What Do Manifestos Say about #India 's Democracy?
I am yet to properly study the manifestos of #Elections2024 . Here is my comparative analysis of manifestos of #AAP , #BJP & #Congress from 2014 #elections

Paying attention to their texts and visual symbolism, it argues that there

Photos from the post-fieldwork dinner with students for ANTH 101: Social-Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction. I took them to #Kayaşehir center, #Istanbul where they did their half-a-day long fieldwork on topics of their own choice or that of their interlocutors. The goal is to

A comparative observation!

Joram van Klaveren & The Qur’ān
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University life of Joram van Klaveren and mine began more or less at the same time in #Amsterdam , his Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ; mine at UvA Amsterdam In 2009, when I left Amsterdam to teach Monash University he was not quite

Excellent reporting!
Summary: offense packaged under the pretext of defense -- an old tactic deployed by the unjust power through most of the history.

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Finally, here is my podcast with Nous Network
I meant to share earlier but for time.

'In this episode, we delve into Professor Ahmad's critical viewpoints, including his critique of consensus-driven philosophies and their implications in global

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Alternative discourses not only have less visibility; they also lack infrastructure – or have very little. Such is the case with the discourse of the disempowered. So, this podcast I did was not in a studio but in the living room of one’s apartment, temporarily transformed into a

Such a timely & measured initiative with multiple viewpoints -- a viewpoint, after all, is a view accessed from a point, itself often submerged or rarely made transparent.

Do consider this impt initiative & intervention!

Our department's path to institute, nurture and promote a form of #Anthropology that aims to voice an alternative vision of the discipline, which includes #Sociology .

1. Talal Asad Award for the Best Graduate Thesis!
2. Al-Biruni Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis

Thanks 4 your interest in the volume I edited some years ago. At times, a book's title may not capture all that it aims to accomplish; here, the subtitle seems to do.

True, relation b/w anthropology & #ethnography is central. However, I wanted to skip the caricatured reception

Begum, a tile used by the ladies of rank during the Mughal rule, is no longer sees as a marker of prestige and often seen as archaic and boring by Urdu speakers. By contrast, Malayalam speakers from the South still hold the name as prestigious.

Glad to share this short clip, from my podcast with Nous Network . Here, I dwell on three themes: 1] Orientalism, 2] Political #Violence and 3] Partition of #India & creation of #Pakistan .
My theory of partition is different from nearly all that is written or said about it.