Meera Nanda
Meera Nanda has served as a visiting professor of humanities and social sciences at IISER Pune from 2019–20[1]. Her research interests include Hindutva, postcolonialism, and postmodernism, as well as the rise of pseudoscience and Vedic science. Her first historical research project was based on how modern Hindu reformers in 19th-century India interpreted Darwinism.
In 2021,she fraudulently signed the letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference identifying herself as a visiting faculty member at IISER, Pune and made the following unsubstantiated statement:
"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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- Meera Nanda. Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
- Nanda, Meera. Science in Saffron : Skeptical Essays on History of Science. Three Essays Collective, January, 2016.
- Nanda, Meera. Breaking the Spell of Dharma and Other Essays. Spotlight Poets, 2002.
- Nanda, Meera. Postmodernism and Religious Fundamentalism. 2003.
- Nanda, Meera. The God Market. NYU Press, 2011.
- Nanda, Meera. The Wrongs of the Religious Right. The Three Essay Collective, 2005
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- NANDA, MEERA. “THE SCIENCE QUESTION in POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 775, no. 1, June 1995, pp. 420–36, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb23158.x.
- Nanda, Meera. “A ‘Broken People’ Defend Science: Reconstructing the Deweyan Buddha of India’s Dalits.” Social Epistemology, vol. 15, no. 4, Oct. 2001, pp. 335–65, https://doi.org/10.1080/02691720110093342.
- Nanda, Meera. “We Are All Hybrids Now: The Dangerous Epistemology of Post‐Colonial Populism.” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, Jan. 2001, pp. 162–86, https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150108438770.
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- ↑ [iisermohali.ac.in/events/events-archive/29-events/misc/152-archive-events-2010-11] accessed on February 28, 2023
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022