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Talk:Indrani Chatterjee

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By Sachi Anjunkar


Indrani Chatterjee signed as a professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, currently she is a Professor of History and Chair on Democracy and the History of South Asia at University of Virginia[1] as of May 2024. According to her university profile, she researches the intersections of gender, religion and politics between the late 17th and 20th centuries.

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 their founding ​


Publications related to India or Hindu Dharma[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Chatterjee, Indrani. Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
  2. Chatterjee, Indrani. Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, Memories of Northeast India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Edited Volumes[edit]

  1. Chatterjee, Indrani, editor. Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Delhi and New Brunswick: Permanent Black and Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  2. Chatterjee, Indrani, and Richard M. Eaton, editors. Slavery in South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Pastoral Care, Power and the Making of Disobedient Subjects." In South Asian Governmentalities: Michael Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings, edited by Stephen Legg and Deana Heath, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 58-81.
  2. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Whose History? What Theory?: A Postcolonial Response." History of the Present. Forum response to Ethan Kleinberg, Joan W. Scott, and Gary Wilder’s "Theses on Theory and History", 2018 and 2020 [6].
    In this article, Indrani Chatterjee utterly fails to cite facts and instead relies on inaccurate scholarship about the Ram Janambhoom site. She ignores thousands of pages of written submissions by historians and archeological studies to the Supreme Court of India and its thousand page judgement[7] -- instead, she positions the following fictions as fact:
    1. "The party began a campaign demanding the demolition of a fifteenth-century mosque built by a Mughal emperor in northern India on the ground that it was built on the site of a destroyed Hindu temple. The claim impinged directly on the interpretation of archaeological and architectural evidence, the very materials of history writing."
    2. " The political party in question read all matter through a colonially devised prefabricated frame in which the Mughals were both “Muslim” and “aliens” in the fifteenth century.
    3. "Furthermore, the terms in which the nation was constructed as a homogeneous Hindu majority itself showed the long-lasting nature of colonial constructions of the subcontinent’s past."
    4. "It made professional historians draw closer to the study of pluralist, nonpuritanical and syncretist ethics articulated in the vernacular languages of the subcontinent since the fourteenth century."
    5. "It also made such historians wary of periodization schemes— such as that of antiquity, medieval, and modernity—inherited from their colonial textbooks."
  3. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Connected Histories and the Impossibility of Decolonial History." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1414768.
  4. Chatterjee, Indrani. "British Abolition from the Vantage of Precolonial South Asia." In Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume IV, edited by Stanley Engerman, David Eltis, and Seymour Drescher, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 441-465.
  5. Chatterjee, Indrani. "The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death." In On Human Bondage, edited by John Bodel and Walter Scheidel, Oxford and Maden Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. 151-166.
  6. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern India." In Eurasian Encounters: Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950, edited by Carolien Stolte and Yoshi Kikuchi, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, pp. 123-154.
  7. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Adivasi, Tribe and Other Neologisms for Erasing Precolonial Pasts: An Example from Northeast India." Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 53, no. 1, 2016, pp. 9-40.
  8. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Monastic Governmentality: Revisiting ‘Community’ and ‘Communalism’." History Compass, vol. 13, no. 10, 2015, pp. 497-511.
  9. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny and Postcolonial Amnesia." History of the Present, vol. 3, no. 1, 2013, pp. 57-96.
  10. Chatterjee, Indrani. "When ‘Sexualities’ Floated Free of Histories in South Asia." Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 71, no. 4, 2012, pp. 1-18.
  11. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Slaves and Households in the Near East: A Response." In Slaves and Households in the Near East, edited by Laura Culbertson, Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 2011.
  12. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Captives of Enchantment: Gender, Genre and Transmemoration." In History in the Vernacular, edited by Raziuddin Aquil and Partha Chatterjee, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008, pp. 250-287.
  13. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Renewed and Connected Histories," pp. 17-43, and "Slavery, Semantics and the Sounds of Silence," pp. 287-315 in Slavery in South Asian History, edited by Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
  14. Chatterjee, Indrani. "The Muslim Family in South Asia." In Encyclopedia of Islamic Women’s History, edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi and Suad Joseph, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2005.
  15. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Abolition by Denial: the South Asian example." In The Aftermath of Abolition in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, edited by Gwyn Campbell, New York and London: Routledge, 2005.
  16. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Slavery and Kinship among the Indian Gentry in the Late Eighteenth Century." In Islam in India: The Impact of Civilizations, edited by Asghar Ali Engineer, Delhi: ICCR and Shipra, 2002.
  17. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Genealogy, History and Law: the case of the Tripura Rajamala." In History and the Present, edited by Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh, Delhi and London: Permanent Black and Anthem Press, 2002.
  18. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Alienation, Intimacy and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia." In Queering India: Same Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, edited by Ruth Vanita, New York and London: Routledge, 2001.
  19. Chatterjee, Indrani. "A Slave's Search for Selfhood in Eighteenth-Century Hindustan." The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2000.
  20. Chatterjee, Indrani, and Sumit Guha. "Slave-Queen, Waif-Prince: Slavery and Social Poverty in Eighteenth-Century India." The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 36, no. 2, 1999.
  21. Chatterjee, Indrani. "Colouring Subalternity: Slaves, Concubines and Social Orphans under the East India Company." In Subaltern Studies, vol. X, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Indrani Chatterjee University Profile accessed on May 29, 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. ↑ [1] PDF accessed Sept 15, 2024
  7. ↑ Ram Janam Bhoomi Supreme Court Verdict PDF
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