Table of Contents

Note from the Board of Editors

Research Articles

1	Presence of the Past: Notions of the Indian Nation in Class VI NCERT History Textbooks	Muskan Aggarwal
2	Carnatic Fusion: Sites for Identity Reconciliation or Erasure?	Adithi Hebbar
3	Resurrecting the Courtesan Identity: A Historical Critique	Qandeel Qazi
4	The Connotations of Conlangs: Understanding the Orientalist Leanings of Dothraki and High Valyrian in Game of Thrones	A Rahel Rao
5	The Body Politics of a Polish Melodrama: Cold War (2018)	Amarabati Bhattacharyya
6	Imagining the Nation: The Notion of Nationalism in Early 20th Century Kerala through works of Sahodaran Ayyappan and Vallathol Narayana Menon	T Meera Keshav
7	Death of the Avenging Woman? Exploring the Distinct Filmic Sensibilities of Pink (2016) and Mom (2017) as Rape-Revenge Films	Rutvik Upadhyaya
8	Mapping Solitude: An Exploratory Study of the Concept of Solitude in a Hyper-Connected Modern World	Aena Asif, Isha Mahajan
9	Anansi, Myth, and Resistance: Exploring Anansi Folklore as Trangressive Culture during Slavery	Mrinal Rajeev
10	A Study of Climate Change-Induced Migration in the Sundarbans Mangrove Region in the Last Ten Years	Geeta Gunjal

Commentary

1	Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Examining the Role of Artificial Empathy as a Protective Factor in Interpersonal Relationships	Shreya Upendra
2	Environmental Protection, Protests, and Infrastructural Development: Can Goa Strike a Balance?	Sanam Bhobe
3	The Role of Political Rhetoric in Spreading Intergroup Prejudice in India	Parnika Jhunjhunwala

Book Review

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Repression, Dacoity, and the Law: Durba Ghosh’s Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947

Disha Doshi