1st Edition
Governing the Crisis Narratives of Covid-19 in India
Introduction
Rahul Ranjan
Part I: Law, Biomedical Emergencies and Policy Response
1. Policing the Margins: Citizen-Police Interactions in India during Covid-19
Manjesh Rana
2. India’s Fumbled COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Nishant Sirohi
3. The Task Before Rebuilding: COVID-19 Second Wave in Jharkhand, Impact and Responses
Sushmita
Part II: Migration, Indigeneity, and Cultural Impact
4. Navigating Medical Neglect and Care: COVID-19 Management and Adivasi Societies
Rashmi Kumari
5. Intersections of Covid-19 within Nomadic Lives: Nation-State Machinations & Pastoralism within the Gujjar & Bakarwal Tribe of Jammu and Kashmir
Afreen Gani Faridi
6. Covid-19 and the Indigenous Migrants’ Question in Urban India
Aashish Xaxa
7. Mobile Theatre of Assam: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and Responses
Rituparna Patgiri
Part III: Frontline Workers, Caste Dynamics and Labour Force
8. The Last of Frontline Workers: Casteism and Precarity among Sanitation and Waste Workers during COVID-19
Aparna Agarwal
9. COVID and Other Crises: Brick Kiln Workers and the Dismal Work-Season of 2019-20
Pratik Mishra
10. Community Resilience in the Western Himalayas: Lessons from the Pandemic
Ritwika Patgiri
Biography
Dr Rahul Ranjan is writer and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environmental and Climate Justice at the Department of Human Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of “The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India”, which was published by the Cambridge University Press in 2023, and edited a volume, “At the crossroads of Rights”, published by Routledge Press, London, 2022. Between 2020-2023, he held an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the project: “Riverine Rights: The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on The Rights of Rivers”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo, Norway.
