Talk:Harbans Mukhia

By Renuka Joshi

Harbans Mukhia was a Professor (retired in 2004) of Medieval History and Rector, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as of May 30, 2023. According to his profile, in early years, his interest was focused on medieval Indian historiography, leading to Doctoral thesis at Delhi University, later published, Historians and Historiography during the Reign of Akbar.

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 in 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

1. Mukhia, Harbans. “Communalism and the Indian Polity.” JNU, 1991.
2. Mukhia, Harbans. "History Written in Its Entirety." JNU, 2021.
3. Mukhia, Harbans. "India: The Pseudo Alternative - the Sangh Parivar Has Furthered the Colonial Understanding of India's Past - South Asia Citizens Web." JNU, Dec. 2021.
4. Mukhia, Harbans. "The Mughals of India." JNU, 2022.
5. Mukhia, Harbans. "The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute." JNU, 2015.
6. Mukhia, Harbans. "Time Chronology History in India." JNU, 2022
7. Mukhia, Harbans. "Time, Religion and History in India." JNU, 2022.

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