Sharmila Purkayastha
Biographic Data
| ID | 939196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharmila Purkayastha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharmila |
| FAMILY NAME | Purkayastha |
| SIGNATURE | PURKAYASTHA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Locked-In and Locked-Down Lives
Prisons incarcerate individuals, undertrials or convicted, through a repressive disciplinary regime. Because of its permanent institutional nature, penal power is ‘normalised’ via a slew of rules, restrictions, and regulations. The assimilation of disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms within the quotidian lives of prisoners is the hallmark of routine penal power. Focusing on women prisoners who remain invisible within the prison population, th…
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery
In August 2021, Mahasweta Devi’s iconic short story “Draupadi” (1978), which brings alive the long tradition of adivasi/tribal resistance against systemic oppression and its brutal reprisal, was deleted from the English Honours syllabus of Delhi University on the grounds of “hurt” sentiments. Why would a story of tribal resistance ruffle postcolonial sentiments? Triggered by this excision, our essay attends to the context of “Draupadi” – the Naxa…
Of Famines and Females
Laksmi Bratakathas in Bengal are religious narratives of the eponymous Hindu goddess who presides over prosperity symbolized through an abundance of rice. The reciting of these Laksmi Bratakathas is a sacral duty of the women of the Bhadralok, which remains a popular practice even today. The period of rise and proliferation of these specific narratives, from the eighteenth century onwards, coincides with catastrophic famines with which imperialis…
The prisonhouse of Orientalism
The prisonhouse of Orientalism
Locked-In and Locked-Down Lives
Prisons incarcerate individuals, undertrials or convicted, through a repressive disciplinary regime. Because of its permanent institutional nature, penal power is ‘normalised’ via a slew of rules, restrictions, and regulations. The assimilation of disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms within the quotidian lives of prisoners is the hallmark of routine penal power. Focusing on women prisoners who remain invisible within the prison population, th…
The prisonhouse of Orientalism
Of Famines and Females
Laksmi Bratakathas in Bengal are religious narratives of the eponymous Hindu goddess who presides over prosperity symbolized through an abundance of rice. The reciting of these Laksmi Bratakathas is a sacral duty of the women of the Bhadralok, which remains a popular practice even today. The period of rise and proliferation of these specific narratives, from the eighteenth century onwards, coincides with catastrophic famines with which imperialis…
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery
In August 2021, Mahasweta Devi’s iconic short story “Draupadi” (1978), which brings alive the long tradition of adivasi/tribal resistance against systemic oppression and its brutal reprisal, was deleted from the English Honours syllabus of Delhi University on the grounds of “hurt” sentiments. Why would a story of tribal resistance ruffle postcolonial sentiments? Triggered by this excision, our essay attends to the context of “Draupadi” – the Naxa…
Locked-In and Locked-Down Lives
Prisons incarcerate individuals, undertrials or convicted, through a repressive disciplinary regime. Because of its permanent institutional nature, penal power is ‘normalised’ via a slew of rules, restrictions, and regulations. The assimilation of disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms within the quotidian lives of prisoners is the hallmark of routine penal power. Focusing on women prisoners who remain invisible within the prison population, th…
History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)