Talk:Dhruv Raina

By Rutvi Dattani

Dhruv Raina is Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, as of November 2022. According to his university profile, his research focuses on History and Philosophy of Science; Science, Technology and Development Policy; Studies on Science and Social Movements in India.

As per his bio, he 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, 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. Raina, Dhruv. "Betwixt Jesuit and Enlightenment Historiography: The Context of Jean-Sylvain Bailly’s History of Indian Astronomy", Revue d’Histoire de Mathématiques, 2003, 9, p.101-153.
2. Raina, Dhruv. "Disciplinary Boundaries and Civilisational Encounter: the Mathematics and Astronomy of India in Delambre’s Histoire (1800-1820)", Studies in History , 17, 2, 2001, pp. 175-209.
3. Raina, Dhruv, Habib, S.Irfan. "The Moral Legitimation of Science: Bhadralok Reflections on the Theory of Evolution", Social Studies of Science 26, 1996, 9-42.
4. Raina, Dhruv. "Reconfiguring the Centre! On the Structure of Scientific Exchanges in Colonial India", Minerva, 34: 161 - 176, 1996.
5. Raina, Dhruv. "Ramchundra's Treatise Through the Unsentimentalised Light of Mathematics or the Mathematical Foundation of a Cultural Project", Historia Mathematica, 19, 1992, 371 384.