Vinita Damodaran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinita Damodaran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinita |
| FAMILY NAME | Damodaran |
| SIGNATURE | DAMODARAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex (SOAS), Falmer, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 9QR, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980-2020
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis
Gunnel Cederlöf. Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity
Gunnel Cederlöf’s book focuses on India’s Northeast frontier, a strategically important region as a buffer zone between India, its rebellious hill communities, and China and Burma. Cederlöf meticulously researches the region’s subjugation under the East India Company (EIC) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. For centuries, as Cederlöf notes, this had been turf where “Armenian, Afghan, Shan, and European merchants traded with Beng…
Environmental History
Globalisation and Sacred Adivasi Landscapes in Eastern India
The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide
Gender, Race and Science in Twentieth-Century India: E. K. Janaki Ammal and the History of Science
The article discusses the role of Indian woman scholar E. K. Janaki Ammal in the historiography of environmental history studies in India. She was a professor of botany as well as a geneticist at University Botany Laboratory in Madras, India and was notable as being a women scientist invited to participate at the 1955 conference resulting in the book of the same name "Man’s role in changing the face of the earth," edited by W. L. Thomas. Subjects…
Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856 , by David Arnold
Reviewed by: Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856 Vinita Damodaran (bio) Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856, by David Arnold; pp. 298. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006, $50.00. An eminently readable book, Tropics and the Traveling Gaze unravels the mysteries of the tropics in India as constructed by nineteenth-century Europeans. It is not environmental history in…
Colonial Constructions of the ‘Tribe’ in India: The Case of Chotanagpur
I. Public Power in Europe: Studies in Historical Transformations II. Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent III. Religion, Ritual and Mythology. Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe IV. Professions and Social Identity. New European Historical Research on Work, Gender and Society V. Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area VI. Europe and the World in European Historiography
The politics of marginality and the construction of indigeneity in Chotanagpur
This article explores the way in which the different ethnic and national groups living on and impinging on the Chotanagpur plateau, in eastern India, perceived and used the landscape as a symbolic
History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980
(2002). History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, Society, Realm and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: Essays Presented to Professor Anthony Low, pp. 77-110
Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India
This paper examines the links between deforestation and famine in the context of the late-19th-century food crisis in Chotanagpur. It attempts to understand the phenomenon famine as a gendered one, and explores the cultural and gendered meanings of hunger. In doing so it looks at the symbolism of the landscape and the gendering of it by local communities in Chotanagpur
Empires and images
[Review] Masters of all they surveyed: exploration, geography, and a British El Dorado D. Graham Burnett; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000, price $45.00, ISBN 0-226-08210-6. The World and the West: The European Challenge and Overseas response in the Age of Empire. Philip Curtin; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, price £20.00, ISBN 0-521-77135-8
Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state
(1995). Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 18, North India: Partition and Independence, pp. 153-176
Azad Dastas and Dacoit Gangs: The Congress and Underground Activity in Bihar, 1942-44
This paper attempts to examine the nature of underground activity in Bihar in the 1940s. It outlines, for the first time, the dynamics of the Congress underground movement as it emerged after the imprisonment of Gandhi and the established Congress leadership in 1942. No historian has, to my knowledge, attempted to study the nature of the underground activity and its implications for the Congress organization in Bihar, or elsewhere, in this period…
Violence in the Countryside: Agrarian Unrest and Communal Rioting in Bihar, 1946
Colonial Constructions of the ‘Tribe’ in India: The Case of Chotanagpur
I. Public Power in Europe: Studies in Historical Transformations II. Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent III. Religion, Ritual and Mythology. Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe IV. Professions and Social Identity. New European Historical Research on Work, Gender and Society V. Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area VI. Europe and the World in European Historiography
The politics of marginality and the construction of indigeneity in Chotanagpur
This article explores the way in which the different ethnic and national groups living on and impinging on the Chotanagpur plateau, in eastern India, perceived and used the landscape as a symbolic
The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980-2020
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980
(2002). History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, Society, Realm and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: Essays Presented to Professor Anthony Low, pp. 77-110
Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India
This paper examines the links between deforestation and famine in the context of the late-19th-century food crisis in Chotanagpur. It attempts to understand the phenomenon famine as a gendered one, and explores the cultural and gendered meanings of hunger. In doing so it looks at the symbolism of the landscape and the gendering of it by local communities in Chotanagpur
Azad Dastas and Dacoit Gangs: The Congress and Underground Activity in Bihar, 1942-44
This paper attempts to examine the nature of underground activity in Bihar in the 1940s. It outlines, for the first time, the dynamics of the Congress underground movement as it emerged after the imprisonment of Gandhi and the established Congress leadership in 1942. No historian has, to my knowledge, attempted to study the nature of the underground activity and its implications for the Congress organization in Bihar, or elsewhere, in this period…
Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state
(1995). Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 18, North India: Partition and Independence, pp. 153-176
Violence in the Countryside: Agrarian Unrest and Communal Rioting in Bihar, 1946
Azad Dastas and Dacoit Gangs: The Congress and Underground Activity in Bihar, 1942-44
This paper attempts to examine the nature of underground activity in Bihar in the 1940s. It outlines, for the first time, the dynamics of the Congress underground movement as it emerged after the imprisonment of Gandhi and the established Congress leadership in 1942. No historian has, to my knowledge, attempted to study the nature of the underground activity and its implications for the Congress organization in Bihar, or elsewhere, in this period…
Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state
(1995). Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 18, North India: Partition and Independence, pp. 153-176
Empires and images
[Review] Masters of all they surveyed: exploration, geography, and a British El Dorado D. Graham Burnett; University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000, price $45.00, ISBN 0-226-08210-6. The World and the West: The European Challenge and Overseas response in the Age of Empire. Philip Curtin; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, price £20.00, ISBN 0-521-77135-8
History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980
(2002). History, landscape, and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850–1980. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, Society, Realm and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: Essays Presented to Professor Anthony Low, pp. 77-110
Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India
This paper examines the links between deforestation and famine in the context of the late-19th-century food crisis in Chotanagpur. It attempts to understand the phenomenon famine as a gendered one, and explores the cultural and gendered meanings of hunger. In doing so it looks at the symbolism of the landscape and the gendering of it by local communities in Chotanagpur
Colonial Constructions of the ‘Tribe’ in India: The Case of Chotanagpur
I. Public Power in Europe: Studies in Historical Transformations II. Power and Culture: Hegemony, Interaction and Dissent III. Religion, Ritual and Mythology. Aspects of Identity Formation in Europe IV. Professions and Social Identity. New European Historical Research on Work, Gender and Society V. Frontiers and Identities: Exploring the Research Area VI. Europe and the World in European Historiography
The politics of marginality and the construction of indigeneity in Chotanagpur
This article explores the way in which the different ethnic and national groups living on and impinging on the Chotanagpur plateau, in eastern India, perceived and used the landscape as a symbolic
Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856 , by David Arnold
Reviewed by: Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856 Vinita Damodaran (bio) Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800–1856, by David Arnold; pp. 298. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006, $50.00. An eminently readable book, Tropics and the Traveling Gaze unravels the mysteries of the tropics in India as constructed by nineteenth-century Europeans. It is not environmental history in…
Gender, Race and Science in Twentieth-Century India: E. K. Janaki Ammal and the History of Science
The article discusses the role of Indian woman scholar E. K. Janaki Ammal in the historiography of environmental history studies in India. She was a professor of botany as well as a geneticist at University Botany Laboratory in Madras, India and was notable as being a women scientist invited to participate at the 1955 conference resulting in the book of the same name "Man’s role in changing the face of the earth," edited by W. L. Thomas. Subjects…
The East India Company and the Natural World
This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide
Environmental History
Globalisation and Sacred Adivasi Landscapes in Eastern India
Gunnel Cederlöf. Founding an Empire on India’s North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790–1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity
Gunnel Cederlöf’s book focuses on India’s Northeast frontier, a strategically important region as a buffer zone between India, its rebellious hill communities, and China and Burma. Cederlöf meticulously researches the region’s subjugation under the East India Company (EIC) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. For centuries, as Cederlöf notes, this had been turf where “Armenian, Afghan, Shan, and European merchants traded with Beng…
Climate Change and the Humanities: Historical, Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Contemporary Environmental Crisis
And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980-2020
This article documents Adivasi resistance to the 'loot' of their land and resources since 1980, especially during the Kalinganagar movement in Odisha, roughly between 2004 and 2010, and the Pathalgadi movement in Jharkhand, between 2016 and 2018. Using the lens of trauma and testimony, the article represents a combined effort by Gladson Dungdung, an Adivasi activist, journalist, and writer who has borne witness to events during these years; Felix…
Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works)