Talk:Annu Jalais

By Anirudha Patel

Annu Jalais is an Assistant Professor, in the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore, as of May 2023. According to her university profile, her research interests span are human–animal interface, environmental justice, religious identity, and migration, in Bangladesh and India.

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 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

India in General & South Asia

• Jalais, Annu. Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans. Routledge, 2010.
• Jalais, Annu. "Dwelling on Morichjhanpi: When Tigers Became 'Citizens', Refugees' Tiger-Food." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 40, no. 17, 2005, pp. 1757-1762.
• Jalais, Annu, Claire Alexander, and Joya Chatterji. The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration. Routledge, 2016.
• Jalais, Annu. "Unmasking the Cosmopolitan Tiger." Nature and Culture, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, pp. 25-40.
• Jalais, Annu. "The Sundarbans: Whose World Heritage Site?" Conservation and Society, vol. 5, no. 3, 2007, pp. 335-342.
• Jalais, Annu. "Bonbibi: Bridging Worlds." Indian Folklife, 2008.
• Jalais, Annu. "The Human and the Nonhuman: 'Socio-Environmental' Ecotones and Deep Contradictions in the Bengali Heartland." PocoPages, 2020.
• Jalais, Annu, and Arnab Mukhopadhyay. "Of Pandemics and Storms in the Sundarbans." American Ethnologist Website, 2020.
• Jalais, Annu. "Braving Crocodiles with Kali: Being a Prawn Seed Collector and a Modern Woman in the 21st Century Sundarbans." Socio-Legal Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010.
• Jalais, Annu. "Reworlding the Ancient Chinese Tiger in the Realm of the Asian Anthropocene." International Communication of Chinese Culture, 2018.
• Jalais, Annu. "Geographies and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along Bengal's Southern Frontier." In Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, edited by David N. Gellner, 2013, pp. 245-265.
• Jalais, Annu. "Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans." Appraising Risk, 2021.
• Jalais, Annu. "Bengali ‘Biharis’’ Muharram: The Identitarian Trajectories of a Community." Südasien-Chronik – South Asia Chronicle, vol. 4, 2014, pp. 69-93. Südasien-Seminar der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. ISBN: 978-3-86004-303-5.
• Jalais, Annu. "Linguistic Minorities’ (with a focus on Urdu-speakers)." In Human Rights in Bangladesh 2008: Dashed Hopes, Receding Horizons, New Frontiers, Ain-O-Salish Kendra, 2009. [Bengali](http://www.askbd.org/HR_report_bangla/18.pdf ), [English](http://www.askbd.org/hr_report2008/17_LINGUSTIC.pdf ).