Talk:Annu Jalais

By Anirudha Patel

Annu Jalais is an Assistant Professor, in the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore, as of May 2023. Her research interests span are human–animal interface, environmental justice, religious identity, and migration, in Bangladesh and India.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans, Routledge: New Delhi, London, New York (2010).
• The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration. Co-author with Joya Chatterji and Claire Alexander. Routledge: London, New Delhi (2015).

Articles

• Reworlding the ancient Chinese tiger in the realm of the Asian Anthropocene’, International Communication of Chinese Culture, May 9 2018. Vol. 5, Issue 1-2, pp. 121-144.
• Bengali ‘Biharis’’ Muharram: the identitarian trajectories of a community, Südasien-Chronik – South Asia Chronicle 4/2014, S. 69-93. © Südasien-Seminar der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ISBN: 978-3-86004-303-5
• Braving Crocodiles with Kali: Being a prawn-seed collector and a modern woman in the 21st century Sundarbans’, Socio-Legal Review, Vol. 6, 2010.
• Unmasking the Cosmopolitan Tiger’, Nature and Culture, (vol. 3, no. 1, 2008), pp. 25-40.
• The Sundarbans: Whose World Heritage Site?’, Conservation and Society, (vol. 5, no. 4, 2007).
• Dwelling on Morichjhanpi: When Tigers Became ‘Citizens’, Refugees ‘Tiger-Food’’; Special Article in Economic and Political Weekly, April 23 2005, pp. 1757 – 1762. Also reproduced in: - http://sanhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jalais-morichjhanpi.pdf ; - translated into Bengali (by Padmini Chakrabarty) as ‘Sundarbaner Bagh Nawrokhaddok Holo Kibhabe’ in Marichjhanpi: Chhinya Desh, Chhinya Itihas, ed. Madhumay Pal, 2009, pp. 206 – 224, Gangchil, Kolkata; and in Adal Badal, 2006, Bimal Biswas, Kolkata.

Book Chapters

• Bonbibi and Kali in Rival Riverine Chronicles from the Sundarbans’, chapter Living with Water: Peoples, Lives and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond, ed. by Rila Mukherjee, published by Primus Books: New Delhi. June 2017.
• Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal’s Southern Frontier’, chapter for book on Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, ed. by David N. Gellner, published by Duke University Press: Durham, NC, December 2013.
• Linguistic Minorities’ (with a focus on Urdu-speakers) 2009, chapter in Human Rights in Bangladesh 2008: Dashed Hopes, Receding Horizons, New Frontiers; Ain-O-Salish Kendra, Dhaka (Bengali: http://www.askbd.org/HR_report_bangla/18.pdf ; English: http://www.askbd.org/hr_report2008/17_LINGUSTIC.pdf )