Akshaya K Rath
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 131554 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Akshaya K Rath |
| PRENOMES | Akshaya K |
| SOBRENOME | Rath |
| ASSINATURA | RATH A K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5219-0318 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Transgressing “docile bodies”
Resistance in the Penal Space
Negotiating the Carceral Space
Following the Sepoy Mutiny (1857), a penal settlement in the Andamans started operating to accommodate mutiny and other prisoners, and a convict society devised by class, caste and religion gradually evolved in the Andaman Islands. Starting in 1909, the government transported "political prisoners" whom they labelled as "anarchists" or "terrorists", and the settlement witnessed a revolutionary history. Subject to incessant tortures, the political …
Gandhi's Mira
During the first decades of the twentieth century when the Indian freedom struggle movement gained momentum, M. K. Gandhi often evoked Mirabai—the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint—in his public speeches and voluminous letters. This article demonstrates the degree to which Gandhi's maneuver fundamentally altered Mirabai's image as a national and cultural symbol, and how it prompted the mobilization of women in the larger nationalist movement. T…
Partition in Bangla Little Magazines
The partition of India in 1947 that transgressed both the geographical and cultural boundaries left millions of people homeless and victims of communal violence. Like other media that presented the horror of partition, little magazines, too, responded to the post-partition socio-cultural upheaval. Despite being the "Other" to mainstream printing practices, little magazines became socially pungent and attentive critique of the socio-political mili…
Tagore and Androgyny
Tagore reinstalled the homology between androgyny and Indianness challenging the hyper-masculine politics practiced by colonialism and the extremist strand of nationalism. This article reads that Tagore challenged nationalist masculinity and recuperated androgyny as a central component of self-stylization in India. It explores how Tagore's gender dynamics reconfigured India in a transpace to historicize India's cultural openness. His personal nar…
Nautch, Thuggee and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Nineteenth-century colonial India witnessed the much-hyped anti-thuggee campaign, instrumental in creating an elaborate archive of frequent commentaries, opinions on banditry, prisoners and their trials, approvers’ accounts, administrative studies as well as fictional narratives. Re-reading such archival sources, this article explores how nautch, a hybrid form of dance, once glorified and later criminalised by the colonial powers, became a point …
Mirabai in public spheres
Stories, myths and legends travel across time and spaces, and constitute the very essence of a nation’s culture. The way certain popular narratives originate and circulate in public spheres—constantly challenging yet cohabitating with hegemonic forces of dominant cultures—is pivotal to understand why such narratives endure and how they evolve with the socio-political culture of an age. The case of the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint Mirabai a…
TheMahatmaand the eunuch
Eunuchism was conceptualized as a sacred political duty in Gandhian liberal nationalism. From 1906 to 1948, Gandhi embraced the identity of a ‘pure’ and ‘asexual’ eunuch through his brahmacharya experiments to locate the nation on an alternative plane and sought to educate Indians to practice an asexual life for larger cultural liberation based on moral supremacy. This article explores how Gandhi creatively utilized his practice of brahmacharya –…
Across the Black Water
Pre-Cellular Jail Period
In this section of the book, readers will encounter key documents pertaining to the genesis and the development of the penal settlement. Port Blair gets its name. Captain Henry Man, the first superintendent of the settlement, hoists the Union Jack. Many convicts escape from the settlement; captured run-away convicts are hanged; most die in the hands of aborigines; survivors, however, record their encounter with aborigines. Friendly signs with abo…
Sexualizing Kālā Pāni
There are two integrated facts about Kālā Pāni that should interest anyone who researches into the history of penal ideas: the Government was too anxious and impatient to populate the islands by any means so that it could control the ocean and the Empire, and it emphatically negotiated with the transported convicts in developing an elaborate convict society while showing its anxiety over its overall governance. Among the numerous steps taken in t…
Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
In British India, positioning Kali within the thuggee cult and rationalizing human sacrifice ran parallel and witnessed a paradigmatic shift by the end of the nineteenth century. The cult provided a basis for high romanticization and assisted in the mission of projecting a disgraced religious practice. This paper explores how the mother-figure was idealized for rationalizing human sacrifice and the religious symbols were overused. Central to the …
Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant
Nautch, Thuggee and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Nineteenth-century colonial India witnessed the much-hyped anti-thuggee campaign, instrumental in creating an elaborate archive of frequent commentaries, opinions on banditry, prisoners and their trials, approvers’ accounts, administrative studies as well as fictional narratives. Re-reading such archival sources, this article explores how nautch, a hybrid form of dance, once glorified and later criminalised by the colonial powers, became a point …
Partition in Bangla Little Magazines
The partition of India in 1947 that transgressed both the geographical and cultural boundaries left millions of people homeless and victims of communal violence. Like other media that presented the horror of partition, little magazines, too, responded to the post-partition socio-cultural upheaval. Despite being the "Other" to mainstream printing practices, little magazines became socially pungent and attentive critique of the socio-political mili…
Mirabai in public spheres
Stories, myths and legends travel across time and spaces, and constitute the very essence of a nation’s culture. The way certain popular narratives originate and circulate in public spheres—constantly challenging yet cohabitating with hegemonic forces of dominant cultures—is pivotal to understand why such narratives endure and how they evolve with the socio-political culture of an age. The case of the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint Mirabai a…
TheMahatmaand the eunuch
Eunuchism was conceptualized as a sacred political duty in Gandhian liberal nationalism. From 1906 to 1948, Gandhi embraced the identity of a ‘pure’ and ‘asexual’ eunuch through his brahmacharya experiments to locate the nation on an alternative plane and sought to educate Indians to practice an asexual life for larger cultural liberation based on moral supremacy. This article explores how Gandhi creatively utilized his practice of brahmacharya –…
Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant
Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition
In British India, positioning Kali within the thuggee cult and rationalizing human sacrifice ran parallel and witnessed a paradigmatic shift by the end of the nineteenth century. The cult provided a basis for high romanticization and assisted in the mission of projecting a disgraced religious practice. This paper explores how the mother-figure was idealized for rationalizing human sacrifice and the religious symbols were overused. Central to the …
Sexualizing Kālā Pāni
There are two integrated facts about Kālā Pāni that should interest anyone who researches into the history of penal ideas: the Government was too anxious and impatient to populate the islands by any means so that it could control the ocean and the Empire, and it emphatically negotiated with the transported convicts in developing an elaborate convict society while showing its anxiety over its overall governance. Among the numerous steps taken in t…
Across the Black Water
Pre-Cellular Jail Period
In this section of the book, readers will encounter key documents pertaining to the genesis and the development of the penal settlement. Port Blair gets its name. Captain Henry Man, the first superintendent of the settlement, hoists the Union Jack. Many convicts escape from the settlement; captured run-away convicts are hanged; most die in the hands of aborigines; survivors, however, record their encounter with aborigines. Friendly signs with abo…
Partition in Bangla Little Magazines
The partition of India in 1947 that transgressed both the geographical and cultural boundaries left millions of people homeless and victims of communal violence. Like other media that presented the horror of partition, little magazines, too, responded to the post-partition socio-cultural upheaval. Despite being the "Other" to mainstream printing practices, little magazines became socially pungent and attentive critique of the socio-political mili…
Tagore and Androgyny
Tagore reinstalled the homology between androgyny and Indianness challenging the hyper-masculine politics practiced by colonialism and the extremist strand of nationalism. This article reads that Tagore challenged nationalist masculinity and recuperated androgyny as a central component of self-stylization in India. It explores how Tagore's gender dynamics reconfigured India in a transpace to historicize India's cultural openness. His personal nar…
Nautch, Thuggee and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India
Nineteenth-century colonial India witnessed the much-hyped anti-thuggee campaign, instrumental in creating an elaborate archive of frequent commentaries, opinions on banditry, prisoners and their trials, approvers’ accounts, administrative studies as well as fictional narratives. Re-reading such archival sources, this article explores how nautch, a hybrid form of dance, once glorified and later criminalised by the colonial powers, became a point …
Mirabai in public spheres
Stories, myths and legends travel across time and spaces, and constitute the very essence of a nation’s culture. The way certain popular narratives originate and circulate in public spheres—constantly challenging yet cohabitating with hegemonic forces of dominant cultures—is pivotal to understand why such narratives endure and how they evolve with the socio-political culture of an age. The case of the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint Mirabai a…
TheMahatmaand the eunuch
Eunuchism was conceptualized as a sacred political duty in Gandhian liberal nationalism. From 1906 to 1948, Gandhi embraced the identity of a ‘pure’ and ‘asexual’ eunuch through his brahmacharya experiments to locate the nation on an alternative plane and sought to educate Indians to practice an asexual life for larger cultural liberation based on moral supremacy. This article explores how Gandhi creatively utilized his practice of brahmacharya –…
Negotiating the Carceral Space
Following the Sepoy Mutiny (1857), a penal settlement in the Andamans started operating to accommodate mutiny and other prisoners, and a convict society devised by class, caste and religion gradually evolved in the Andaman Islands. Starting in 1909, the government transported "political prisoners" whom they labelled as "anarchists" or "terrorists", and the settlement witnessed a revolutionary history. Subject to incessant tortures, the political …
Gandhi's Mira
During the first decades of the twentieth century when the Indian freedom struggle movement gained momentum, M. K. Gandhi often evoked Mirabai—the sixteenth-century bhakti poet-saint—in his public speeches and voluminous letters. This article demonstrates the degree to which Gandhi's maneuver fundamentally altered Mirabai's image as a national and cultural symbol, and how it prompted the mobilization of women in the larger nationalist movement. T…
Resistance in the Penal Space
Transgressing “docile bodies”
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