Shivangini Tandon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6854774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shivangini Tandon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shivangini |
| FAMILY NAME | Tandon |
| SIGNATURE | TANDON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Human Development |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making the 'Woman'
Friendship and the social life of merchants in South Asia
This article explores the emotion of friendship among merchant communities in early modern South Asia. Based on the autobiography of a Jain merchant, Banarasidas, it argues that friendship as an emotion was invoked in multiple social contexts, sometimes to reinforce normative boundaries, and other times to subvert them. Even so, friendship was always multivalent, and extended beyond dyadic relationships. The social outreach of friendship was cruc…
Imperial Control and the Translation Project
This article explores the monumental translation project undertaken by H.M. Elliot and John Dowson in their work The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period (1867–77) consisting of eight volumes. It examines how Elliot and Dowson’s magnum opus facilitated the project of imperial domination and what were the exclusions and silences that marked this project of translation. The imperial historians or administrators tre…
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Imperial Control and the Translation Project
This article explores the monumental translation project undertaken by H.M. Elliot and John Dowson in their work The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period (1867–77) consisting of eight volumes. It examines how Elliot and Dowson’s magnum opus facilitated the project of imperial domination and what were the exclusions and silences that marked this project of translation. The imperial historians or administrators tre…
Friendship and the social life of merchants in South Asia
This article explores the emotion of friendship among merchant communities in early modern South Asia. Based on the autobiography of a Jain merchant, Banarasidas, it argues that friendship as an emotion was invoked in multiple social contexts, sometimes to reinforce normative boundaries, and other times to subvert them. Even so, friendship was always multivalent, and extended beyond dyadic relationships. The social outreach of friendship was cruc…
Making the 'Woman'
Gender Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (1 works) · Demography (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Essentialism (1 works) · Friendship (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)