Talk:Anjali Arondekar
Anjali Arondekar is Professor, Feminist Studies; Founding Co-Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz[1][2]as of October 2022. According to her university profile, her research focuses on politics and poetics of sexuality, race and historiography, particularly comparative empires within South Asian and Indian Ocean studies.
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, the Indian Government in the context of BJP government, the Indus Civilization, the impact or relationship between caste system and Hinduism as of May 2023.
In 2021, she 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."[3]
In 2016, she signed a letter supporting South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) letter[4][5] addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. They stated:
- "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
- "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
On November 5, 2017, she signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[6] where she:
- Misrepresented scholarship stating "Mythological terms substitute for historical ones for example the 'Indus Valley Civilization' (a fact-based geographic term) appears to be replaced with a religiously-motivated and ideologically charged term 'Indus-Saraswati/Sarasvati Civilization'. The Saraswati is a mythical river"[7][8][9]
- Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions
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Books Publications[edit]
- Arondekar, Anjali. Abundance: Sexuality’s History. Series: Theory Q, Duke University Press, 2023.
Co-Edited Books[edit]
- Arondekar, Anjali, guest co-editor with Sherene Seikaly. Pandemic Histories: Migrations and Meditations. Special issue, History of the Present, April 2023.
- Arondekar, Anjali, associate editor (Asia), with chief editor Howard Chiang. Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History. Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019.
- Arondekar, Anjali, guest co-editor with Geeta Patel. Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies. Special issue, GLQ: Gay Lesbian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, March 2016, pp. 151-172.
- Arondekar, Anjali, guest co-editor with Cannon Schmitt and Nancy Henry. Victorian Investments. Special issue, Victorian Studies, vol. 45, no. 1, Autumn 2002.
References[edit]
- ↑ Anjali Arondekar page on University of California, Santa Cruz accessed October 4, 2022
- ↑ Anjali Arondekar page on Academia accessed October 4, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
- ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
- ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
- ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
- ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
- ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"