I showcase here textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The repository gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics. I have a growing interest in text analysis and the study of populist speeches. Content is open access.
§︎ Research foci
• Youth activism as political self-fashioning
• Political archives and the pamphleteers
• Populist style as political representation
• Political intermediaries, elites and subalterns
• Ethnography of political ambition in India
• Text analysis, speeches and lifeworlds
§︎ Contents
• Publications: articles · preprints · op-eds
• Collaborations: ceri · iiit-d · icas-mp
• Datasets: parcha · dips
• Curation: memories of change
• Syllabi: sciences po · king's · cemis
• Code: r · python
• Photography: fieldword photos
• E-library: nonfiction
This event organised in Jawaharlal Nehru University campus recounts the engagement of JNU students with gender and feminist issues since the inception of the university. The list of speakers is as follows…
Mithilesh Kumar is a second year Bachelor’s student at the Banaras Hindu University where he actively engages in student politics. He participated in the movement against sexual harassment on campus, demanding to make BHU…
Nivedita Menon is a feminist writer and activist. She’s currently a professor of political thought at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Gaurab Ghosh is a queer rights activist and was an active queer rights advocate during his time as a student at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. This material is exhibited as part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Dhiren Borisa is a poet, activist and urban sexual geographer who speaks on the issues of being a Dalit Queer in India. He is the first person to complete his PhD on ‘geographies of sexualities…
Kavita Krishnan is member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (CPI-ML) and serves as the General Secretary of All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA). She has been an activist a right from her…
Selected pamphlets revolving around questions of gender in campuses. This material, sorted thematically is exhibited in the form of lantern covers. They are part of the Memories of Change exhibition.
Pamphlets delving into the broad apectrum of gender issues inside and outside campus spaces. This specific selection engages with the creation, the work and the demise of the Gender Sensitization Committee against Sexual Harassment…
Selected pamphlets revolving around questions of gender in campus spaces, in particular in Jawaharlal Nerhru University. This material is exhibited in the form of a pamphlet stack in the Memories of Change exhibition.
Indrani Mazumdar is currently a researcher at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies. He shares her experience of being a student at JNU for her Bachelors and participating as a student protester against the Emergency of 1975-77.