The construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Narmada Valley in western India displaced more than 30,000 families, mostly from Indigenous communities. Many of those displaced were resettled in regions that had a starkly ...

The book looks at the impact that the idea and institution of nationhood have had on the constituents of India in the contemporary postcolonial period. It provides a critical analysis through a variety of perspectives––historical, ...

Miyah Poetry stands out as one of the most popular emancipatory poetic movements in Modern India. Providing a powerful response to the humanitarian and identity crises, fuelled by the majoritarian politics in Assam, the ...

The proximity to the convergent boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates makes Gujarat, a seismically active region in India. It is divided into four earthquake zones called II, III, IV, and V, with V being the ...

Nature veneration, woven into mythology and enacted in ritual practices, is an intrinsic aspect of Hindu pilgrimage. Interviews with pilgrims and local devotees in Ayodhya, the city of Rama’s birth in Uttar Pradesh, revealed ...