Talk:Chandra Mallampalli

By Rutvi Dattani

Chandra Mallampalli is Fletcher Jones Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Westmont College, as of November 2022. According to his university profile, his research focuses on Modern South Asia.

In 2021, he 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. Mallampalli, Chandra. "A Fondness for Military Display: Conquest and Intrigue in South India during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839-40." Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 77, no. 1, Feb. 2018, pp. 139-159.
2. Mallampalli, Chandra. "Slaying Men with Faces of Women: Liberalism and Patronage in the Trial of a South Indian Maulvi, 1839-40." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, May 2017, pp. 825-66.
3. Mallampalli, Chandra. "The Orientalist Framework of Religious Conversion in India." Relocating World Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies in Universal and Local Expressions of the Christian Faith, edited by David Maxwell and Joel Cabrita, E.J. Brill, 2017, pp. 162-88.
4. Mallampalli, Chandra. A Muslim Conspiracy in British India? Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth Century Deccan. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
5. Mallampalli, Chandra. Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
6. Mallampalli, Chandra. Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India. Routledge Curzon, 2004.