Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 778495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rohini Mokashi-Punekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rohini |
| FAMILY NAME | Mokashi-Punekar |
| SIGNATURE | MOKASHI-PUNEKAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8381-3469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Caste, Memory, and the Afterlives of Bondage
The former colonial port town of Kochi in India is home to memorial sites dedicated to enslaved Africans (Kapiri in Malayalam), called Kapirithara. Unlike memorials to slavery that centre victimhood, these sites venerate the Kapiri as a mighty, cigar-smoking demigod. According to popular lore, when the Portuguese lost the city to the Dutch in 1663, they killed their enslaved and buried their treasure with them, believing they would guard these tr…
“Like a Moth to a Flame”
In her Hajj narrative Mazahir-i-Nur (1936), Nur Begum, a Muslim woman from rural Khandwala in colonial Punjab confesses, before embarking on her pilgrimage, that she had “not even seen something as common as a swamp”. Can someone who is rooted in a local and provincial context embody cosmopolitan values of openness, tolerance, and ethical engagement with the world? This paper argues that Nur displays key markers of cosmopolitanism not through Enl…
Poetry, identity and the geography of culture
This paper hopes to argue that the representations of and engagements with landscape by poets writing in English in Northeast India are embedded within the larger cultural and political contexts of the region. Indigenous communities across the world attach profound cultural, political, economic and spiritual significance to the territories they traditionally inhabit. It is for this reason that the preservation of their natural environment becomes…
Contemporary Hinduism
Bollywood travels
Bollywood travels: culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema, by Rajinder Dudrah, London, Routledge, 2012, 130 pp., US$138 (cloth), ISBN 9780415447409This slim volume containin
Global Bollywood
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, edited by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 352 pp., US$ 25.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780816645794 An
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Global Bollywood
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, edited by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2008, 352 pp., US$ 25.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780816645794 An
Bollywood travels
Bollywood travels: culture, diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi cinema, by Rajinder Dudrah, London, Routledge, 2012, 130 pp., US$138 (cloth), ISBN 9780415447409This slim volume containin
Contemporary Hinduism
Poetry, identity and the geography of culture
This paper hopes to argue that the representations of and engagements with landscape by poets writing in English in Northeast India are embedded within the larger cultural and political contexts of the region. Indigenous communities across the world attach profound cultural, political, economic and spiritual significance to the territories they traditionally inhabit. It is for this reason that the preservation of their natural environment becomes…
Caste, Memory, and the Afterlives of Bondage
The former colonial port town of Kochi in India is home to memorial sites dedicated to enslaved Africans (Kapiri in Malayalam), called Kapirithara. Unlike memorials to slavery that centre victimhood, these sites venerate the Kapiri as a mighty, cigar-smoking demigod. According to popular lore, when the Portuguese lost the city to the Dutch in 1663, they killed their enslaved and buried their treasure with them, believing they would guard these tr…
“Like a Moth to a Flame”
In her Hajj narrative Mazahir-i-Nur (1936), Nur Begum, a Muslim woman from rural Khandwala in colonial Punjab confesses, before embarking on her pilgrimage, that she had “not even seen something as common as a swamp”. Can someone who is rooted in a local and provincial context embody cosmopolitan values of openness, tolerance, and ethical engagement with the world? This paper argues that Nur displays key markers of cosmopolitanism not through Enl…
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