Talk:Baidik Bhattacharya

By Rutvi Dattani

Baidik Bhattacharya is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), as of November 2022. According to his university profile, he works at the crossroads of literary studies, social sciences, and philosophy.

As per his bio, he 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 the BJP Government.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference 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

Publications

1. Bhattacharya, Baidik. Public penology: postcolonial biopolitics and a death in Alipur Central Jail, Calcutta. Postcolonial Studies, 2009
2. Bhattacharya, Baidik. Problematizing Realism in Early Bengali Novels: The Prehistory of a Narrative Convention in Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Bishbriksha (The Poison Tree, 1872–73). South Asian Review, 2011
3. Bhattacharya, Baidik. The “Vernacular” Babel: The Linguistic Survey of India and Colonial Philology. Modern Philology, 2021

BOOK

1. Bhattacharya, Baidik. Novel Formations: The Indian Beginnings of a European Genre