Anuradha Ramanujan
Biographic Data
| ID | 642231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anuradha Ramanujan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anuradha |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramanujan |
| SIGNATURE | RAMANUJAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interpreting Traditions
This essay examines figurations of the ‘past’ in two plays written and performed in India in the 1980s and 1990s in order to analyse how and to what extent ‘tradition’, variously elucidated as a method, resource and rhetorical device, can serve the interests of pluralism and non-sectarianism in a multi-religious and multicultural society. It takes as its point of reference recent anti-modernist cultural critiques of left-liberal academic discours…
The subaltern, the text and the critic
Outlaw‐turned‐politician Phoolan Devi was gunned down by unknown assailants in New Delhi in July 2001. Extensive media coverage of her death traced the extraordinary evolution of this woman from extreme poverty and crime to bourgeois respectability and realpolitik. While rumours of old enemies, unsettled scores and political intrigues proliferated, her party cohorts sought to canonize her as an unwavering champion of the oppressed. This article a…
The subaltern, the text and the critic
Outlaw‐turned‐politician Phoolan Devi was gunned down by unknown assailants in New Delhi in July 2001. Extensive media coverage of her death traced the extraordinary evolution of this woman from extreme poverty and crime to bourgeois respectability and realpolitik. While rumours of old enemies, unsettled scores and political intrigues proliferated, her party cohorts sought to canonize her as an unwavering champion of the oppressed. This article a…
The subaltern, the text and the critic
Outlaw‐turned‐politician Phoolan Devi was gunned down by unknown assailants in New Delhi in July 2001. Extensive media coverage of her death traced the extraordinary evolution of this woman from extreme poverty and crime to bourgeois respectability and realpolitik. While rumours of old enemies, unsettled scores and political intrigues proliferated, her party cohorts sought to canonize her as an unwavering champion of the oppressed. This article a…
Interpreting Traditions
This essay examines figurations of the ‘past’ in two plays written and performed in India in the 1980s and 1990s in order to analyse how and to what extent ‘tradition’, variously elucidated as a method, resource and rhetorical device, can serve the interests of pluralism and non-sectarianism in a multi-religious and multicultural society. It takes as its point of reference recent anti-modernist cultural critiques of left-liberal academic discours…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Asian Studies and History (1 work) · Enlightenment (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)