How my India China Institute grant contributed to my research
By Belen Fodde, 8/23/2023. As an Argentinean doing her primary research in Argentina, it may be hard to understand how a travel and research grant [...]
Food in Bangalore
By Belen Fodde, 8/1/2023. I was very lucky to come to India with an India China Institute grant with the purpose of enriching my dissertation [...]
Encountering State Archives
By Udeepta Chakravarty, 7/8/2023. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, India During my trip, I visited the National Archives, Bihar state archives, and [...]
A Prolegomena
By Udeepta Chakravarty, 6/25/2023. The Bihar movement (1974-1975) and the Emergency (1975-1977) have been studied substantially. This period was a turning point in Indian politics [...]
Return to Tapi and the Megha Cooperative
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Above: Scenes from a wattle and daub house in Tapi district, Gujarat. I'd like to return now to the story of [...]
SEWA: An Overview
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Over the course of 7 weeks in the Summer of 2019 I took over 20,000 photos in service to SEWA. But [...]
Manjulaben – A Memorial
By Collin McClain, 09/06/2019. On a return trip back to Tapi District (post forthcoming), it came to my attention that one of the women I [...]
Kolkata’s Chinatown: Hidden in Plain Sight
By Isobel Chiang, 08/05/2019. Tiretta Bazar (pronounced colloquially as "Territy Bazar") is Kolkata's original Chinatown. As I've written before, it's a fascinating, confusing place, and [...]
Shantiniketan and Other Modernisms
By Luke McCusker, 08/06/2019. It was raining as Professor Sivakumar walked me to his house in Shantiniketan. We sat on hardwood furniture in a clean, [...]