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Figure 3. Air purifier advertisement displayed on a Delhi Metro car in December 2017, declaring that “the polluted air outside is in your home too. Breathing it over time is similar to inhaling smoke from several cigarettes.” The advertised unit, by Hindustan Unilever, had a starting sales price of ₹10,999. Photograph by author

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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 3 Air purifier advertisement displayed on a Delhi Metro car in December 2017, declaring that “the polluted air outside is in your home too. Breathing it over time is similar to inhaling smoke from several cigarettes.” The advertised unit, by Hindustan Unilever, had a starting sales price More
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Airpocalypse: Distributions of Life amidst Delhi’s Polluted Airs

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D. Asher Ghertner
Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 133–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7816329
Published: 01 January 2020
...Figure 3 Air purifier advertisement displayed on a Delhi Metro car in December 2017, declaring that “the polluted air outside is in your home too. Breathing it over time is similar to inhaling smoke from several cigarettes.” The advertised unit, by Hindustan Unilever, had a starting sales price...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization

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Sareeta Amrute
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841892
Published: 01 May 2015
...Sareeta Amrute This article discusses violence against women in cars in India, including the recent high-profile Delhi rape case, arguing that these cases should be set in the context of economic liberalization. The dynamic between women and their drivers should be understood as a labor...
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A History of the Participatory Map

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Jo Guldi
Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 79–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3644409
Published: 01 January 2017
...Jo Guldi From the 1970s, international networks spanning New Delhi to the Cree tribes of Canada collaborated in experimenting with many-to-many mapping. Their work generated techniques for the participatory management of land use that preceded the creation of the many-to-many map online...
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Bulldozers in the City Economies of Excess and Repair

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Sushmita Pati
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11767244
Published: 19 March 2025
... through construction and demolition and by being in circulation. By looking more closely at the history of the machine globally and in India, its deployment at sites of demolitions, and its end point in Delhi’s scrap markets, this article uncovers the diverse relationship the machine has with the city...
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FIGURE 3. A young man posing with a poster of Jaun Elia at the Jashn-e-Rekhta festival in Delhi, December 2018. Photo by author.

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Published: 01 January 2022
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FIGURE 2. Rahat Indori's sh‘er, written on a wall in Jamia Millia Islamia during the anti-CAA protests in Delhi, March 2020. Photo by author.

Rahat Indori's sh‘er , written on a wall in Jamia Millia Islamia during th...

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“Hindustan Is a Dream”: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy

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Anand Vivek Taneja
Public Culture (2022) 34 (1 (96)): 71–98.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9435456
Published: 01 January 2022
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Predicaments of Secular Histories

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Neeladri Bhattacharya
Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 57–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-016
Published: 01 January 2008
... historians point to the heterogeneity and fragmentation within them. Where com- Veena Das (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990), 69 – 93; T. N. Madan, “Secularism in Its Place,” Journal of Asian Studies 46 (1987): 747 – 59; and Partha Chatterjee, “Secularism...
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Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes

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Geeta Patel
Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 131–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-1-131
Published: 01 January 2004
... outcast:The prostitute in nineteenth century Bengal . Calcutta:Seagull. Basu, Tapan, Pradip Datta, Sumit Sarker, Tanika Sarker, and Sambuddha Sen. 1993 . Khaki shorts and saffron flags: A critique of the Hindu right . New Delhi: Orient Longman. Berlant, Lauren. 1997 . The queen of America goes...
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Radio, Citizenship, and the “Sound Standards” of a Newly Independent India

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Isabel Huacuja Alonso
Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 117–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7181862
Published: 01 January 2019
..., a renowned vocalist and later professor at the University of Delhi. Furthermore, AIR employees, and perhaps most importantly government administrators, also supported the reform program. For example, Rajendra Prasad, president of India from 1950 to 1962, not only provided bureaucratic support to AIR reforms...
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Hegemonic Spatial Strategies: The Nation-Space and Hindu Communalism in Twentieth-Century India

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Satish Deshpande
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 249–283.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-249
Published: 01 May 1998
... . Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India's Secular Identity . New Delhi: Penguin. Basu , Tapan , Pradip Dutta, Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar, and Sambuddha Sen. 1993 . Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu Right . Tracts for the Times, No. 1. New Delhi: Orient Longman...
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A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions of Authenticity and the Politics of Translation

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Rashmi Sadana
Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 307–328.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-038
Published: 01 May 2007
... considers any work published in the preceding five years for its annual awards; hence, Cuckold (New Delhi: Harper Collins India, 1997) was still eligible to win in 2000. Public Culture 19:2  doi 10.1215/08992363-2006-038 Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press 3 0 7 Public...
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Figure 4. “A group of citizens protest against air pollution at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi,” November 6, 2016. Photograph and caption by Press Trust of India. The designer Vogmasks donned in the photograph are marketed as the “world’s first high fashion pollution mask” and are unaffordable for the majority of Delhiites.

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Figure 4 “A group of citizens protest against air pollution at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi,” November 6, 2016. Photograph and caption by Press Trust of India. The designer Vogmasks donned in the photograph are marketed as the “world’s first high fashion pollution mask” and are unaffordable More
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Internet X-Ray: E-Governance, Transparency, and the Politics of Immediation in India

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William Mazzarella
Public Culture (2006) 18 (3): 473–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2006-016
Published: 01 September 2006
... and the horizon of politics. Public Culture 14 : 21 -47. Bahal, Aniruddha. [2000] 2003 . The anatomy of a cricket scoop. In The best of Tehelka: June 2000-December 2001 . New Delhi: Buffalo Books. Bahal, Aniruddha, and Mathew Samuel. 2001. Operation West End, part 1. www.andherieast.com/tehelka/Teh1...
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Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's ‘Disrobing’

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Purnima Mankekar
Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-469
Published: 01 September 1993
..., ed. Subaltern Studies III: Writings on South Asian History and Society . Delhi: Oxford University press. Ang , Ien . 1991 . Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination . London: Routledge. Bhabha , Homi . 1990 . “DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins...
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Epic and State: Contesting Interpretations of the Ramayana

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Paula Richman
Public Culture (1995) 7 (3): 631–654.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-7-3-631
Published: 01 September 1995
... . 1976 . The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chatterjee , Partha . 1993 . The Nation and Its Fragments . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Copley , A.R.H. 1978 . The Career of C. Rajagopalachari . Delhi: Macmillan Company...
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Hindu/Muslim/Indian

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Faisal Fatehali Devji
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-1
Published: 01 January 1992
...: A Derivative Discourse. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso: 1983. t-tlNIAUMUSLlM[INDIAN 3 If an ontological reading of the nation cannot take...
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Coming Home: Religion, Mass Violence, and the Exiled and Secret Selves of a Citizen-Killer

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Ashis Nandy
Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 127–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2009-019
Published: 01 January 2010
... University, Budapest, December 1–3, 2008, while I was an Open Society Fellow at that university. The research reported was done at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, for a study of the mass violence that accompanied the independence of India and Pakistan. This work could not have been...
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The Habit of Ex-Nomination: Nation, Woman, and The Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie

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Anannya Bhattacharjee
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 19–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-1-19
Published: 01 January 1992
...’ Pasts?” Representations 37 : 1 -26. Chakravarti , Uma . 1989 “Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism and a Script for the Past,” in Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History , ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid. New Delhi: Kali for Women. Chatterjee , Partha...
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