Talk:Elora Halim Chowdhury

Elora Halim Chowdhury is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts at University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is Director, Human Rights Minor and Affiliate Faculty, Asian Studies Dept; Asian American Studies Program; Cinema Studies Program; Dept of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance. She is also an Affiliated Researcher, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights.

Her research interests include transnational feminisms, critical development studies, gender violence, human rights, narrative and film with an emphasis on South Asia.

Book edited (related to India) - South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters ed. by Elora Halim Chowdhury and Esha Niyogi De.

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."

References

• Elora Halim Chowdhury page on University of Massachusetts, Boston accessed September 22, 2022
• Web search for Elora Chowdhury publications related to India accessed September 22, 2022