Milinda Banerjee
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3696590 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Milinda Banerjee |
| PRENOMES | Milinda |
| SOBRENOME | Banerjee |
| ASSINATURA | BANERJEE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7657-5626 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Towards a Theory of Multispecies Production, Exchange, and Class Struggle
Peer reviewed
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial State and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947–1950
The British Raj formally ended on 15 August 1947. In the years following the bifurcation of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, between 11 and 18 million people migrated to escape sectarian pogroms at the hands of the majority population. By 1950, many South Asian – specifically Bengali – refugees were radically critiquing decolonization. Theorizing from their experiences of proletarianization, East Bengali refug…
Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
Ranajit Guha
Unity of Being Against State and Capital
Peer reviewed
Sacred Kingship in World History
Journal Article Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern Get access Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 344pp. $40.00 paper. Milinda Banerjee Milinda Banerjee University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by…
“There is Grief, There is Death … ”
Political Theology and Democracy
853051 for a project on ’India’s politics in its vernaculars’
Partition as Oedipal Tragedy A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee
Partition and/as Political Theology
Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s
When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee…
The Partition of India, Bengali “New Jews,” and Refugee Democracy
This essay advocates “refugee political thought” as an autonomous category which needs to be centre-staged in global intellectual history. I concretise this by studying Bengali Hindu refugees who migrated from Muslim-majority eastern Bengal (after the Partition of British India in 1947 part of Pakistan, and after 1971, the sovereign state of Bangladesh) to the Hindu-majority Indian state of West Bengal, and occasionally their descendants as well.…
The Modern Invention of ‘Dynasty’
Historians tend to take ‘dynasty’ for granted. It is assumed that ‘we’ know what ‘dynasty’ is; and that the concept unproblematically corresponds to the empirical reality of a historical institution present in all ‘pre-modern’ rulerships. Taking as its point of departure the peculiar history of the word itself, which acquired its current meaning only in the second half of the eighteenth century, this article sets out a research agenda for histori…
How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept
The modern concept of ‘dynasty’ is a politically-motivated modern intellectual invention. For many advocates of a strong sovereign nation-state across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in France, Germany, and Japan, the concept helped in visualizing the nation-state as a primordial entity sealed by the continuity of birth and blood, indeed by the perpetuity of sovereignty. Hegel’s references to ‘dynasty’, read with Marx’s critique, furt…
Mortal God
‘One has to Rule Oneself’
This chapter focuses on ‘peasant’ (including ‘tribal’) communities in twentieth-century India. They occupied ambiguous and shifting positions in ‘caste’ (varna-jati) hierarchies, and one of the ways in which their politics can be conceptualised is through the prism of ‘caste’ politics. I focus particularly on those peasant groups which claimed a ‘royal’ origin, describing themselves as belonging to the Kshatriya varna and as descendants and kinsm…
Forum
In recent years, there has been a deepening convergence between scholarship on global intellectual history and on legal history. To take just one example, a recent book on international law, by Arnulf Becker Lorca (2014), carries “global intellectual history” in its subtitle—a stance related to the author's emphasis on the constitutive role in the field of non-European legal actors. A sustained reflection on the convergence between legal studies …
Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel
How may one imagine the global travel of legal concepts, thinking through models of diffusion and translation, as well as through obstruction, negation, and dialectical transfiguration? This article offers some reflections by interrogating discourses (intertextually woven with Sanskritic invocations) produced by three celebrated Bengalis: the nationalist littérateur Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94), the Rajavamshi “lower-caste” peasant leade…
Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'
Ocular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership and Political Communication
This chapter focuses on the visits to India, and especially to Bengal, of three successive Princes of Wales across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows how many British actors, cutting across political-ideological divides, suggested that Indians, on seeing the princes, would automatically give them their loyalty, thereby binding ruler and ruled in ties of visual pleasure and affection. The chapter uses the twin concepts of …
"All This is Indeed Brahman" Rammohun Roy and a 'Global' History of the Rights-Bearing Self
This essay interrogates the category of the 'global' in the emerging domain of 'global intellectual history'. Through a case study of the Indian social-religious reformer Rammohun Roy (1772/4-1833), I argue that notions of global selfhood and rights-consciousness (which have been preoccupying concerns of recent debates in intellectual history) have multiple conceptual and practical points of origin. Thus in early colonial India a person like Ramm…
The Modern Invention of ‘Dynasty’
Historians tend to take ‘dynasty’ for granted. It is assumed that ‘we’ know what ‘dynasty’ is; and that the concept unproblematically corresponds to the empirical reality of a historical institution present in all ‘pre-modern’ rulerships. Taking as its point of departure the peculiar history of the word itself, which acquired its current meaning only in the second half of the eighteenth century, this article sets out a research agenda for histori…
The Partition of India, Bengali “New Jews,” and Refugee Democracy
This essay advocates “refugee political thought” as an autonomous category which needs to be centre-staged in global intellectual history. I concretise this by studying Bengali Hindu refugees who migrated from Muslim-majority eastern Bengal (after the Partition of British India in 1947 part of Pakistan, and after 1971, the sovereign state of Bangladesh) to the Hindu-majority Indian state of West Bengal, and occasionally their descendants as well.…
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Ranajit Guha
How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept
The modern concept of ‘dynasty’ is a politically-motivated modern intellectual invention. For many advocates of a strong sovereign nation-state across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in France, Germany, and Japan, the concept helped in visualizing the nation-state as a primordial entity sealed by the continuity of birth and blood, indeed by the perpetuity of sovereignty. Hegel’s references to ‘dynasty’, read with Marx’s critique, furt…
Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel
How may one imagine the global travel of legal concepts, thinking through models of diffusion and translation, as well as through obstruction, negation, and dialectical transfiguration? This article offers some reflections by interrogating discourses (intertextually woven with Sanskritic invocations) produced by three celebrated Bengalis: the nationalist littérateur Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94), the Rajavamshi “lower-caste” peasant leade…
"All This is Indeed Brahman" Rammohun Roy and a 'Global' History of the Rights-Bearing Self
This essay interrogates the category of the 'global' in the emerging domain of 'global intellectual history'. Through a case study of the Indian social-religious reformer Rammohun Roy (1772/4-1833), I argue that notions of global selfhood and rights-consciousness (which have been preoccupying concerns of recent debates in intellectual history) have multiple conceptual and practical points of origin. Thus in early colonial India a person like Ramm…
"All This is Indeed Brahman" Rammohun Roy and a 'Global' History of the Rights-Bearing Self
This essay interrogates the category of the 'global' in the emerging domain of 'global intellectual history'. Through a case study of the Indian social-religious reformer Rammohun Roy (1772/4-1833), I argue that notions of global selfhood and rights-consciousness (which have been preoccupying concerns of recent debates in intellectual history) have multiple conceptual and practical points of origin. Thus in early colonial India a person like Ramm…
Ocular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership and Political Communication
This chapter focuses on the visits to India, and especially to Bengal, of three successive Princes of Wales across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows how many British actors, cutting across political-ideological divides, suggested that Indians, on seeing the princes, would automatically give them their loyalty, thereby binding ruler and ruled in ties of visual pleasure and affection. The chapter uses the twin concepts of …
Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'
Mortal God
‘One has to Rule Oneself’
This chapter focuses on ‘peasant’ (including ‘tribal’) communities in twentieth-century India. They occupied ambiguous and shifting positions in ‘caste’ (varna-jati) hierarchies, and one of the ways in which their politics can be conceptualised is through the prism of ‘caste’ politics. I focus particularly on those peasant groups which claimed a ‘royal’ origin, describing themselves as belonging to the Kshatriya varna and as descendants and kinsm…
Forum
In recent years, there has been a deepening convergence between scholarship on global intellectual history and on legal history. To take just one example, a recent book on international law, by Arnulf Becker Lorca (2014), carries “global intellectual history” in its subtitle—a stance related to the author's emphasis on the constitutive role in the field of non-European legal actors. A sustained reflection on the convergence between legal studies …
Sovereignty as a Motor of Global Conceptual Travel
How may one imagine the global travel of legal concepts, thinking through models of diffusion and translation, as well as through obstruction, negation, and dialectical transfiguration? This article offers some reflections by interrogating discourses (intertextually woven with Sanskritic invocations) produced by three celebrated Bengalis: the nationalist littérateur Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94), the Rajavamshi “lower-caste” peasant leade…
The Modern Invention of ‘Dynasty’
Historians tend to take ‘dynasty’ for granted. It is assumed that ‘we’ know what ‘dynasty’ is; and that the concept unproblematically corresponds to the empirical reality of a historical institution present in all ‘pre-modern’ rulerships. Taking as its point of departure the peculiar history of the word itself, which acquired its current meaning only in the second half of the eighteenth century, this article sets out a research agenda for histori…
How ‘Dynasty’ Became a Modern Global Concept
The modern concept of ‘dynasty’ is a politically-motivated modern intellectual invention. For many advocates of a strong sovereign nation-state across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, in France, Germany, and Japan, the concept helped in visualizing the nation-state as a primordial entity sealed by the continuity of birth and blood, indeed by the perpetuity of sovereignty. Hegel’s references to ‘dynasty’, read with Marx’s critique, furt…
“There is Grief, There is Death … ”
Political Theology and Democracy
853051 for a project on ’India’s politics in its vernaculars’
Partition as Oedipal Tragedy A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee
Partition and/as Political Theology
Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement in the Long 1940s
When considering the wave of forced migrations during the Second World War in Europe and Asia, and the international and institutional responses thereof, we can speak about the 1940s as witnessing the birth of a global refugee resettlement regime. Organisations including the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the International Refugee Organization (IRO), and eventually the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee…
The Partition of India, Bengali “New Jews,” and Refugee Democracy
This essay advocates “refugee political thought” as an autonomous category which needs to be centre-staged in global intellectual history. I concretise this by studying Bengali Hindu refugees who migrated from Muslim-majority eastern Bengal (after the Partition of British India in 1947 part of Pakistan, and after 1971, the sovereign state of Bangladesh) to the Hindu-majority Indian state of West Bengal, and occasionally their descendants as well.…
Unity of Being Against State and Capital
Peer reviewed
Sacred Kingship in World History
Journal Article Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern Get access Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 344pp. $40.00 paper. Milinda Banerjee Milinda Banerjee University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by…
Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
Ranajit Guha
Towards a Theory of Multispecies Production, Exchange, and Class Struggle
Peer reviewed
The Refugee Political in the Age of Imperial Crisis, Decolonization, and Cold War, 1930s–1950s
The three decades spanning the 1930s, '40s, and '50s witnessed the birth of the modern global state system, characterized by a protracted and tortuous transition from a world of empires to a world of nation-states. The demise of Nazi, British, and Japanese empires emancipated millions of people across the world. However, as old empires dissolved, new post-imperial states continued older colonial-origin forms of ethno-religious discrimination and …
Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial State and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947–1950
The British Raj formally ended on 15 August 1947. In the years following the bifurcation of British India into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan, between 11 and 18 million people migrated to escape sectarian pogroms at the hands of the majority population. By 1950, many South Asian – specifically Bengali – refugees were radically critiquing decolonization. Theorizing from their experiences of proletarianization, East Bengali refug…
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