Research
Books
Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti (ed.). Religion and Secularity: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India (Orient Blackswan, 2020).
Anindita Chakrabarti. Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Journal Publications
Anindita Chakrabarti et al. “God’s Wealth, Legal Frames, and the Question of Material and Immaterial Heritage: The Case of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala, India.” Cultural Studies, 2024, 1–2.
Anindita Chakrabarti et al. "Of Marriage, Divorce and Criminalisation: Reflections on the Triple Talaq Judgment in India." Journal of Legal Anthropology 6 no.1 (2022): 24-48.
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman and Anindita Chakrabarti. "Sharia, Legal Pluralism and Muslim Personal Law: Ethnographic Lessons from the Mahallu System of Malabar, India." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs(2022): 1-16.
Suchandra Ghosh and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Religion-based ‘Personal’ Law, Legal Pluralism and Secularity: A Field View of Adjudication of Muslim Personal Law in India” in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 2021.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Religious Freedom, Legal Activism and Muslim Personal Law in Contemporary India: A Sociological Exploration of Secularism” Annual Review of Sociology of Religion, BrillVol. 12. Special issue on "Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches" 2021.
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Gold governance and goldsmithery: Economic sociology of an informal manufacturing sector in India” Contributions to Indian Sociology 55, 2, 2021.
Anindita Chakrabarti and Suchandra Ghosh. “Judicial Reform vs Adjudication of Personal Law: View from a Muslim Ghetto in Kanpur,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No. 2, Dec 2017.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Democracy as Civil Religion: Reading Alexis De Tocqueville in India” in Journal of Human Values (Sage Publication), Vol. 22 (1) January 2016.
Suchandra Ghosh and Anindita Chakrabarti. 2015. “Kaumi Ek Jayate: A Call for Interfaith Unity” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 26-27. pp. 25-27.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Soteriological Journeys and Discourses of Self Transformation: the Tablighi Jamaat and Svadhyaya in Gujarat” in South Asian History and Culture (Routledge Publication) Vol. 1 (4) 2010.
Anindita Chakrabarti and Niharika Banerjea. “Primary Education in Himachal Pradesh: A Case of Kinnaur District” in Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Vol. XIV, No 4, October 2000.
Book Chapters
K. C. Mujeebu Rahman and Anindita Chakrabarti. “Max Weber, Religion, and Economic Acumen: the Curious Case of Muslim Entrepreneurship in Malabar, India” in Verstehen als soziologischer Zugang zur Welt- Festschrift for Monika Wohlrab-Sahr Uta Karstein, Marian Burchardt & Thomas Schmidt-Lux (ed). (Frankfurt: Campus verlag) 2022.
Sudha Sitharaman & Anindita Chakrabarti. “Anthropology of Islam in Contemporary India: A Conceptual Overview” in Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti (ed.). Religion and Secularity: Reconfiguration of Islam in Contemporary India (Orient Blackswan 2020).
Suchandra Ghosh and Anindita Chakrabarti “Adjudication of Personal Law and the Question of Secularity: An Analysis of Judicial Practice in Sharia Courts of Uttar Pradesh” in Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti (ed.). Religion and Secularity: Reconfiguration of Islam in Contemporary India(Orient Blackswan 2020).
Sruti Kanungo and Anindita Chakrabarti. ‘A Sociological Study of Work, Mobility and Enterprise among the Goldsmiths of India: A Multi-Sited Ethnography’, in Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice edited by Satyajit Majumdar and Edakkandi Meethal Reji. Singapore: Springer). 2020.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Initiation, ‘Re-birth’ and the Emergent Congregation: An Analysis of the Svadhyaya Movement in Western India”, in Ritual Matters: Dynamic Dimensions in Practice, edited by Christiane Brosius and Ute Hüsken, (London: Routledge) 2010.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Soteriological Journeys and Discourses of Self Transformation: the Tablighi Jamaat and Svadhyaya in Gujarat” in Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Politics, Conflict and Society, edited by Nalin Mehta and Mona G. Mehta (New Delhi: Routledge), 2011.
Anindita Chakrabarti. “Judicious Succession and Judicial Religion: Internal Conflict and Legal Dispute in a Religious Reform Movement in India”, in Permutations of Order: Religion and Law as Contested Sovereignties, edited by Bertram Turner and Thomas Kirsch, (London: Ashgate). 2009.
Anindita Chakrabarti “Assertive Religious Identities, the Secular Nation-State and the Question of Pluralism: the Case of the Tablighi Jamaat” in Assertive Religious Identities: India and Europe, edited by Satish Saberwal and Mushirul Hasan, (New Delhi: Manohar) 2006
Sponsored Projects
Principal Investigator. A Sociological Study of Goldsmiths of Bengal: Artisanal Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, and Technology. Sponsored by the India Gold Policy Centre, Indian Institute Management Ahmedabad, 2018-2020.
Principal Investigator. God’s Wealth, Monetized Gold, and Cultural Policy: A Sociological Investigation into the Question of Temple Gold in India. Sponsored by the India Gold Policy Centre, Indian Institute Management Ahmedabad, Dec 2021-April 2023.