Talk:Arun P Mukherjee

By Rutvi Dattani

Arun P Mukherjee is Professor Emerita, Department of English at York University as of December 2022. According to his university profile, his research interests include Canadian literature, minority Canadian literature, Indian literature, South Asian literature, Dalit literature, diaspora, feminist critical theory, anti-racist literary theory, Postcolonial literature.

As per his bio, her scholarship largely concerns Indian history and Dalit literature. She has published no books, papers or research pertaining to the contemporary impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva and the Indian Government.

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 and Dalit Literature

Articles and Book Chapters

1. Mukherjee, Alok. The Exclusions of Postcolonial Theory and Mulk Raj Anand's 'Untouchable': A Case Study. 1991.
2. Mukherjee, Alok. B. R. Ambedkar, John Dewey, and the Meaning of Democracy. 2009.
3. Mukherjee, Alok. "Women’s Images in Indian Education." In Women’s Experience and Education, edited by Sharon Lee Rich and Ariel Phillips, Harvard Educational Review, 1985, pp. 126-28.
4. Mukherjee, Alok. "Bakhtinian Dialogism and Bessie Head’s Dialogue With India." In Dialogism and Cultural Criticism, edited by Clive Thomson and Hans Raj Dua, Mestengo Press, 1995, pp. 217-35.
5. Mukherjee, Alok. "The Challenge of Reading Dalit Literature." West Coast Line, vol. 26 & 27, Fall/Winter 1998-99, pp. 51-64.
6. Mukherjee, Alok. "The Emergence of Dalit Writing." The Toronto Review of Contemporary Writing Abroad, vol. 16, no. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 34-43.
7. Mukherjee, Alok. "Growing Up in a Small Town." In East Indians: Myths and Reality, A Resource Book, edited by Alok K. Mukherjee, Indian Immigrant Aid Services, 1978, pp. 302-10.
8. Mukherjee, Alok. "Indian History: The Making of Modern India." In East Indians: Myths and Reality, A Resource Book, edited by Alok K. Mukherjee, Indian Immigrant Aid Services, 1978, pp. 185-221.
9. Mukherjee, Alok. "Indian Geography: The Land and the People." In East Indians: Myths and Reality, A Resource Book, edited by Alok K. Mukherjee, Indian Immigrant Aid Services, 1978, pp. 160-84.
10. Mukherjee, Alok, and Suwanda Sugunasiri. "Smarten Up Indians, and Go Western: A Content Analysis of Ontario’s Secondary School Social Studies Texts in Relation to India." In East Indians: Myths and Reality, A Resource Book, edited by Alok K. Mukherjee, Indian Immigrant Aid Services, 1978, pp. 1-68.
11. Mukherjee, Alok. "Angrezi Saahitya ki Padhaai." Dinman, May 1976, pp. 23-26.