Anandita Pan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4207693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anandita Pan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anandita |
| FAMILY NAME | Pan |
| SIGNATURE | PAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0490-099X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dissecting nationalist narratives
Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan is widely considered one of Bollywood’s most compelling portrayals of anti-colonial resistance in India. The film’s depiction of a small village, resisting exploitative colonial taxation, is often read as a powerful cinematic expression of nationalist aspiration. In contrast, this article argues that Lagaan occupies a paradoxical position within the corpus of nationalist cinema: the film produces the affect of national…
The Mahatma and the mahilas
M. K. Gandhi's leadership played a crucial role in transforming the nationalist struggle for political sovereignty into a mass movement. At a time when women's presence in the public sphere was tightly regulated by caste, community, and patriarchy, his political programmes were particularly notable for women's public presence. While existing scholarship has extensively documented women's mass participation in Gandhian political activism, the conc…
Gender and Caste
Mitra, Zinia and Jaydeep Sarangi (translator) (2023); Poems of Chandalini: Poems by a Bangla Dalit Womanist Kalyani Thakur Charal, Bolpur: Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni; pp 88. INR 275
Gender, Caste and Subjectivity
The #MeToo movement has claimed to mark a ‘new era in Indian feminism’ by introducing feminist articulations into the quotidian through the powerful use of social media. The ‘sharing’ of survivor stories has served as a means to challenge the taboo of victimhood while also creating the possibility for solidarity. The #MeToo movement in India claims inheritance of previous movements such as the 2009 Pink Chaddi movement against moral policing, the…
Counting the Numbers
The ‘evils’ of sati and widowhood constituted two of the major elements of social reformation and women’s progress in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These ‘evils’ were rooted in casteist and sexist ideologies and practices, aspects that remained largely unrecognised by the dominant reformist agendas. The narrative of social progress of women focused only on the upper-class and upper-caste women whose lives were prescribed …
Word, Books, and the World
The reservation policy in India claims to address caste discrimination by promoting equality through economic and educational opportunities. Equal opportunities, however, do not often translate into equality. Education remains one of the most prominent tools used to disseminate dominant ideologies and perpetuate oppression. Whether it is the Brahmanical control over Vedic knowledge or the colonial validation of English education as a superior for…
Embracing Difference
The increasing visibility of dalit women in academia, literature and activism, has rendered the existing frameworks of mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics as inadequate in exploring the concerns of dalit women. In mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics, prevalence is given only to the concerns of “gender” and “caste.” They see caste and gender as two individual and mutually exclusive systems wherein dalit women are accommodated a…
Dalit Women in Mutation
This essay is concerned with ‘Dalit woman’ as a category constructed through the intersection of caste and gender. It contends that in their effort to present ‘woman’ and ‘Dalit’ as two distinct and unitary groups, mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit politics treat caste and gender as mutually exclusive. As a result, Dalit women and their issues are either ignored, or they are assimilated separately within ‘women’ or ‘Dalits’. This article propo…
Embracing Difference
The increasing visibility of dalit women in academia, literature and activism, has rendered the existing frameworks of mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics as inadequate in exploring the concerns of dalit women. In mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics, prevalence is given only to the concerns of “gender” and “caste.” They see caste and gender as two individual and mutually exclusive systems wherein dalit women are accommodated a…
Dalit Women in Mutation
This essay is concerned with ‘Dalit woman’ as a category constructed through the intersection of caste and gender. It contends that in their effort to present ‘woman’ and ‘Dalit’ as two distinct and unitary groups, mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit politics treat caste and gender as mutually exclusive. As a result, Dalit women and their issues are either ignored, or they are assimilated separately within ‘women’ or ‘Dalits’. This article propo…
Embracing Difference
The increasing visibility of dalit women in academia, literature and activism, has rendered the existing frameworks of mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics as inadequate in exploring the concerns of dalit women. In mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics, prevalence is given only to the concerns of “gender” and “caste.” They see caste and gender as two individual and mutually exclusive systems wherein dalit women are accommodated a…
Word, Books, and the World
The reservation policy in India claims to address caste discrimination by promoting equality through economic and educational opportunities. Equal opportunities, however, do not often translate into equality. Education remains one of the most prominent tools used to disseminate dominant ideologies and perpetuate oppression. Whether it is the Brahmanical control over Vedic knowledge or the colonial validation of English education as a superior for…
Gender, Caste and Subjectivity
The #MeToo movement has claimed to mark a ‘new era in Indian feminism’ by introducing feminist articulations into the quotidian through the powerful use of social media. The ‘sharing’ of survivor stories has served as a means to challenge the taboo of victimhood while also creating the possibility for solidarity. The #MeToo movement in India claims inheritance of previous movements such as the 2009 Pink Chaddi movement against moral policing, the…
Counting the Numbers
The ‘evils’ of sati and widowhood constituted two of the major elements of social reformation and women’s progress in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These ‘evils’ were rooted in casteist and sexist ideologies and practices, aspects that remained largely unrecognised by the dominant reformist agendas. The narrative of social progress of women focused only on the upper-class and upper-caste women whose lives were prescribed …
Dissecting nationalist narratives
Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan is widely considered one of Bollywood’s most compelling portrayals of anti-colonial resistance in India. The film’s depiction of a small village, resisting exploitative colonial taxation, is often read as a powerful cinematic expression of nationalist aspiration. In contrast, this article argues that Lagaan occupies a paradoxical position within the corpus of nationalist cinema: the film produces the affect of national…
The Mahatma and the mahilas
M. K. Gandhi's leadership played a crucial role in transforming the nationalist struggle for political sovereignty into a mass movement. At a time when women's presence in the public sphere was tightly regulated by caste, community, and patriarchy, his political programmes were particularly notable for women's public presence. While existing scholarship has extensively documented women's mass participation in Gandhian political activism, the conc…
Gender and Caste
Mitra, Zinia and Jaydeep Sarangi (translator) (2023); Poems of Chandalini: Poems by a Bangla Dalit Womanist Kalyani Thakur Charal, Bolpur: Birutjatio Sahitya Sammiloni; pp 88. INR 275
Politics (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Caste (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)