Talk:Divya Cherian
Divya Cherian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University[1], as of October 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests are in social, cultural, and religious history, gender and sexuality, ethics and law, and the local and the everyday. Her research focuses on western India, chiefly on the region that is today Rajasthan.
As per her bio, she has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to the 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."[2]
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- Cherian, Divya. "Stolen Skin and Children Thrown: Governing Sex and Abortion in Early Modern South Asia," (link is external)Modern Asian Studies, 2015, 55, 5, 1461-1509. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000226
- Cherian, Divya. "Fall from Grace? Caste, Bhakti, and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Marwar." in Bhakti & Power: Debating India's Religion of the Heart, eds. John S. Hawley, Christian L. Novetzke, & Swapna Sharma. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2019
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- ↑ Divya Cherian page on Princeton University accessed October 16, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022