The contemporary urban in South Asia was a major focus of Sarai’s interests. Towards this end, we were committed to promoting critical research in the field, deploying varied theoretical perspectives and addressing multiple issues. In light of the fact that existing social science scholarship in the field was rather thin and theoretically unsophisticated, we felt that our intervention was both… Source
In this third year, the Student Stipendship programme was further redesigned to include to more support from senior researchers at Sarai and greater public interactivity through regular postings on the urbanstudygroup list. Students were now expected to make a minimum of 5 postings on the list, outlining not only their research question but also the process of doing research and the primary and… Source
Sangeet Chandu Thosar -Political Leadership of Women in Pune City: A Dalit Feminist study (1995-2007) Ipsita Sahu -Negotiating Boundaries: A comparative study of the Multiplex culture in the urban and the sub-urban space and the role of the multiplex in dissolving the urban and sub-urban boundary Agniv Ghosh -Nabababus and Their New Calcutta Rohit Prakash -Kalidas Rangalaya:Patna Ka Ek… Source
On the basis of experiences of the first cycle and feedbacks from the community of researchers in the first year, a need was felt, this year,for a preliminary workshop. Most researchers also expressed the necessity for intellectual support in terms of articles, lectures on theoretical frameworks, suggestions regarding fieldwork and archival works. A preliminary workshop was organised in the second… Source
This year’s subjects included engagements with dynamics of new urbanism in Pune, historical trajectories of matrimonial classifieds, Popular music and issues of regional and gendered identities urban memories and question of representations, narratives and desires, geographies of capital and labour in Trivandrum, historical construction of goondas in context of Great Calcutta Killings of 1946 and… Source