Talk:Brian Caton

By Rutvi Dattani

Brian Caton is Associate Professor of History at Luther College as of December 2022.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva and the Indian 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

• Caton B (2014) “The Imperial Ambition of Science and its Discontents: Animal Breeding in Nineteenth-Century Punjab.” In Shifting Ground: People, Animals and Mobility in India’s Environmental History, ed. Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan, 132-54. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Caton B (2015) “The Transition from Animal Capital to Land Capital in Colonial Punjab, 1850-1900.” In “Capitalism, Modernity and the Environment in South Asia,” ed. H. Karrar and A. N. Ahmad. Special issue, Capitalism Nature Socialism 26, no. 3 (Sept. 2015): 64-72.
• Caton B (2004) “Social Categories and Colonisation in Panjab, 1849-1920.” Indian Economic and Social History. Review 41 (2004): 33-50. Reprinted in Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar, eds., Caste in Modern India: A Reader, 2 vols. (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013).
• Caton B (1999) “Sikh Identity Formation and the British Rural Ideal, 1880-1930.” In Sikh Identity: Continuity and Change, ed. Pashaura Singh and N. Gerald Barrier, 175-93. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999.

References

• Brian Caton CV accessed December 15, 2022