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Mazumdar, Madhumita

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Madhumita Mazumdar

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079-68261562

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Social and Cultural History Science, Technology and Design, History of Modernity and Developmental Practice in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, Economic and Social History of Gujarat

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Prof. Madhumita Mazumdar is a senior faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She teaches courses in the BTech, MDes ( CD) and PhD programmes. Prof. Mazumdar holds a doctorate in History from the University of Calcutta. Her research interests are in social and cultural histories of Science, Technology and Design. She also does collaborative research with Prof. Vishvajit Pandya in colonial and post- colonial histories of the Andaman Islands. She is co- author of the book titled, "New Histories of the Andaman Islands

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    New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790 - 2012
    (Cambridge University Press, 2016-01-01) Clare, Anderson; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Pandya, Vishvajit
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    Negotiating Gandhi—The Life and Experiences of Acharya P.C. Ray
    (Sage, 01-01-2012) Mazumdar, Madhumita; DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
    This article takes a close look at Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray�s engagement with Gandhi�s political and economic thought. It calls for a nuanced reading of Ray�s autobiography as a text that reveals the ways in which he sought to negotiate the key ideas of the Hind Swaraj and situate its fundamental premises in his own intellectual and professional quests. Published in two volumes in the years 1931�32, the Life and Experiences of a Bengali Chemist offers a wealth of insights into Ray�s understanding of the contemporary crisis of Western capitalism and the immense possibilities of a Gandhian resolution.
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    Reflecting on Chemical Education: Nilratan Dhar andthe Legacy of P C Ray
    (Indian Journal of History of Science, 2018) Mazumdar, Madhumita; DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
    This paper takes a close look at the chemist Nilratan Dhar's memoirs published as Reflections on Chemical Education in 1974 and tries to understand how Dhar's renditions of his life and career bore the imprints of his teacher and mentor Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray. It argues that Dhar drew upon Ray's historicizing impulse to tell us not only a story of his own life but also a larger history of chemical research under colonial conditions on the one hand and the Great Wars on the other.
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    Disruptive transactions: The complex configurations of sharing and the vulnerability of life in the Jarawa Reserve forest in the Andaman Islands
    (Hunter, 01-04-2019) Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, Madhumita; DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
    The murder of a mixed-race child in the Jarawa reserve territory of the Andaman Islands made headlines in the global media in March 2016. What caught the interest was the murder of the child, allegedly by a Jarawa man in collusion with an outsider, and the ethical and legal conundrum it purportedly posed to Indian state authorities. The murder of the child was in fact carried out at the behest of an outsider, a poacher in the forest who was apparently the father of the child and known to have been involved in multiple sexual relationships with a particular group of Jarawa women who formed a sorority and lived at the fringes of the reserve�s forest. Without the protective structures of a family, this sorority has forged alliances among themselves and consequently remained in an ambivalent relationship to the community, often facing overt restraints on their rights to participate in the practices of �sharing� within the community. The women�s proximity to outsiders and their participation in an alternative exchange economy with poachers and settlers is a mode of survival. This paper focuses on the precarious existence of this group of Jarawa women in the Andaman Islands, reflecting on the contingent and gendered configurations of sharing, non-sharing and transactional practices that have emerged in the context of the Jarawa community�s contact with the outsiders, their confinement in a territory close to non-tribal settlements, and their inclusion in a welfare system that erodes their values of sharing in deeply disruptive ways.
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    Making sense of the andaman islanders: Reflections on a new conjuncture
    (03-11-2012) Mazumdar, Madhumita; Pandya, Vishvajit; DA-IICT, Gandhinagar