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To Survive or to Flourish? Minority Rights and Syrian Christian Community Assertion in 20th Century Travancore/Kerela

This paper will focus on different instances of community assertions by the Syrian Christians in twentieth century Travancore/Kerala. [Working Paper 427]

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Family Planning as ‘Liberation’: The Ambiguities of ‘Emancipation From Biology’ in Keralam

The overall effort of the paper is to highlight the ambiguities of ‘liberation’ in 20th century Keralam and to problematise the tradition/modernity binary that too often organises the writing of th...

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Book Review: Sex Work and Feminist Discourse

Review of: Prostitution and Beyond: An Analysis of Sex Work in India Rohini Sahni, V. Kalyan Shankar, and Hemant Apte (edited) Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2008.

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‘A People United In Development’: Developmentalism In Modern Malayalee Identity

The attempt is to draw upon public sphere debates in Malayalee society in the immediate post-independence decades, more specifically on speech and writing accruing around the distinctiveness of Malaya...

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Modernity with Democracy?: Gender and Governance in the People's Planning Campaign, Keralam

This paper takes advantage of the possibility of a critical perspective afforded by the feminist perspective in analyzing the interactions between political and civil societies in the shaping of spe...

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