Talk:Anshu Malhotra

By Rutvi Dattani

Anshu Malhotra is Department Chair, Endowed Chair Kundan Kaur Kapany Professor of Sikh Studies, Department of Global Studies at University of California Santa Barbara, as of November 2022. According to her University profile her research interest includes, gender histories, cultural studies, autobiography studies and histories of South Asia, in particular that of Punjab and the Sikhs.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of B.J.P. 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

1. Malhotra, Anshu, and Anne Murphy. Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab. Sikh Formations, vol. 16, no. 1-2, Apr. 2020, pp. 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674513.
2. Malhotra, Anshu. Bitter Sweet Imaginings: Form, Gender, and Religion in Bhai Vir Singh’s Sundarī. Sikh Formations, vol. 16, no. 1-2, Feb. 2020, pp. 41–65, https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674519.
3. Malhotra, Anshu. A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948. South Asian Studies, July 2018, pp. 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2018.1498571.