Aryama Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aryama Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aryama |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jadavpur University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0630-3654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adivasi ‘Bandit’ Hero as Political Other
Cyno-Racist Colonialism
This article uses the “pariah” dog to investigate the junction of speciesism and racism in colonial India. Using postcolonial theory and animal studies to make its case, it asserts that British colonialism put Indian dogs in a racialized order by calling them “pariahs” or “pests.” The government justified their murder by this classification, which also helped to maintain a colonial “cyno-racism,” an approach of compulsive analogy of native dogs w…
Decolonisation without decoloniality
Iconoclasts and Iconophiles
Iconophilia and iconoclasm have psycho-social parallels throughout history, despite the fact that each civilisation’s historical, sociopolitical and ideological settings have been different. British imperial presence, which peaked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of imperial ‘statue mania’, led to the employment of statue as an instrument for spatio-memorial hegemony in India. In reaction, the nationalist rhetoric in…
Fish of Discord
The newly established Interim Government of Bangladesh has implemented a prohibition on exporting hilsa fish to India, a diplomatic decision that contradicts Sheikh Hasina's ‘Hilsa Diplomacy’. This prompts us to reconsider the diplomatic significance of Bengali hilsa in relation to the environmental, political, and cultural context. The hilsa population has been declining since the early 1900s, primarily due to anthropogenic alterations to the en…
Uniform as Assertion
Recruitment of lower and middle castes remained a much-debated topic in Indian electoral politics till now. On the one hand, there was intense political debate between various castes, and on the other, there was judicial and administrative debate about social justice. Even though Ambedkar tried to use it as a method of social justice and state-sponsored social alleviation, because of its connection to identity politics, it quickly became a matter…
Invention or Inversion? Revisiting the Question of Caste Tradition
The main theme of this paper is to revisit the question of caste and the politics of/on traditions. We have explored the questions of mythology; how ‘we’, the lower caste people associate and (re)interpret the mythical characters as a process of social upward mobility. So, is it the invention of tradition or is it the inversion of tradition or both? Interestingly, we could be able to locate a distinct regional pattern in this case. Thus, we argue…
Nehru’s Elephant Envoys
The colonial masters classified Indian subjects according to animalistic iconographies of rebel tiger or docile elephant. Even prior to the colonial imaginings, orientalist gaze associated elephant with the Indian geographical imagery. After decolonization, due to circumstantial necessities India, one of the biggest elephant suppliers to Europe, started to gift elephants to war-stricken zoos not as merchandize but as envoys of peace and goodwill.…
Iconoclasts and Iconophiles
Iconophilia and iconoclasm have psycho-social parallels throughout history, despite the fact that each civilisation’s historical, sociopolitical and ideological settings have been different. British imperial presence, which peaked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of imperial ‘statue mania’, led to the employment of statue as an instrument for spatio-memorial hegemony in India. In reaction, the nationalist rhetoric in…
Invention or Inversion? Revisiting the Question of Caste Tradition
The main theme of this paper is to revisit the question of caste and the politics of/on traditions. We have explored the questions of mythology; how ‘we’, the lower caste people associate and (re)interpret the mythical characters as a process of social upward mobility. So, is it the invention of tradition or is it the inversion of tradition or both? Interestingly, we could be able to locate a distinct regional pattern in this case. Thus, we argue…
Nehru’s Elephant Envoys
The colonial masters classified Indian subjects according to animalistic iconographies of rebel tiger or docile elephant. Even prior to the colonial imaginings, orientalist gaze associated elephant with the Indian geographical imagery. After decolonization, due to circumstantial necessities India, one of the biggest elephant suppliers to Europe, started to gift elephants to war-stricken zoos not as merchandize but as envoys of peace and goodwill.…
Invention or Inversion? Revisiting the Question of Caste Tradition
The main theme of this paper is to revisit the question of caste and the politics of/on traditions. We have explored the questions of mythology; how ‘we’, the lower caste people associate and (re)interpret the mythical characters as a process of social upward mobility. So, is it the invention of tradition or is it the inversion of tradition or both? Interestingly, we could be able to locate a distinct regional pattern in this case. Thus, we argue…
Nehru’s Elephant Envoys
The colonial masters classified Indian subjects according to animalistic iconographies of rebel tiger or docile elephant. Even prior to the colonial imaginings, orientalist gaze associated elephant with the Indian geographical imagery. After decolonization, due to circumstantial necessities India, one of the biggest elephant suppliers to Europe, started to gift elephants to war-stricken zoos not as merchandize but as envoys of peace and goodwill.…
Uniform as Assertion
Recruitment of lower and middle castes remained a much-debated topic in Indian electoral politics till now. On the one hand, there was intense political debate between various castes, and on the other, there was judicial and administrative debate about social justice. Even though Ambedkar tried to use it as a method of social justice and state-sponsored social alleviation, because of its connection to identity politics, it quickly became a matter…
Iconoclasts and Iconophiles
Iconophilia and iconoclasm have psycho-social parallels throughout history, despite the fact that each civilisation’s historical, sociopolitical and ideological settings have been different. British imperial presence, which peaked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of imperial ‘statue mania’, led to the employment of statue as an instrument for spatio-memorial hegemony in India. In reaction, the nationalist rhetoric in…
Fish of Discord
The newly established Interim Government of Bangladesh has implemented a prohibition on exporting hilsa fish to India, a diplomatic decision that contradicts Sheikh Hasina's ‘Hilsa Diplomacy’. This prompts us to reconsider the diplomatic significance of Bengali hilsa in relation to the environmental, political, and cultural context. The hilsa population has been declining since the early 1900s, primarily due to anthropogenic alterations to the en…
Adivasi ‘Bandit’ Hero as Political Other
Cyno-Racist Colonialism
This article uses the “pariah” dog to investigate the junction of speciesism and racism in colonial India. Using postcolonial theory and animal studies to make its case, it asserts that British colonialism put Indian dogs in a racialized order by calling them “pariahs” or “pests.” The government justified their murder by this classification, which also helped to maintain a colonial “cyno-racism,” an approach of compulsive analogy of native dogs w…
Decolonisation without decoloniality
Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Caste (3 works)