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Himalayan Masculinities book cover

1st Edition

Himalayan Masculinities

Edited By Ritodhi Chakraborty, Nilanjana Sen, Matthew Wilkinson Copyright 2027
116 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers novel and valuable insights into the often abstracted and overlooked social worlds of men in the Himalaya. Long cast through colonial and nationalist imaginaries as martial warriors, agrarian patriarchs, or peripheral actors in the Subcontinent’s struggles over power, identity, and territory, Himalayan men have rarely been the direct focus of scholarly attention. Drawing on... Read more

Introduction: Himalayan Masculinities

Ritodhi Chakraborty, Matthew Wilkinson and Nilanjana Sen

 

1. Masculinity in Assamese Films

Debarshi Prasad Nath

 

2. Living in the Naga Life-World: Indigeneity, Masculinity and the Consumption of Pig Testicles in Northeast India

Richard Kamei

 

3. ‘What Else to do?’: Middle Adult Men, Idleness and Drinking at the Margins in Nagaland, India

Matthew Wilkinson

 

4. Cast(e) in the Saddle: Conversations on Reclaiming Dignity and Reimagining Pahari Futures

Manshi Asher and Prateek Draik

 

5. Anticipating Failure: Gurkha Recruitment and Brokerage in Nepal

Avash Piya

Biography

Ritodhi Chakraborty is a broadly trained environmental social scientist. Over the past decade, he has collaborated with rural and indigenous communities across India, Bhutan, China, and Aotearoa New Zealand on issues of youth migration, agrarian political economy, masculinity, and the politics of climate adaptation.  He is currently working on a suite of climate justice tools that explore justice-based audits of climate adaptation projects and the creation of ethical decision-support tools for Indigenous communities interested in engaging with climate finance and governance. This work is being developed through an international group of Indigenous scholars and practitioners through the Knowledge Justice Collective, which he co-leads with Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (UBC). 

Nilanjana Sen is an ethnographer and development practitioner whose work examines youth agency, ethics, and everyday decision-making. Nilanjana holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Melbourne, along with master’s degrees from King’s College London and South Asian University. Her professional experience spans governance and policy work in India, global grant management, and corporate social responsibility. Across all her projects, she is committed to public ethnography and ethical collaboration, guided by the belief that lived experiences can inform more just and imaginative futures.

Matthew Wilkinson is an ethnographer with a special focus on frontiers, borderlands, and liberalization in Asia and South Asia. His research spans a wide range of specialties, but centres on processes of rupture and disruption in complex and unsettled areas. Dr. Wilkinson holds a PhD in Development Studies from UNSW Sydney and has a special interest in unpacking ‘messy’ social and political dynamics associated with identity, development, and liberalization in India and Bangladesh.

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