Vol. 7 (2025)
In this 7th edition of Dastavezi brings together four contributions that use visual methods to examine musical memory, colonial image-making, housing, and urban transformation in South Asia and its diasporas. The issue includes a media-reflexive ethnographic essay on the death of an Afghan tabla player and the conditions of musical remembrance in exile; a historical analysis of photography and early cinema as technologies of colonial knowledge in India; and two visual-ethnographic studies that address homelessness, housing, caste, and gentrification in the cities of Kolkata and Patna.
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Contribution
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On the Death of the Kabul Tabla Player Javed Hussain Mahmoud
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Photography and Cinema in Colonial India: Confronting the Other (and the I) through Image
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A Visual-Ethnographic Exploration of Home under a Flyover in Kolkata: Rethinking “Homelessness” and Limited Social Reproduction
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Musahar Toli or Rukanpura: an Intersection of Caste and Gentrification
