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Lic. Dr. Mélanie Vandenhelsken

melanie.vandenhelsken@univie.ac.at

Winter term 2024

142222 VO Minority politics in India from the 1990s: Legacy and change of colonial governance

142225 UE Ritual Dynamics and Recomposition in South Asia: understanding ritual change

240503 SE MM1 Postcolonial Studies in the Indian Context: Theories and Debates

Summer term 2024

142231 PS Post-colonial and Subaltern Studies: from South Asian to Global Concepts

Winter term 2023

142014 VO Introduction to Modern South Asian Studies

142216 SE Tribal literature and languages in 20th-century Eastern Himalayas: claiming recognition and rights

240515 SE MM3 De-colonising border study: border-making and mobility in South Asia

Vandenhelsken, M. (2021). « Ils ont transformé la divinité Yuma en Dieu ! »: Recompositions religieuses et dissensions chez les Limbu du Sikkim. ateliers d'anthropologie, 49. https://doi.org/10.4000/ateliers.14311

Vandenhelsken, M., & Subba, B. (2021). Loyalty, resistance, subalterneity: a history of Limbu ‘participation’ in Sikkim. Asian Ethnicity, 22(2), 235-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1763777

Vandenhelsken, M. (2021). The 1961 Sikkim subject regulation and ‘indirect rule’ in Sikkim: ancestrality, land property and unequal citizenship. Asian Ethnicity, 22(2), 254-271. Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1801338

Vandenhelsken, M. (2020). Ancestrality, Migration, Rights and Exclusion: Citizenship in the Indian State of Sikkim . Asian Ethnicity, 22(2), 213-234. Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1802575

Vandenhelsken, M. (2020). Review of Mona Chettri. 2017. Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN 9789089648860, IIAS Newsletter 86 Summer 2020. IIAS Newsletter.

Vandenhelsken, M., & Gaenszle, M. (2019). Limbu Religion and the Remaking of the Community. In Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia https://doi.org/10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_COM_032248

Vandenhelsken, M. (2018). Identifications, State Categorizations, and Religious Changes among Sikkimese Gurungs. In D. N. Gellner, & S. Hausner (Eds.), Global Nepalis, Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora (pp. 49-79). Oxford University Press.

Vandenhelsken, M. (2017). Ethnographic Study and Cultural Production in Sikkim. In Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies (pp. 89-106). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://univie.academia.edu/M%C3%A9lanieVandenhelsken

Vandenhelsken, M., Barkataki-Ruscheweyh, M., & Karlsson, B. G. (Eds.) (2017). Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://univie.academia.edu/M%C3%A9lanieVandenhelsken

Vandenhelsken, M., & Karlsson, B. G. (2017). Preface. In Geographies of Difference: Explorations in Northeast Indian Studies (pp. xv-xxiii). Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

Vandenhelsken, M. (2016). Politics of ethnicity amongst the Limbu in Sikkim: Literary development, religious reforms and the making of the community. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 19(2), 69-83 .