Tithi Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 470648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tithi Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tithi |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
No description supplied
Religion as an Imperial Category
Social Reproduction Theory as Diagnostic, Abolition as Politics
This essay explores the relationship between unwaged social reproduction labor and waged social reproduction labor. It shows how care work, both waged and unwaged, traverses multiple categories under capitalism, as both value producing as well as non-value producing. Understanding capitalism as a totality that relies on non-class forms of domination such as race and gender is key to understanding those variegated categories of labor and care
Five National Ghosts, Ghostly Nations
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. For Bhattacharya, British colonizatio…
Teoria da Reprodução Social
Este texto retoma os elementos fundamentais da Teoria da Reprodução Social, enquanto aposta em um feminismo marxista contemporâneo. Ele começa pela definição do que é a reprodução social no capitalismo e segue para os debates sobre as relações entre produção e reprodução, o papel que a família desempenha, como pensar a sexualidade e os direitos reprodutivos e como os processos de espoliação neoliberal podem ser lidos com base na reprodução social…
Teoría de la Reproducción Social. Elementos fundamentales para un feminismo marxista
Este texto recorre los elementos fundamentales de la Teoría de la Reproducción Social en tanto apuesta por un feminismo marxista contemporáneo. Comienza por la definición de qué es la reproducción social bajo el capitalismo y se adentra luego en los debates sobre las relaciones entre producción y reproducción, cuál es el rol que juega la familia, cómo pensar la sexualidad y los derechos reproductivos y cómo pueden ser leídos los procesos de despo…
"Liberating Women from "Political Economy
There is an unresolved tension at the heart of Marxist explanations for women's oppression under capitalism. Although there is general agreement that the bourgeois family, as the dominant kinship unit, has something to do with generating and reproducing that oppression, the exact role of the family varies among Marxists. In this respect, Margaret Benston's proposal to situate domestic labor within capitalist production was truly pioneering. Rathe…
Feminism for The 99
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change--these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren't they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn't start--or stop--with the drive to have women represent…
Return of the Strike
Bringing together leading observers of the 2018 teachers’ strikes in the United States, this forum surveys the origins, character, and trajectory of the rebellion as a whole. We examine the relations between union bureaucracies and the rank and file, the wider political context of the United States, the geography of the strike, immediate and longer-term grievances in the public-education sector, spontaneity and organisation, local cultural contex…
Notes for a Feminist Manifesto
Opposed to ‘lean in’ liberal iterations, three activist-scholars premise a militant feminism for the many, inspired by La huelga feminista of 8 March. The politics of social reproduction and the imperative of wider solidarities: the women’s struggle retooled for the multiple crises of late capitalism
Social Reproduction Theory
How Not to Skip Class
Donald Trump
Donald Trump's election and subsequent presidency reveal important contradictions between the workings of the capitalist state and the capitalist class. While Trump may not have been the choice of the capitalist class, he is now in charge of the capitalist state. Within the context of this contradiction the essay explores the political category of the "white working class" and whether this class was a contributive factor in this unexpected electo…
Capital's Laboring Bodies and Bodies of Labor Under Capital
Research Article| March 01 2015 Capital's Laboring Bodies and Bodies of Labor Under Capital: Towards a Unitary Understanding Tithi Bhattacharya; Tithi Bhattacharya Purdue University [email protected] Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian history at Purdue University. Her first book, The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. She is currently wor…
Tracking the Goddess
Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay surveys the evolution of the goddess Durga from premodern times and shows why and how the perception of both the deity (in gender terms) and the festival (in historical terms) had t…
In the Name of Culture
Dismantling Apathy
On 2 December the students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (soas) ended a twelve-day-long occupation of their library, when the School management accepted their demand for full and free access to the Senate House Library, the central library of the University of London. The
Teoría de la Reproducción Social. Elementos fundamentales para un feminismo marxista
Este texto recorre los elementos fundamentales de la Teoría de la Reproducción Social en tanto apuesta por un feminismo marxista contemporáneo. Comienza por la definición de qué es la reproducción social bajo el capitalismo y se adentra luego en los debates sobre las relaciones entre producción y reproducción, cuál es el rol que juega la familia, cómo pensar la sexualidad y los derechos reproductivos y cómo pueden ser leídos los procesos de despo…
Return of the Strike
Bringing together leading observers of the 2018 teachers’ strikes in the United States, this forum surveys the origins, character, and trajectory of the rebellion as a whole. We examine the relations between union bureaucracies and the rank and file, the wider political context of the United States, the geography of the strike, immediate and longer-term grievances in the public-education sector, spontaneity and organisation, local cultural contex…
Tracking the Goddess
Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay surveys the evolution of the goddess Durga from premodern times and shows why and how the perception of both the deity (in gender terms) and the festival (in historical terms) had t…
"Liberating Women from "Political Economy
There is an unresolved tension at the heart of Marxist explanations for women's oppression under capitalism. Although there is general agreement that the bourgeois family, as the dominant kinship unit, has something to do with generating and reproducing that oppression, the exact role of the family varies among Marxists. In this respect, Margaret Benston's proposal to situate domestic labor within capitalist production was truly pioneering. Rathe…
In the Name of Culture
Dismantling Apathy
On 2 December the students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (soas) ended a twelve-day-long occupation of their library, when the School management accepted their demand for full and free access to the Senate House Library, the central library of the University of London. The
In the Name of Culture
Tracking the Goddess
Focusing on colonial Calcutta in the later decades of the nineteenth century, this essay explores the evolution of a particular festival, the Durga Puja, to explore the ways in which religion negotiated its place in the ideological determinants of modernity. The essay surveys the evolution of the goddess Durga from premodern times and shows why and how the perception of both the deity (in gender terms) and the festival (in historical terms) had t…
Capital's Laboring Bodies and Bodies of Labor Under Capital
Research Article| March 01 2015 Capital's Laboring Bodies and Bodies of Labor Under Capital: Towards a Unitary Understanding Tithi Bhattacharya; Tithi Bhattacharya Purdue University [email protected] Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian history at Purdue University. Her first book, The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. She is currently wor…
Social Reproduction Theory
How Not to Skip Class
Donald Trump
Donald Trump's election and subsequent presidency reveal important contradictions between the workings of the capitalist state and the capitalist class. While Trump may not have been the choice of the capitalist class, he is now in charge of the capitalist state. Within the context of this contradiction the essay explores the political category of the "white working class" and whether this class was a contributive factor in this unexpected electo…
Return of the Strike
Bringing together leading observers of the 2018 teachers’ strikes in the United States, this forum surveys the origins, character, and trajectory of the rebellion as a whole. We examine the relations between union bureaucracies and the rank and file, the wider political context of the United States, the geography of the strike, immediate and longer-term grievances in the public-education sector, spontaneity and organisation, local cultural contex…
Notes for a Feminist Manifesto
Opposed to ‘lean in’ liberal iterations, three activist-scholars premise a militant feminism for the many, inspired by La huelga feminista of 8 March. The politics of social reproduction and the imperative of wider solidarities: the women’s struggle retooled for the multiple crises of late capitalism
Feminism for The 99
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change--these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren't they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn't start--or stop--with the drive to have women represent…
Teoría de la Reproducción Social. Elementos fundamentales para un feminismo marxista
Este texto recorre los elementos fundamentales de la Teoría de la Reproducción Social en tanto apuesta por un feminismo marxista contemporáneo. Comienza por la definición de qué es la reproducción social bajo el capitalismo y se adentra luego en los debates sobre las relaciones entre producción y reproducción, cuál es el rol que juega la familia, cómo pensar la sexualidad y los derechos reproductivos y cómo pueden ser leídos los procesos de despo…
"Liberating Women from "Political Economy
There is an unresolved tension at the heart of Marxist explanations for women's oppression under capitalism. Although there is general agreement that the bourgeois family, as the dominant kinship unit, has something to do with generating and reproducing that oppression, the exact role of the family varies among Marxists. In this respect, Margaret Benston's proposal to situate domestic labor within capitalist production was truly pioneering. Rathe…
Social Reproduction Theory as Diagnostic, Abolition as Politics
This essay explores the relationship between unwaged social reproduction labor and waged social reproduction labor. It shows how care work, both waged and unwaged, traverses multiple categories under capitalism, as both value producing as well as non-value producing. Understanding capitalism as a totality that relies on non-class forms of domination such as race and gender is key to understanding those variegated categories of labor and care
Five National Ghosts, Ghostly Nations
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence, Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. Bhattacharya introduces readers to the multifarious habits and personalities of Bengal’s traditional ghosts and investigates and mourns their eventual extermination. For Bhattacharya, British colonizatio…
Teoria da Reprodução Social
Este texto retoma os elementos fundamentais da Teoria da Reprodução Social, enquanto aposta em um feminismo marxista contemporâneo. Ele começa pela definição do que é a reprodução social no capitalismo e segue para os debates sobre as relações entre produção e reprodução, o papel que a família desempenha, como pensar a sexualidade e os direitos reprodutivos e como os processos de espoliação neoliberal podem ser lidos com base na reprodução social…
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
No description supplied
Religion as an Imperial Category
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (3 works)