The Dissertation titled "Negotiating Informality: Changing Faces of Kolkata's Footpaths, 1975-2005" understands city-making and urbanism in the postcolonial world. It develops a set of techniques to study the unfolding of the state on the street. The street margins are of particular importance...

The history of mass political formation in postcolonial metropolitan India has generally been narrated through the optic of ‘competitive electoral mobilisation’ of the poor. How then are we to explain cases of successful mobilisation in the terrain of ‘political society’ when the poor do...

In the last two decades or more, critical scholarship in the human sciences has been commenting on different aspects of the \'archive\'. While much has been said on the archive of the state, especially in the historiography of colonial South Asia, very little is known about the archival...