Krupa Shandilya
Biographic Data
| ID | 643578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Krupa Shandilya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Krupa |
| FAMILY NAME | Shandilya |
| SIGNATURE | SHANDILYA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Map of Longings with No Limits
This article argues that Agha Shahid Ali’s poem “The Country without a Post Office” (1990) uses the epistolary—as both form and content—to tell the silenced stories of Kashmiris and of the devastation wrought on the Valley since the advent of Indian colonialism. The article argues first that the poem draws on epistolary tropes in Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s (1797–1868) poetry to link the material devastation of Kashmir to the epistemic erasure of it…
Interview with Geeta Patel
In this interview, Geeta Patel discusses her research on the Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–49), including her influential work Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry (Stanford, 2002), the first book in English devoted to Miraji's oeuvre. Convened in 2019, this interview was conducted as a conversation with a new generation of Miraji scholars. Patel describes the challenges she faced i…
Miraji and South Asian aesthetics, poetics, and politics
Muhammad Sana Ullah Dar 'Miraji' (1912–1949) remains one of the most controversial figures in Urdu letters. An extraordinarily prolific poet and critic during his short lifetime, Miraji's work has drawn renewed interest from contemporary critics. This special journal section uses contemporary critical frameworks to re-examine Miraji's writings and legacy and to present them to a broad audience
The Many Bismils of Today
Two poems by Mīrājī (1912-49)
(In)visibilities
This article contests the discourse that structures the Indian state’s relationship to historically disenfranchised minorities, both religious (Muslims) and sexual (homosexual), by interrogating the visual, semantic, and political registers through which the state makes these minorities known. It is particularly concerned with rupturing the Indian state’s creation of monolithic minority identities through an intersectional feminist/queer reading …
The Widow, the Wife, and the Courtesan
This paper argues for reading late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asian social reform novels in multiple linguistic traditions in conjunction with each other in order to gain a broader understanding of the novels' articulations of women's agency. I argue that Hindi novelist Munshi Premchand's Sevasadan (1917) (The House of Service) critiques the institution of marriage, much like the Bengali widow remarriage novel Kishnakanter Uil …
Nirbhaya's Body
Of enraged shirts, gyrating gangsters, and farting bullets
This paper explores a new genre of Bollywood action films spawned by action superstar Salman Khan, focusing specifically on his 2010 hit Dabangg [The Thug]. The paper argues that although touted as an action film, Dabangg plays with the generic conventions of the Bollywood action film, by introducing elements of the carnivalesque into its display of masculinity and violence. In doing so it reinvents the action film as the masti (or fun/playful) f…
Nirbhaya's Body
The Widow, the Wife, and the Courtesan
This paper argues for reading late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asian social reform novels in multiple linguistic traditions in conjunction with each other in order to gain a broader understanding of the novels' articulations of women's agency. I argue that Hindi novelist Munshi Premchand's Sevasadan (1917) (The House of Service) critiques the institution of marriage, much like the Bengali widow remarriage novel Kishnakanter Uil …
Of enraged shirts, gyrating gangsters, and farting bullets
This paper explores a new genre of Bollywood action films spawned by action superstar Salman Khan, focusing specifically on his 2010 hit Dabangg [The Thug]. The paper argues that although touted as an action film, Dabangg plays with the generic conventions of the Bollywood action film, by introducing elements of the carnivalesque into its display of masculinity and violence. In doing so it reinvents the action film as the masti (or fun/playful) f…
Of enraged shirts, gyrating gangsters, and farting bullets
This paper explores a new genre of Bollywood action films spawned by action superstar Salman Khan, focusing specifically on his 2010 hit Dabangg [The Thug]. The paper argues that although touted as an action film, Dabangg plays with the generic conventions of the Bollywood action film, by introducing elements of the carnivalesque into its display of masculinity and violence. In doing so it reinvents the action film as the masti (or fun/playful) f…
Nirbhaya's Body
The Widow, the Wife, and the Courtesan
This paper argues for reading late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Asian social reform novels in multiple linguistic traditions in conjunction with each other in order to gain a broader understanding of the novels' articulations of women's agency. I argue that Hindi novelist Munshi Premchand's Sevasadan (1917) (The House of Service) critiques the institution of marriage, much like the Bengali widow remarriage novel Kishnakanter Uil …
(In)visibilities
This article contests the discourse that structures the Indian state’s relationship to historically disenfranchised minorities, both religious (Muslims) and sexual (homosexual), by interrogating the visual, semantic, and political registers through which the state makes these minorities known. It is particularly concerned with rupturing the Indian state’s creation of monolithic minority identities through an intersectional feminist/queer reading …
Two poems by Mīrājī (1912-49)
Interview with Geeta Patel
In this interview, Geeta Patel discusses her research on the Urdu modernist poet Miraji (1912–49), including her influential work Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry (Stanford, 2002), the first book in English devoted to Miraji's oeuvre. Convened in 2019, this interview was conducted as a conversation with a new generation of Miraji scholars. Patel describes the challenges she faced i…
Miraji and South Asian aesthetics, poetics, and politics
Muhammad Sana Ullah Dar 'Miraji' (1912–1949) remains one of the most controversial figures in Urdu letters. An extraordinarily prolific poet and critic during his short lifetime, Miraji's work has drawn renewed interest from contemporary critics. This special journal section uses contemporary critical frameworks to re-examine Miraji's writings and legacy and to present them to a broad audience
The Many Bismils of Today
The Map of Longings with No Limits
This article argues that Agha Shahid Ali’s poem “The Country without a Post Office” (1990) uses the epistolary—as both form and content—to tell the silenced stories of Kashmiris and of the devastation wrought on the Valley since the advent of Indian colonialism. The article argues first that the poem draws on epistolary tropes in Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s (1797–1868) poetry to link the material devastation of Kashmir to the epistemic erasure of it…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Political science (4 works)