Dr. Akshaya Kumar Rath

Publications

1Varghese, Ritu, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Gandhi’s Mira: Debating ‘Female’ Suffering and the Politics of Iconography,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 1-17, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023.115.
2Choudhury, Ayan, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture,” South Asian Review. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2267831.
3Sarangi, Susmita, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Negotiating the Carceral Space: Reading Mercy Petitions of Political Prisoners in the Andamans,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2023.2252795.
4Choudhury, Chaitali, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Tagore and Androgyny: The Politics of an Accommodative India,” South Asian Review. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2250953.
5Varghese, Ritu, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Mirabai in Public Spheres,” Women’s History Review. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2165775.
6Kuiry, Nibedita, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Nautch, Thuggee and Criminality in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India,” South Asia Research. 43(1). 1-14. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141710.
7Varghese, Ritu, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Mirabai and the Ethic of Universal Suffering: Reading Bhajans in Indian Pedagogy,” The Explicator. 80(1-2) 24-28. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2022.2048780.
8Choudhury, Chaitali, and Akshaya K. Rath. “The Mahatma and the Eunuch: Brahmacharya Education in Gandhian Nationalism,” Journal of Gender Studies. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2039104.
9Rath, Akshaya K., ed. Across the Black Water: The Andaman Archives. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2022. [book] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/across-the-black-water-9780190130558?lang=en&cc=gb
10Rath, Akshaya K. (with Hoshang Merchant). Gay Icons of India. New Delhi: PAN Macmillan. 2019. ISBN: 9789386215956. (book; now out-of-print; revised and enlarged edition forthcoming)
11Rath, Akshaya K., ed. Secret Writings of Hoshang Merchant. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2016. [book] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/secret-writings-of-hoshang-merchant-9780199465965?cc=gb&lang=en&
12Rath, Akshaya K. “Sexualizing Kālā Pāni,” Hi(stories) of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India. Eds. Rajeev Kumaramkandath and Sanjay Srivastava. Cambridge University Press. 2020: 79-96. [book chapter] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108637770.
13Choudhury, Chaitali, and Akshaya K. Rath. “Gandhi’s Passion and the Poetics of Nonviolent India.” Contemporary Icons of Nonviolence. Ed. Anna Hamling. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2019. 47-68. [book chapter] ISBN: 978-1-5275-4054-5.
14Rath, Akshaya K. “Transgender Studies in India: Folklore, Mythical Tradition and Autobiographies,” Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings. Ed. Anu Aneja. New York: Routledge. 2019. 225-234. [book chapter] ISSN: 9781138090064.
15Rath, Akshaya K. “Bhakti,” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith & Culture across History. Gen Ed. Susan de Gaia. ABC CLIO: USA. 2018. Vol 1: 316-320. [encyclopedia article; long] 978-1-4408-4849-0.
16Rath, Akshaya K. “Matriliny,” Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith & Culture across History. Gen Ed. Susan de Gaia. ABC CLIO: USA. 2018. Vol 1: 353-356. [Encyclopedia Article; medium] 978-1-4408-4849-0.
17Rath, Akshaya K. “Allen Ginsberg in India: Life and Narrative.” Scripta Humana. Tom 7: 2016. 137-150. ISSN: 2353-1681.
1Rath, Akshaya K. “Ethno-Sexual Violence: A Study of Agha Shahid Ali’s Kashmiri Poetry.” Kavya Bharati; Number 22, 2010. ISSN: 0975-3559.
2Rath, Akshaya K. “Queer Theory: Literary and Cultural Perspectives.” Theories of Women and Gender Studies, IGNOU, 2012. [course material] ISBN: 978-81-266-5756-8.
3Rath, Akshaya K. “Race of Poets / Saints: Review of Hoshang Merchant’s Sufiana: Poems.” E-Dhvani: UoH Journal of Comparative Literature. III, 2013.
4Rath, Akshaya K. “Language Debate and Canonizing Indian English Poetry.” The Challenge. Vol. 22 No 2. 2013. ISSN: 2278-9499.
5Rath, Akshaya K. “Poetics of the Sexualized Body during the Raj: The Andaman Connection.” Gay Subcultures and Literatures: The Indian Projections. Ed. Sukhbir Singh. IIAS Shimla, 2014. 247-263. [book chapter] ISBN: 978-93-82396-09-3.
6Rath, Akshaya K. “The Upside-Down Swan: Suniti Namjoshi,” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. VI:1, 2014. ISSN: 0975-2935.
7Rath, Akshaya K. “Either Sink or Swim’: An Interview with Hoshang Merchant.” The Challenge. Vol 23, No 1, 2014. ISSN: 2278-9499.
8Parveen, Rasheda and Akshaya K. Rath. “Karbala as Discourse: Memory and Exile in Agha Shahid Ali’s Final Songs.” Kakatiya Journal of English Studies. Volume 34 (2015): 180-93. ISSN: 0971-8877.
9Rath, Akshaya K. “Interrogating Body Politic: Reflections towards Thuggee Cult in British India.” Osmania Journal of English Studies, 2015-16. 124-134. ISSN: 0474-8107.
10Rath, Akshaya K. and Rasheda Parveen. “The ‘Mating Dance’: Love and Exile in Ifti Nasim and Agha Shahid Ali.” Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences XX: 2015-16. 74-91. 00972-1401.
11Parveen, Rasheda and Akshaya K. Rath. “The Rise of Matriarchy: Suniti Namjoshi and Kamala Das.” Research and Criticism. Special Issue on “Twenty-First Century South Asian Literature.” Vol 7: 2016. 28-41.
12Rath, Akshaya K. “Towards an Alternative Literary Canon in India.” The Dhauli Review, Issue 9: 2016.
13Parveen, Rasheda and Akshaya K. Rath. “Positioning Kali in Thuggee Tradition,” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 10: 2, 2018. 158-170. ISSN: 0975-2935.
14Choudhury, Chaitali and Akshaya K. Rath. “Gandhi as ‘God’s Eunuch,’” Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought. No. 7, 2017-18 (Spring). 55-62. Special Issue on Gandhi and Time-Binding: Interface between Principles and Practices. ISSN: 2320-6195.
15Rath, Akshaya K. and Ananya Parida. “Towards an Inclusive Transgender Autobiography.” Ahead of Their Times: Essays on Women Autobiography in India. Ed. K. Purushotham. Kalpaz: Delhi:2019. 61-74. [book chapter] ISBN: 978-93-5324-030-1.