Talk:David Lunn

By Anirudha patel

David Lunn is associated as an Academic staff with the SOAS South Asia Institute, University of London as of August 2023. According to his university profile, his research areas are literary and cultural production in Hindi-Urdu, including cinema and theatre as well as poetry and prose, especially in the early 20th century. He also works on 19th-century cultural and intellectual transformations in India and the Malay world.

He 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 as of August 2023.

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

Journal Articles

1. Lunn, David. “Across the divide: Looking for the common ground of Hindustani.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 6, 2018, pp. 2056-2079.
2. Lunn, David. “The Eloquent Language: Hindustani in 1940s Indian Cinema.” BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-26.

Book Sections

1. Lunn, David. “Queer Desires and Satirised Empires: Notes on Aubrey Menen’s A Conspiracy of Women (1965).” Queer Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender, edited by J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh, London, Zed Books, 2019, pp. 125-145.
2. Lunn, David, and Katherine Butler Schofield. “Delight, Devotion and the Music of the Monsoon at the Court of Emperor Shah ‘Alam II.” Monsoon Feelings, edited by Margrit Pernau, Katherine Butler Schofield, and Imke Rajamani, New Delhi, Niyogi Books, 2018, pp. 219-254.