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Talk:Huma Dar

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Huma Dar is a lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies & Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley & an adjunct Professor in Critical Studies and Philosophy at California College of the Arts[1] as of May 2024. According to her university profile, her work is focused on the intersections and co-formations of race, religion, class, caste, gender, sexuality, and national politics of South Asia and South Asian diasporas, centered on intellectual and political activism for social justice, especially in Indian Occupied Kashmir. She is a founding member of the working group on “Muslim Identities & Cultures,” based in the Center for Race & Gender and Townsend Center in UC Berkeley, and organized the feminist conference, Boundaries in Question on the theme of Women and War.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

On November 5, 2017, she signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[2] where she:

  • Misrepresented scholarship stating "Mythological terms substitute for historical ones for example the 'Indus Valley Civilization' (a fact-based geographic term) appears to be replaced with a religiously-motivated and ideologically charged term 'Indus-Saraswati/Sarasvati Civilization'. The Saraswati is a mythical river"[3][4][5]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions ​

In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[6][7] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[8] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

In 2016, she fraudulently associated herself to be 'K­12 public school educator and teacher educator and parent of students studying in K12 public school' and signed a letter addressed to the California Department of Education where she[9]:

  • Misrepresented academic concensus, ignoring scholarship stating "According to scholarly consensus, the Indus Valley Civilization predates Hindu Vedic culture Labeling the ancient pre-Hindu Indus Valley Civilization as “Saraswati,” “Sindh-Saraswati,” or mentioning the Saraswati river"[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
  • Gaslit anyone with a different point of view by calling them 'Hindu Nationalist'

Publication related to India[edit]

  1. Dar, Huma. “Communication Rights and Neoliberal Development: Technopolitics in India.” Television & New Media, vol. 16, no. 4, 2014, pp. 311-322. SAGE Publications.
  2. Dar, Huma. “Nudity of Resistance versus Nakedness of Power: The Cashmere/Kashmir that Refuses to Cover the Empire.” Presented at the 40th Annual South Asia Conference, Madison, WI, October 2011.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Huma Dar University Profile accessed 15 May, 2024
  2. ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  3. ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
  4. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  5. ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. ​where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"
  6. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  7. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  8. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
  9. ↑ 5-17 Thenmozhi Soundararajan South Asian Histories for All + Sikh Coalition
  10. ↑ Chakrabarti, Dilip, and Sukhdev Saini. The Problem of the Sarasvati River and Notes on the Archaeological Geography of Haryana and Indian Punjab. Aryan Books International, 2009.
  11. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  12. ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002, p. 24. ​where she stated "Suddenly it became apparent that the “Indus” Civilization was a misnomer—although the Indus had played a major role in the development of the civilization, the “lost Saraswati” River, judging by the density of settlement along its banks, had contributed an equal or greater part to its prosperity. Many people today refer to this early state as the “Indus-Saraswati Civilization” and continuing references to the “Indus Civilization” should be an abbreviation in which the “Saraswati” is implied. There are some fifty sites known along the Indus whereas the Saraswati has almost 1,000. This is misleading figure because erosion and alluviation has between them destroyed or deeply buried the greater part of settlements in the Indus Valley itself, but there can be no doubt that the Saraswati system did yield a high proportion of the Indus people’s agricultural produce"
  13. ↑ Gupta, S. P. “The Dawn of Civilization.” History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
  14. ↑ Dikshit, K. N. “Origin of Early Harappan Cultures in the Sarasvati Valley: Recent Archaeological Evidence and Radiometric Dates.” Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology, vol. 9, 2013, pp. 132.
  15. ↑ Kautilya. The Arthaśāstra. Translated and edited by L. N. Rangarajan, Penguin Books, 1992.
  16. ↑ Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark. Ancient Cities of the Indus Civilization. Oxford University Press, 1998.
  17. ↑ Lal, B. B. Piecing Together: Memoirs of an Archaeologist. Aryan International Books, 2011.
  18. ↑ McIntosh, Jane R. A Peaceful Realm: The Rise and Fall of the Indus Civilization. Westview Press, 2002.
  19. ↑ Possehl, Gregory L. Indus Age: The Beginnings. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
  20. ↑ Possehl, Gregory L. The Indus Civilization. Alta Mira Press, 2002.
  21. ↑ Sarkar, Anindya, et al. “Oxygen Isotope in Archaeological Bioapatites from India: Implications to Climate Change and Decline of Bronze Age Harappan civilization.” Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 6, May 2016, pp. 1–9. doi:10.1038/srep26555.
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