Publications

'Conversations Around Craft' provides an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India. It engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines). In situating the voice of the artisans as the central focus of study,  diverse histories of craft practice emerge, through which artisans assemble entangled and competing narratives alike about work, home, and identity.

Journal Publications

• Chandan Bose. "Sustaining craft markets in urban India: A case study of Shilparamam, Hyderabad", Contemporary South Asia, November 2025 (forthcoming). 

• Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, Akhilesh Agarwal, Smita C. Banerjee, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Chandan Bose, Mahati Chittem, Roop Gursahani, L. Ramakrishnan, Smriti Rana, Naveen Salins, Malar Velli Segarmurthy, Aashiana Thiyam, William E. Rosa, "Beyond the bench: LGBTQ+ health equity after India’s “no same-sex marriage” verdict", The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 30, 2024. 

• “People are desperate for intimacy”: ‘Intimacy Urgencies’ and ‘Doing Trust’—How do Grindr users Respond to Risks of Violence in Contemporary India?. Sexuality & Culture (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10178-9 

• “Old Tales through New Images, and New Tales through Old Images: Ethnography of a Jambavantaru katha (narrative) performance in Telangana”, Text and Performance Quarterly. July 2022.

• How Does Law Prescribe Circulation of Children? Understanding Different Kinds of Movement Within the Adoption Law in India. Journal of Family Issues. July 2021.

• “Identifying ‘authorized users’, identifying kin: negotiating relational worlds through Geographical Indications registration”, Contemporary South Asia, 2021

• "Single Parent Adoption in Contemporary India: Addressing Questions Around Sexuality." Adoption & Culture, vol. 8 no. 2, 2020, p. 173-193.

• “Crating Objects, Crafting Affinities: Work, Kinship and Self in a Telangana Artisanal Household”, in World Art, Vol. 07, Issue 01, August 2017, pp. 1-20 

• “University of Canterbury Feminist Society's third annual feminist conference (17-18 September 2016): Selected papers: Craft as everyday site of assertion: How do artisans talk about gender and skill?”, in Women’s Studies Journal of Aoteroa New Zealand, Vol. 31, Issue 01, August 2017, pp. 81-87

• “Geographical Fixity or Affective Ties: How do Artists respond to Geographical Indications?” in Journal of Modern Craft, Vol. 9, Issue 02, July 2016, pp. 1–21

• “Authenticating the Craft: Geographical Indication as the new history of the Telangana Scroll”, in India International Centre Quarterly Journal, Autumn 2015

Book chapters

• Chandan Bose. "Another History of Indian Handicrafts: Partition of India, Rehabilitation, and Women's Work", in  Craft and War: Makers, Objects and Armed Conflicts since 1850s,  edited by Jennifer Way, Heather Smith and Alida R Jekabson. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 2026. ISBN: 9781350345492 (forthcoming)

• “Devi or Art History? Reading entangled narratives on the lineage of artisanal skill from Telangana”, in Studies in Religion and Everyday Life, edited by Farhana Ibrahim, Oxford University Press, 2024. 

• “Covid-19 Stories: Imaginations of the Local”, in Pandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imagainings, edited by Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur and Debaroti Chakraborty, Routledge, London, 2022.

• “Varkaris” (co-authored with Aditya Malik and Tuhina Ganguly) in Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017

Publications with PhD students

• Chandan Bose, Arya Rajendran, Charvi Tandon. "Centering the Margins: Heteronormativity and Sexual Otherness in India", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, October 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2553456

• Amin, Meghna Rohit and Bose, Chandan. "Changing aspirations among fishing communities in contemporary India: An ethnographic case study on the Mogaveera women in Malpe, along the south-west coast of India", Indian Journal of Fisheries, Vol. 72, No. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.21077/ijf.2025.72.2.159530-20

• Amin, Meghna, Bose, Chandan. "From labour to job: occupational transformations among the Mogaveeras in Karnataka, India", Maritime Studies 24, 5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-024-00394-w 

• Latif, Amal and Bose, Chandan. 2023. "Being a Khadamma: Narratives of Home, Belongingness and Identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf", Asian Journal of Womens Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp: 285-201.

Book reviews

• “Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India”, written by Brahma Prakash, Oxford University Press (2020), Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 55, no. 2, 287-290, 2021

• “Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States”, written by Kathryn Mariner, Anthropology Book Forum

• “We Who Wove with Golden Thread: Summoning Community in South India”, written by Aarti Kawlra, Orient Blackswan (2018), Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 53, no. 2, 454-457, 2019.