Talk:Dismantling Global Hindutva

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

The Dismantling Global Hinduva Conference was a virtual conference that took place September 10-12, 2021. It had 9 sessions over these 3 days[1]:

  1. What Is Global Hindutva
  2. The Political Economy of Hindutva
  3. Caste and Hindutva
  4. Gender and Sexual Politics of Hindutva
  5. Contours of the Nation
  6. Hindutva, Science, and Healthcare
  7. Hindutva Propaganda and the Digital Ecosystem
  8. Hinduism and Hindutva
  9. Islamophobia, White Supremacy, and Hindutva

It was officially described by the organizers on their website as:

This conference brings together scholars of South Asia specializing in gender, economics, political science, caste, religion, healthcare, and media in order to try to understand the complex and multi-faceted phenomenon of Hindutva.


This conference will convene panels on a variety of interlinked topics that address the threat and power of Hindutva. Scholars, journalists, and activists will examine the historical development of Hindutva, the fascist dimensions of the ideology, its alignment with other supremacist movements and define all that is at stake across a range of political, socio-cultural, and economic issues. We also aim for the conference to be a space for examining the history of dissent and resistance against Hindutva. Dalit and Feminist traditions have long resisted the singular narrative of Hinduism adopted by Hindu Supremacists. A broader coalition of activists from progressive communities have mobilized to enable both material and ideological divestment from Hindutva. Drawing inspiration from such collectivities, we expect to develop resources for anti-Hindutva pedagogy and organizing in educational and cultural institutions everywhere.

Yet, the same organizers explicitly discussed the need to dismantle Hinduism within the conference

Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference was about dismantling Hinduism

Ohio State Senator Niraj Antani described the conference as

This conference represents a disgusting attack on Hindus across the United States, and we must all condemn this as nothing more than racism and bigotry against Hindus. I will always stand strong against Hinduphobia.” [2]

Organizers[3][edit]

  1. Sahar Aziz, Rutgers University
  2. Ben C. Baer, Princeton University
  3. Sruti Bala, University of Amsterdam
  4. Laura Brueck, Northwestern University
  5. Ananya Chakravarti, Georgetown University
  6. Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton University
  7. Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara University
  8. Ashley Cohen, University of Southern California
  9. Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton
  10. John Esposito, Georgetown University
  11. Shubhra Gururani, York University
  12. Jyotsna Kapur, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  13. David Ludden, New York University
  14. Meera Nanda, IISER Pune (former Visiting Faculty)
  15. Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
  16. Lotika Singha, University of Wolverhampton
  17. Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective

Academics supporting the conference[4] without any publications on the topics discussed[edit]

  1. Judith Butler, Professor Emer., UC Berkeley
  2. Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
  3. Fred Moten, New York University
  4. Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
  5. Lynn Festa, Rutgers University
  6. Angela Davis, Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz
  7. Ebony Coletu, Pennsylvania State University
  8. Christopher Nagle, Western Michigan University
  9. Jacqueline Rose, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
  10. Ann Laura Stoler, The New School for Social Research
  11. James C. Scott, Yale University
  12. Bruce William Robbins, Columbia University
  13. Meredith McGill, Rutgers University
  14. Jonathan Burton, Whittier College
  15. Sherene Seikaly, UCSB
  16. Patrick Barrett, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  17. R.A. Judy, University of Pittsburgh
  18. Kathleen Lubey, St. John’s University
  19. Jean Howard, Columbia University
  20. Rob Nixon, Princeton University
  21. Chi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania
  22. Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University
  23. Pallabi Chakravorty, Swarthmore College
  24. David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
  25. Jason Farr, Marquette University
  26. George Boulukos, SIU Carbondale
  27. Michael Meranze, UCLA
  28. Margaret Ferguson, UCDavis
  29. Susan Andrade, University of Pittsburgh
  30. Zachary Horton, University of Pittsburgh
  31. Jed Esty, University of Pennsylvania
  32. David Ewoldsen, Michigan State University
  33. Kelly M. O’Donnell, University of Pittsburgh
  34. Emily Weissbourd, Lehigh University
  35. Elizabeth Wood, MIT
  36. Thomas Marois, SOAS University of London
  37. John Greyson, York University
  38. Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University
  39. Colin Mcfarlane, Durham University
  40. Donna Landry, University of Kent
  41. Gayle Salamon, Princeton University
  42. Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara
  43. David Johnson, The Open University, UK
  44. Jason Moralee, UMass Amherst
  45. Stephanie Kane, Indiana University
  46. Jodi Skipper, The University of Mississippi
  47. Laura Bray, University of Oklahoma
  48. Cynthia Wright, York University
  49. Benjamin McKean, Ohio State University
  50. Namiko Kunimoto, Ohio State University
  51. Roland Pfefferkorn, université de Strasbourg
  52. Saida Hodzic, Cornell University
  53. Treva B. Lindsey, The Ohio State University
  54. Matt Payne, Emory University
  55. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston
  56. Moon Charania, Spelman College
  57. Marc R. Forster, Connecticut College
  58. Philip Gasper, Emeritus, Notre Dame de Namur University
  59. Grace Ting, University of Hong Kong
  60. Eric Smoodin, University of California, Davis
  61. Jacqui Gingras, X University, Tkaronto
  62. Malcolm Blincow, Emeritus, York University
  63. Barbara Heron, York University
  64. Ma Vang, University of California, Merced
  65. Evelynn M. Hammonds, Harvard University
  66. Belinda J Davis, Rutgers University
  67. Timothy Black, Case Western Reserve University
  68. Brian W. Ogilvie, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  69. Sam Friedman, NYU
  70. Justa Heinen-Kay, University of Minnesota
  71. David Klein, California State University Northridge
  72. Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania
  73. Kevin A. Young, UMass Amherst
  74. Mike Ma, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
  75. S. Cailey Hall, Oklahoma State University
  76. Joshua Williams, Brandeis University
  77. Andria Wisler, Georgetown University
  78. Paul Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania
  79. Faranak Miraftab, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  80. Miriam Ticktin, CUNY Graduate Center
  81. Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College
  82. Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto
  83. Yasser Munif, Emerson College
  84. Richard Fung Emeritus, OCAD University
  85. Raihan Jamil, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
  86. Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Woodbury University, Los Angeles
  87. Dr. Leesa Fawcett, York University
  88. Asheesh Kapur Siddique, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  89. Sarah Tindal Kareem, UCLA
  90. Marla Jaksch, The College of New Jersey
  91. Jennifer S. Ponce de León, University of Pennsylvania
  92. Gerald Maclean, University of Exeter
  93. Atreyi Dasgupta, Baylor College of Medicine
  94. Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers University
  95. Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
  96. Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School
  97. Sharmila Rudrappa, South Asia Institute, University of Texas-Austin (conference organizer)
  98. Radhika Mongia, York University (conference organizer)
  99. Carl Weinberg, Indiana University
  100. Leila Neti, Occidental College
  101. Taymiya Zaman, University of San Francisco
  102. S Sunya, University of Virginia
  103. Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
  104. Anu Thapa, Georgia Institute of Technology
  105. Darshana Mini, UW-Madison
  106. Jennifer Saul, University of Waterloo
  107. Matthew Houdek, RIT
  108. Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University
  109. Sana Haroon, UMass Boston
  110. María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University
  111. Robert Latham, York University
  112. Abikal Borah, Cornell University
  113. Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
  114. Swadesh Mahajan, University of Texas
  115. Shreena Niketa Gandhi, Michigan State University
  116. Simran Jeet Singh, Union Seminary
  117. Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University
  118. Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus, University of Melbourne
  119. Manavi Handa, Ryerson University
  120. Vikrant Kishore, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
  121. Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University
  122. Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University
  123. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy
  124. Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
  125. Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary
  126. David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
  127. Luke Wagner, California State University, Long Beach
  128. Owen Holland, UCL
  129. Sally Haslanger, MIT
  130. Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University
  131. Joseph Anthony Camilleri, La Trobe University, Melbourne
  132. Joseph G Davis, The University of Sydney
  133. Lata Narayanaswamy, University of Leeds, UK
  134. Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz
  135. Janet Afary, UC Santa Barbara
  136. Rehan Kapadia, USC
  137. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  138. Satyasikha Chakraborty, The College of New Jersey
  139. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Linfield University
  140. Angie Heo, University of Chicago
  141. Bhaskar Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
  142. Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara
  143. Francesca Orsini, Professor Emerita, SOAS, University of London
  144. Joseph Anthony Camilleri, La Trobe University, Melbourne
  145. Pranav Jani, The Ohio State University
  146. Ashok Mathur , OCAD university
  147. Amna A. Akbar, Ohio State University
  148. Shuchi Kapila, Grinnell College
  149. Aniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa
  150. Vrushali Patil, Florida International University
  151. Dr Faruk Bhuiyan, BRAC University
  152. David Schwartzman, Howard University
  153. Surabhi Sharma, NYUAD
  154. Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics and Political Science
  155. Romita Ray, Syracuse University
  156. Dale Hudson, New York University Abu Dhabi
  157. Steve Ellner, Latin American Perspectives Journal
  158. Kristen Gallagher, City University of New York – LaGuardia Community College
  159. Machiko Nissanke, SOAS, University of London
  160. Jamal Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  161. Vicky Ortiz, IUP
  162. Mary Curran, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  163. John Holt, Bowdoin College
  164. Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University
  165. Nidhi Mahajan, UCSC
  166. Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania
  167. Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers University
  168. Mary Margaret Fonow, Arizona State University
  169. Jiwoon Yulee, Arizona State University
  170. Zareena A Grewal, Yale University
  171. Lata Narayanaswamy, University of Leeds, UK
  172. Nisha Thapliyal, University of Newcastle, Australia
  173. David Kazanjian, University of Pennsylvania
  174. Chris Taylor, University of Chicago
  175. Mayuri Patankar, Emory University
  176. Burhan Uddin, Daffodil International University
  177. Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam
  178. Muriam Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
  179. Kamran Afary , California State University Los Angeles
  180. Antoine Gournay, Sorbonne Université, Paris
  181. Stephen Gasteyer, Michigan State University
  182. Harriet Evans, LSE
  183. Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto
  184. Clare Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
  185. Gautham Reddy, Emory University
  186. Kenneth Harrow, Michigan state university
  187. Jeanne M. Fitzsimmons, University of Chicago
  188. Jaskiran Dhillon, The New School
  189. Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University
  190. Kajri Jain, University of Toronto
  191. Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas, Austin
  192. Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University
  193. Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College
  194. Blanca Misse, San Francisco State University
  195. Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
  196. Denish Jaswal, Harvard University
  197. Laura Ciolkowski, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  198. Angela Willey, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  199. Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, New York University
  200. Noenoe Silva, University of Hawaii
  201. Peter Geschiere, University of Amsterdam
  202. Omari Weekes, Willamette University
  203. Mary Zaborskis, Penn State Harrisburg
  204. Nancy Gallagher, University of California, Santa Barbara
  205. Mary Taylor, City University of New York
  206. Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University
  207. Richard Peet, Institute for Human Geography
  208. David Laibman, City University of New York
  209. Kunal Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University
  210. Bronwen Bledsoe, Cornell University
  211. Richard Wolf, Harvard University
  212. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University
  213. Zahid Khairullah, St. Bonaventure University
  214. Roopali Mukherjee, CUNY Queens
  215. Sujatha Jesudason, The New School
  216. Nandita Narain, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University
  217. David Sartorius, University of Maryland
  218. Ayyaz Siddique, Indian Institute of Science
  219. Robin Zheng, Yale-NUS College
  220. Katrina Karkazis, Amherst College
  221. Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
  222. Kit Myers, University of California, Merced
  223. Samanti Kulatilake, Mount Royal University, Canada
  224. Davina Bhandar, Athabasca University
  225. Gary Fields, University of California, San Diego
  226. Brinda Charry, Keene State College
  227. Gillian Harkins, University of Washington
  228. Tanja Dreher, University of New South Wales
  229. Penni Stewart, emerita, York University
  230. Ranu Basu, York University
  231. Neetin Sonawane, Abhinav College, Affiliated to University of Mumbai
  232. Samah Selim, Rutgers University
  233. Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, USC
  234. Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth
  235. Saul Tobias, California State University, Fullerton
  236. Bruce Knauft, Emory University
  237. Radhika Subramaniam, Parsons School of Design/The New School
  238. Natasha Zaretsky, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  239. Abou Farman, The New School
  240. Madhu Sahni, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  241. Nathan K Hensley, Georgetown University
  242. A. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois, Chicago
  243. Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama
  244. Sara Dehm, University of Technology Sydney
  245. Ricardo Bracho, University of Pennsylvania
  246. Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
  247. Chelsea Stieber, Catholic University
  248. Sunil Amrith, Yale University
  249. Marie Ostby, Connecticut College
  250. Zarena Aslami, Michigan State University
  251. Abhijit Basu, Indiana University
  252. Christine Marrewa Karwoski, Columbia University
  253. Jennifer Bussell, University of California, Berkeley
  254. Christopher Diamond, The Australian National University
  255. Michael T Martin, Indiana University
  256. Leslie Rutkowski, Indiana University
  257. Joseph Varga, Indiana University
  258. James Naremore, Indiana University
  259. Rahim Quazi, PVAMU
  260. Nicole Sunday Grove, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
  261. Shaman Hatley, University of Massachusetts Boston
  262. Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Brock University
  263. P.K.Basant, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
  264. Lee Grieveson, University College London
  265. Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London
  266. Lotte Hoek, University of Edinburgh
  267. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, University of Edinburgh
  268. Roger Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
  269. Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University
  270. Laura Ginger, Emerita, Indiana University
  271. Dean Accardi, Connecticut College
  272. Laura Kang, University of California, Irvine
  273. Alex Zukas, Retired, National University
  274. Sarah Richardson, University of Toronto Mississauga
  275. Angelina Del Balzo, Bilkent University
  276. Arun P Mukherjee, York University
  277. Oscar Kenshur, Emeritus, Indiana University
  278. Vandana Singh, Framingham State University
  279. Mohamed Mehdi, Oakton Community College
  280. Purnima Bose, Indiana University
  281. Ted Steinberg Case Western, Reserve University
  282. Anneeth Kaur Hundle, University of California, Irvine
  283. Medha Nirody Karmarkar, Rutgers University
  284. Bradley Levinson, Indiana University
  285. Susan Seizer, Indiana University
  286. Pavithra Vasudevan, The University of Texas at Austin
  287. Ali Kazimi, York University
  288. Will Sweetman, University of Otago
  289. Suman Tamang, Surendranath College
  290. Lynn Duggan, Indiana University Bloomington
  291. Manjeet Ramgotra, SOAS University of London
  292. Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University
  293. Rebecca Manring, Indiana University
  294. Eileen Kane, Connecticut College
  295. Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
  296. Usha Sanyal, Wingate University
  297. Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University
  298. Lindsay French, Rhode Island School of Design
  299. Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, UK
  300. Brian Caton, Luther College
  301. Elizabeth Dean Hermann, Rhode Island School of Design
  302. Sandhya Devesan, University of Delhi
  303. Jayashree Kamble, CUNY
  304. Sundari Johansen, California Institute of Integral Studies
  305. Jonathan Bishop Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design
  306. Joseph Levine, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  307. Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts and Rutgers University
  308. Derek R. Ford, DePauw University
  309. Rama Srinivasan, University of Venice
  310. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barnard College, Columbia University
  311. Michael G. Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania
  312. Abhilash Medhi, Mount Holyoke College
  313. Manish Paliwal, The College of New Jersey
  314. Iyanatul Islam, Griffith Asia Institute
  315. Solange Mouthaan, University of Warwick
  316. Vicki Squire, Warwick University
  317. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Point Pedro Institute of Development, Sri Lanka
  318. Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University
  319. Mehrab Modi, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
  320. Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University
  321. Yousuf Al-Bulushi, University of California, Irvine
  322. Darko Suvin, McGill University
  323. Mridula Shankar, Johns Hopkins University
  324. Donna Haraway, University of California Santa Cruz
  325. Brian Nichols, Mount Royal University
  326. Ivan Huber, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Madison, NJ
  327. Michael Nijhawan, York University
  328. Stephen Roddy, University of San Francisco
  329. Eleana Kim, UC Irvine
  330. Sarah Hilaly, Rajiv Gandhi University Itanagar
  331. Sean Dowdy, University of Chicago
  332. Goran Fejic, retired, Intl.Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
  333. Sapana Doshi, University of California, Merced
  334. Lara Braitstein, McGill University
  335. Susan D. Amussenj, University of California, Merced
  336. Samar Al-Bulushi, UC Irvine
  337. Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
  338. Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin
  339. Feng Xu, University of Victoria
  340. Joyce Green, University of Regina
  341. Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
  342. Jeff J Corntassel, Indigenous Studies, University of Victoria
  343. Chad Haines, Arizona State University
  344. Sean Malloy, UC Merced
  345. Richard Falk, Princeton University
  346. Jeanette Patterson, Binghamton University
  347. Abdullah Mahmud, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  348. Mary Odem, Emory University
  349. Charlotte Sussman, Duke University
  350. Ethel Tungohan, York University
  351. Ena Dua, York University
  352. Eda Pepi, Yale University
  353. Darlene Juschka, University of Regina
  354. Asif Siddiqi, Fordham University
  355. Carol Schick, University of Regina
  356. Sadu Nanjundiah, Central Connecticut State University
  357. J. L. Keith, Columbia University
  358. Patricia Penn Hilden, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
  359. Janet Montefiore, University of Kent
  360. Kathleen Hall, University of Pennsylvania
  361. Edith Parlier-Renault, Sorbonne Université
  362. Farida Khanam, Jamia millia islamia (retired)
  363. Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School
  364. Aparajita De, UDC, Washington, D.C.
  365. Saraswathi UNNI, Water Policy Centre, Aurangabad, India
  366. John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
  367. Nabeela Ahmed, Sheffield Hallam
  368. Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford
  369. Dwaipayan Banerjee, MIT
  370. Shaheen parveen, Rutgers
  371. Eleanor Newbigin, SOAS, University of London
  372. Kausar Wizarat , Retired from NIEPA New Delhi
  373. Yamini, University of Delhi
  374. Sherene Razack, UCLA
  375. Neha Vora, Lafayette College
  376. Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University
  377. Mary Taylor, City University of New York
  378. Toral Gajarawala, NYU
  379. Rehan Kapadia, USC
  380. Mashinka Hakopian, Occidental College
  381. Ed Yazijian, Firman University
  382. Samata Biswas, The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata, India
  383. Julie Ward, University of Oklahoma
  384. Manish Paliwal, The College of New Jersey
  385. Darlene May, Wake Forest University
  386. Anver Saloojee, Ryerson University
  387. Caren Kaplan, UC Davis
  388. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Tulane University
  389. Tathagatan Ravindran, Universidad Icesi
  390. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University
  391. David Lelyveld, William Paterson University (retired)
  392. Sucharita Sen, JNU
  393. Borayin Larios, University of Vienna
  394. Stéphane Douaillera, Département de philosophie de l’Université Paris 8
  395. Aditya Kiran Kakati, IIAS, Leiden University
  396. Deepika Tandon, Delhi University
  397. Sheetal Majithia, NYUAD
  398. Namiko Kunimoto, Ohio State University
  399. Peter D. Little, Emory University
  400. Ana Ramos-Zayas, Yale
  401. Sarah Besky, Cornell University
  402. Walter Hakala, University at Buffalo, SUNY
  403. Svati Shah, University of Massachusetts
  404. Mark Sherman, Rhode Island School of Design
  405. Ashwani Sharma, University of the Arts London
  406. Mustafa Koc, Ryerson University
  407. Alexei Penzin, University of Wolverhampton
  408. Wasi Haider, retired S.U Aligarh
  409. Lorena Arocha, University of Hull
  410. Tyler W. Williams, University of Chicago
  411. Anil Kumar, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi
  412. Oishik Sircar, Jindal Global Law School
  413. Kamala Visweswaran, Rice University
  414. V. K. Sridhar, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi
  415. al mamun, Social Sciences, Dhaka
  416. bharati jagannathan, Miranda House, Delhi University
  417. Kasturi Ray, San Francisco State University
  418. Annu Jalais, National University of Singapore
  419. V V Krishna, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  420. Shenaz Khan, Case Western Reserve University
  421. Mahalakshmi, JNU
  422. Jagdeep Chhokar, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (Retired)
  423. Syed Najeed, Wright State University
  424. Kiran Asher, UMass, Amherst
  425. A Sunil Dharan, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi
  426. Md. Ariful Islam, University of Dhaka
  427. Brij Tankha, Delhi University (Retd.)
  428. Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  429. Afshan Jafar, Connecticut College
  430. Ian Woolford, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
  431. Janaki Nair, (retired) Centre for Historical Studies, JNU
  432. Kavita Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  433. Sujata Patel, Visiting Professor, Umea University
  434. Sushil Khanna, IIM Calcutta (Retrd)
  435. Ziaul Hasan, Retired, University of Illinois-Chicago
  436. Supriya Chaudhuri, Emerita, Jadavpur University
  437. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Retired, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  438. Rama Melkote, retired, Osmania University
  439. Frans Manjali, J.N.U.
  440. Roanne L Kantor, Stanford University
  441. Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University (Japan)
  442. Kuhu Tanvir, Michigan State University
  443. Rama Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago
  444. Shirin M Rai, University of Warwick
  445. Carola Lorea, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
  446. Nidhi Srinivas, The New School
  447. Lisa I Knight, Furman University
  448. Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University
  449. Constantine V. Nakassis, University of Chicago
  450. Preeti Chopra, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  451. Marc Howard Rich, University of Colorado
  452. Ilan Kapoor, York University
  453. Ajay Rao, University of Toronto
  454. Peehu Pardeshi, TISS
  455. Kevin B Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
  456. Mahesh Menon, Sai University, Chennai
  457. Kartik Nair, Temple University
  458. Judith Frank, Amherst College
  459. Rati Kumar, Central Connecticut State University
  460. Divya Victor, Michigan State University
  461. Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut
  462. Harleen Kaur, UCLA
  463. Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania
  464. Simona Vittorini, SOAS University of London
  465. Srinjoy Mitra, University of Edinburgh
  466. Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS University of London
  467. Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz
  468. Kiran Asher, UMass Amherst
  469. Manishita Dass, Royal Holloway, University of London
  470. Meena Gopal, TISS and FAOW
  471. Kunal Chakrabarti, Retired, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  472. Sharmila Purkayastha, Miranda House
  473. Somak Mukherjee, University of California, Santa Barbara
  474. Akhil Gupta, UCLA Anthropology
  475. Janet Afary, UC Santa Barbara
  476. Saswati Sengupta, Miranda House, Delhi University
  477. Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
  478. Sadhna Arya, University of Delhi
  479. Isabel Huacuja Alonso, Columbia University
  480. Nathan K Hensley, Georgetown University
  481. Abou Farman, The New School
  482. Natasha Zaretsky, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  483. Jyotsna G. Singh, Michigan State University
  484. Anna Guevarra, University of Illinois Chicago
  485. Gayatri Reddy, University of Illinois Chicago
  486. Jonathan Leal, USC
  487. Melih Sener, UIUC
  488. Savita Nair, Furman University
  489. Rileen Sinha, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  490. Rajit Mazumder, DePaul University
  491. Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University
  492. Shruti Devgan, Bowdoin College
  493. Karen Tongson, USC
  494. Yigal Bronner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  495. Sara Jewett Nieuwoudt, University of the Witwatersrand
  496. Ian Angus, Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
  497. Thierry Di Costanzo, University of Strasbourg
  498. Anupama Ranawana, University of St Andrews
  499. Ratna Raman, Sri Venkateswara College , Delhi University
  500. Mekhola Gomes, Amherst College
  501. Yu Sasaki, Kyoto University
  502. Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University
  503. margaret l rhodes, retired, U. Mass Boston
  504. Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley
  505. Rahul Rastogi, SUNY, Oneonta
  506. Patricia Dold, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
  507. Prabhu Guptara, retired, William Carey University, Shillong India
  508. Shukla Sawant, JNU
  509. Robert Phillips, Princeton University
  510. Madhuri Deshmukh, Oakton College
  511. Elda Maria Roman, USC
  512. Anna Stirr, University of Hawaii Manoa
  513. Beryl Anand, Central University of Gujarat
  514. J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto
  515. Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  516. Lawrence Cohen, University of California Berkeley
  517. Susie Tharu, Independent Scholar
  518. Rachel Fell McDermott, Barnard College
  519. Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY
  520. Baidik Bhattacharya, CSDS, Delhi
  521. Ambar Basu, Univ of South Florida
  522. Abha Sur, MIT
  523. Anne Delgado, Indiana University
  524. Meghna Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  525. Raktim Majumder, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
  526. Shambhavi Prakash, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  527. Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto
  528. Sedef Arat-Koc, X University (formerly known as Ryerson University)
  529. Arundhati Roy, Writer
  530. Gaiutra Bahadur, Rutgers University
  531. Noreen Khawaja, Yale University
  532. Mana Kia, Columbia University
  533. Hephzibah Israel, University of Edinburgh
  534. Leo J Garofalo, Connecticut College
  535. Regina Kunzel, Yale University
  536. Kaneesha Parsard, University of Chicago
  537. Sanjam Ahluwalia, Northern Arizona University
  538. Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics and Political Science
  539. Mohan Rao, JNU
  540. Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota
  541. Kathy Ellen Ferguson, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
  542. Pasquale Scaramozzino, SOAS University of London
  543. Mónica Amador-Jimenez, University of Bristol
  544. Kay Dickinson, Concordia University
  545. M. V. Ramana, University of British Columbia
  546. Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara
  547. Ritty Lukose, New York University
  548. Dheepa Sundaram, University of Denver
  549. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, NYU
  550. Subho Basu, McGill University
  551. Anshu Malhotra, UCSB
  552. Dilip Menon, University of Witwatersrand
  553. Sucheta Mahajan, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  554. Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College
  555. Gowri Vijayakumar, Brandeis University
  556. Jyoti Puri, Simmons University
  557. Vasudha Dalmia, University of California, Berkeley
  558. Yogita Goyal, UCLA
  559. Satish Kolluri, Pace University
  560. Sanjay Joshi, Northern Arizona University
  561. Mitra Sharafi, UW-Madison
  562. Usha Iyer, Stanford University
  563. G. Arunima, Kerala Council for Historical Research
  564. Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi
  565. Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh
  566. Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
  567. William Elison, University of California, Santa Barbara
  568. Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago
  569. Himani Bannerji, York University
  570. Arjun Appadurai, New York University
  571. Aamir Mufti, UCLA
  572. Romila Thapar, JNU
  573. Farida Khan, University of Colorado
  574. Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University
  575. Pavithra Prasad, California State University, Northridge
  576. Judith Walsh, State University of New York Old Westbury
  577. Rajiv Mangla, SUNY Upstate Medical University
  578. Marc Matera, University of California, Santa Cruz
  579. Beverly Stoeltje, Indiana University
  580. Preetha Mani, Rutgers University
  581. Ben Rogaly, University of Sussex
  582. Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  583. Prachi Deshpande, CSSSC
  584. Uttara Shahani, University of Oxford
  585. Lisa Rivera, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  586. Dick Blackwell, Institute of Group Analysis. London
  587. Avishek Ganguly, RISD
  588. Anneeth Kaur Hundle, University of California, Irvine
  589. David Lelyveld, retired, William Paterson University
  590. Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley
  591. Pradip Kumar Datta, Independent Academic
  592. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, (retired) Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
  593. Montanaro Mara, CIPh/ LEGS/Université Paris 8-
  594. Daho Djerbal, University of Algiers, Algéria
  595. Jamin Shih, UC Merced
  596. Yumna Siddiqi, Middlebury College
  597. Robert F. Arnove, Indiana Univerasity, Bloomington
  598. Rita B. Dhamoon, University of Victoria (Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC lands)
  599. Shreyas Sreenath, Bowdoin College
  600. Ahmed Shamim, University of Texas at Austin
  601. Nikhil Anand, University of Pennsylvania
  602. Sunalini Kumar, Ambedkar University Delhi
  603. Anne Waldrop, Oslo Metropolitan University
  604. Betty Joseph, Rice University
  605. Apurva Apurva, SUNY Oneonta
  606. Debarati Biswas, New College of Florida
  607. Christiane Brosius, Heidelberg centre for transcultural studies
  608. Robin Celikates, Freie Universität Berlin
  609. Sonya Posmentier, New York University
  610. Hylton White, University of the Witwatersrand
  611. Kristin Plys, University of Toronto
  612. Charles Varghese, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University
  613. Shailja Sharma, DePaul University
  614. Naisargi N. Dave, University of Toronto
  615. Sanjukta Sunderason, University of Amsterdam
  616. Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths, University of London
  617. Aqdas Aftab, Loyola University Chicago
  618. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, UCSB
  619. Tara Sethia, Cal Poly Pomona
  620. Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University
  621. Devika Chawl, Ohio University
  622. Debalina Dutta, Massey University
  623. Amit R Baishya, University of Oklahoma
  624. S. Shankar, University of Hawai’i
  625. Varun Khanna, Swarthmore College
  626. Sangay K Mishra, Drew University
  627. Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University
  628. Jonathan Arac , University of Pittsburgh
  629. Helen Deutsch, UCLA
  630. Andrew Cole, Princeton University
  631. Gloria Goodwin Raheja, University of Minnesota
  632. Mallarika Sinha Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  633. Devin Griffiths, USC
  634. Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  635. Papori Bora, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  636. Rupa Pillai, University of Pennsylvania
  637. Paul Donnelly, Northern Arizona University
  638. Paula Satne, University of Wolverhampton
  639. Richard Bauman, Indiana University
  640. Cecilia C. Van Hollen, Georgetown University
  641. Manali Sheth, Connecticut College
  642. Andrew Davies, University of Liverpool
  643. Aaditya Dar, Indian School of Business
  644. Linda Hess, Stanford University
  645. Taarini Mookherjee, Columbia University
  646. Alex Wilson, York University
  647. Philipp Zehmisch, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
  648. Amina Jamal, Ryerson University
  649. Simon Samuel, Senate of Serampore College (University)
  650. Ramaa Vasudevan, Colorado State University
  651. Andrew Sartori, NYU
  652. Chirashree Das Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  653. Yasmin Saikia, Arizona State University
  654. Elora Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston
  655. Rajeev Bhargava, CSDS
  656. Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia
  657. Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  658. Rada Ivekovic, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, France
  659. Prem Chandavarkar, Independent Researcher
  660. Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
  661. Shana Sippy, Centre College
  662. Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University
  663. Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State University
  664. Uma Chakravarti, (retired) Miranda House Delhi, University
  665. Andrew J. Nicholson, Stony Brook University
  666. Daniel Gold, Cornell University
  667. Elaine Fisher, Stanford University
  668. Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Millia Islamia
  669. Brian Hatcher, Tufts University
  670. Harbans Mukhia, JNU, retired.
  671. Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  672. Dipti Khera, NYU
  673. Sirisha Naidu, UMKC
  674. Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University
  675. Mytheli Sreenivas, Ohio State University
  676. Prea Persaud, Swarthmore College
  677. Deborah S. Hutton, The College of New Jersey
  678. Ruby Lal, Emory University
  679. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi, Aligarh Muslim University
  680. Avinash Kumar, JNU
  681. Ananya Dasgupta, Case Western Reserve University
  682. Mohinder Singh, JNU
  683. Rahul Mukherjee, University of Pennsylvania
  684. Sandra Russell Jones, Rutgers University
  685. M Madhava Prasad, Independent scholar
  686. Sibaji Bandypadhyay, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC)
  687. Sohini Sarah Pillai, Kalamazoo College
  688. Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley
  689. Naomi Standen, Universities of Oxford and Birmingham


Individuals fraudulently signing as an academic or scholar[edit]

  1. T M Krishna, Independent Musician and Author
  2. Suchitra Vijayan, Author
  3. Aaron Winslow, Narrative strategist
  4. Akash Sheshadri, Sandberg Instituut
  5. Sancia Sequeira, TOGA
  6. Frieda Afary, Iranian Progressives in Translation
  7. Keval Bharadia, Birkbeck College, University of London
  8. Zubair Ahmed, Dhaka University
  9. Kyra Hanlon, Georgetown University
  10. Bhargav Chavda, IITGN
  11. P N Sanathanan, Writer
  12. Jessica Lee, Georgetown University
  13. Zak Kosgi, Wayne State University
  14. Dev Benegal, Film Director
  15. Rashmi Shetty, Utrecht University
  16. Romik Bose Mitra, Rhode Island School of Design
  17. Rani Day Burra, Filmmaker
  18. Sundar Burra, Retired civil servant
  19. Abdul Hafiz Lakhani, editor, Siyasat
  20. Suresh K Goel, Former Diplomat and DG ICCR
  21. Ashutosh Malaviya, Movable Ink
  22. Ramesh Awasthi, Indian Renaissance Institute
  23. Tashi Choedup, Independent
  24. Navrekha Sharma, Constitutional Conduct Group
  25. Amitabha Pande, Constitutional Conduct Group
  26. Abhijit Sengupta, former Secretary Ministry of Culture, GoI
  27. Ruchir Joshi, Writer and Film-maker
  28. Avinash Mohananey, retired DGP Sikkim
  29. Raja Gopal Bhattar, Bhattar Consulting Group
  30. Abdul Hafiz Lakhani, Editor, siyasat
  31. Ammu Abraham, Forum against oppression of women
  32. Bikash K Bhattacharya, Independent writer and journalist
  33. Ashok Sharma IFS (Retd.), Visiting Professor
  34. Thanksy Francis Thekkekara, Retired civil servant
  35. Poile Sengupta, Author and playwright
  36. Ish Kumar, IPS ( retired)
  37. Hindal Tyabji, Retired Civil Servant
  38. V. Rukmini Rao, Independent
  39. K.Ravi Chander, Telangana Praja Front
  40. Rushi Vyas, University of Otago
  41. Sanjay Kak, Filmmaker
  42. Ravunni MN, Porattam
  43. Aishik Saha, Jadavpur University
  44. Jai Sharma, Ashoka University
  45. Noorudeen P Malaibar, Foundation for Research and Development
  46. Jessica Johnson, UMass Amherst
  47. Dhruv Raina, JNU
  48. Manisha Sharma, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
  49. Elsamma U, MRA
  50. Ben Dover, Kent University
  51. Deb Mukharji, Constitutional Conduct Group
  52. Anasuya Sengupta, Independent
  53. Victor Begg, Author & opinion writer
  54. Nisha Biswas, CSIR
  55. Jenny S, Independent researcher
  56. Arjun Mahey, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
  57. K. Muthu Kumar, Retired Civil servant. GOI.
  58. R Srivatsan, Independent Academic
  59. Syed Sher Osman, Author
  60. Hussain KH, Rachana Akshara Vedi
  61. Sumaiya Yasmeen, University of Bonn
  62. Walter Fernandes, NESRC Guwahati
  63. Prem Chandavarkar, Independent Researcher
  64. Majed Akhter, King’s College London
  65. Mohamed Siraj, Indepdendent
  66. M. Mandakini, Indepdendent
  67. Shruti Ganguly, Independent
  68. Ravi Shukla, Independent Researcher
  69. Radhika Das, Independent
  70. Robb Hopps, Independent
  71. Johaina Khan, Independent
  72. Madhukar Dube, Independent
  73. Charuhas Satam, Independent
  74. Subbarao Prabhala, Independent
  75. Shruti Ganguly, Independent
  76. Pushkar Raj, Independent Researcher
  77. M. Mandakini, Independent
  78. Ranganath Nayak, Independent
  79. Meena Gupta, Independent
  80. Subbarao Prabhala, Independent
  81. Prabha Pandey, Independent
  82. Zoha Hopps, Independent
  83. Anand Kumar Srivastava, Independent
  84. Francis Colaso, Private citizen
  85. Asha Saxena Ahmad, retired
  86. A.R.Vasavi, Independent Scholar,
  87. Ram Puniyani, All India Secular Forum
  88. Kiran Desai, Author
  89. Firdaus Gupte, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  90. Victor Ma, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  91. Joseph Fonseca, Our Lady of Dolours
  92. Uma Shankari, South Asian dialogues on ecological democracy
  93. Vinod Mubayi, Insaf Bulletin
  94. Gregory Stanton, Genocide Watch
  95. Natasha Badhwar, Karwan e Mohabbat
  96. Geeta Kapur, Independent art critic
  97. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, American Institute of Islamic History and Culture
  98. Munir. Qudus
  99. Satya Mohapatra, MIT


Activists fraudulently signing as an academic or scholar[edit]

  1. Kathleen Farley, Director, Teaneck Creek Conservancy
  2. Lalita Ramdas, LARA
  3. Arjun Singh Sethi, Georgetown University Law Center
  4. Meera Sanghamitra, National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
  5. Krishanti Dharmaraj, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Amnesty International
  6. Chennaiah Poguri, APVVU
  7. Desai Dev, NAPM
  8. Arundhati Dhuru, NAPM
  9. Ahrar Ahmad, Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation, Dhaka
  10. Sujata Gothoskar, Forum Against Oppression of Women
  11. Aruna Roy, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)
  12. Prajwala Tatte, Shetkari sanghatana
  13. Dunu Roy, Hazards Centre
  14. Sharat G. Lin is a Political economist and artist on the Board of Advisors for Initiative for Equality, a global network of individual activists
  15. V.S.Sridhar, South India Voluntary Alliance
  16. Darshan Dhillon, SANSAD
  17. Madhu Chitale, XIC
  18. Subhir Mavunkal, Mumbai Rationalists Association
  19. Unni Krishnan, Mumbai Rationalists Association
  20. Elsamma U, Mumbai Rationalists Association
  21. Arundhati Roy, Writer

Students fraudulently signing as an academic or scholar[edit]

  1. Kevin Butts, Yale University
  2. Lise Bjerke, University of Oslo
  3. Megan Wilcots, University of Minnesota
  4. Kamil Ahsan, Yale University
  5. Isabel Salovaara, Stanford University
  6. Aadita Chaudhury, York University, Canada/Goldsmiths, University of London
  7. Amod Shah, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
  8. Apurva Parikh, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  9. Manmit Singh, San Francisco State University
  10. Sriram Mohan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  11. Ayesha Matthan, Cornell University
  12. Roshni Chattopadhyay, Emory University
  13. Swati Birla, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  14. Sabiha Mohyuddin, University of California, Santa Barbara
  15. Ritika Popli, Ohio University
  16. Georgia Kashnig, Georgetown University
  17. Devina Sarwatay, University of Hyderabad
  18. Somak Mukherjee, University of California, Santa Barbara
  19. Adrian Schlegel, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  20. Abhishek Bhattacharyya, UW-Madison
  21. Leki Thungon, McGill University
  22. Sarandha Jain, Columbia University
  23. Samantha Agarwal, Johns Hopkins University
  24. Fahad Syed, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi Pakistan
  25. Aditya Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University
  26. Poushali Basak, Forum against Oppression of Women
  27. Cody Fritz, University of Warwick
  28. Ashish Ranjan, formerly BIT Patna
  29. Ritwik Bagchi, Jadavpur University
  30. Kripa S, University of Calicut
  31. Waziuddin Chowdhury, SFUSD
  32. Sania Mariam, Monash Academy
  33. Hana Shams Ahmed, York University
  34. Neelabh Gupta, University of Edinburgh
  35. Arjun Singh, Imperial College London
  36. Chandni Vadhavana, York University
  37. Firdaus Gupte, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  38. Elham Faghanimehr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  39. Emelia Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  40. Milind Agarwal, Johns Hopkins University
  41. Mriganka Mukhopadhyay, University of Amsterdam
  42. Jay Prakash Sharma, Syracuse University
  43. Suramya Srivastava, University of Warwick
  44. Thomas Morrison, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  45. Abdul Wahab, Osmania university
  46. Saad Shamim, Rice University
  47. Asena Karipek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  48. Daniel Owen, UC Berkeley
  49. Nur E Makbul Fortune, University of Southern Mississippi
  50. Kripa Salu, University of Calicut
  51. Petra Lamberson, University of California, Berkeley
  52. Rhitama Basak, Delhi University
  53. Mounica Kota, University of Minnesota
  54. Sarah Hammarlund, University of Minnesota
  55. Abu Tayub MD Nazmussakib Bhuyan, Ankara University
  56. Ashima Gandhi, Birkbeck
  57. Sravanthi Dasari, UIC
  58. Aiman Khan, Independent Researcher
  59. Ashwin Ramaswami, Georgetown University Law Center
  60. Zoru Bhathena, Independent
  61. Manjari Sahay, Independent Researcher
  62. Barshana Basu, Jadavpur University
  63. Ashir Mohamed Abdul Azeez, University of Chicago
  64. Ram Dayal Ahirwar, JNU
  65. Sasha Sabherwal, Yale University
  66. Neerja Pathak, University of Edinburgh
  67. Reetika Kalita, Simon Fraser University
  68. Isabel Salovaara, Stanford University
  69. Shoumik Bhattacharya, CUNY Graduate Center
  70. Salini Mondal, JNU
  71. Rohini, Columbia university
  72. Shwetha Chandrashekhar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  73. Khalid Afsar, UC Berkeley
  74. Leno B. Smith Jr., University of Minnesota
  75. Safiyya Hosein, Ryerson University
  76. Zulunungsang Lemtur, Graduate Theological Union
  77. Mohammad Abbasi, Rutgers


to fix[edit]

  • Martha R. Gonzales, UC Davis
  • Abusaleh Shariff, US-India Policy Institute, Washington DC
  • Tashi Tsering Ghale, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ahmar Raza, retired
  • Stephen Roddy, University of San Francisco
  1. Surbhi, University of Oxford: https://academic.oup.com/book/46830/chapter-abstract/413487705?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
  2. M M P Singh, NAYA PATH, Janwadi lekhak Sangh & Delhi University: https://countercurrents.org/2020/09/in-solidarity-with-k-satyanarayana/ http://www.jlsindia.org/?page_id=21 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.551577
  3. Rekha Awasthi, Janwadi lekhak sangh & University of Delhi:
  4. Abhijit, Bharat Dekho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijit-biswas-30908b2a/?originalSubdomain=in https://www.bharatdekho.org/meet-the-team
  5. Hibatullah Akhundzada, Majlis – e – Shura : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36377008 https://childrightsinindia.wordpress.com/about/
  6. Sreekanth Progressive youth movement (PYM) Kerala https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/kerala-government-s-use-uapa-calls-question-its-policy-dissent-114618
  7. N Venugopal, Veekshanam: https://theleaflet.in/author/nvenugopal/

Journalist signatories fraudulently categorized as academics & scholars[edit]

  1. Rajashri Dasgupta, Journalist
  2. Jyoti Punwani, Journalist
  3. Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American
  4. Nikhat Fatima, Journalist
  5. Niranjan Takle, Journalist
  6. N Sreejith, journalist
  7. Freny Manecksha, Independent journalist
  8. Pamela Philipose, Ombudsperson, The Wire.in
  9. Faraz Ahmad, journalist

Fraudulent signatures[edit]

The following people signed but the university or organization they reported being affiliated with don't mention their name nor does a Google search for their name indicate any person with that name ever worked with the named organization.

  1. Alan Shandro, York University
  2. Chakra Chandra Singh, Rajiv Gandhi University
  3. Christopher Powell, X (Xavier) University
  4. Ben Dover,Kent University
  5. Sonal Raghuvanshi, Yale University
  6. Jai Sharma, Ashoka University
  7. Waziuddin Chowdhury, SFUSD
  8. Ritwik Trivedi, University of Delhi
  9. Ravindra Jain, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  10. Amrita, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
  11. Shaahkar Siddiquee, Ambedkar University
  12. Bhargav Chavda, IIT Gandhi Nagar (IITGN)
  13. Kungan JP Singh, Delhi University
  14. Sonal Raghuvanshi, Yale University
  15. Iru C, BITS Pilani
  16. Amit Bhattavharyya, Retired, Jadavpur University

People with incomplete signatures making it impossible to identify them[edit]

  1. KK, JNU
  2. Ashwin, Harvard

Academics supporting the conference[5][edit]

Scholars that have publications[edit]

  1. Gyan Pandey, Emory University
  2. Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University
  3. Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University
  4. Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers University
  5. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
  6. Amrita Dhar, The Ohio State University
  7. Kama Maclean, University of Heidelberg
  8. Sanjay Nath, Widener University
  9. Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University-Newark
  10. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University
  11. Sanjay Krishnan, Boston University
  12. Prem Kumar Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University
  13. Arun W. Jones, Emory University
  14. Rupa Viswanath, University of Goettingen
  15. Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University
  16. Prabhat Patnaik, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru university, New Delhi
  17. Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, JNU, New Delhi
  18. Soma Marik, RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan
  19. Karen Gabriel, St. Stephen’s College
  20. Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
  21. Alpa Shah, London School of Economics
  22. Vasanthi Venkatesh, University of Windsor
  23. Raju J Das, York University
  24. Hiren Gohain, Independent
  25. Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University
  26. Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
  27. Medha, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
  28. Jostein Jakobsen, University of Oslo
  29. Robert M Geraci, Manhattan College
  30. Amitav Ghosh, Hon. Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
  31. Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
  32. Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics
  33. Syantani Chatterjee, Columbia University
  34. Navyug Gill, William Paterson University
  35. Vinayak Chaturvedi, UC Irvine
  36. Natasha Raheja, Cornell University
  37. Himika Bhattacharya, Syracuse University
  38. Sharika Thiranagama , Stanford University
  39. Maroona Murmu, Jadavpur University
  40. Swarna Rajagopalan, Independent researcher
  41. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Emeritus, Victoria University of Wellington
  42. Indulata Prasad, Arizona State University
  43. Balmurli Natrajan, William Paterson University
  44. Rahul Rao, SOAS, University of London
  45. Bishnupriya Dutt, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  46. Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
  47. Kumkum Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  48. Sheetal Chhabria, Connecticut College
  49. Srila Roy, Wits University
  50. Shamsul Islam, (former) University of Delhi, India
  51. Nivedita Menon, JNU Delhi India
  52. Chitralekha, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  53. Sagari R Ramdas, Food Sovereignty Alliance, India
  54. Maidul Islam, CSSSC
  55. Manu Bhagavan, The City University of New York
  56. Francis Cody, University of Toronto
  57. Tanika Sarkar, Retired, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  58. Dolly Daftary, University of Massachusetts Boston
  59. Navsharan Singh, Independent academic
  60. Ravi Sundaram, CSDS
  61. Kalpana Kannabiran, Independent Researcher
  62. Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky
  63. Priya Chacko, University of Adelaide
  64. Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town
  65. Lisa Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania
  66. D Parthasarathy, IIT Bombay
  67. Zoya Hasan, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  68. Salil Misra, Ambedkar University Delhi
  69. Achin Vanaik, Retd., University of Delhi
  70. Amarendra Pandey, Gujarat Vidyapith
  71. Rajan Joseph , Barrett MSU Baroda
  72. Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Emory University
  73. Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen
  74. Ravi Ahuja, CeMIS Göttingen
  75. David Mosse, SOAS University of London
  76. Dickens Leonard, CSSSC, Kolkata
  77. Nathaniel Roberts, University of Göttingen
  78. Aparna Sundar, Independent Researcher
  79. Rebecca de Souza, University of Minnesota Duluth
  80. Kalyani Devaki Menon, DePaul University
  81. Durba Mitra, Harvard University
  82. Arild Engelsen Ruud, University of Oslo
  83. Alf Gunvald Nilsen, University of Pretoria
  84. Atul Sood, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  85. Subir Sinha, SOAS, London
  86. Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen
  87. Sanjay Ruparelia, Ryerson University
  88. Hugo Gorringe, University of Edinburgh
  89. Stephen Legg, University of Nottingham
  90. Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
  91. Nasreen Fazalbhoy, Retired
  92. Haripriya Rangan, University of Melbourne
  93. Gaura Narayan, Purchase College SUNY
  94. Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney
  95. Satyajit Singh, University of California Santa Barbara
  96. Ghanshyam Shah, JNU, Delhi (Retired Professor)
  97. Debjani Sengupta, IP College, DU
  98. Sudeshna Banerjee, Jadavpur University
  99. Nupur Dasgupta, Jadavpur University
  100. Jan Breman, University of Amsterdam
  101. Sudha Rajagopalan, University of Amsterdam
  102. Udaya Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
  103. Jyotasana, Sabarmati University
  104. J Devika, Feminist Scholar, Kerala
  105. Amman Madan, Azim Premji University
  106. Divya Cherian, Princeton University
  107. Lalit Vachani, University of Göttingen
  108. Prof. John Roberts, University of Wolverhampton
  109. Vikas Maniar, Azim Premji University
  110. John Harriss, Simon Fraser University
  111. Aparna Sundar, Independent researcher
  112. John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University
  113. Kathinka Frøystad, University of Oslo
  114. Kenneth Bo Nielsen, University of Oslo
  115. Dag-Erik Berg, Molde University College
  116. Sankaran Krishna, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
  117. Shobhita Jain, Indira Gandhi National Open University
  118. Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University
  119. Kalpana Wilson, Birkbeck, University of London
  120. Paula Chakravartty, NYU
  121. Smriti Rao, Assumption University
  122. Ramnarayan S Rawat, University of Deleware
  123. Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont
  124. Neetu Khanna, USC
  125. Haimanti Roy History, University of Dayton
  126. James Manor, University of London
  127. Anupama Rao, Barnard/Columbia
  128. Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto
  129. Nishant Upadhyay, University of Colorado Boulder
  130. Brian K. Pennington, Elon University
  131. Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
  132. Purvi Mehta, Colorado College
  133. Robert M Geraci, Manhattan College
  134. Gillian Hart, UC Berkeley
  135. Anirban Baishya, Fordham University
  136. Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  137. Anustup Basu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  138. Madhumita Dutta, Ohio State University
  139. Malini Ranganathan, American University
  140. Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University
  141. Neeti Nair, University of Virginia
  142. Arnab Chakladar, Carleton College
  143. Anantanand Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
  144. Sara Abraham, Independent
  145. Sailaja Krishnamurti , Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
  146. Sonia Sikka, University of Ottawa
  147. Rudi Heredia, Indian Social Institute Delhi


Not yet checked scholars[edit]

Profile not created:

  1. Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective
  2. Aleksandar Uskokov, Yale University
  3. James Manor, University of London
  4. N. Jayaram, PUCL
  5. Julie Vig, University of Toronto
  6. Ravi Shukla, Independent Researcher
  7. Raktim Majumder, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata


Profile not found:

  1. Aftab Alam, Independent
  2. Balaji Narasimhan, Independent Researcher
  3. Shailaja Rao, Old Dominion University
  4. Vikram Jeet Singh, University of Delhi
  5. Ben Dover, Kent University

Community Organizations endorsing the conference[edit]

  1. Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, Cambridge, MA
  2. Alliance of Progressive South Asians (APSA), Twin Cities, MN
  3. Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  4. Ambedkar International Center Inc, Accokeek, MD
  5. Ambedkar King Study Circle, San Jose, CA
  6. Ambedkarite Buddhist Association of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
  7. ANSWER Coalition
  8. Anti Police-Terror Project, Oakland, CA, USA
  9. Aotearoa Alliance of Progressive Indians, New Zealand
  10. Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), San Francisco, CA
  11. Asian Law Alliance, San Jose, CA
  12. Bay Area Solidarity Summer, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
  13. Boston Study Group, Boston, MA
  14. Brown & Green: South Asian Americans for Climate Justice, Berkeley, CA
  15. CERAS (Centre sur l’asie du sud), Montreal, Canada
  16. Chicago Coalition for Human Rights in India, Chicago, IL
  17. Chicago Desi Youth Rising (CDYR), Chicago, IL
  18. Coalition Against Fascism in India (CAFI), USA
  19. Coalition for Justice and Accountability, San Jose, CA
  20. Coalition of Americans for Pluralism in India (CAPI), Detroit, MI
  21. Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans, Seattle, WA
  22. Dr. Ambedkar International Mission (AIM), Canada
  23. Friends for Education International, USA
  24. Friends of India,Texas (FIT) Austin, TX
  25. Global Bahujan Group (GBG), White River Junction, VT
  26. Hampton Institute, USA
  27. Hindus for Human Rights, USA
  28. Human Agenda, San Jose, CA, USA
  29. India Civil Watch International, North America
  30. Indian Alliance Paris, Paris, France
  31. Indian American Muslim Council, USA
  32. Indian Solidarity Finland, Finland
  33. InSAF India (International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India)
  34. Japanese American Citizens League, Sequoia Chapter, Santa Clara, CA
  35. Justice for All, Chicago, IL
  36. Nepal Aadibasi Janajati Mahasangh, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
  37. Peace Vigil, USA
  38. Periyar-Ambedkar Study Circle- America, USA
  39. Periyar International USA, Gurnee, IL
  40. Philadelphia South Asian Collective, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  41. Philly Socialists, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  42. Pro-People Arts Project Media Group, Ontario, Canada
  43. Rational Medicine Network, London, UK
  44. Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, USA
  45. San Jose Peace and Justice Center, San Jose, CA
  46. Scottish Indians for Justice, UK
  47. Sikh Information Center, Lathrop, CA
  48. South Asia Solidarity Group, London, UK
  49. South Asian Dalit Adivasi Network (SADAN), Canada
  50. South Asians for Inclusiveness Inc., Australia
  51. South Asian Youth in Houston Unite (SAYHU)
  52. Students Against Hindutva Ideology (SAHI), USA
  53. Teesri Duniya Theatre Montreal, Canada
  54. Telangana Vidyavanthula Vedika-North America, USA
  55. The Humanism Project, Australia
  56. Trauma Informed San Jose (TISJ), San Jose, CA
  57. Twin Cities South Asia Solidarity Collective, Minneapolis, USA
  58. US Free Saibaba Coalition, NY, USA
  59. United Kirat Rai Organization of America, California Chapter, San Francisco, USA
  60. Voices Against Fascism, USA
  61. World Thamil Organization, Cary, NC
  62. National confederation of human rights organizations (NCHRO)
  63. SOUTH ASIA SCHOLAR ACTIVIST COLLECTIVE (SASAC)
  64. Hindus for Human Rights

Universities / University Departments[edit]

  • Academic Groups
    • Association for Asian Studies
    • Pen America
    • Scholars of Genocide, Mass Violence, and Human


Mohamed Adhikari, Emeritus Associate Professor, History Department, University of CapeTown

Avner Ben-Amos, Tel Aviv University

Anne Berg, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh

Haim Bresheeth, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London

Daniele Conversi, Professor, Departamento de Historia Contemporánea, University of the Basque Country

Anita H. Fábos, Professor, Clark University

David Featherstone, Reader in Human Geography, University of Glasgow

Snait Gissis, Tel Aviv University

Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Marianne Hirschberg, Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany

Adam Jones, Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Ben Kiernan, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Yale University

Brett Ashley Kaplan, Director of Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Adam Knowles, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University

Mark Levene, Emeritus Fellow, University of Southampton

Rhys Machold, Lecturer in International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

A. Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Senior Editor, Journal of Genocide Research

John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, Doctoral Faculty, the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Raz Segal, Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Stockton University

Damien Short, Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice; Co-Director, Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Editor in Chief, International Journal of Human Rights

Henry Theriault, Worcester State University, Genocide Studies International

Johanna Ray Vollhardt, Associate Professor, Psychology, Clark University

Noga Wolff, Faculty of Education, College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel

Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Universities publicizing the event[edit]

  • University of Chicago Committee on Southern Asian Studies[6]
  • Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs[7]

Media Mentions[edit]

Conference recording[edit]

References[edit]