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Incorporating people's will in governance (2022)
Journal Article
Venkat, V. (2022). Incorporating people's will in governance. Seminar (New Delhi.1959), 756, 29-34

In this essay, I use archival research to demonstrate how the framing of the Right To Information Act, 2005 was an expression of "people's will". The essay traces the formative phase of the right to information movement in Rajasthan and New Delhi.

Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public (2021)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2022). Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public. Popular Communication, 20(1), 42-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529

The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus,... Read More about Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public.

Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas (2020)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2020). Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas. In S. Pankova, & S. J. Simpson (Eds.), Masters of the Steppe: the Impact of the Scythians and Later Nomad Societies of Eurasia. Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum, 27-29 October 2017 (639-649). Archaeopress

At the easternmost edge of the Iranic world, settled rather than saddled Scythians ran the kingdom of Khotan as Iranian-speaking Buddhists who traded and tussled with their T’ang and Tibetan neighbours. Straddling the Sino-Tibetan and Irano-Indic oec... Read More about Settled rather than saddled Scythians: the easternmost Sakas.

Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay (2020)
Journal Article
Tejani, S. (2021). Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay. Urban History, 48(3), 572-589. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000565

Urban expansion in the early twentieth century had a profound impact on India's urban land economies. Historians argue that in this period, urban India went through an increasing marketization of land and that improvement trusts had a significant han... Read More about Disputing ‘market value’: the Bombay Improvement Trust and the reshaping of a speculative land market in early twentieth-century Bombay.

Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution? (2020)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2020). Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?. Conflict, Security & Development, 20(3), 379-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1771848

Two significant institutional developments occurred in the aftermath of the major earthquakes that struck Nepal in 2015: a new national constitution was drafted and promulgated and a National Reconstruction Authority was established. The constitution... Read More about Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?.

Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu. The Journal of Asian studies, 78(3), 549-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000172

On 25 April 2015 central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which killed over 9000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth century minaret which collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepali... Read More about Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu.

Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres' (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'. South East Asia Research, 27(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587925

This piece reflects on the decline of Area Studies in the Euro- American academy. Although it is sometimes presented and discussed as if it were a discipline, the paper argues that it may be easier to chart an afterlife for Area Studies if we conceiv... Read More about Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.

Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism (2018)
Book
Dey, A. (2018). A. Karatzogianni (Ed.), Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-529-820181009

This title centres around digital gender activism focusing on the implications that the phenomenon of online gender activism has for politics, society, culture and gender relations/dynamics. On December 16th, 2012, Jyoti Singh, a female psychotherapy... Read More about Nirbhaya, New Media and Digital Gender Activism.

Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa (2018)
Book
Thakur, V., Mallavarapu, S., Muppidi, H., & Duvall, R. (2018). Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199479641.001.0001

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decoloniszation, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. This book analyses the foreign policy ideas, identity, and institu... Read More about Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa.

Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography (2018)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation