The Genealogies of Modernity Journal
Manjot Kaur’s Modern Mythologies
Manjot Kaur’s work creates new stories for a new world and to animate humans to interact with non-humans in ways we have never imagined.
Vaishnavi Patil on artistic genealogies of mythology in South Asia and new tales for the modern world
Nutritional Colonization in British India
Nutrition becomes a realm subject to technocratic achievement and colonial control. In this way, the British state enters the domestic realm of colonized peoples.
Devin Creed on Britian’s development of nutritional colonization
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Mailbox Temple of Amritsar
Two containers with a temple complex: a ship and a mailbox. Both drip with blood drawn in white heat of colonial suspicions of rebellion and rights to autonomy.
Maggie Slaughter exposes colonialism and orientalism in a mailbox and a passenger ship
Different Modernities in India
A central concern remains: the timing and nature of India’s encounter with modernity. Did modernity come with the East India Company or did modernity have more ‘native’ roots?
Devin Creed looks for a different modernity in the streets of New Delhi.