Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
Professor
English
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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President K.R.Narayanan releasing On the Threshold at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2002.

Books

    • Vikram Seth: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2008.  
    • Untouchable Saints: an Indian Phenomenon, Manohar, New Delhi, 2005. (co-edited with Eleanor Zelliot)
    • On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela, Alta Mira Press, New York, Toronto and Oxford, in cooperation with the International Sacred Literature Trust, UK, 2005. This is a revised edition with additional translations.
    • On the Threshold: Songs of Chokhamela (1st edition), The Book Review Literary Trust, New Delhi, 2002. 
Work in Progress
  • An Anthology of Varkari Poetry, in collaboration with Chakradhar Saswade, Penguin Books, New Delhi.
Chapters in Books

    • “Chokhamela” in Knut A. Jacobsen et al eds. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Vol.IV, Leiden, Brill, 2012.
    • “The Bharuds of Eknath: Performance, Humour and Satire” in Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels eds. Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity Wiesbaden, Harrossowitz Verlag, 2012.
    • “Absence as Presence:  the construction of ‘subalternity’, in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Choromosome”, in Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh and Ujjwal Jana eds. Subaltern Vision: a study in Postcolonial Indian English Novel, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. (with Ahbhigyan Prasad)
    • “Chokhamela”, in Andrew Schelling ed.The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011.
    •  “Views from a Different India: Not Hinglish but Nagamese”, in Rupert Snell and Rita Kothari eds. Chutneyfying English: the Phenomenon of Hinglish, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2011.
    • “Fasting, Feasting: Food, Consumption and the Politics of Power”, in Supriya Choudhuri and Rimi B. Chatterjee eds. The Writer’s Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011. (with Arpana Nath)
    • “Kanakadasa: The Philosopher-Poet of the Haridasa Tradition of Karnataka”, in Monika Horstmann ed., Bhakti in Current Research Manohar, New Delhi, 2006.
    • “Devdasi”, The Historical  Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex work, in Melissa Ditmore ed., Greenwood Press, USA, 2006.
    • “Kanhopatra”, The Historical Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex work, in Melissa Ditmore ed., Greenwood  Press, USA, 2006.
    •  “The Humble Administrator’s Garden: Mapping Spaces”, in R.K.Dhawan and Pramod Nayar eds. Vikram Seth: A Critical Response, Prestige Books, New Delhi, 2005.
    •  “Bhakti as Protest”, in James Gifford and  Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux eds. Culture and the State: Alternative Interventions,    CRC Humanities Studio, Edmonton, AB, 2004.
  • “The Self, the Poem and the World: Jayant Mahapatra” , in Pramod Nayar ed.     Modern Indian Poetry in English: Critical Studies, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2000.
Forthcoming

    • “Dissenting Voices: Continuities in the Varkari Tradition”, in Vijaya Ramaswamy ed. Devotion and Dissent in Indian History, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi.
  • “Retrieving Voices of Protest: Approaches to Marginality”, in GJV Prasad ed. Indian and Cross-Cultural Approaches to Marginality, Routledge, New Delhi.
Selected Publications in Journals

    • “The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Motherhood and Sexuality in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughers”, IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. iv, no. 1,  22-31, 2012. (with Arpana Nath)
    • “Is it Possible to be Dalit in Medieval India?” , JSL, spring xv, 25-38, 2011.
    • “Chokhamela the Dalit poet-saint”, Samaj Prabodhan,   vol.xx, no.2, 14-29, 2011. (Journal in Marathi)
    • “ ‘Maximum City’: Mumbai, Spatial Politics and Representation”, Spaces and Flows: an International Journal of  Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, vol.1 (3), 151-166, 2011. (with Kalpana Bora)
    • “The Poetry of Vikram Seth: Anti-romantic, Postmodern or Simply Kitsch?”, JSL, autumn xiv, 39-46, 2011.
    • “The Real Seat of Taste: Food, Consumption and    Communication in Gandhi”, The Book Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 13, 5-15, 2008.
    •  “Imperial Frontier to National Border: Narration, History and Identity in Ghosh’s The Glass Palace”, JSL, ix, 40-52, 2008. (with Abhigyan Prasad)
    • “Bhakti as Protest”,  Journal of Sikh Studies, Vol. XXIX, no. 1, 29-36, 2005.
    • “Repositioning Borders: a reading of the Glass Palace”, Critical Practice, Vol.X, No.1, 52-59,  2003.
    • “Chokhamela: Five Poems” Chandrabhaga, New Series, No.3, 123-26, 2001.
    •  “The Poetry of Chokhamela: an Introduction” The Book  Review, Vol.XXV, No.2,  6-12, 2001.
    •  “Gandhi in South Africa”, Journal for Contemporary Thought, No. 13, 87-98, 2001.
  •  “Of Uncritical Largess: Redefining the Postcolonial”, Journal for Contemporary Thought, No. 9, 121-28, 1999.
Forthcoming

    •  “Mothers as Matriarchs: the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kavery Nambisan’s The Mango-Coloured Fish”, JSL. (with Arpana Nath)
  •  ‘Aspects of Maternity in Subaltern Life Writing by Women’, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. (with Arpana Nath)       
Reviews (since 2002)

    • Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems of Rabindranath Tagore The Book Review, vol. xxvi, No.3, March 2002.
    • So Far, The Book Review, vol. xxvi, No.3, March 2002.
    • Gandhi, Freedom and Self-Rule, The Book Review vol. xxvii, no.1, January 2003.
    • The Stepchild: Angaliyat, The Book Review, vol xxviii, no.12, December 2004.
    • The Sacred Spaces, The Book Review, vol. xxv, no.4, April 2004.
    • Spoonful of Grey, The Book Review, vol.xxix, no. 5, May 2005.
    • Soul Force: Gandhi’s Writings on Peace, The Book Review, vol.xxix, no.7, July 2005.
    • Debating Gandhi: A Reader, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3, March 2007.
    • Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians: Essays, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3,  March 2007.
    • Friends of Gandhi: Correspondence of Mahatma Gandhi with Esther Feaering et al, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 3, March 2007.
    • Harilal Gandhi: a Life, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 9, September 2007.
    • In the Tracks of the Mahatma: the Making of a Documentary, The Book Review, vol. xxxi, no. 9, September 2007.
    • Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 2, February 2008.
    • Gandhi’s Diagnostic Approach Rethought, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 2, February 2008.
    • Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and History, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 6, June 2008.
    • B.R. Ambedkar: Perspectives on Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, The Book Review, vol. xxxii, no. 6, June 2008.
    • Gandhi: Going to Wipe Their Tears, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
    • The Men Who Killed Gandhi, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
    • Goodbye to Gandhi: Travels in the New India, The Book Review, vol. xxxiii, no. 10, October 2009.
    • Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony, The Book Review, vol. xxxiv, no. 5, May 2010.
    • Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, South Asian Diaspora, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2011.
    • The Cult of Vitthal: A Confluence and a Synthesis, The Book Review, vol. xxxvi, no. 12, December 2012.
  • Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and border crossings in popular Hindi Cinema, South Asian Diaspora, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013.
 
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