Talk:Christine Marrewa Karwoski

By Rutvi Dattani

Christine Marrewa-Karwoski is a Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University as of December 2022. Her teaching and research interests include early-modern and modern intellectual history, specifically examining religious, literary, and cultural histories, identity formulation, book history and manuscript culture in India, and religious nationalism.

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

• Marrewa-Karwoski C (2021) “Under Erasure: The Islamic Texts of the Nath Sampradāy.” International Journal of Hindu Studies. (April 2021)

References

• Christine Marrewa Karwoski CV accessed December 5, 2022