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Power and the Politics of a Hindu Upper Caste in Colonial Goa (1740–1961)

The relationship between the Gaud Saraswat Brahmins and the Portuguese state has not drawn much scholarly attention. This paper examines the transformation of the numerically marginal, yet most highly placed GSBs in the Portuguese Goa. It focuses on the amicable and conflictive strategies of the community with the Portuguese imperial agents, the colonisers of Portuguese origin ....

United Kingdom , New Delhi , United States , Tamil Nadu , Nova Goa , Portuguese Republic , Purogami Prakashan , Miguel Lamartine Prazeres , Shankaracharya Bharat , Walter Rossa , Catholic Orientalism , Prantatil Todkyat Mahiti , Sarvajanik Sabha , Gomantak Suddhicha Itihas , Catholic Gaudes , Pragatic Sangh , Vaman Varde , Gomantak Chapkhana , Tatyaji Sitaram Patkar , Catholic Goans , Antarang Prakashan , Gaud Saraswat Brahmins Gsbs , Lopes Mendes , Telgumitra Chapkhana , Gsbs Saldanha , Dayanand Bandodkar ,

Right to the City : The Street Vendors Act of 2014 and the Collective Struggles of Women Vendors

This paper provides a historical analysis of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 and the subsequent amendment in 2016. It highlights the relationship between the struggles for the right to livelihood, urban spatial governance, and legislative intervention. The legislation fails to address the conditions created by urban and ....

New York , United States , Andhra Pradesh , United Kingdom , New Delhi , Nairobi Area , West Bengal , City Of , Red Fort , Uttar Pradesh , Old Delhi , Addis Ababa , Ursula Rao , Osman Balaban , Caroline Skinner , Talpade Chandra , Harbind Singh , Magail Dreyfus , Sodhan Singh , Renana Jhabvala , Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana , Imphal Bhowmik , Lok Sabha , Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay , Herbert Baker , Swati Chattopadhyay ,

Corpo-activism : Dance and Activist Labour in the Work of Komal Gandhar, Kolkata

This paper considers the dance and activist labour of a group of cis- and transgendered performers who lobby for the decrimininalisation of sex work in India. Known as Komal Gandhar, the group operate out of Sonagachi, Kolkata and are the cultural wing of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a collective of over 65,000 sex workers. Based on in-depth interviews with Komal ....

New York , United States , Ann Arbor , United Kingdom , New Delhi , West Bengal , City Of , Noord Holland , Rabindra Bharati University , Gauhar Jan , Urmimala Sarkar , Jo Doezema , Urmimala Sarkar Munsi , Aakash Saha , Pallabi Chakravorty , Susan Leigh Foster , Loknath Bhattacharya , Saha Bhattacharya , Swasthya Bhawan , Alokananda Roy , Susan Foster , Shohini Ghosh , Tanjila Khatoun , Taksim Square , Sameena Dalwai , Uday Shankar ,