Talk:Betty Joseph

By Rutvi Dattani

Betty Joseph is a Professor of English in the Department of English at Rice University, as of November 2022. According to her university profile, her research and teaching center on eighteenth-century British literature, contemporary Anglophone literature, and critical theory with a special interest in the novel, colonial/postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and globalization.

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 the context of BJP government.

In 2021, she 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

Books

1. Joseph, Betty. Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. University of Chicago Press, 2004. Reprint, Orient Longman, 2006.

Journal Articles

1. Joseph, Betty. “The Expedient and the Emergent: Modes of Governmentality in the Colonial Outpost.” Postcolonial Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, Sept. 2020, pp. 268-283.
2. Joseph, Betty. “Capitalism and its Others: Intersecting and Competing Forms in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 45, Apr. 2016, pp. 157-73.
3. Joseph, Betty. “Neoliberalism and Allegory.” Cultural Critique, vol. 82, Fall 2012, pp. 68-94.

Book Chapters

1. Joseph, Betty. “Women’s Time, Historical Discourse and a Text of Indian Nationalism.” In Feminist Time Against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War, edited by Victoria Hesford and Lisa Diedrich, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008, pp. 107-30.
2. Joseph, Betty. “The Nuclear Fetish: Violence, Affect, and the Postcolonial State.” In Women and the Contested State, edited by Monique Skidmore, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, pp. 50-63.
3. Joseph, Betty. “Proxies of Power: Woman in the Colonial Archive.” In The Global Eighteenth Century, edited by Felicity Nussbaum, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, pp. 123-37.
4. Joseph, Betty. “Subaltern Studies and Female Militancy: The Case of Preetilata Wadedar.” In Sharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance and Writing, edited by Stephanie Athey, Praeger, 2003, pp. 93-104.