Nishaant Choksi is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar, India.
How is the disposition of a stigmatized group in India to be understood through practices of reading, writing, and public display? Graphic Politics in Eastern India offers a roadmap and a wealth of examples grounded ethnographically and theorized semiotically. * Chaise LaDousa, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Education Studies, Hamilton College, USA * An important contribution to ethnographically informed discussions of graphic pluralism, here Nishaant Choksi expertly delves into the complex issues concerning the politics of script--a graphic politics--revealing the ways that multiple scripts, signs of difference, are implicated in and implicating of concerns about languages (to be sure), but also territory, community, senses of history, and, ultimately, autonomy. An insightful book. * Anthony K. Webster, Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, USA *