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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
The popular narrative of Kalinga moves from Ashoka's remorse at Dhauli to medieval temple building, bypassing questions of urban life, labour organisation, and administrative imagination that Sisupalgarh's ramparts and streets pose instead....
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Soumyaranjan Sahoo
Anthony Giddens's notion of ontological security explains why people turn toward family, ritual, and memory as small technologies of survival during uncertain periods. Yet the same kinship that shelters can also discipline,...
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