Talk:Asha Nadkarni

By Sachi Anjunkar

Asha Nadkarni is Associate Professor in the Department of English at University of Massachusetts Amherst, as of November 2022. According to her profile, her research interests include postcolonial literature and theory, transnational feminist theory, US empire studies, and Asian American studies, with an emphasis on the literatures and cultures of the South Asian diaspora.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva , India or the Indian Government in the context of the BJP 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 related to India

1. Nadkarni, Asha. Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India. University of Minnesota Press. 2014.
2. Nadkarni, Asha. “‘World-Menace': National Reproduction and Public Health in Katherine Mayo's Mother India.” American Quarterly. 60.3. September 2008: 805-827.
3. Nadkarni, Asha. "The South Asian American Challenge," Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, eds. Rajini Srikanth and Min Song. Cambridge University Press. 2015.