Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashok Kumar Mocherla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashok Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Mocherla |
| SIGNATURE | MOCHERLA A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Indore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4342-6074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of New Sociability
Developing interactions within the much‐secluded setting of women's jail is an intricate process. That carries foreseen anxiety about building rapport with prisoners, the dread of expulsion, and constant field volatility. Engaging women offenders to converse is difficult, and adapting to such sociability is not very convincing. Given the ethos of Indian prisons, a researcher must consider the holistic picture. The task starts even before commenci…
Celibacy as a religious ideology
‘Declaration of Faith’ and Dissenting Dalit Voices
This essay attempts to critically examine the idea of ‘declaration of faith’ in the contemporary South Indian social context, primarily to analyze and bring forth new patterns of social conflict between ‘believed religion’ and ‘lived religion’ in the process of raising Christian testimony by students on University/College campuses. Furthermore, it looks at how the State-declared religious identity could effectively undermine the personal religiou…
Transcendence of caste ideology in the realm of spirits and Muslim faith healers of Malabar
Scholarship on faith healing and spirit-possession often overlookssignificant influence of caste and its diverse expressions.Through ethnographic study, we explore how Muslim faith healers in Kerala's Malabar region integrate caste notions into healing practices, and also normalizing them as an effective strategy for healing. Caste's role in healing rituals and at faith healing sites is located within the context of lived Islam, lacking ritual le…
Divided by Ideology and United by Gender Stereotypes
This article attempts to problematise the student activism on university campuses, which has been a prominent political space for the youth. Student movements through their respective organisations have induced multiple levels of political consciousness among students during their stay. By critically looking at student activism on campus, one could not overlook the fact that student activism on campus has long been a masculine domain with a littl…
Democratization of Indian Christianity
The Caste of Campus Habitus
This article critically examines the university academic spaces and the campus culture determined by a particular form of the dominant habitus which is, in effect, actively excluding the first-generation women students belonging to the marginalized sections of Indian society. As this dominant habitus is constantly reproduced on university campuses, with or without contentions, entering the academic spaces of Indian universities for first-generati…
Divided Churchyards as Contested Democratic Space in Tamil Christianity
This chapter attempts to analyze how the connotations of caste geography manifest themselves in the realms of lived Christianity and in turn produce resistance to the dominant caste practices among Tamil Christians. In doing so, this chapter analyzes how the idea of caste geography manifested through divided churchyards and other social stereotypes become contested democratic spaces between Dalit Christians and Christians of upper caste origin in…
We Called Her Peddamma
The medical work carried out by Dr. Anna Sarah Kugler in the town of Guntur (1880–1930), which was a part of the Telugu speaking region of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, as a foreign medical missionary associated with the mission field of the then General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, constitutes a significant phase in the history of medicine and gender in South India. Despite bringing about visible changes in gender perceptions of m…
Dalit Christians in South India
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We Called Her Peddamma
The medical work carried out by Dr. Anna Sarah Kugler in the town of Guntur (1880–1930), which was a part of the Telugu speaking region of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, as a foreign medical missionary associated with the mission field of the then General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, constitutes a significant phase in the history of medicine and gender in South India. Despite bringing about visible changes in gender perceptions of m…
Dalit Christians in South India
Democratization of Indian Christianity
The Caste of Campus Habitus
This article critically examines the university academic spaces and the campus culture determined by a particular form of the dominant habitus which is, in effect, actively excluding the first-generation women students belonging to the marginalized sections of Indian society. As this dominant habitus is constantly reproduced on university campuses, with or without contentions, entering the academic spaces of Indian universities for first-generati…
Divided Churchyards as Contested Democratic Space in Tamil Christianity
This chapter attempts to analyze how the connotations of caste geography manifest themselves in the realms of lived Christianity and in turn produce resistance to the dominant caste practices among Tamil Christians. In doing so, this chapter analyzes how the idea of caste geography manifested through divided churchyards and other social stereotypes become contested democratic spaces between Dalit Christians and Christians of upper caste origin in…
Divided by Ideology and United by Gender Stereotypes
This article attempts to problematise the student activism on university campuses, which has been a prominent political space for the youth. Student movements through their respective organisations have induced multiple levels of political consciousness among students during their stay. By critically looking at student activism on campus, one could not overlook the fact that student activism on campus has long been a masculine domain with a littl…
‘Declaration of Faith’ and Dissenting Dalit Voices
This essay attempts to critically examine the idea of ‘declaration of faith’ in the contemporary South Indian social context, primarily to analyze and bring forth new patterns of social conflict between ‘believed religion’ and ‘lived religion’ in the process of raising Christian testimony by students on University/College campuses. Furthermore, it looks at how the State-declared religious identity could effectively undermine the personal religiou…
Transcendence of caste ideology in the realm of spirits and Muslim faith healers of Malabar
Scholarship on faith healing and spirit-possession often overlookssignificant influence of caste and its diverse expressions.Through ethnographic study, we explore how Muslim faith healers in Kerala's Malabar region integrate caste notions into healing practices, and also normalizing them as an effective strategy for healing. Caste's role in healing rituals and at faith healing sites is located within the context of lived Islam, lacking ritual le…
Of New Sociability
Developing interactions within the much‐secluded setting of women's jail is an intricate process. That carries foreseen anxiety about building rapport with prisoners, the dread of expulsion, and constant field volatility. Engaging women offenders to converse is difficult, and adapting to such sociability is not very convincing. Given the ethos of Indian prisons, a researcher must consider the holistic picture. The task starts even before commenci…
Celibacy as a religious ideology
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Caste (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)