Talk:Aditya Kiran Kakati

By Anirudha Patel

Aditya Kiran Kakati is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), as of March 2023.

He 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 as of March 2023.

In 2021, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar 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

Kakati, Aditya Kiran. Guns, Gifts, and Guerrillas: Knowledge and Objects During World War II in the Indo–Myanmar (Burma) Frontier. Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia, 1st ed., Routledge India, 2019, pp. 22. eBook ISBN: 9780429261909.