinventions and reformulations of institutions of Ayurveda and Unani than at the cognitive content of the drugs themselves. The few historians who have examined the changing content of indigenous medicines have conceptualised the creation of materia medica of Indian drugs through two tropes: one of circulation (of specific drugs) through epistemological …
Risk, Incorporated
In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011) and Chetan Bhagat's novel Two States: The Story of My Marriage (2009) form key texts in this analysis. These texts serve as good examples of a wide repertoire of high- and…
Rachel Berger, Ayuveda Made Modern
Ayuveda Made Modern argues for a historicisation of Ayurveda and its location within the conflictual terrain of Indian modernity. In the process, the author has located the transformation of Ayurveda; namely, its identification with Hindu genealogy and the wider acceptance of its practitioners as medical experts by local government within the politics of one region. The context for the modernisation of Ayurveda are first, the anticolonial movemen…
The Problem of Alcohol in Colonial India (c. 1907–1942)
This article traces the transformation of liquor and industrial alcohol into a commercial product in twentieth-century colonial India. Liquor (alcoholic beverages for human consumption) remained prominent in political discourse and in the public sphere in this period. Temperance activists, Gandhian nationalists and medical authorities critiqued government revenue extraction from consumable liquors and advocated either partial or total prohibition…
Semantics of Modified Numerals in Bangla
Ecce Homo-Behold the Human! Reading Life-Narratives in Times of Colonial Modernity
The essay explores Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Krishnacaritra-published in 1886-the life of a humanised god, as engaged in cross cultural dialogues with John Robert Seeley's Ecce Homo, Natural Religion, and The Expansion of England in particular, and the broader European tendency of naturalising religions in general. It contends that the rise of historicised life writing genres in Europe was organically related to the demythologised, verifiable go…
“Being a team of five strong women… we had to make an impression
This paper, a first‐person account, describes a community psychology‐aligned intervention into a precalculus mathematics class at an Hispanic Serving Research Institution. The intervention was designed because the standard precalculus mathematics class had a high failure rate, especially for Latinx students, which was serving as a barrier for declaration of a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics major. The high failure rate indicates …
Laurence Monnais. The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals analyzes how modern medicine transformed medical consumption in colonial Vietnam in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. In the introduction, Laurence Monnais reminds us of Luisa White’s call to examine colonialism and its legacies through medicines and medical technology, since they elicited conflicting discourses (p. 28). Following that lead, three principal themes run through the…
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