Janaki Nair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 270124 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Janaki Nair |
| PRENOMES | Janaki |
| SOBRENOME | Nair |
| ASSINATURA | NAIR J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9102-1592 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Women and Colonial Law
This book introduces students of law and history to key colonial moments that have shaped women's legal status up to the present day. It introduces students and general readers to the critical events and legal decisions that determined the place of women under law. It also introduces readers to terms that are critical to understanding women's legal status in India today. In addition to bringing together the latest developments in Indian historica…
Monarchical modern’
The unique status of the city of Mysore arose from the fact that it was divested of all administrative functions save that of the Palace establishment. Principles of city planning were innovatively pursued, through a combination of sovereign authority and diverse forces, techniques and devices more properly associated with ‘governmentality’. It was among the first cities in India to have a City Improvement Trust in 1903. An investigation of the w…
An Inheritance of Loss
In 1845, the banker Damodar Dass of Srirangapatna loaned a large sum of money to Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III of Mysore. For the next seven decades, until the unpaid debt was turned into public charity, the multiple claims of Damodar Dass's heirs to this inheritance led the colonial state and the Mysore government (especially after 1881) to form a substantial archive. Occupying the foreground of this archive were the legal dilemmas posed by t…
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’
Academic histories in contemporary India compete with a host of other ‘regimes of historicity’ as the stakes in writing/rewriting the past have increased enormously. Most disputes over the interpretation of history are moreover increasingly taking place in courtrooms rather than classrooms, on streets and in public spaces rather than in the safer environs of the research carrel or seminar room. More important, many contending histories do not nec…
Modernity and ‘publicness’
Fin de siècle Mysore witnessed the gathering force of interminable rivalries of prestige between mathas (monastic institutions). Contests over the types and number of honours enjoyed by travelling gurus in Mysore became frequent, reaching a crescendo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By this time, the contests were also being adjudicated in courts, as the Mysore administration began to exert greater bureaucratic control over t…
Erika Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire
Seeing like the Missionary
Missionaries working in Mysore, as elsewhere in India, took enthusiastically to the new art of photography from the 1840s, to record their ‘views’ of the society they undertook to transform. Evangelising was, however, early on, allied with education as a way for missionaries to make their way into a complex, hierarchical society with learning traditions of its own. How did the missionary ‘see’ the Indian classroom, and invite the viewer of their …
Textbook Controversies and the Demand for a Past
This article has arisen out of a growing sense of disquiet about the relatively unexamined gulf between the practice of academic history – in universities, journals and conferences, scholarly publications, and largely in English – and the thriving production of histories which arise out of a demand for a past in community, regional, or caste forums, usually in several Indian languages. Although this gulf is as old as the development and instituti…
Mysore's Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition's Imagined Economies
Most scholarly works on exhibitionary practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have focused on the meaning and importance of display, and the cultural bases, and indeed biases, that supported various inclusions and exclusions. The exhibition has usually formed part of a larger narrative of new rituals that were enacted in the modern period to serve, variously, imperial, market or patriotic objectives. Can the persistence with which the…
Building Bangalore
JOHN STALLMEYER. Building Bangalore: Architecture and Urban Transformation in India's Silicon Valley . London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xx, 137 pp. £85.00, hardcover. The first industrial revo
Beyond nationalism
The long hold of the idea that ‘India is the land of villages’ on the imaginations of politicians, policy makers and scholars alike was a result not just of the numerical preponderance of the village, but because it represented the space of an organic, unsullied authenticity. Needless to say, in many accounts, well into the late twentieth century, the authenticity was only made possible by relinquishing a claim to the turbulence of history, and i…
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography Janaki Nair (bio) Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert. Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces, Unheard Voices, 1930–1942 (Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 304 pp. ISBN 81-7829-546-6 (pb). Badri Narayan. Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge, Volume 5) (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 186 pp. ISBN 10:…
Tipu Sultan, History Painting and the Battle for ‘Perspective’
The military defeat and death of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Mysore War (1799) paved the way for the establishment of British rule over most parts of India. This event may also be considered a turning point in the history of visual practices in India. The British struggle to defeat this indomit-able enemy on the battlefield was re-enacted within the realm of the visual. This essay examines the question of whether colonial rule signalled the arrival…
Beyond exceptionalism
Despite many institutional restraints, several independent strands of research on south Indian history have developed and flourished in ways that significantly revise older and influential historiographical formulations. This article explores the ways in which historians of the geographical south have made productive use of the 'incommensurability' of geography and history. To begin with, I briefly sketch some of the historical and historiographi…
Past Perfect
In the city," says carl schorske, writing of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, "... the truth of industrial and commercial society had to be screened in the decent draperies of pre-industrial artistic styles. Science and law were modern truth, but beauty came from history" (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resou…
The Historian as Film Maker
This article is a historian's reflection on the contradictions presented by the gradual erasure and reinterpretation of historical memory as a result of drastically-changed contemporary circumstances. These contradictions became most evident when the author embarked upon the production of a historical film based on her research for a book on the labour history of Old Mysore. The work culture and political traditions of gold-mining labourers, expl…
Colluding Patriarchies
Drawing a line
Dangerous Labour
Women and law in colonial India
A concern for the position of women in law has a long history in India. The foundations of a concerted effort to remedy some of the more blatant forms of discrimination against women were laid down as the modern legal system itself was being fashioned in the period of colonial rule. This study examines some of the ways in which a transformation through legalisation actually took place during the colonial period. It considers some of the interests…
Prohibited Marriage
The author discusses the stand of the government of Mysore regarding child marriage. The making of the infant marriage regulation in India and other legal action against child marriage are also discussed
On the Question of Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography
Contending Ideologies? The Mass Awakener's Union and the Congress in Mysore, 1936-1942
Production regimes, cultural processes
A Substantial Empirical Study
On the Question of Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography
Beyond nationalism
The long hold of the idea that ‘India is the land of villages’ on the imaginations of politicians, policy makers and scholars alike was a result not just of the numerical preponderance of the village, but because it represented the space of an organic, unsullied authenticity. Needless to say, in many accounts, well into the late twentieth century, the authenticity was only made possible by relinquishing a claim to the turbulence of history, and i…
Past Perfect
In the city," says carl schorske, writing of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, "... the truth of industrial and commercial society had to be screened in the decent draperies of pre-industrial artistic styles. Science and law were modern truth, but beauty came from history" (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resou…
Prohibited Marriage
The author discusses the stand of the government of Mysore regarding child marriage. The making of the infant marriage regulation in India and other legal action against child marriage are also discussed
Mysore's Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition's Imagined Economies
Most scholarly works on exhibitionary practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have focused on the meaning and importance of display, and the cultural bases, and indeed biases, that supported various inclusions and exclusions. The exhibition has usually formed part of a larger narrative of new rituals that were enacted in the modern period to serve, variously, imperial, market or patriotic objectives. Can the persistence with which the…
Beyond exceptionalism
Despite many institutional restraints, several independent strands of research on south Indian history have developed and flourished in ways that significantly revise older and influential historiographical formulations. This article explores the ways in which historians of the geographical south have made productive use of the 'incommensurability' of geography and history. To begin with, I briefly sketch some of the historical and historiographi…
Colluding Patriarchies
Tipu Sultan, History Painting and the Battle for ‘Perspective’
The military defeat and death of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Mysore War (1799) paved the way for the establishment of British rule over most parts of India. This event may also be considered a turning point in the history of visual practices in India. The British struggle to defeat this indomit-able enemy on the battlefield was re-enacted within the realm of the visual. This essay examines the question of whether colonial rule signalled the arrival…
Production regimes, cultural processes
Monarchical modern’
The unique status of the city of Mysore arose from the fact that it was divested of all administrative functions save that of the Palace establishment. Principles of city planning were innovatively pursued, through a combination of sovereign authority and diverse forces, techniques and devices more properly associated with ‘governmentality’. It was among the first cities in India to have a City Improvement Trust in 1903. An investigation of the w…
Modernity and ‘publicness’
Fin de siècle Mysore witnessed the gathering force of interminable rivalries of prestige between mathas (monastic institutions). Contests over the types and number of honours enjoyed by travelling gurus in Mysore became frequent, reaching a crescendo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By this time, the contests were also being adjudicated in courts, as the Mysore administration began to exert greater bureaucratic control over t…
Textbook Controversies and the Demand for a Past
This article has arisen out of a growing sense of disquiet about the relatively unexamined gulf between the practice of academic history – in universities, journals and conferences, scholarly publications, and largely in English – and the thriving production of histories which arise out of a demand for a past in community, regional, or caste forums, usually in several Indian languages. Although this gulf is as old as the development and instituti…
Building Bangalore
JOHN STALLMEYER. Building Bangalore: Architecture and Urban Transformation in India's Silicon Valley . London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xx, 137 pp. £85.00, hardcover. The first industrial revo
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography Janaki Nair (bio) Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert. Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces, Unheard Voices, 1930–1942 (Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 304 pp. ISBN 81-7829-546-6 (pb). Badri Narayan. Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge, Volume 5) (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 186 pp. ISBN 10:…
Dangerous Labour
Capitalism and Class in Colonial India
Capitalism and Class in Colonial India
Production regimes, cultural processes
A Substantial Empirical Study
On the Question of Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography
Contending Ideologies? The Mass Awakener's Union and the Congress in Mysore, 1936-1942
Prohibited Marriage
The author discusses the stand of the government of Mysore regarding child marriage. The making of the infant marriage regulation in India and other legal action against child marriage are also discussed
Women and law in colonial India
A concern for the position of women in law has a long history in India. The foundations of a concerted effort to remedy some of the more blatant forms of discrimination against women were laid down as the modern legal system itself was being fashioned in the period of colonial rule. This study examines some of the ways in which a transformation through legalisation actually took place during the colonial period. It considers some of the interests…
Dangerous Labour
Drawing a line
Colluding Patriarchies
Past Perfect
In the city," says carl schorske, writing of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, "... the truth of industrial and commercial society had to be screened in the decent draperies of pre-industrial artistic styles. Science and law were modern truth, but beauty came from history" (1981, 45). Quotations from the past were equally the mark of architectural styles that were forged in colonial and postcolonial societies, as history became a resou…
The Historian as Film Maker
This article is a historian's reflection on the contradictions presented by the gradual erasure and reinterpretation of historical memory as a result of drastically-changed contemporary circumstances. These contradictions became most evident when the author embarked upon the production of a historical film based on her research for a book on the labour history of Old Mysore. The work culture and political traditions of gold-mining labourers, expl…
Tipu Sultan, History Painting and the Battle for ‘Perspective’
The military defeat and death of Tipu Sultan in the Fourth Mysore War (1799) paved the way for the establishment of British rule over most parts of India. This event may also be considered a turning point in the history of visual practices in India. The British struggle to defeat this indomit-able enemy on the battlefield was re-enacted within the realm of the visual. This essay examines the question of whether colonial rule signalled the arrival…
Beyond exceptionalism
Despite many institutional restraints, several independent strands of research on south Indian history have developed and flourished in ways that significantly revise older and influential historiographical formulations. This article explores the ways in which historians of the geographical south have made productive use of the 'incommensurability' of geography and history. To begin with, I briefly sketch some of the historical and historiographi…
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography
The Lateral Spread of Indian Feminist Historiography Janaki Nair (bio) Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert. Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces, Unheard Voices, 1930–1942 (Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 304 pp. ISBN 81-7829-546-6 (pb). Badri Narayan. Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Cultural Subordination and the Dalit Challenge, Volume 5) (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006), 186 pp. ISBN 10:…
Beyond nationalism
The long hold of the idea that ‘India is the land of villages’ on the imaginations of politicians, policy makers and scholars alike was a result not just of the numerical preponderance of the village, but because it represented the space of an organic, unsullied authenticity. Needless to say, in many accounts, well into the late twentieth century, the authenticity was only made possible by relinquishing a claim to the turbulence of history, and i…
Building Bangalore
JOHN STALLMEYER. Building Bangalore: Architecture and Urban Transformation in India's Silicon Valley . London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xx, 137 pp. £85.00, hardcover. The first industrial revo
Mysore's Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition's Imagined Economies
Most scholarly works on exhibitionary practices of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have focused on the meaning and importance of display, and the cultural bases, and indeed biases, that supported various inclusions and exclusions. The exhibition has usually formed part of a larger narrative of new rituals that were enacted in the modern period to serve, variously, imperial, market or patriotic objectives. Can the persistence with which the…
Textbook Controversies and the Demand for a Past
This article has arisen out of a growing sense of disquiet about the relatively unexamined gulf between the practice of academic history – in universities, journals and conferences, scholarly publications, and largely in English – and the thriving production of histories which arise out of a demand for a past in community, regional, or caste forums, usually in several Indian languages. Although this gulf is as old as the development and instituti…
Erika Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire
Seeing like the Missionary
Missionaries working in Mysore, as elsewhere in India, took enthusiastically to the new art of photography from the 1840s, to record their ‘views’ of the society they undertook to transform. Evangelising was, however, early on, allied with education as a way for missionaries to make their way into a complex, hierarchical society with learning traditions of its own. How did the missionary ‘see’ the Indian classroom, and invite the viewer of their …
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’
Academic histories in contemporary India compete with a host of other ‘regimes of historicity’ as the stakes in writing/rewriting the past have increased enormously. Most disputes over the interpretation of history are moreover increasingly taking place in courtrooms rather than classrooms, on streets and in public spaces rather than in the safer environs of the research carrel or seminar room. More important, many contending histories do not nec…
Modernity and ‘publicness’
Fin de siècle Mysore witnessed the gathering force of interminable rivalries of prestige between mathas (monastic institutions). Contests over the types and number of honours enjoyed by travelling gurus in Mysore became frequent, reaching a crescendo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By this time, the contests were also being adjudicated in courts, as the Mysore administration began to exert greater bureaucratic control over t…
An Inheritance of Loss
In 1845, the banker Damodar Dass of Srirangapatna loaned a large sum of money to Maharaja Krishnaraja Wodeyar III of Mysore. For the next seven decades, until the unpaid debt was turned into public charity, the multiple claims of Damodar Dass's heirs to this inheritance led the colonial state and the Mysore government (especially after 1881) to form a substantial archive. Occupying the foreground of this archive were the legal dilemmas posed by t…
Monarchical modern’
The unique status of the city of Mysore arose from the fact that it was divested of all administrative functions save that of the Palace establishment. Principles of city planning were innovatively pursued, through a combination of sovereign authority and diverse forces, techniques and devices more properly associated with ‘governmentality’. It was among the first cities in India to have a City Improvement Trust in 1903. An investigation of the w…
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