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Dr Arunima Bhattacharya's Outputs (7)

Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhattacharya, A. (2024, July). Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India. Presented at ICAS 13 (international Convention of Asia Scholars), Surabaya, Indonesia

This paper explores the cultural and spiritual significance of alpona and kolam in eastern and southern India. Both these forms are rooted in local folk-art traditions (Mitter 2008) that connect socio-economic contexts and community life with seasona... Read More about Alpona and Kolam as thresholds in the cultural ecology of India.

Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, A. (2024). Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing. Postcolonial Text, Vol 19(1 & 2),

This chapter explores how Shubhangi Swarup’s novel Latitudes of Longing (2018) breaks out of the developmental narrative of nation-time into an exploration of the impressions of deep time in which events impact human consciousness on a planetary scal... Read More about Beyond the Developmental Narrative of Postcolonial Nation-Time: The Materialities of Water and Geological Faultlines in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing.

Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharya, A., Cháirez-Garza, J., & Gould, W. (2024). Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 47(1), 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2326755

This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in India. In particular, the special section is interes... Read More about Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia.

Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhattacharya, A. (2023, June). Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands. Paper presented at The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference 2023: Imagining Environmental Justice in a Postcolonial World, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

This paper will read two novels, Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2018), and Glorious Boy (2020) by Aimee Liu, narratives set in the Andaman Islands, on the Bay of Bengal. It discusses how the novels play off the anthropological scientific do... Read More about Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands.

Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks (2022)
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, A. (2023). Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks. In A. Bhattacharya, R. Hibbitt, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century (31-60). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13060-1_2

This chapter explores the specific subgenre of the ‘Calcutta Handbooks’, reading their representation of mid-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century Calcutta, the capital of British India till 1911, as an attempt to produce the historical significance... Read More about Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks.