Interested in application of Gramsci's concepts including religion in India. Working on secularism and secularisation in India. Also, interests in Indian political thought including thoughts of Ambedkar and Lohia. Phone: +919618658353
... Ramashray Roy's paperon 'swadhyaya', an educational ex... more ... Ramashray Roy's paperon 'swadhyaya', an educational experiment in Gujarat, highlights that compatibility between in-dividual good and collective good is. ... Reshma, a bhumihar, and Chuharmal, a dalit, form the nucleus of a love story in the contem-porary tragedies inflicted by ...
I BEGINNING in the early August 1992, in a remote village of Dubagmta of Nellore district in Andh... more I BEGINNING in the early August 1992, in a remote village of Dubagmta of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh, the agitation by women protesting against arrack auc-tions and demanding ban on the sale of arrack spread to almost all districts of the state. The movement against the sale ...
The relationship of political society and civil society is simultaneously a story of the relation... more The relationship of political society and civil society is simultaneously a story of the relationship between subject and citizen. Whereas political society is about the recognition of subjecthood, civil society is about citizenship. Citizenship is embedded in the Aristotelian theme of regime formation, whereas subjecthood is embedded in the nature of the social formation. This sounds ambiguous. But ambiguities are inherent in civil society. There is a generic usage of civil society in the writings of Marx, Engels and Gramsci. But all these writers
A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsc... more A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsci's common sense (from the interwar period; 1999) with Bourdieu's habitus (1977) and Taylor's social imaginary (2004)-the two most influential postwar conceptualisations-the paper argues that the latter two conceptually enrich Gramsci's common sense. However, both say that a theoretical system penetrates the non-intellectual (pre-theoretical) world from the outside and transforms it. In contrast, Gramsci claims that a theory constantly evolves in dialogue with the cognitive activities of the ordinary. The non-intellectual is a teacher, not simply a pupil waiting for transmission of philosophy from the above.
An essay on dialogue in Kandhamal. How does dialogue seek solutions to serious conflicts in Kandh... more An essay on dialogue in Kandhamal. How does dialogue seek solutions to serious conflicts in Kandhamal?
... Ramashray Roy's paperon 'swadhyaya', an educational ex... more ... Ramashray Roy's paperon 'swadhyaya', an educational experiment in Gujarat, highlights that compatibility between in-dividual good and collective good is. ... Reshma, a bhumihar, and Chuharmal, a dalit, form the nucleus of a love story in the contem-porary tragedies inflicted by ...
I BEGINNING in the early August 1992, in a remote village of Dubagmta of Nellore district in Andh... more I BEGINNING in the early August 1992, in a remote village of Dubagmta of Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh, the agitation by women protesting against arrack auc-tions and demanding ban on the sale of arrack spread to almost all districts of the state. The movement against the sale ...
The relationship of political society and civil society is simultaneously a story of the relation... more The relationship of political society and civil society is simultaneously a story of the relationship between subject and citizen. Whereas political society is about the recognition of subjecthood, civil society is about citizenship. Citizenship is embedded in the Aristotelian theme of regime formation, whereas subjecthood is embedded in the nature of the social formation. This sounds ambiguous. But ambiguities are inherent in civil society. There is a generic usage of civil society in the writings of Marx, Engels and Gramsci. But all these writers
A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsc... more A comparative perspective of pre-theoretical consciousness is presented here. By comparing Gramsci's common sense (from the interwar period; 1999) with Bourdieu's habitus (1977) and Taylor's social imaginary (2004)-the two most influential postwar conceptualisations-the paper argues that the latter two conceptually enrich Gramsci's common sense. However, both say that a theoretical system penetrates the non-intellectual (pre-theoretical) world from the outside and transforms it. In contrast, Gramsci claims that a theory constantly evolves in dialogue with the cognitive activities of the ordinary. The non-intellectual is a teacher, not simply a pupil waiting for transmission of philosophy from the above.
An essay on dialogue in Kandhamal. How does dialogue seek solutions to serious conflicts in Kandh... more An essay on dialogue in Kandhamal. How does dialogue seek solutions to serious conflicts in Kandhamal?
Theorists of political society, while drawing inspiration from Gramsci, have reduced its import i... more Theorists of political society, while drawing inspiration from Gramsci, have reduced its import in a singular and unitary usage. This paper argues that political society has many meanings in Gramsci's political theory. Drawing on case studies from India and Nepal, this paper demonstrates how a mode of political society may depend on layered connections between the state, civil society and subaltern society.
Following his principles of immediacy, Lohia offers a critique of caste, its history and fables. ... more Following his principles of immediacy, Lohia offers a critique of caste, its history and fables. This is an enlarged version of the paper published in mySociety, 2012.
This paper argues that it is necessary to go beyond the texts produced by B R Ambedkar to examine... more This paper argues that it is necessary to go beyond the texts produced by B R Ambedkar to examine what is his theory of democracy as he belongs to what Hannah Arendt calls the intellectual tradition of vita activa rather than vita contemplativa. It is necessary to flush out ideas implicit in his practices. This paper is built around the above threads of Ambedkar’s democratic thought. Unlike Socialists, Communists and Liberals, Ambedkar charts a middle ground theory of democracy.
Secularism under Siege: Revisiting the Indian Secular State , 2016
Dialogue induced reconciliation ushers in lasting peace in a cluster of villages in Kandhamal whe... more Dialogue induced reconciliation ushers in lasting peace in a cluster of villages in Kandhamal where the 2007 violence happened in the beginning and later spread to other parts of the region.
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