Aniket De
Biographic Data
| ID | 4690139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aniket De |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aniket |
| FAMILY NAME | De |
| SIGNATURE | DE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religious Reason and Secular Sentiment
The two monographs under review develop new interpretive frames for understanding secularism in colonial India and postcolonial South Asia. In _Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India_, J. Barton Scott, a scholar of religious studies, analyzes Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, promulgated through a 1927 British law, which criminalized the “outraging of religious feelings” of any group in colonial India. In…
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
The Boundary of Laughter
The Boundary of Laughter explores the historical transformation of popular imagination and performance in relation to the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, it analyses how peasants and laborers presently dwelling on either side of the Indo-Bangladesh border have used the performance tradition known as Gambhira to taunt oppressors, mobilize political sentiment, frame socio-…
Boundary of Laughter
The musical gift
When Rabindranath Tagore named his Nobel-winning collection of verses ‘Gitanjali’ (Song Offerings), he was following the time-honoured tradition of perceiving one’s music and poetry as gifts. It wa
Hicky’s Bengal gazette
James Augustus Hicky, the founder of the first newspaper published in the Indian subcontinent, has been a rather neglected figure in the historiography of early colonial India. Apart from the large
Unforgetting Chaitanya
Few figures have been as central to Bengali cultural identity as the Vaishnava spiritual leader Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534). His call for personalized devotion (bhakti) to Krishna gained unpre
Unforgetting Chaitanya
Few figures have been as central to Bengali cultural identity as the Vaishnava spiritual leader Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534). His call for personalized devotion (bhakti) to Krishna gained unpre
Unforgetting Chaitanya
Few figures have been as central to Bengali cultural identity as the Vaishnava spiritual leader Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534). His call for personalized devotion (bhakti) to Krishna gained unpre
Hicky’s Bengal gazette
James Augustus Hicky, the founder of the first newspaper published in the Indian subcontinent, has been a rather neglected figure in the historiography of early colonial India. Apart from the large
Boundary of Laughter
The musical gift
When Rabindranath Tagore named his Nobel-winning collection of verses ‘Gitanjali’ (Song Offerings), he was following the time-honoured tradition of perceiving one’s music and poetry as gifts. It wa
The Boundary of Laughter
The Boundary of Laughter explores the historical transformation of popular imagination and performance in relation to the emergence of national borders in modern South Asia. Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, it analyses how peasants and laborers presently dwelling on either side of the Indo-Bangladesh border have used the performance tradition known as Gambhira to taunt oppressors, mobilize political sentiment, frame socio-…
Religious Reason and Secular Sentiment
The two monographs under review develop new interpretive frames for understanding secularism in colonial India and postcolonial South Asia. In _Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India_, J. Barton Scott, a scholar of religious studies, analyzes Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, promulgated through a 1927 British law, which criminalized the “outraging of religious feelings” of any group in colonial India. In…
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
Colonialism (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · BENGAL (3 works) · History (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)