Rita Kothari
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Kothari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Kothari |
| SIGNATURE | KOTHARI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-8719-3743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on HIV healthcare delivery for females in sub-Saharan Africa
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), females are disproportionately impacted by HIV and face generalized but also gendered social and economic barriers to accessing HIV healthcare and services. At the outset of the pandemic, many anticipated COVID-19 would represent a major set-back for HIV care in the region. The impact of COVID-19 on HIV health services and HIV-affected populations has been reported in specific populations but has not been synt…
Concealments and Exposures
This chapter is based on the premise that language is both expressive and constitutive of caste. It is in language that the most embedded and almost invisibly settled ideologies of caste can be seen—glimpses of which become evident if quotidian language is examined closely. Caste often lies in the ellipsis, the half-said, and the unspoken. Through attention to language, the chapter demonstrates that caste is illegible and does not demonstrate the…
Dil Se
This essay deals with the semantic and semiotic field of dil (heart) in Hindi film songs. Dil, as one of the most recurring motifs in Hindi film songs, provides a layered and dynamic view into the way self and non-self are both constituted by and reflected in language. As a trope, dil draws from poetic traditions and metaphors of Persian and Urdu, frequently overlain by other conventions and idioms of love in South Asia. Besides locating the unsp…
Translation, Language, Anthropology
This essay, in addition to being a reflection on field notes, is about the non-representability of translation. It illustrates the simultaneous possibilities of closure and openness in translation, acts that seal borders, and those that open up new voices. It shows that translation also creates equivalent categories. In doing so, translators align themselves with the dominant codes of classification. These observations have been drawn from ethnog…
Sindh, 1947 and Beyond
When we came to the land of Hindustan, we were sent to a refugee camp near Ahmednagar in a special train. We were given free food, clothes, soap, for some time. Later on, an order was issued that t
Sindhi Sikhs in India
This paper argues for the inclusion of ‘Sindhi Sikhs’—a minor group in terms of religion, language and number—into the archives of Partition, Sindh and Sikh scholarship. Terming this group as the ‘missing people’, we draw attention to contexts that might have made them slip through the cracks of the three archives. At a more fundamental level, the paper critiques the processes by which strait-jacketed definitions of a ‘Hindu’ or a ‘Sikh’ make inv…
The Persistence of Partitions
This essay is based on my engagement with the Sindhi-speaking Hindu minority of Sindh that migrated to India in and around 1947, when the province of Sindh became a part of Pakistan. It privileges therefore a specific religious group and its response and negotiation to a specific moment. My current research on Sindhi-speaking Muslims along the border interrogates the classification of ‘Sindhis’ as a spatially fixed identity, and revisits the stat…
Decentering translation studies
Undisciplined History
In 1856 a colonial administrator wrote a historico-cultural compendium called Ras Mala on the Western Indian province of Gujarat. Since the work was written in English, it has remained beyond the reach/awareness of most Gujaratis. Aimed at training local officers of the East India Company, the Ras Mala was created from a mixture of oral tales and Company proceedings. This amazing combination of history and sociology, tradition and tale precludes …
Requiem for Gujarat
Print and People an Interview With Narendra Desai, a Gandhian Activist
Anti-colonial struggles remain half-told stories, locked and lost in the memories of the nation-state. The unravelling of the multiple and often contradictory threads around India's struggle for freedom is an ongoing endeavour today among political and social scientists. The primary component of this area has been the making or the unmaking of Mahatma Gandhi, the architect of India's anti-colonial struggle. My concern here is with a little-known,…
Postcolonialism and the language of power
(1998). Postcolonialism and the language of power. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 35-38
Sindh, 1947 and Beyond
When we came to the land of Hindustan, we were sent to a refugee camp near Ahmednagar in a special train. We were given free food, clothes, soap, for some time. Later on, an order was issued that t
Undisciplined History
In 1856 a colonial administrator wrote a historico-cultural compendium called Ras Mala on the Western Indian province of Gujarat. Since the work was written in English, it has remained beyond the reach/awareness of most Gujaratis. Aimed at training local officers of the East India Company, the Ras Mala was created from a mixture of oral tales and Company proceedings. This amazing combination of history and sociology, tradition and tale precludes …
Postcolonialism and the language of power
(1998). Postcolonialism and the language of power. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 35-38
Postcolonialism and the language of power
(1998). Postcolonialism and the language of power. Interventions: Vol. 1, Ideologies of the Postcolonial, pp. 35-38
Print and People an Interview With Narendra Desai, a Gandhian Activist
Anti-colonial struggles remain half-told stories, locked and lost in the memories of the nation-state. The unravelling of the multiple and often contradictory threads around India's struggle for freedom is an ongoing endeavour today among political and social scientists. The primary component of this area has been the making or the unmaking of Mahatma Gandhi, the architect of India's anti-colonial struggle. My concern here is with a little-known,…
Requiem for Gujarat
Undisciplined History
In 1856 a colonial administrator wrote a historico-cultural compendium called Ras Mala on the Western Indian province of Gujarat. Since the work was written in English, it has remained beyond the reach/awareness of most Gujaratis. Aimed at training local officers of the East India Company, the Ras Mala was created from a mixture of oral tales and Company proceedings. This amazing combination of history and sociology, tradition and tale precludes …
Decentering translation studies
The Persistence of Partitions
This essay is based on my engagement with the Sindhi-speaking Hindu minority of Sindh that migrated to India in and around 1947, when the province of Sindh became a part of Pakistan. It privileges therefore a specific religious group and its response and negotiation to a specific moment. My current research on Sindhi-speaking Muslims along the border interrogates the classification of ‘Sindhis’ as a spatially fixed identity, and revisits the stat…
Translation, Language, Anthropology
This essay, in addition to being a reflection on field notes, is about the non-representability of translation. It illustrates the simultaneous possibilities of closure and openness in translation, acts that seal borders, and those that open up new voices. It shows that translation also creates equivalent categories. In doing so, translators align themselves with the dominant codes of classification. These observations have been drawn from ethnog…
Sindh, 1947 and Beyond
When we came to the land of Hindustan, we were sent to a refugee camp near Ahmednagar in a special train. We were given free food, clothes, soap, for some time. Later on, an order was issued that t
Sindhi Sikhs in India
This paper argues for the inclusion of ‘Sindhi Sikhs’—a minor group in terms of religion, language and number—into the archives of Partition, Sindh and Sikh scholarship. Terming this group as the ‘missing people’, we draw attention to contexts that might have made them slip through the cracks of the three archives. At a more fundamental level, the paper critiques the processes by which strait-jacketed definitions of a ‘Hindu’ or a ‘Sikh’ make inv…
Dil Se
This essay deals with the semantic and semiotic field of dil (heart) in Hindi film songs. Dil, as one of the most recurring motifs in Hindi film songs, provides a layered and dynamic view into the way self and non-self are both constituted by and reflected in language. As a trope, dil draws from poetic traditions and metaphors of Persian and Urdu, frequently overlain by other conventions and idioms of love in South Asia. Besides locating the unsp…
Concealments and Exposures
This chapter is based on the premise that language is both expressive and constitutive of caste. It is in language that the most embedded and almost invisibly settled ideologies of caste can be seen—glimpses of which become evident if quotidian language is examined closely. Caste often lies in the ellipsis, the half-said, and the unspoken. Through attention to language, the chapter demonstrates that caste is illegible and does not demonstrate the…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on HIV healthcare delivery for females in sub-Saharan Africa
Throughout sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), females are disproportionately impacted by HIV and face generalized but also gendered social and economic barriers to accessing HIV healthcare and services. At the outset of the pandemic, many anticipated COVID-19 would represent a major set-back for HIV care in the region. The impact of COVID-19 on HIV health services and HIV-affected populations has been reported in specific populations but has not been synt…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)