Babli Sinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 643901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Babli Sinha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Babli |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinha |
| SIGNATURE | SINHA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalamazoo College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2083-7540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943. Official imperial narratives blamed the famine on natural disaster, war, exploitation by merchants, and incompetent local officials rather than members of the imperial government and have remained dominant in the global public imaginary until recent year…
Energy–poverty–climate vulnerability nexus
Trauma and referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya's famine novels
Bhabani Bhattacharya's novels, So Many Hungers! and He Who Rides a Tiger, provide an epistemological alternative to imperial narratives about the Bengal famine of 1943, that aligns with the concept of the minor as a cultural counter-discourse. Bhattacharya resists representations of a passive, humble population accustomed to poverty by featuring individuated characters with a realist aesthetic. Yet, realism is fractured by the mnemonic (silence, …
The BBC Eastern Service and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism
In the 1940s, the BBC Imperial Service was a fertile place of interaction for writers from South Asia, as it was for those from British colonies in Africa and the West Indies. Leftist, Marxist, and anti-imperialist intellectuals from around the world converged in London, and radio was one of several media by which they discussed fascism, democracy, and aesthetics. Cosmopolitanism was the preferred vision of empire articulated by the BBC’s Eastern…
Collective suffering and the possibility of empathy in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
This article argues that Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss depart from conventional literary representations of the suffering of neoliberal subjects because they focus on collective rather than individual experiences of abjection. Emphasizing the breakdown in state services, the rise in insurgent groups, and the monetization of human life, the novels consider the possibility of empathy in a s…
Managing orientalism
Considering biography in the case of actors of colour involves something other than resisting dominant narratives about film history and recuperating effaced performances. It requires reflection on the instability of the narratives and performances of self. This article considers Merle Oberon and Sabu, two actors of South Asian descent who gained international popularity in orientalist roles in 1930s Hollywood and British productions. These actor…
Rural development program in tribal region
A “Strangely Un-English Actress”
Merle Oberon was an Anglo-Indian actress in the 1930s who passed for white in the United Kingdom and United States amid speculation about her origins. Using Edouard Glissant's concept of opacity, this article investigates her performance of an upper-class English persona in reaction to salacious press coverage
Dissensus, education and Lala Lajpat Rai’s encounter with W.E.B. DuBois
This article seeks to clarify the paradox of a Hindu nationalist advocating cross-cultural partnerships with those outside his faith and culture and to consider the pressures of nationalism on the cosmopolitanism evident in Lala Lajpat Rai’s American writings. Rai resided in the United States from 1914 to 1920, establishing the India Home Rule League and the journal Young India in New York and publishing his books The United States of India and U…
Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India
In the 1930s, as literature and films representing the British empire were disseminated in Britain, the United States and colonial India, the narratives were transformed through reception and adaptation. The genre of pro-imperial or 'empire films' produced by British studios celebrated the continued international relevance of the British empire at a time of contestation by nationalist movements. American film adaptations of imperial narratives fr…
Lowering Our Prestige”
This article studies the impact of the American cinema on British India in the early twentieth century. Cinema is a valuable lens with which to study the triangular relationship between the United States, Britain, and South Asia because American films were popular and controversial across national and social divisions and dominated over 90 percent of the film industry in colonial India in the 1920s. The discourse around the film industry constitu…
Rehabilitation in Tehri Dam
In the whole debate of ecological suitability of Tehri Dam, the rehabilitation aspect has been found ignored. Keeping in view of the significance of complete rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees, the overall rehabilitation process including rural and urban population is analysed in the present paper. In total, 125 villages will be fully or partially submerged affecting more than one lakh population. More than twenty thousand urban popul…
Rural development program in tribal region
Trauma and referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya's famine novels
Bhabani Bhattacharya's novels, So Many Hungers! and He Who Rides a Tiger, provide an epistemological alternative to imperial narratives about the Bengal famine of 1943, that aligns with the concept of the minor as a cultural counter-discourse. Bhattacharya resists representations of a passive, humble population accustomed to poverty by featuring individuated characters with a realist aesthetic. Yet, realism is fractured by the mnemonic (silence, …
Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India
In the 1930s, as literature and films representing the British empire were disseminated in Britain, the United States and colonial India, the narratives were transformed through reception and adaptation. The genre of pro-imperial or 'empire films' produced by British studios celebrated the continued international relevance of the British empire at a time of contestation by nationalist movements. American film adaptations of imperial narratives fr…
Collective suffering and the possibility of empathy in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
This article argues that Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss depart from conventional literary representations of the suffering of neoliberal subjects because they focus on collective rather than individual experiences of abjection. Emphasizing the breakdown in state services, the rise in insurgent groups, and the monetization of human life, the novels consider the possibility of empathy in a s…
Rehabilitation in Tehri Dam
In the whole debate of ecological suitability of Tehri Dam, the rehabilitation aspect has been found ignored. Keeping in view of the significance of complete rehabilitation and resettlement of the oustees, the overall rehabilitation process including rural and urban population is analysed in the present paper. In total, 125 villages will be fully or partially submerged affecting more than one lakh population. More than twenty thousand urban popul…
Lowering Our Prestige”
This article studies the impact of the American cinema on British India in the early twentieth century. Cinema is a valuable lens with which to study the triangular relationship between the United States, Britain, and South Asia because American films were popular and controversial across national and social divisions and dominated over 90 percent of the film industry in colonial India in the 1920s. The discourse around the film industry constitu…
Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India
In the 1930s, as literature and films representing the British empire were disseminated in Britain, the United States and colonial India, the narratives were transformed through reception and adaptation. The genre of pro-imperial or 'empire films' produced by British studios celebrated the continued international relevance of the British empire at a time of contestation by nationalist movements. American film adaptations of imperial narratives fr…
Dissensus, education and Lala Lajpat Rai’s encounter with W.E.B. DuBois
This article seeks to clarify the paradox of a Hindu nationalist advocating cross-cultural partnerships with those outside his faith and culture and to consider the pressures of nationalism on the cosmopolitanism evident in Lala Lajpat Rai’s American writings. Rai resided in the United States from 1914 to 1920, establishing the India Home Rule League and the journal Young India in New York and publishing his books The United States of India and U…
A “Strangely Un-English Actress”
Merle Oberon was an Anglo-Indian actress in the 1930s who passed for white in the United Kingdom and United States amid speculation about her origins. Using Edouard Glissant's concept of opacity, this article investigates her performance of an upper-class English persona in reaction to salacious press coverage
Managing orientalism
Considering biography in the case of actors of colour involves something other than resisting dominant narratives about film history and recuperating effaced performances. It requires reflection on the instability of the narratives and performances of self. This article considers Merle Oberon and Sabu, two actors of South Asian descent who gained international popularity in orientalist roles in 1930s Hollywood and British productions. These actor…
Rural development program in tribal region
Collective suffering and the possibility of empathy in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
This article argues that Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss depart from conventional literary representations of the suffering of neoliberal subjects because they focus on collective rather than individual experiences of abjection. Emphasizing the breakdown in state services, the rise in insurgent groups, and the monetization of human life, the novels consider the possibility of empathy in a s…
The BBC Eastern Service and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism
In the 1940s, the BBC Imperial Service was a fertile place of interaction for writers from South Asia, as it was for those from British colonies in Africa and the West Indies. Leftist, Marxist, and anti-imperialist intellectuals from around the world converged in London, and radio was one of several media by which they discussed fascism, democracy, and aesthetics. Cosmopolitanism was the preferred vision of empire articulated by the BBC’s Eastern…
Trauma and referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya's famine novels
Bhabani Bhattacharya's novels, So Many Hungers! and He Who Rides a Tiger, provide an epistemological alternative to imperial narratives about the Bengal famine of 1943, that aligns with the concept of the minor as a cultural counter-discourse. Bhattacharya resists representations of a passive, humble population accustomed to poverty by featuring individuated characters with a realist aesthetic. Yet, realism is fractured by the mnemonic (silence, …
Energy–poverty–climate vulnerability nexus
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943. Official imperial narratives blamed the famine on natural disaster, war, exploitation by merchants, and incompetent local officials rather than members of the imperial government and have remained dominant in the global public imaginary until recent year…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works)