Sara Abraham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 83611 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Abraham |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Abraham |
| FIRMA | ABRAHAM S |
| AFILIACIONES | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3603-2528 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Patient labour and gendering cure
This article examines how gender and race shaped everyday governance, patient labour, and occupational and moral therapies in the colonial lunatic asylums of Madras, Vizagapatanam (Waltair), and Calicut in British South India, 1871–1947. Drawing on the psychiatric archives, including Annual Reports of the Lunatic Asylums in the Madras Presidency, official correspondence, and statistical returns, it investigates who worked in the asylum, what they…
Basti mediators
Building on the critical scholarship in urban studies about intermediaries, this paper explores the relationship between intermediaries and urban land struggles. Intermediaries as enablers of land tenure change contest land’s bureaucratic categories. They challenge the state categories of land through a narrative mode and in an archival mode. The narrative mode comprises oral-historical knowledge of the settling in of people in the Basti, creatin…
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps
Animals, animal labour and animal capital, were vital in developing colonial capitalism. For labour theories, working animals constituted only as tools or resources and affirmed the property rights of humans over animals by capturing, confining, breeding and training. The capitalist interactions with animals developed from the early warfare and hunting practices to the later discourses of conservation, juridical control and the commoditization of…
Becoming coolies and supervisors
This article examines the evolutionary history of coolie labourers and the Maistries in the plantations of colonial Madras Presidency in South India during the nineteenth century. The post-emancipation era in colonial India witnessed the growth of planting industries and several phases of migration of coolies to the overseas and domestic plantations. By focussing on coolie migration, particularly the recruitment, settlement and management practic…
Regulation and resistance
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
The Keyi Mappila Muslim Merchants of Tellicherry and the Making of Coastal Cosmopolitanism on the Malabar Coast
The Keyi Mappila Muslim merchants of Tellicherry (Thalassery) on the Malabar Coast were one of the few early modern Indian merchant groups who succeeded in carving out a powerful political and social configuration of their own on the western coast of the Indian Ocean during the British period. Today, several branches of Keyi families remain a cultural unit in the Islamic community of Kerala. This article attempts to locate the group in the larger…
The dreamers
Sara AbrahamIndependent Scholar, Chennai, [email protected](c) 2014, Sara Abraham
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
Formal Writing, Questionnaires and Petitions
This article examines the culture of ‘formal writing’ in the making of colonial law in early British India. As part of establishing the Western governmental practices in the colony, the British introduced formal writing practices in the colonial administration. Situating on the debate of ‘continuity and change’, this article argues that ‘formal writing’ marked a significant departure from pre-colonial legal practices in India. This article first …
Colonial Law in Early British Malabar
This article examines the development of colonial law in Malabar between 1792 and 1810. Within the historical context of emerging colonialism as a pivotal factor, it shows that there was no simple unilinear process in the making of colonial law in this region of India, but rather a series of continuities and discontinuities of practices. A clear shift in the logic of governance is identified, however, as new technologies of power, particularly wr…
Multiracialism as more than the sum of ethnicities
How can we define a multiracial unity, and what does it mean in practice? Our understanding of it needs to go beyond notions of cultural and group rights, to embrace the challenges such unity has posed to the postcolonial status quo in the Anglophone Caribbean. The active creation of multiracial unity in specific political struggles has had a liberatory impact, but we also need to go beyond this to look at it vis-à-vis human relations more genera…
Mixing and Separating
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad. By Aisha Khan. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2004. Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writ
Exceptional victories
This paper seeks to discuss the conditions under which unique multiracial electoral victories occurred in the two neighbouring racially divided countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. I argue that there was an opening in the political party system in each country which permitted the rise of a new electoral force, and that it was driven by a new political class. This class projected a national developmental model which was attractive to voter…
Development and Calypso Culture
The first part of this paper argues that the definition of "development" as used by the philosophers Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen can frame an understanding of the national culture of the musical art form, the calypso, in Trinidad. The second half of the paper discusses the migration of the calypso musical form to Toronto, where it becomes limited to being part of a minority, immigrant ethnic culture. Yet, many of the problems that it faces in…
The Electoral Success of Multi-Racial Parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana
The only two electoral victories of multi-racial parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana are analyzed comparatively to determine the conditions of their success in the sharply racially competitive environments of both countries. The argument of the article is that new class formation in the context of "political openings" precipitated the rise of new class-political agendas that were able to promise developmental benefits to a wide section o…
The shifting sources of racial definition in Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana
This comparison of ethnic relations in two countries, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, supplements the research findings of synchronic studies of "the social construction of race" by offering a historically based framework to understand particular and local instances of ethnic relations. Drawing on a long historical study of Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, I argue that the institutional sources of definition of key "ethnicities" have shifted thr…
Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins. Wertheimer's seminars revisited
Formal Writing, Questionnaires and Petitions
This article examines the culture of ‘formal writing’ in the making of colonial law in early British India. As part of establishing the Western governmental practices in the colony, the British introduced formal writing practices in the colonial administration. Situating on the debate of ‘continuity and change’, this article argues that ‘formal writing’ marked a significant departure from pre-colonial legal practices in India. This article first …
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
The shifting sources of racial definition in Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana
This comparison of ethnic relations in two countries, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, supplements the research findings of synchronic studies of "the social construction of race" by offering a historically based framework to understand particular and local instances of ethnic relations. Drawing on a long historical study of Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, I argue that the institutional sources of definition of key "ethnicities" have shifted thr…
The Keyi Mappila Muslim Merchants of Tellicherry and the Making of Coastal Cosmopolitanism on the Malabar Coast
The Keyi Mappila Muslim merchants of Tellicherry (Thalassery) on the Malabar Coast were one of the few early modern Indian merchant groups who succeeded in carving out a powerful political and social configuration of their own on the western coast of the Indian Ocean during the British period. Today, several branches of Keyi families remain a cultural unit in the Islamic community of Kerala. This article attempts to locate the group in the larger…
The dreamers
Sara AbrahamIndependent Scholar, Chennai, [email protected](c) 2014, Sara Abraham
The Electoral Success of Multi-Racial Parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana
The only two electoral victories of multi-racial parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana are analyzed comparatively to determine the conditions of their success in the sharply racially competitive environments of both countries. The argument of the article is that new class formation in the context of "political openings" precipitated the rise of new class-political agendas that were able to promise developmental benefits to a wide section o…
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps
Animals, animal labour and animal capital, were vital in developing colonial capitalism. For labour theories, working animals constituted only as tools or resources and affirmed the property rights of humans over animals by capturing, confining, breeding and training. The capitalist interactions with animals developed from the early warfare and hunting practices to the later discourses of conservation, juridical control and the commoditization of…
Regulation and resistance
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins. Wertheimer's seminars revisited
The shifting sources of racial definition in Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana
This comparison of ethnic relations in two countries, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, supplements the research findings of synchronic studies of "the social construction of race" by offering a historically based framework to understand particular and local instances of ethnic relations. Drawing on a long historical study of Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana, I argue that the institutional sources of definition of key "ethnicities" have shifted thr…
Exceptional victories
This paper seeks to discuss the conditions under which unique multiracial electoral victories occurred in the two neighbouring racially divided countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. I argue that there was an opening in the political party system in each country which permitted the rise of a new electoral force, and that it was driven by a new political class. This class projected a national developmental model which was attractive to voter…
Development and Calypso Culture
The first part of this paper argues that the definition of "development" as used by the philosophers Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen can frame an understanding of the national culture of the musical art form, the calypso, in Trinidad. The second half of the paper discusses the migration of the calypso musical form to Toronto, where it becomes limited to being part of a minority, immigrant ethnic culture. Yet, many of the problems that it faces in…
The Electoral Success of Multi-Racial Parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana
The only two electoral victories of multi-racial parties in Trinidad and Tobago and in Guyana are analyzed comparatively to determine the conditions of their success in the sharply racially competitive environments of both countries. The argument of the article is that new class formation in the context of "political openings" precipitated the rise of new class-political agendas that were able to promise developmental benefits to a wide section o…
Mixing and Separating
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad. By Aisha Khan. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2004. Diasporic (Dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writ
Multiracialism as more than the sum of ethnicities
How can we define a multiracial unity, and what does it mean in practice? Our understanding of it needs to go beyond notions of cultural and group rights, to embrace the challenges such unity has posed to the postcolonial status quo in the Anglophone Caribbean. The active creation of multiracial unity in specific political struggles has had a liberatory impact, but we also need to go beyond this to look at it vis-à-vis human relations more genera…
Colonial Law in Early British Malabar
This article examines the development of colonial law in Malabar between 1792 and 1810. Within the historical context of emerging colonialism as a pivotal factor, it shows that there was no simple unilinear process in the making of colonial law in this region of India, but rather a series of continuities and discontinuities of practices. A clear shift in the logic of governance is identified, however, as new technologies of power, particularly wr…
Formal Writing, Questionnaires and Petitions
This article examines the culture of ‘formal writing’ in the making of colonial law in early British India. As part of establishing the Western governmental practices in the colony, the British introduced formal writing practices in the colonial administration. Situating on the debate of ‘continuity and change’, this article argues that ‘formal writing’ marked a significant departure from pre-colonial legal practices in India. This article first …
Constructing the “Extraordinary Criminals
The British colonial state in India, as part of establishing key sites of law and order, constructed certain tribes, groups, castes, and individuals as “criminals.” These criminal definitions came to play a prominent role in imperial criminal justice policies in India. This type of construction of criminality in the colonies also portrayed the stereotypical sense of the West, who depicted the indigenous in the East among other things as “criminal…
The dreamers
Sara AbrahamIndependent Scholar, Chennai, [email protected](c) 2014, Sara Abraham
The Keyi Mappila Muslim Merchants of Tellicherry and the Making of Coastal Cosmopolitanism on the Malabar Coast
The Keyi Mappila Muslim merchants of Tellicherry (Thalassery) on the Malabar Coast were one of the few early modern Indian merchant groups who succeeded in carving out a powerful political and social configuration of their own on the western coast of the Indian Ocean during the British period. Today, several branches of Keyi families remain a cultural unit in the Islamic community of Kerala. This article attempts to locate the group in the larger…
Regulation and resistance
This article presents a case study of defactorisation of production in a traditional industry – beedi rolling – in colonial South India. It examines the implementation of the Indian Factories Act and its subsequent impact on Malabar’s beedi industry during 1937–1941, focusing on the interaction between state, capital and labour within the framework of British India’s labour-legal history. Despite resistance from their workers, beedi manufacturers…
Becoming coolies and supervisors
This article examines the evolutionary history of coolie labourers and the Maistries in the plantations of colonial Madras Presidency in South India during the nineteenth century. The post-emancipation era in colonial India witnessed the growth of planting industries and several phases of migration of coolies to the overseas and domestic plantations. By focussing on coolie migration, particularly the recruitment, settlement and management practic…
Madras Kraals , animal labour and Veterinary Corps
Animals, animal labour and animal capital, were vital in developing colonial capitalism. For labour theories, working animals constituted only as tools or resources and affirmed the property rights of humans over animals by capturing, confining, breeding and training. The capitalist interactions with animals developed from the early warfare and hunting practices to the later discourses of conservation, juridical control and the commoditization of…
Patient labour and gendering cure
This article examines how gender and race shaped everyday governance, patient labour, and occupational and moral therapies in the colonial lunatic asylums of Madras, Vizagapatanam (Waltair), and Calicut in British South India, 1871–1947. Drawing on the psychiatric archives, including Annual Reports of the Lunatic Asylums in the Madras Presidency, official correspondence, and statistical returns, it investigates who worked in the asylum, what they…
Basti mediators
Building on the critical scholarship in urban studies about intermediaries, this paper explores the relationship between intermediaries and urban land struggles. Intermediaries as enablers of land tenure change contest land’s bureaucratic categories. They challenge the state categories of land through a narrative mode and in an archival mode. The narrative mode comprises oral-historical knowledge of the settling in of people in the Basti, creatin…
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