Talk:G. Arunima

By Sachi Anjunkar

G. Arunima is a Director at Kerala Council for Historical Research as of October 2022. According to her profile, her research interests include Women's and Gender Studies, Art History, Art Theory, Aesthetics, Kerala History, Visual Culture, Modern Indian History, Religion, Indian Studies, South Asian Studies, Family, Modernity, Political Violence, Sexual Violence and Surveillance Studies.

As per her bio, she 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.

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."

Publications related to India

Books (Monographs)

1. Arunima, G. ‘There Comes Papa’: Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar c.1850-1940. Orient Longman, 2003.
2. Arunima, G. ‘He, My Beloved C.J’. Translation of ‘Ivan Ente Priya C.J’ from Malayalam to English. Women Unlimited, 2018.

Book Chapters

1. Arunima, G. "Shifting Sands: Satire, Selfhood and the Politics of Laughter." In Tapasam, A Quarterly Journal for Kerala Studies in Malayalam and English, 2008.
2. Arunima, G. Entry on Marriage. Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, New York, 2007.
3. Arunima, G. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?: Families and Legal Change in 19th century Malabar." In Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia, edited by Michael Anderson and Sumit Guha, OUP, 1998.
4. Arunima, G. Book Chapter on Renaissance, Reformation and Science. In European History, edited by Sumit Sarkar, New Delhi, textbook for the National Open School, 1998.

Articles (Journals, Edited Volumes)

1. Arunima, G. “Cameras, Campuses and the Future of Politics in an Era of Imaging Technologies.” Contributions to Indian Sociology, Feb. 2020, pp. 1-26.
2. Arunima, G. “Thought, Policies and Politics: How May We Imagine the Public University in India.” Kronos: South African Histories, no. 43, Nov. 2017.
3. Arunima, G. “The Nation and its Regions: How Does it All Add Up?” In What the Nation Really Needs To Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures, edited by Janaki Nair et al., Harper Collins India, 2016.
4. Arunima, G. "Bonds of Love, Ties of Kinship?: Or Are there Other Ways of Imagining the Family." Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 53, no. 3, Sept. 2016.
5. Arunima, G. "Khandaan/the Household." In Keywords in Modern Indian Studies, edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach et al., SOAS Studies in South Asia, OUP, 2015.
6. Arunima, G. "Ravi Varma’s Many Publics: Circulation and the Status of the ‘Art-Work’." In The Public Sphere from Outside the West, edited by Divya Dwivedi and Sanil V., Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2015.
7. Arunima, G. "Reading, Writing, Region: the Early Malayalam Novel and the Problem of Identity." In Ideas, Institutions, Processes: Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal, edited by N. Jayaram, Orient Blackswan, 2015.
8. Arunima, G. “Anna: the Image of India?” Cultural Critique, no. 81, Spring 2012.
9. Arunima, G. “Ayodhya Verdict: Bad Theology, Without Justice.” Economic and Political Weekly, 9 Oct. 2010, vol. xlv, no. 41.
10. Arunima, G. “Imagining Communities - Differently: Print, Language and the ‘Public Sphere’ in Colonial Kerala.” Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. XLIII, no. 1, Jan.-Mar. 2006.
11. Arunima, G. “Who is a Malayali Anyway? Language, Community and Identity in Precolonial Kerala.” In Assertive Religious Identities: India and Europe, edited by Satish Saberwal and Mushirul Hasan, Manohar, 2006.
12. Arunima, G. "'Friends and Lovers': Towards a History of Emotions in 19th and 20th century Kerala." In Women of India: Colonial and Post Colonial Period, edited by Bharati Ray, Sage, 2005.
13. Arunima, G. “Glimpses from a Writer's World: O. Chandu Menon, his Contemporaries, and their Times.” Studies in History, vol. 20, no. 2, n.s., 2004.
14. Arunima, G. "Pennuezhuthu: Gender and the Politics of Writing." In India in the Age of Globalization: Contemporary Discourses and Texts, edited by Suman Gupta et al., Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2003.
15. Arunima, G. “Face Value: Raja Ravi Varma’s Portraiture and the Aesthetics of Colonial Modernity.” Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 40, no. 1, 2003.
16. Arunima, G. “Some Issues in an Analysis of Caste and Gender.” In Translating Caste, edited by Tapan Basu, Katha, New Delhi, 2002.
17. Arunima, G. “Allies, Confidantes and Beloveds: Representations of Ideas of Friendship in 19th century Kerala.” In Thinking Social Science in India: Festchrift Volume in Honour of Alice Thorner, edited by Sujata Patel and Jashodhara Bagchi, Sage, 2002.
18. Arunima, G. "Writing Culture: of Modernity and the Malayalam novel." Studies in History, vol. 13, no. 2, n.s., 1997.
19. Arunima, G. "Multiple Meanings: Changing Perceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in 19th century Malabar." Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 3, no. 3, 1996; reprinted in Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader, edited by Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2007.
20. Arunima, G. "Matriliny and its Discontents." India International Centre Quarterly, Special Issue on Kerala, Autumn 1995.

Essays

1. Arunima, G. “The Court, the Sting, and the Snoops: Where Does Justice Figure in All This?” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLVIII, no. 48, 30 Nov. 2013.
2. Arunima, G. “Refashioning the Breast: Modern Medicine and Dispensable Female Body Parts.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLVIII, no. 20, 18 May 2013.
3. Arunima, G. “Sex and the Feminist.” Economic and Political Weekly, 27 Oct. 2012, vol. XLVII, no. 47.
4. Arunima, G. “Cartoons, Textbooks and Politics of Pedagogy.” Economic and Political Weekly, 2 June 2012, vol. XLVII, no. 22.