Akshaya K. Rath
Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, University of Hyderabad
0000-0001-5219-0318
About
Akshaya K. Rath specializes in religion and sexuality. His articles and monographs have appeared in Kavya Bharati, Journal of Gender Studies, South Asia Research, Explicator, Rupkatha, etc. His interests include historical texts of the colonial period with a special focus on the discourse of 'criminality'. An Associate of IIAS Shimla (2014-16), Rath has completed a major research project sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi, researching the history of convict transportation with a focus on the Andaman Penal Settlement. His current sponsored project "Restoring the Sacred in Public Spheres" from IMPRESS-ICSSR seeks to unravel transgender religion in India. He has been a visiting scholar at University of Louisville, USA. Across the Black Water: The Andaman Archives (OUP 2022) is his most recent book.
Employment
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Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Associate Professor2022 - Present
Education
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University of Hyderabad Dr.2005 - 2011
Projects & Funding
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Publications (15)
- Transgressing “docile bodies”: Women's poetry in Bangla little magazines, 1950s–1970s Save
- Resistance in the Penal Space: Andaman Hunger Strikes and the Inverted Narrative of India’s Struggle for Freedom Save
- Is There a Joke for the Indian Rural Queer? Save
- Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture Save
- Negotiating the Carceral Space Save
- Tagore and Androgyny: The Politics of an Accommodative India Save
- Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture Save
- Gandhi's Mira: Debating “Female” Suffering and the Politics of Iconography Save
- The Mahatma and the eunuch: brahmacharya education in Gandhian nationalism Save
- Mirabai in public spheres Save