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Rutuja Deshmukh

Rutuja Deshmukh is a PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Her dissertation explores early Indian cinema, focusing on the Kolhapur Film Enterprise, caste, artisanal modernity, and feminist media historiography. Her work examines regional film production, labour, technology, and historiography through media archaeology and decolonial frameworks. She has taught Film and Culture at Michigan State University, FLAME University, Symbiosis International University, and Savitribai Phule Pune University. Her research has appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Jump Cut, The Feminist Review, Bioscope, and South Asian Popular Culture. She is co-editor of Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2023) and the forthcoming Mediated Cultures, Political Discourses, and the Celebrity (Bloomsbury, 2026). Her interests include early Indian cinema, women’s labour and patronage, caste and visual culture, colour and film technology, and feminist archival practice.

Decolonisation or Market Expansion?

How India’s Education Policy Turns Rhetoric into Paradox Introduction Initially, decolonisation referred to the political process through which former colonies achieved independence and sovereignty, liberating themselves from direct colonial rule. Over time, however, the concept has expanded beyond its political dimensions to
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