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Uday Chandra
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 22
Citations - 300
Uday Chandra is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Subaltern. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications receiving 247 citations. Previous affiliations of Uday Chandra include Georgetown University.
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Rethinking Subaltern Resistance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that resistance can be reconceptualised as the negotiation rather than negation of social power, which helps us understand and critique existing structures of social domination in order to pursue emancipatory goals.
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Liberalism and its other: The politics of primitivism in colonial and postcolonial Indian law
TL;DR: Banerjee et al. as discussed by the authors studied the legal trajectory of "primitivism" in India from the construction of so-called tribal areas in the 1870s to legal debates and official reports on tribal rights in contemporary India.
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Beyond subalternity: Land, community, and the state in contemporary Jharkhand
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand and explore the tropes and strategies by which the contradictory mechanisms and meanings of modern state power have been reworked and resisted in two apparently opposed moments of resistance: the 'peaceful' Koel-Karo anti-dam movement of the 1980s and the ongoing 'violent' Maoist movement.
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Introduction. Selves and Society in Postcolonial India
Uday Chandra,Atreyee Majumder +1 more
TL;DR: On 16 December 2012, a twenty-three year old physiotherapist was gangraped in Munirka, New Delhi by six men in a bus and 13 days later, she passed away in Singapore, having suffered serious brain and gastrointestinal injuries as discussed by the authors.
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The Case for a Postcolonial Approach to the Study of Politics
TL;DR: The case for a postcolonial approach to the study of politics is thus stronger than ever before as mentioned in this paper, which calls for a sustained engagement with specific non-Western contexts as well as an openness to anthropological, historical, and area studies knowledge about them.