Papers by Drishadwati Bargi (Ph. D)
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Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2016
In the following article, I have attempted to foreground the anti-caste or dalit consciousness of... more In the following article, I have attempted to foreground the anti-caste or dalit consciousness of the novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam by Adwaita Mallabarman. It is done in order to resist those readings or adaptations or interpretations of the text that have overlooked its radical content. I have looked at three aspects of the novel: the use of the folk, the question of emotionality and the relationship between spatiality and dalit identity formation. The article also delineates the kind of subject that emerges with the denouement of the novel. It is an interventionist reading of sorts that seeks to place the novel and the author in their socio-historical context. However, the essay does not engage in an anachronistic dalit critic and faults the text for the ‘absence’ of certain tropes or aesthetics that are considered to be typical of dalit writing.
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Book Review, 2023
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Response to J Daniel. Elam's World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
(Ed. by Abolfazia Ah... more Response to J Daniel. Elam's World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
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Bargi, Drishadwati. May 19, 2023. "Readers of the Impossible Present." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. Accessed date.
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Review essay , 2021
Review Essay of Cressida J. Heyes, Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge
Go... more Review Essay of Cressida J. Heyes, Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge
Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
Megan Burke, When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence
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Agitate-Unsettling Knowledge, 2021
"What is perhaps unique and exciting about Maadathy is the strong evocation of feminist politics ... more "What is perhaps unique and exciting about Maadathy is the strong evocation of feminist politics and hence a feminist lens in the presentation of Dalit lives and the unspeakable violence that determines their everyday existence. In the following review, I tease out the ways Manimekalai achieves this feat and briefly draw the consequence it has for understanding caste-based “invisible” labor.
I suggest that Manimekalai achieves this through a surprisingly simple and brilliant trick. She turns her lens into that of a devotee’s gaze, and her protagonist Yosanna into a goddess, a presiding deity who watches over men, longingly and mischievously. Strategically forfeiting the scientific lens of the secular intellectual, a lens that aims to tell everything, and show everything, Manimekalai deifies her subject and lets the audience adore her, be spellbound by her powerful and vulnerable presence."
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Dalit-Camera Through Untouchable Eyes, 2021
"Yet, this very silence, loneliness, and the self’s recoil onto itself is represented by art. Art... more "Yet, this very silence, loneliness, and the self’s recoil onto itself is represented by art. Art witnesses the collapse of solidarity, communication, and friendship that capitalist workplace mandates in the embattled lives of many Bharati Mandals in contemporary India."
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The Tyranny of Illusions, the Wager of Truth and Thought's Thinkability. Review Essay Soumyabrata Choudhury's Amedkar and Other Immortals: An Untouchable Rsearch Programme, Cultural Critique., 2022
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Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2014
My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintai... more My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintaining inequality based on caste. It will try to locate the change that has come up in the constitution of civil society with the arrival of cyberspace on the one hand and the greater visibility of Dalit identity politics on the other. Focusing on the workings of the portal called Round Table Indw and the recent debate surrounding the essay "The Doctor And The Saint" by Arundhati Roy, I shall attempt to delineate the way this debate is attempting to challenge the power-knowledge-representation nexus and also ironically moving towards a ghettoisation of the Ambedkarite struggle.
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Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2014
My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintai... more My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintaining inequality based on caste. It will try to locate the change that has come up in the constitution of civil society with the arrival of cyberspace on the one hand and the greater visibility of Dalit identity politics on the other. Focusing on the workings of the portal called Round Table Indw and the recent debate surrounding the essay "The Doctor And The Saint" by Arundhati Roy, I shall attempt to delineate the way this debate is attempting to challenge the power-knowledge-representation nexus and also ironically moving towards a ghettoisation of the Ambedkarite struggle.
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DALITISA TION OF CIVIL SOCIETY The Story of Round Table India , 2014
My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintai... more My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintaining inequality based on caste. It will try to locate the change that has come up in the constitution of civil society with the arrival of cyberspace on the one hand and the greater visibility of Dalit identity politics on the other. Focusing on the workings of the portal called Round Table Indw and the recent debate surrounding the essay "The Doctor And The Saint" by Arundhati Roy, I shall attempt to delineate the way this debate is attempting to challenge the power-knowledge-representation nexus and also ironically moving towards a ghettoisation of the Ambedkarite struggle.
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Drishadwati Bargi, 2017
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Dalitisation of Civil Society, 2014
My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintai... more My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintaining inequality based on caste. It will try to locate the change that has come up in the constitution of civil society with the arrival of cyberspace on the one hand and the greater visibility of Dalit identity politics on the other. Focusing on the workings of the portal called Round Table Indw and the recent debate surrounding the essay “The Doctor And The Saint” by Arundhati Roy, I shall attempt to delineate the way this debate is attempting to challenge the power‐knowledge‐representation nexus and also ironically moving towards a ghettoisation of the Ambedkarite struggle.
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Drishadwati Bargi, 2017
"The article revisits Nivedita Menon's article, "From Feminazi to Savarna Rape Apologist in 24 ho... more "The article revisits Nivedita Menon's article, "From Feminazi to Savarna Rape Apologist in 24 hours" in order to foreground the relevance of caste in the discourse of harassment in academic spaces. It argues that rendering caste irrelevant feeds into everyday casteism that makes the Savarna an anonymous/casteless subject and the Dalit, a bearer of caste.
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is a Graduate Student in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Universit... more is a Graduate Student in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. She is working on a dissertation on the political philosophy of B R Ambedkar. A critical take on the film, Court, with respect to the legal discourse through which it weaves its narrative of the failure of legal activism. T he film is critiqued through a particular branch of critical legal scholarship that associates the activities of the lawyer or legal activist with that of the translator or the interpreter. As activities pertaining to justice and the survival of human beings, acts of misreading and mistranslation are therefore not innocent or incidental to the legal process or legal activism. An animal can be made to suffer, but we would never say, in a sense considered proper, that it is a wronged subject, the victim of a crime, of a murder, of a rape or a theft, of a perjury-and this is true a fortiori, we think, for what we call vegetable or mineral or intermediate species like the sponge. T here have been, there are still, many "subjects" among mankind who are not recognized as subjects and who receive this animal treatment. "Force of Law" (Derrida 2002: 246) T he following article is an analysis of Chaitanya T amhane's Court, a Marathi film that documents legal violence in the city of Mumbai. T he film was released in 2014 and caught national as well as international attention for its one of a kind take on legal violence, jingoism and censorship. Much of its reception was also determined by the contemporary circulation of the accusation of sedition against Indian students from prestigious universities. My article is a critical take on the film with respect to the legal discourse through which it weaves its narratives. I argue that the film narrates the failure of legal activism and what the latter is incapable of registering. T his incapacity in effect questions a tradition of conflating violence with legal violence and directs us towards violence that cannot be conceptualised through the idiom of state violence. I rely on a particular branch of critical legal scholarship that associates the activities of the lawyer or legal activist with that of the translator or the interpreter. Within this tradition, legal activism against violence responds to legal narratives that are interpreted and translated within the frames of secular and liberal legal discourse. In other words, the legal order creates a legible order, thereby not just marking what is criminal and what is innocent but also determining how, through which idiom, which language, the criminal or the innocent can be read. T his process is an act of narration and reading that translates practices from the everyday into the exceptional. As such, they always carry with them possibilities of misreading and mistranslation. As activities pertaining to justice and the survival of human beings, acts of misreading and mistranslation are therefore not innocent or incidental to the legal process or legal activism. T he film creates an occasion for an interrogation of such legal readings and translations. It also leads us to ask, what happens when legal activism fails to read and respond beyond the legalised and the translated? Can this failure be acknowledged, interpreted and narrated? Further, the acts of interpretation and translation that are central to the world of legal activism also suppose-to borrow from Jacques Derrida-all those who are judged share the same idiom, that the victim is capable of language in general, that he is a speaking animal. Legal activism in this particular film, whether benevolent or punitive, relies on this specific act of linguistic violence that makes the victim speak a language or idiom that s/he does not share. I will show that it is a language of the majority
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In the following article, I have attempted to foreground the anti-caste or dalit consciousness of... more In the following article, I have attempted to foreground the anti-caste or dalit consciousness of the novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam by Adwaita Mallabarman. It is done in order to resist those readings or adaptations or interpretations of the text that have overlooked its radical content. I have looked at three aspects of the novel: the use of the folk, the question of emotionality and the relationship between spatiality and dalit identity formation. The article also delineates the kind of subject that emerges with the denouement of the novel. It is an interventionist reading of sorts that seeks to place the novel and the author in their socio-historical context. However, the essay does not engage in an anachronistic dalit critic and faults the text for the 'absence' of certain tropes or aesthetics that are considered to be typical of dalit writing.
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Papers by Drishadwati Bargi (Ph. D)
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Bargi, Drishadwati. May 19, 2023. "Readers of the Impossible Present." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. Accessed date.
Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
Megan Burke, When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence
I suggest that Manimekalai achieves this through a surprisingly simple and brilliant trick. She turns her lens into that of a devotee’s gaze, and her protagonist Yosanna into a goddess, a presiding deity who watches over men, longingly and mischievously. Strategically forfeiting the scientific lens of the secular intellectual, a lens that aims to tell everything, and show everything, Manimekalai deifies her subject and lets the audience adore her, be spellbound by her powerful and vulnerable presence."
(Ed. by Abolfazia Ahangari)
Citation details:
Bargi, Drishadwati. May 19, 2023. "Readers of the Impossible Present." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. Accessed date.
Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
Megan Burke, When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence
I suggest that Manimekalai achieves this through a surprisingly simple and brilliant trick. She turns her lens into that of a devotee’s gaze, and her protagonist Yosanna into a goddess, a presiding deity who watches over men, longingly and mischievously. Strategically forfeiting the scientific lens of the secular intellectual, a lens that aims to tell everything, and show everything, Manimekalai deifies her subject and lets the audience adore her, be spellbound by her powerful and vulnerable presence."