Anindita Chakrabarti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4047324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anindita Chakrabarti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anindita |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakrabarti |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRABARTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5490-0501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muslim Personal Law, Inheritance, and Innovation: The Curious Case of Shukkur and Sheena’s Remarriage
After 29 years of marriage, a Muslim couple from Kasaragod, Kerala got remarried under the Special Marriage Act (SMA) in 2023. Their much publicized remarriage created a media storm leading to a debate on personal law versus a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Malabar’s public sphere. The couple argued that their remarriage under the SMA was a way to secure their daughters’ property rights. Under Muslim Personal Law, daughters are entitled to inherit n…
Religion-based ‘Personal’ Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: A Field View of Adjudication under Muslim Personal Law in India
The phenomenon of ‘legal pluralism’ in India is conditioned and facilitated by the democratic state’s commitment to protect religious freedom and uphold sociocultural diversity. Community-based adjudicating institutions such as the Darul Qaza (also known as Sharia court) function within this constitutional framework but every citizen also has the right to approach a state court as and when they deem necessary. So far, the discourse on Islam, pers…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: A longitudinal household cross-sectional study
These findings suggests that trust in public sector officials play a key factor in the low vaccination rates particularly seen in at-risk groups. Given the additional morbidity/mortality risk posed by COVID-19 to those from lower socio-economic or ethnic minority backgrounds, there needs to be urgent public health action to review how to tailor health promotion advice given to these groups and examine methods to improve trust in public sector off…
Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation: Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgement in India
In India, where religion-specific laws govern issues of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and inheritance, the family laws of Muslims – the largest religious minority – have been a thorny issue in the post-independence period. In recent years, the major intervention in Muslim personal law reform came in the form of the invalidation of instant divorce or triple talaq by the Supreme Court of India. Subsequently, a law was passed that crimina…
Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India
In India, gold's uniqueness lies in its dual demand for 'sacred' ritual purposes as well as 'profane' economic security. As a scarce commodity, gold is continuously monitored and regulated by the state. This study investigates how communities associated with the craft and trade of gold jewellery cope with state regulations, an aspect that has largely gone undocumented in sociological literature. The article traces the transformation of the goldsm…
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India
Praxis of an Emergent Congregation: Metaphysics of Reform and Rebirth
‘You are studying Svadhyaya but are you a Svadhyayi?’ On several occasions I have encountered this question during my fieldwork. One understands Svadhyaya by practising it. It is an ineffable experience where the proverbial taste of the pudding lies in the eating. Therefore, to experience and practice Svadhyaya and yet to describe oneself as a non-Svadhyayi was an oxymoron. They often pointed out that even in the Gita, it is said that the knowled…
Democracy as Civil Religion: Reading Alexis De Tocqueville in India
The article explores Alexis de Tocqueville’s explication of democracy as ‘civil religion’ or the new sacred of modern times. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville analyzed democracy as a political system as well as a moral value. The article begins with Tocqueville’s analysis of the religious roots of American democracy. Dissociated from the affairs of the state through the principle of ‘disestablishment’, religion became secure in civil society, …
Gender Equality in Fertility Choices in Tamil Nadu: A Myth or a Reality
The state of Tamil Nadu, located in South India, has been identified as a state with gender equality as is evident from a balanced sex ratio, higher age of marriage of women, lower fertility rates and higher female literacy. Using district level and village/town level data from Census 2001, we examine the role of different socio-economic factors to explain the gender differentials in sex ratio at the age below six years at following levels: 30 di…
Soteriological journeys and discourses of self-transformation: The Tablighi Jamaat and Svadhyaya in Gujarat
This chapter explores the dynamics of the local/global networks in two religious movements – Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat – using ethnographic accounts from Gujarat. The movements' theology of reform is based on the claim that to change one's moral and spiritual status one needs to change the world around and vice versa. The volunteers periodically embark on self-transformative religious journeys to approach their co-religionists with their mess…
Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation: Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgement in India
In India, where religion-specific laws govern issues of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and inheritance, the family laws of Muslims – the largest religious minority – have been a thorny issue in the post-independence period. In recent years, the major intervention in Muslim personal law reform came in the form of the invalidation of instant divorce or triple talaq by the Supreme Court of India. Subsequently, a law was passed that crimina…
Gender Equality in Fertility Choices in Tamil Nadu: A Myth or a Reality
The state of Tamil Nadu, located in South India, has been identified as a state with gender equality as is evident from a balanced sex ratio, higher age of marriage of women, lower fertility rates and higher female literacy. Using district level and village/town level data from Census 2001, we examine the role of different socio-economic factors to explain the gender differentials in sex ratio at the age below six years at following levels: 30 di…
Soteriological journeys and discourses of self-transformation: The Tablighi Jamaat and Svadhyaya in Gujarat
This chapter explores the dynamics of the local/global networks in two religious movements – Svadhyaya and Tablighi Jamaat – using ethnographic accounts from Gujarat. The movements' theology of reform is based on the claim that to change one's moral and spiritual status one needs to change the world around and vice versa. The volunteers periodically embark on self-transformative religious journeys to approach their co-religionists with their mess…
Gender Equality in Fertility Choices in Tamil Nadu: A Myth or a Reality
The state of Tamil Nadu, located in South India, has been identified as a state with gender equality as is evident from a balanced sex ratio, higher age of marriage of women, lower fertility rates and higher female literacy. Using district level and village/town level data from Census 2001, we examine the role of different socio-economic factors to explain the gender differentials in sex ratio at the age below six years at following levels: 30 di…
Democracy as Civil Religion: Reading Alexis De Tocqueville in India
The article explores Alexis de Tocqueville’s explication of democracy as ‘civil religion’ or the new sacred of modern times. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville analyzed democracy as a political system as well as a moral value. The article begins with Tocqueville’s analysis of the religious roots of American democracy. Dissociated from the affairs of the state through the principle of ‘disestablishment’, religion became secure in civil society, …
Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India
Praxis of an Emergent Congregation: Metaphysics of Reform and Rebirth
‘You are studying Svadhyaya but are you a Svadhyayi?’ On several occasions I have encountered this question during my fieldwork. One understands Svadhyaya by practising it. It is an ineffable experience where the proverbial taste of the pudding lies in the eating. Therefore, to experience and practice Svadhyaya and yet to describe oneself as a non-Svadhyayi was an oxymoron. They often pointed out that even in the Gita, it is said that the knowled…
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India
In India, gold's uniqueness lies in its dual demand for 'sacred' ritual purposes as well as 'profane' economic security. As a scarce commodity, gold is continuously monitored and regulated by the state. This study investigates how communities associated with the craft and trade of gold jewellery cope with state regulations, an aspect that has largely gone undocumented in sociological literature. The article traces the transformation of the goldsm…
Religion-based ‘Personal’ Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: A Field View of Adjudication under Muslim Personal Law in India
The phenomenon of ‘legal pluralism’ in India is conditioned and facilitated by the democratic state’s commitment to protect religious freedom and uphold sociocultural diversity. Community-based adjudicating institutions such as the Darul Qaza (also known as Sharia court) function within this constitutional framework but every citizen also has the right to approach a state court as and when they deem necessary. So far, the discourse on Islam, pers…
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: A longitudinal household cross-sectional study
These findings suggests that trust in public sector officials play a key factor in the low vaccination rates particularly seen in at-risk groups. Given the additional morbidity/mortality risk posed by COVID-19 to those from lower socio-economic or ethnic minority backgrounds, there needs to be urgent public health action to review how to tailor health promotion advice given to these groups and examine methods to improve trust in public sector off…
Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation: Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgement in India
In India, where religion-specific laws govern issues of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and inheritance, the family laws of Muslims – the largest religious minority – have been a thorny issue in the post-independence period. In recent years, the major intervention in Muslim personal law reform came in the form of the invalidation of instant divorce or triple talaq by the Supreme Court of India. Subsequently, a law was passed that crimina…
Muslim Personal Law, Inheritance, and Innovation: The Curious Case of Shukkur and Sheena’s Remarriage
After 29 years of marriage, a Muslim couple from Kasaragod, Kerala got remarried under the Special Marriage Act (SMA) in 2023. Their much publicized remarriage created a media storm leading to a debate on personal law versus a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Malabar’s public sphere. The couple argued that their remarriage under the SMA was a way to secure their daughters’ property rights. Under Muslim Personal Law, daughters are entitled to inherit n…
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