Deepra Dandekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 657417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepra Dandekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dandekar |
| SIGNATURE | DANDEKAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Human Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0295-0950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conversion and Spirit Possession in 19th-Century Bombay Presidency
Baba Padmanji Mulay’s (1831–1906) conversion to Christianity in Bombay Presidency is located in an evolving intellectual domain of confrontation between missionaries, reformers, and conservatives. This competitive atmosphere placed early converts in a state of crisis, squeezing them between British missionaries and Marathi, mostly upper-caste Hindus. Given this context, Padmanji’s rise to eminence is reflected in his ideological writings on women…
Deen and Duniya, and the Indian Partition
Saint Joseph in South India
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan
The Partition of 1947 remains an important reference point for Hindu nationalist political discourse in India, defining its relationship with Pakistan and Muslims in South Asia. This article investigates the use of the label ‘India’s daughters’ by the BJP-led NDA government (2014–15), a term originally used to describe Hindu and Sikh women retrieved from Pakistan in 1947. It offers an example of the emotional power wielded by Partition metaphors …
Afterword and Concluding Thoughts
The concluding chapter summarizes all the conceptual questions raised while analysing the topic of religious conversion in nineteenth-century Maharashtra. Using personal experience, the author explores whether Marathi Brahmin Christians could be considered an ethnic group in the early colonial period. Using arguments from the preface of this book, the author discusses how social stigma created family life and family associations among early Chris…
The Context of The Subhedar’s Son
This chapter discusses different social questions that were important for Brahmin conversion in the nineteenth-century Marathi mission. It begins with the racialization of religion at the mission, highlighting the question of rescued African slaves and the importance of retaining caste status among upper-caste converts. The chapter explores how caste identity among Brahmin converts in Nasik was produced from experiences of ostracism and oppressio…
The Subhedar's Son
The book The Subhedar’s Son: A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra is based on an annotated translation of the Marathi book Subhedārāchā Putra written in 1895 by Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. This book explores the experience of Christian conversion among Brahmins from the earliest Anglican missions of the Bombay Presidency (Church Missionary Society) established in the nineteenth century. Investigating h…
Zeba Rizvi’s memory-emotions of Partition
This article analyses the Partition narrative of an Ashraf Muslim woman, who was seven years old at the time of Partition. Now resident in California, Zeba Rizvi was interviewed as part of the 1947 Partition Archive project, archived at the Stanford University Library. In this article, I interrogate relationships between memories and emotions of Partition, reconstituted through oral history that suggests the additional reframing of Partition-memo…
Translation and the Christian Conversion of Women in Colonial India
This article foregrounds the interstitial and hybrid third voice of a nineteenth-century Christian convert in colonial India. Bala Shundoree Tagore, a Bengali woman and wife to the esteemed Gyanendra Mohan Tagore, was declared spiritually Christian by missionaries, even though she died before being baptised. Bala's narrative production by her biographers and translators obfuscated and transformed her voice, writing her into the history of Indian …
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia
Childlessness and Empathetic Relationships
The Satvai and Settlement Pattern in Rural Western Maharashtra
This article describes the manner in which the shrines of a popular childbirth affliction-related goddess known as the Satvai determine notions about the traditional settlement patterns prevalent in rural Western Maharashtra since medieval times. Even in modern times, the shrines and rituals of the Satvai are strongly territorial in nature and divide the rural landscape on the basis of various descriptive levels, forming a pattern within which se…
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan
The Partition of 1947 remains an important reference point for Hindu nationalist political discourse in India, defining its relationship with Pakistan and Muslims in South Asia. This article investigates the use of the label ‘India’s daughters’ by the BJP-led NDA government (2014–15), a term originally used to describe Hindu and Sikh women retrieved from Pakistan in 1947. It offers an example of the emotional power wielded by Partition metaphors …
Translation and the Christian Conversion of Women in Colonial India
This article foregrounds the interstitial and hybrid third voice of a nineteenth-century Christian convert in colonial India. Bala Shundoree Tagore, a Bengali woman and wife to the esteemed Gyanendra Mohan Tagore, was declared spiritually Christian by missionaries, even though she died before being baptised. Bala's narrative production by her biographers and translators obfuscated and transformed her voice, writing her into the history of Indian …
Zeba Rizvi’s memory-emotions of Partition
This article analyses the Partition narrative of an Ashraf Muslim woman, who was seven years old at the time of Partition. Now resident in California, Zeba Rizvi was interviewed as part of the 1947 Partition Archive project, archived at the Stanford University Library. In this article, I interrogate relationships between memories and emotions of Partition, reconstituted through oral history that suggests the additional reframing of Partition-memo…
The Satvai and Settlement Pattern in Rural Western Maharashtra
This article describes the manner in which the shrines of a popular childbirth affliction-related goddess known as the Satvai determine notions about the traditional settlement patterns prevalent in rural Western Maharashtra since medieval times. Even in modern times, the shrines and rituals of the Satvai are strongly territorial in nature and divide the rural landscape on the basis of various descriptive levels, forming a pattern within which se…
The Satvai and Settlement Pattern in Rural Western Maharashtra
This article describes the manner in which the shrines of a popular childbirth affliction-related goddess known as the Satvai determine notions about the traditional settlement patterns prevalent in rural Western Maharashtra since medieval times. Even in modern times, the shrines and rituals of the Satvai are strongly territorial in nature and divide the rural landscape on the basis of various descriptive levels, forming a pattern within which se…
Childlessness and Empathetic Relationships
Islam, Sufism and Everyday Politics of Belonging in South Asia
Translation and the Christian Conversion of Women in Colonial India
This article foregrounds the interstitial and hybrid third voice of a nineteenth-century Christian convert in colonial India. Bala Shundoree Tagore, a Bengali woman and wife to the esteemed Gyanendra Mohan Tagore, was declared spiritually Christian by missionaries, even though she died before being baptised. Bala's narrative production by her biographers and translators obfuscated and transformed her voice, writing her into the history of Indian …
Afterword and Concluding Thoughts
The concluding chapter summarizes all the conceptual questions raised while analysing the topic of religious conversion in nineteenth-century Maharashtra. Using personal experience, the author explores whether Marathi Brahmin Christians could be considered an ethnic group in the early colonial period. Using arguments from the preface of this book, the author discusses how social stigma created family life and family associations among early Chris…
The Context of The Subhedar’s Son
This chapter discusses different social questions that were important for Brahmin conversion in the nineteenth-century Marathi mission. It begins with the racialization of religion at the mission, highlighting the question of rescued African slaves and the importance of retaining caste status among upper-caste converts. The chapter explores how caste identity among Brahmin converts in Nasik was produced from experiences of ostracism and oppressio…
The Subhedar's Son
The book The Subhedar’s Son: A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra is based on an annotated translation of the Marathi book Subhedārāchā Putra written in 1895 by Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. This book explores the experience of Christian conversion among Brahmins from the earliest Anglican missions of the Bombay Presidency (Church Missionary Society) established in the nineteenth century. Investigating h…
Zeba Rizvi’s memory-emotions of Partition
This article analyses the Partition narrative of an Ashraf Muslim woman, who was seven years old at the time of Partition. Now resident in California, Zeba Rizvi was interviewed as part of the 1947 Partition Archive project, archived at the Stanford University Library. In this article, I interrogate relationships between memories and emotions of Partition, reconstituted through oral history that suggests the additional reframing of Partition-memo…
Women’s ‘Retrieval’ from Pakistan
The Partition of 1947 remains an important reference point for Hindu nationalist political discourse in India, defining its relationship with Pakistan and Muslims in South Asia. This article investigates the use of the label ‘India’s daughters’ by the BJP-led NDA government (2014–15), a term originally used to describe Hindu and Sikh women retrieved from Pakistan in 1947. It offers an example of the emotional power wielded by Partition metaphors …
Saint Joseph in South India
Conversion and Spirit Possession in 19th-Century Bombay Presidency
Baba Padmanji Mulay’s (1831–1906) conversion to Christianity in Bombay Presidency is located in an evolving intellectual domain of confrontation between missionaries, reformers, and conservatives. This competitive atmosphere placed early converts in a state of crisis, squeezing them between British missionaries and Marathi, mostly upper-caste Hindus. Given this context, Padmanji’s rise to eminence is reflected in his ideological writings on women…
Deen and Duniya, and the Indian Partition
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