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Barefoot with a 'band of criminals': Law and the social life of objects in a street magician's bag by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma, Chidambaram, Malini

“…Objects have social lives like humans and are invested with the properties of social relations. We restore performativity to the journeying objects of the…”
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Baptising Pandita Ramabai: Faith and religiosity in the nineteenth-century social reform movements of colonial India by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma, Sinha, Prithvi, Garg, Sneha

“…This essay aims to understand the role of religion in the social work of Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922). By focusing on a twenty-five-year period commencing with…”
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How to Be Indigenous in India? by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma

“…Although international law grants a distinct juristic personality to indigenous peoples, this subjecthood is premised on a hierarchical reading of ethnicity…”
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Dancing by the Juniper: Notes from the performative space of the Brokpa's cultural enactment by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma

“…This article explores the modes of form-construction in the performative sphere of the Brokpa's cultural enactment. Anthropocenic anxieties are embedded in the…”
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Exorcisms: Xenophobia, citizenship, and the spectre of Assamese nationalism by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma

“…I have received xenophobia and ethno-majoritarianism in the same nationalist legacy that ignites solidarities for collective subversion. Here, I explore my…”
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Barefoot with a 'band of criminals': Law and the social life of objects in a street magician's bag by Dikshit Sarma Bhagabati, Malini Chidambaram

“…Objects have social lives like humans and are invested with the properties of social relations. We restore performativity to the journeying objects of the…”
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Obscene or artistic? The poetics and politics of the obscenity law in Indian art and literature by Bhagabati, Dikshit Sarma

“…Review article charts how the obscenity law has been a shaping influence across different forms of media in India, especially literature and art. By…”
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