Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
@iittp.ac.in
Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Religious studies, Language and Linguistics
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Srikanth Nayaka, Vamshi Krishna Reddy Vemireddy, and Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
Inderscience Publishers
Atul Kumar Singh and Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
SAGE Publications
This article takes the linguistic space of North India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and tries to see how a nationalistic linguistic ideology that was shaping up at that time, creating Hindi and Urdu linguistic communities, used gender as a tool to portray and assert a masculinist vision of language and nation. It involved not just censoring certain representations of women and their cultural spaces, but also using the issue of ‘vulgar’ representations as a premise to marginalize certain languages and their literature. The article looks at the colonial ideology that worked as an enforcer for the nationalists to work towards achieving what they felt as a sanitized and moral form of literature and culture. The linguistic ideology that accompanied these revisions was of projecting Hindi (Khari Boli) as a national language while limiting spaces of other languages, such as Braj, Urdu and Bhojpuri, in the region, by criticizing either their use of sexual imagery or by stereotyping them in a gendered way. This article investigates the arguments of nationalist writers and highlights their masculinist and patriarchal ideas in their bid for the new national language.
Priyanka Tripathi, Prabha S. Dwivedi, and Shreya Sharma
Emerald
Purpose The COVID-19 outbreak has significant psychological effects because of reduced support system and social quarantine, making women the worst-hit population of shadow pandemic, i.e. domestic violence. While food shortages, unemployment and increased domestic-work burdens are the immediate effects of the lockdown, women at home have to bear its far-reaching impacts in the long term in the form of domestic abuse, making the study of the psychological impact of domestic violence against women imperative. This paper aims to identify the factors and causes responsible for domestic violence and its psychological impacts on women in different aspects. This paper further focuses on the reasons behind an escalation in psychological violence against women. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on extrapolating data from various journal articles, Indian Government reports, newspaper articles and other printed materials that are recent, relevant and discuss domestic violence and mental stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers use Indian National Commission for Women’s (NCW) data on complaints received regarding violence against women and domestic abuse in the year 2020 and 15 journal articles that discuss domestic violence against women during the COVID-19 period in different countries to discuss social inequalities and power relations impact on women’ mental health. Findings The findings suggest that economic instability during the pandemic and social and cultural norms of India ignited psychological abuse against women during the pandemic. The number of monthly complaints of dowry death, dowry harassment and protection of women against domestic violence reflect on increased registered complaints in the postlockdown period in the year 2020. The number of monthly complaints received by the NCW from January 2020 to December 2020 in India represents that WhatsApp chat is a powerful tool for reporting domestic violence. Originality/value The pandemic lockdown has an adverse psychological impact on women, making them suffer from posttraumatic symptoms, substance abuse, panic attacks, depressions, hallucinations, eating disorders, self-harm, etc. This paper strives to reflect upon mitigation strategies to curb domestic violence in India.
P. K. Verma and P. S. Dwivedi
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
R. Stecker
Routledge India
artifact: A humanly created abstract object. Abstract structure: A context-independent, eternal sequence or arrangement of parts. Antiessentialism: The view that art or artwork cannot be defined or lacks an essence. Antiessentialism about artistic value: The view that artistic value is determined by the contingent aims of artists and expectations of audiences; the denial of essentialism about artistic value. Antitheoretical view: The idea that, while ethical and aesthetic value interact, the manner of interaction depends on the particular features of individual works. Apprehension as if: An experience as if one is confronting something in an emotional state without literally doing so. Autonomism: The claim that ethical and aesthetic value never interact. Cluster concepts: Occur where there are several distinct conditions which are each sufficient in their own right for an object to satisfy the concept. Cognitive value: A value that results from either the provision of knowledge, or the enhancement of the ability to acquire knowledge. Constructivism: A general approach to the philosophy of art that denies that artworks have essences and claims that important artistic properties of works derive as much from contexts of reception as origin. Contextualism: A general approach to the philosophy of art that emphasizes that many important artistic properties of works derive from their context of origin.
Atul Kumar Singh and Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
Routledge
Pankaj Kumar Verma, , Prabha Shankar Dwivedi, and
Aesthetics Media Services
The paper aims to lay out a critical analysis of eco-aesthetical wisdom of pan-Indian society through the lens of ancient seers whose insights for environment and ecology were shaped in the form of the teachings of Vedas and Upani?ads. With the passage of time, the bond between humans and non-humans has largely weakened, and humans have increased exploiting the natural resources without caring for their regeneration. Consequent nature bred hostility is emerging as a bigger crisis in front of the 21st Century world that may sooner turn to be, if not taken seriously, an existential crisis for the whole human race. The Upani?ads enlighten us not only with the knowledge of maintaining the relationship between human beings and physical environment but also among various inhabitants of ecology. Therefore, as Deep Ecology proposes, there should be a shift from human at the centre (anthropocentricism) to ecology at the centre (ecocentrism) which very much was existing in Indian society. So, this paper attempts to deal with the global ecological crisis co-opting with the ecological/environmental ideas and attitude of the classical Indian treatises.
Prabha Shankar Dwivedi, , and Priyanka Tripathi
Aesthetics Media Services
Gender Bias is a phenomenon that strengthens in India as a result of personal values and perception, traditionally assigned roles on the basis of sex and regressive ideologies deeply entrenched in patriarchy. Vasantasen? is the protagonist of the M?cchaka?ika of ??draka, a classical Indian masterpiece written in c. 350 BCE which was later adapted into a Hindi film–Utsav (1985) written and directed by Girish Karnad. Despite being an adaptation, in its filmy avatar, Karnad denies Vasantasen? love and respect due to her profession and resorts to endorsing the conventional whereas in the original text she is a respectable woman. The article offers a comparative study of the treatment given to courtesans in general and reflects upon their complex realities by comparing the treatment of an Indian courtesan of two historically apart periods.
Dr. Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
Amity University Madhya Pradesh Gwalior
Virtually real spaces are emerging as an alternative to the physical spaces. Cyberspace is not entirely new to the world of entertainment, but its entry into sacred spaces, where sheer rules control the community, is inviting the concerns of the priestly communities. The virtual world created with the help of technology has begun to affect the approaches towards pilgrimages. The impact may be perceived to be adverse or favourable depending upon the varied perspectives. This simulacrum of pilgrimages allows enormous freedom to the pilgrims presenting them with a customized to be more real pictures of the houses of worship. The virtual world is more persuasive in comparison to the world we live in, as this cyberworld, unlike the world of restrictions and virtues, discourages the self-denial and persuades the subject to be more indulged into it considering it a replacement. It can prevail on the subject only through its more appealing truth-like imaginary (but not in all cases) pictures. This research article is intended to discuss and assess the impact of the entry of the cyberspace into the sacred space over the religiosity of the communities in India. The paper further examines the complementarity offered by these two spaces for each other.
Upender Gundala, V.V.K. Reddy, and Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
IEEE
The present study is an assessment of the efficacy of technology enhanced language learning (TELL) in teaching English to undergraduates pursuing third year of Engineering program using specific modules based on 'Internet and Smart Phone' in the Advanced English Communication Skills Lab (AECS). After a pilot study, students were divided into two groups and a group of them were deliberately asked to use internet both in their computers and smart phones whereas others were exposed to designed software in the lab. They were given authentic tasks such as watching selected documentaries, presentations on selected CEOs of pioneering technical firms along with selected successful entrepreneurs of India. Consequently, students were asked to read and write case studies and assessed through presentations, group discussions and mock interviews. Remarkably, the outcomes revealed that TELL facilitated the target students of rural and semi urban areas significantly in enhancing their language competence, and, therefore, confidence more effectively than the other group of students who used designed software in the lab.
Prabha Shankar Dwivedi
Equinox Publishing
This article brings to light a kind of worship of lord Krsna practised especially by the communities of Ahir (cowherds), and Gadariya (shepherds) of eastern Uttar Pradesh, called Karaha pujan. It involves life-threatening practices performed, in a state of possession, by a bhagat, a man with charismatic authority. Besides Krsna, two forms of the goddess Sakti, namely Durga and Vansakti, are also invoked. The bhagat comes only from the Ahir or the Gadariya community. It is mostly performed under the scorching sun in summer, where the bhagat, praying to the deities, bathes in boiling hot khir (a sweet rice pudding cooked in milk), and fries puris (flat bread) dipping his hands into the boiling ghee. People come from surrounding places to witness it, feel awe for the bhagat, and believe that he is unharmed because he has been possessed by the deity or deities being worshipped. The bhagat makes predictions about the climatic conditions of the region, and about the future of the devotees, and provides solutions to their problems. This article traces similarities and parallelisms between this folk ritual performance and folk Tantric ways of worship.
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• Dialectics of Prakṛti and Sanskṛti: An Ecosophical Study of the Select Ancient Indian Texts, Sponsored Research Project Grant, JPN Center of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore, M.P. 2023-2025 (Role: Principal Investigator).
• Folk and Ritual Songs of Banaras and Mirzapur: An Ethnographic Study, Sponsored Research Project Grant, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2022-24 (Role: Co-Principal Investigator).
• Mapping Domestic Abuse and Violence in the time of Covid-19: A Study from Bihar, Special Grant for Research on Social Science Dimensions of Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2021 (Role: Co-Principal Investigator).
• Pāṇinīan School of Grammar: A Seat of Modern Linguistics and (Post)Structuralist Poetics, Sponsored Research Project Grant, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2019-2021 (Role: Principal Investigator).