Imaging Caste
Photography, the Housing Question and the Making of Sociology in Colonial Bombay, 1900–1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7097744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juned Shaikh (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 491-514 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2014.936579 |
| OpenAlex | W1993410683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper studies photographs of Bombay's built environment, especially Dalit and working-class houses, taken by two social scientists in the 1920s and 1930s. The photographs are situated at the intersection of four discursive temporalities: (a) social reforms initiated by Indian nationalists of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries; (b) sanitary reforms and urban restructuring undertaken by city administrators and the colonial state, which reappeared vigorously after the plague epidemic of 1896; (c) colonial knowledge production, including census, labour and housing reports that informed academic social–scientific knowledge; and (d) Dalit and working-class social movements that aspired to transgressing the limits of reform in order to re-define self and the collective, and demand the redistribution of material resources
Caste · Citizen journalism · Colonialism · Political science · Politics · Redistribution (election · Restructuring · Situated · Social class · Sociology · State (computer science · Temporalities · Working class · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |