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. "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.