Nitish Jha
Biographic Data
| ID | 98808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nitish Jha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nitish |
| FAMILY NAME | Jha |
| SIGNATURE | JHA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Patna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3613-5148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“The voyage of the forgotten”: Mapping the memory of Indian indentured ships through folk songs and transgenerational poems
This article examines the Indian indentured ship as a heterotopic space, using Michel Foucault’s heterotopia and heterochronia, Stuart Hall’s prescriptive discourse, and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemories. It analyses how the ship disrupted caste hierarchies, enforced egalitarianism, and altered social dynamics. Analysing the folk songs documented by Ved Prakash Vatuk and Badri Narayan, alongside the contemporary poetics of Mahadai Das and Khal Torab…
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors' clothes and jewelry
The years 1838-1924 in colonial India saw the first organized exodus of around 1.5 million. These emigrants were employed as indentured laborers in the various plantations owned by the Empire. Along with the people, what migrated were objects like clothes and jewelry. While some of these items were provided by the plantation regimes, others were brought by the emigrants. Though there have been studies about the lives on the plantations, the marin…
Studies of the Subak: New Directions, New Challenges
Enabling Sustainability in Water Users’ Associations: Or, What Balinese Irrigation Communities Can Tell Us about Village Water Supply Committees in South Africa and India
Gender and decision making in Balinese agriculture
To be analytically useful, the concept of the division of labor needs to take into account decision making as a gendered activity. Decision making is all-important in the retinue of agricultural activities, but gender dynamics in various social units differentially affect the participation of women in it. In Bali, households and irrigation communities, called subak, each manage different aspects of rice cultivation. Distinct sets of factors accou…
Gender and decision making in Balinese agriculture
To be analytically useful, the concept of the division of labor needs to take into account decision making as a gendered activity. Decision making is all-important in the retinue of agricultural activities, but gender dynamics in various social units differentially affect the participation of women in it. In Bali, households and irrigation communities, called subak, each manage different aspects of rice cultivation. Distinct sets of factors accou…
Studies of the Subak: New Directions, New Challenges
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors' clothes and jewelry
The years 1838-1924 in colonial India saw the first organized exodus of around 1.5 million. These emigrants were employed as indentured laborers in the various plantations owned by the Empire. Along with the people, what migrated were objects like clothes and jewelry. While some of these items were provided by the plantation regimes, others were brought by the emigrants. Though there have been studies about the lives on the plantations, the marin…
Gender and decision making in Balinese agriculture
To be analytically useful, the concept of the division of labor needs to take into account decision making as a gendered activity. Decision making is all-important in the retinue of agricultural activities, but gender dynamics in various social units differentially affect the participation of women in it. In Bali, households and irrigation communities, called subak, each manage different aspects of rice cultivation. Distinct sets of factors accou…
Enabling Sustainability in Water Users’ Associations: Or, What Balinese Irrigation Communities Can Tell Us about Village Water Supply Committees in South Africa and India
Studies of the Subak: New Directions, New Challenges
Costumes of the migrating body: A study of indentured labors' clothes and jewelry
The years 1838-1924 in colonial India saw the first organized exodus of around 1.5 million. These emigrants were employed as indentured laborers in the various plantations owned by the Empire. Along with the people, what migrated were objects like clothes and jewelry. While some of these items were provided by the plantation regimes, others were brought by the emigrants. Though there have been studies about the lives on the plantations, the marin…
“The voyage of the forgotten”: Mapping the memory of Indian indentured ships through folk songs and transgenerational poems
This article examines the Indian indentured ship as a heterotopic space, using Michel Foucault’s heterotopia and heterochronia, Stuart Hall’s prescriptive discourse, and Marianne Hirsch’s postmemories. It analyses how the ship disrupted caste hierarchies, enforced egalitarianism, and altered social dynamics. Analysing the folk songs documented by Ved Prakash Vatuk and Badri Narayan, alongside the contemporary poetics of Mahadai Das and Khal Torab…
Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works)