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Talk:Akshaya Saxena

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Akshya Saxena was an Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University[1] as of June 2024.

In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[2][3] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[4] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."


Publications related to India[edit]

Book[edit]

  1. Saxena, Akshya. Vernacular English : Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Journal Article and Book Chapter[edit]

  1. Saxena, Akshya. "The English Language and the Indian State: From Raag Darbari to The White Tiger." South Asian Review, vol. 35, no. 3, 2014, pp. 149-165.
  2. Saxena, Akshya. "Purchasing Power, Stolen Power, and the Limits of Capitalist Form: Dalit Capitalists and the Caste Question in the Indian English Novel." ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 52, no. 1, 2021, pp. 61-90.
  3. Saxena, Akshya. "A Worldly Anglophony: Empire and Englishes." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, 2018, pp. 317-324.
  4. Saxena, Akshya. "Language Ex Machina: Private Desires, Public Demands, and the English Language in Twentieth-Century India." Cultural Critique, vol. 110, Winter 2020, pp. 110-139.
  5. Saxena, Akshya. "Spoken Wor(l)ds: Anglophony, Poetry, Translation." Wasafiri, vol. 37, no. 3, 2022, pp. 82-92.
  6. Saxena, Akshya. "Reading Nearby: Teaching Sa’adat Hasan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh." In Teaching Literature in Translation: Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices, edited by Brian Baer and Michelle Woods, Routledge, 2022, pp. 35-43.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Akshya Saxena University Profile accessed on June 10, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  3. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  4. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
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