Papers by arundhati virmani
Social Responsibility of the Historian. The Annales’ Agenda in Perspective
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Sep 1, 2017
L'Inde, une puissance en mutation
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1963 : E.P. Thompson restitue leur expérience aux classes populaires
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017
« Up up with the Indian Flag, Down down with the Union Jack ! ». Le drapeau indien et le ralliement à la nation, 1930-1931
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Les usages de la coutume: traditions et résistances populaires en Angleterre : XVIIe-XIXe siècle
International audienceTraduction de : Customs in common. Thompson, Edward Palmer (1924-1993). Roy... more International audienceTraduction de : Customs in common. Thompson, Edward Palmer (1924-1993). Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord : London : Merlin press, 199
A National Flag for India: Rituals, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sentiment
Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How ca... more Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book a national flag for india rituals nationalism and the politics of sentiment with a foreword. It is so usual with the printed books. However, many people sometimes have no space to bring the book for them; this is why they can't read the book wherever they want.
Population (English Edition, 2002-), 2002
Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined... more Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Population (English Edition, 2002-), 2002
Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined... more Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Electronic distribution Cairn.info for Ined Editions. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Depicting the British abroad: Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) in Tuscany and in India
Firenze University Press, 2018
Scrittura e memoria delle donne : archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne "Alessa... more Scrittura e memoria delle donne : archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne "Alessandra Contini Bonacossi"International audienc
Cosa deve essere commemorato ? Usi e abusi nella politica della memoria in India (XX-XXI secolo)
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Mapping Indian History : Challenges and Issues
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Europeanized saris: The aesthetics of clothing in women’s political activism in colonial India, 1890’s-1920’s [Pré-publication. Document de travail. Version audio]
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Inria, Dec 1, 2012
Communication enregistrée lors du colloque international "Femmes et genre en contexte coloni... more Communication enregistrée lors du colloque international "Femmes et genre en contexte colonial, XIXe-XXe siècles" qui s'est tenu à Paris du 19 au 21 janvier 2012. Cet article explore le cas des quelques femmes européennes qui, à leur arrivée en Inde (1890-1920), ont abandonné la robe occidentale conventionnelle pour un costume dont les éléments reflétaient un remaniement d'éléments empruntés à la culture indienne. Des femmes comme Margaret Noble, Annie Besant ou Madeleine Slade, bien connues pour leur activisme politique et leurs sympathies pour la cause indienne, ont reflété ce phénomène à différents degrés. Toutes les trois ont occupé une place centrale dans la politique nationaliste à partir du début du 20e siècle. Leur choix de vêtements a été entièrement ignoré jusqu'à aujourd'hui, bien qu'il ne soit ni superficiel ni anecdotique, d'autant plus qu'ils étaient des acteurs de premier plan dans la sphère publique.This paper explores the case of the few European women who on their arrival in India (1890s-1920s) abandoned the conventional Western dress for a costume whose elements reflected a reworking of elements borrowed from Indian culture. Women like Margaret Noble, Annie Besant or Madeleine Slade, well known for their political activism and sympathies for the Indian cause mirrored this phenomenon in different degrees. All three occupied a central place in nationalist politics from the beginning of the 20th century onward. Their choice of clothing has been entirely ignored till today although it is neither superficial nor anecdotal, particularly as they were prominent actors in the public sphere. And clothing practices, particularly in the colonial context represent an important stake, both for the British authorities and for the Indians. I will begin by examining these transformations from a subjective and an ethno-historical perspective: when and in what circumstances were these changes made? Can these changes in attire be attributed simply to personal taste or sometimes eccentric choices, a fashion statement at best, largely irrelevant to the conflicts between colonizer and colonized and the exercise of power? Are we instead to understand them as a form disguise or a kind of mimicry to be understood as “ethnomasquerade” (Kader Konuk, 2004)? How was their external appearance viewed by a colonial government, whose anxiety about maintaining distinctions between rulers and governed after 1857 made clothing conventions and colours favoured by the British community in India an imperative of imperial policy? On the other hand, how was it received by Indians, for whom clothes and colours were strong indicators of social roles and status, particularly codified for women? The paper analyzes such instances of behaviour as a specific form of intervention available to European women in a colonial situation. It investigates the impact of these practices particularly for Indian women at a moment when the latter’s position was a sensitive and emotive issue in nationalist politics
Entre crime et droit individuel : « The right to die », une réhabilitation du suicide en Inde
Postcolonialisme et droit : perspectives épistémologiques, 2020
Identité religieuse et appartenance nationale. Hindous et musulmans en Inde au lendemain d’Ayodhya (1984-1992)
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La Madre India nuda, un affare di Stato nazionale
PASSATO E PRESENTE, 2009
- In February 2006, a painting, representing a map of India in the form of a naked woman, entitle... more - In February 2006, a painting, representing a map of India in the form of a naked woman, entitled "Nude Bharatmata" (Nude Mother India) by Maqbool Fida Husain, appeared in an Indian magazine in English «India Today». A national affair: Nude Bharatmata 2006 analyses reactions in India and abroad, examines the Husain affair in the light of the longue durée of national iconography and highlights the coexistence of different, even conflictual expectations from national representations as India goes "global". Keywords: India, National identity, Iconography, History. Parole chiave: India, Identitŕ nazionale, Iconografia, Storia.
Inventing a Cartographical Image for Postcolonial India: European Models and the Politics of National Identity
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2018
In 1953, the government of independent India sponsored the production of a national atlas written... more In 1953, the government of independent India sponsored the production of a national atlas written in the new national language, Hindi, under the direction of the geographer S. P. Chatterjee at Calcutta University. To what extent did the Atlas reconcile nationalist sentiments of the 1950s with a determination to break away from the colonial frame with its dominant scientific practices? From this perspective, a study of the first National Atlas elucidates the connections and circulations of intellectual ideas, technologies and practices in a heightened nationalist context. For the Indian state, it represented a tool for national pedagogy through the production of specific images of the country’s physical, economic and social features. A detailed analysis of the stages of production, the final choices of data, format, language and scale show how broader scientific exchanges could take place within the new constraints of state goals of development and a bureaucratic framework of action....
Les voies de la polyphonie
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Aesthetics of sacrifice in Indian political culture, twentieth to twenty-first centuries
This chapter explains the author's analysis to look into the life and art of May Stevens, an ... more This chapter explains the author's analysis to look into the life and art of May Stevens, an American working-class artist, feminist and committed political activist. The discussion draws on a French philosopher Jacques Ranciere's analyses of the politics of aesthetics and particularly his notion of the distribution of the sensible and will unfold in three sections. She particularly interested in how Stevens's artwork is inextricably interwoven with her politics, constituting as she will argue an assemblage of artpolitics. It is thus in this artpolitics assemblage that she have mapped Stevens's early work, Freedom Riders and the Big Daddy Series, two phases in her work, which expressed her involvement in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam war protests, but they were also autobiographically driven. She will come back to the Arendtian elements of Stevens's work later on in the discussion of the Ordinary Extraordinary series.
Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
Experiencing the urban through the prism of fiction and cinema in postcolonial India
Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments, 2021
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