Sadan Jha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4497974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sadan Jha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sadan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jha |
| SIGNATURE | JHA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Veer Narmad South Gujarat University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9737-177X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia
Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of conflict around visual representations in India. The field of the visual is the new terrain for rumour mongering and for maiming uncomfortable oppositional voices. With the fast-spreading mobile culture, penetrating social media and continued legacy of the pictorial as an embodiment of the real, the visual has taken over both the oral as well as the written words in its usefulness to serve …
Social City
From Rangdāri Tax to Rangrezi
Rangrez and Rangdār are two commonly used words in north India. ‘Rangrez’ is a painter/dyer, and in Sufi tradition is also a word for Allah. ‘Rangdāri’ is an illegal extortion tax, and the person who collects this tax is called the ‘Rangdār’. In all likelihood, ‘Rangdāri tax’ originates from the geo-political landscape of coal and mining regions of India (in districts which are now in the state of Jharkhand). The term is closely linked with the r…
Watching the Trauma
The academic discourse of the mass violence that took place during the Partition/Independence of India and Pakistan has acquired certain maturity over the decades. The corpus of literature generated has been insightful and path-breaking. In the backdrop of this scholarship, the current article attempts to engage with the experiences of witnessing and emphasize upon transformative potential of such encounters. With few Partition-based Hindi films,…
Tabassum Ruhi Khan, Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism
Ethnography of Trust and History as Circulating Commodities in Chauta Bazaar, Surat
Focused on a historically evolved marketplace, Chauta Bazaar of Surat (Gujarat), this article looks at the question of trust and its contours. In the popular perception, this bazaar has a history of five centuries of continuous survival. This account of a marketplace reveals everyday practices, popular investments in terms of its historical embeddedness and the manner in which notions of trust circulate in this market. The study argues that the n…
Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag
From Sacred to Commodity and Beyond
A venture in a less traversed terrain of Indian scholarship, this article looks at the transformation in the value regimes that go into the making of colours in the Indian milieu. At one level, this study traces the sacredness imbued in colours and at another level the article delves into the genealogy that gives rise to a complex where colour, colonial investment in the economy of colours (with an aim at capitalizing colours as commodities), val…
Dāk Vachan
Looking at a corpus of proverbs (folk sayings) known as Dā k vachan this article explores the ways in which these sayings constitute a field of knowledge production in contemporary Mithila (north Bihar) revealing claims along the trajectories of caste, gender and historical lineages. Addressed to different aspects of agrarian life, presence of these sayings in the Maithil agrarian society also suggests a complicated and contested relation between…
Challenges in the history of colours
This article delineates the emergence of saffron as a colour of national importance in the late 1920s, when Nehru recognised it as an ‘old colour’, and Suniti Kumar Chatterji claimed that it was symbolic of ‘Indian life’, thus elevating it from its humble position as a kacha colour. The need to assess such claims has prompted a longue durée approach to unravel the complexities of writing a history of colours in the Indian milieu. An attempt has b…
Visualising a region
Anchored in the decade of 1950s, this article focuses on the writings of Phaniswarnath Renu to understand ways in which he represented the rural life of Kosi region. Also known as the old Purnea district of Bihar, this region has been historically visualised as unhealthy and backward. Following Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, the article argues that Renu’s craftsmanship renders the backwardness of this region in a manner that highlights …
From Purnea to Champaran
Les recherches rapportees dans cet article font suite a l'etude d'evaluation des sites d'habitat majeurs realisee dans le sud du Bihar en 1994 (SAS 11, 1995). La presente prospection a ete menee de juillet a septembre 1995 dans les plaines septentrionales du Bihar et a permis aux auteurs de dresser un catalogue des sites releves
Preliminary Observations on the Distribution of Archaeological Sites in the South Bihar Plains
Rapport preliminaire des etudes de terrain menees dans une region comprise entre le sud du Gange et le Rajmahal de Chausa, incluant l'ensemble du district de Gaya (nord-est de l'Inde). Cette etude avait pour but d'evaluer les foyers d'habitat majeurs de la region. Un grand nombre de ces habitats offrent de riches details sculpturaux, architecturaux et iconographiques, auxquels les auteurs se referent afin d'elucider la chronologie et les caracter…
Challenges in the history of colours
This article delineates the emergence of saffron as a colour of national importance in the late 1920s, when Nehru recognised it as an ‘old colour’, and Suniti Kumar Chatterji claimed that it was symbolic of ‘Indian life’, thus elevating it from its humble position as a kacha colour. The need to assess such claims has prompted a longue durée approach to unravel the complexities of writing a history of colours in the Indian milieu. An attempt has b…
Preliminary Observations on the Distribution of Archaeological Sites in the South Bihar Plains
Rapport preliminaire des etudes de terrain menees dans une region comprise entre le sud du Gange et le Rajmahal de Chausa, incluant l'ensemble du district de Gaya (nord-est de l'Inde). Cette etude avait pour but d'evaluer les foyers d'habitat majeurs de la region. Un grand nombre de ces habitats offrent de riches details sculpturaux, architecturaux et iconographiques, auxquels les auteurs se referent afin d'elucider la chronologie et les caracter…
From Sacred to Commodity and Beyond
A venture in a less traversed terrain of Indian scholarship, this article looks at the transformation in the value regimes that go into the making of colours in the Indian milieu. At one level, this study traces the sacredness imbued in colours and at another level the article delves into the genealogy that gives rise to a complex where colour, colonial investment in the economy of colours (with an aim at capitalizing colours as commodities), val…
Preliminary Observations on the Distribution of Archaeological Sites in the South Bihar Plains
Rapport preliminaire des etudes de terrain menees dans une region comprise entre le sud du Gange et le Rajmahal de Chausa, incluant l'ensemble du district de Gaya (nord-est de l'Inde). Cette etude avait pour but d'evaluer les foyers d'habitat majeurs de la region. Un grand nombre de ces habitats offrent de riches details sculpturaux, architecturaux et iconographiques, auxquels les auteurs se referent afin d'elucider la chronologie et les caracter…
From Purnea to Champaran
Les recherches rapportees dans cet article font suite a l'etude d'evaluation des sites d'habitat majeurs realisee dans le sud du Bihar en 1994 (SAS 11, 1995). La presente prospection a ete menee de juillet a septembre 1995 dans les plaines septentrionales du Bihar et a permis aux auteurs de dresser un catalogue des sites releves
Visualising a region
Anchored in the decade of 1950s, this article focuses on the writings of Phaniswarnath Renu to understand ways in which he represented the rural life of Kosi region. Also known as the old Purnea district of Bihar, this region has been historically visualised as unhealthy and backward. Following Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, the article argues that Renu’s craftsmanship renders the backwardness of this region in a manner that highlights …
Dāk Vachan
Looking at a corpus of proverbs (folk sayings) known as Dā k vachan this article explores the ways in which these sayings constitute a field of knowledge production in contemporary Mithila (north Bihar) revealing claims along the trajectories of caste, gender and historical lineages. Addressed to different aspects of agrarian life, presence of these sayings in the Maithil agrarian society also suggests a complicated and contested relation between…
Challenges in the history of colours
This article delineates the emergence of saffron as a colour of national importance in the late 1920s, when Nehru recognised it as an ‘old colour’, and Suniti Kumar Chatterji claimed that it was symbolic of ‘Indian life’, thus elevating it from its humble position as a kacha colour. The need to assess such claims has prompted a longue durée approach to unravel the complexities of writing a history of colours in the Indian milieu. An attempt has b…
Reverence, Resistance and Politics of Seeing the Indian National Flag
From Sacred to Commodity and Beyond
A venture in a less traversed terrain of Indian scholarship, this article looks at the transformation in the value regimes that go into the making of colours in the Indian milieu. At one level, this study traces the sacredness imbued in colours and at another level the article delves into the genealogy that gives rise to a complex where colour, colonial investment in the economy of colours (with an aim at capitalizing colours as commodities), val…
Tabassum Ruhi Khan, Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism
Ethnography of Trust and History as Circulating Commodities in Chauta Bazaar, Surat
Focused on a historically evolved marketplace, Chauta Bazaar of Surat (Gujarat), this article looks at the question of trust and its contours. In the popular perception, this bazaar has a history of five centuries of continuous survival. This account of a marketplace reveals everyday practices, popular investments in terms of its historical embeddedness and the manner in which notions of trust circulate in this market. The study argues that the n…
Watching the Trauma
The academic discourse of the mass violence that took place during the Partition/Independence of India and Pakistan has acquired certain maturity over the decades. The corpus of literature generated has been insightful and path-breaking. In the backdrop of this scholarship, the current article attempts to engage with the experiences of witnessing and emphasize upon transformative potential of such encounters. With few Partition-based Hindi films,…
From Rangdāri Tax to Rangrezi
Rangrez and Rangdār are two commonly used words in north India. ‘Rangrez’ is a painter/dyer, and in Sufi tradition is also a word for Allah. ‘Rangdāri’ is an illegal extortion tax, and the person who collects this tax is called the ‘Rangdār’. In all likelihood, ‘Rangdāri tax’ originates from the geo-political landscape of coal and mining regions of India (in districts which are now in the state of Jharkhand). The term is closely linked with the r…
Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia
Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular
Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of conflict around visual representations in India. The field of the visual is the new terrain for rumour mongering and for maiming uncomfortable oppositional voices. With the fast-spreading mobile culture, penetrating social media and continued legacy of the pictorial as an embodiment of the real, the visual has taken over both the oral as well as the written words in its usefulness to serve …
Social City
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