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Talk:Janaki Nair

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Renuka Joshi


Janaki Nair is a professor (retired in 2020) from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU as of May 23, 2023[1]. According to her university profile, her areas of intrests include Modern Indian History : Legal, Urban, Social and Cultutal History, Feminism and Visual Culture with Special Reference to Mysore/Karnataka.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government as of October 2022.

In 2021, she 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."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

  1. Nair, Janaki. "The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century." Oxford University Press, 2005.
  2. Nair, Janaki. "Textbook Controversies and the Demand for a Past: Public Lives of Indian History." History Workshop Journal, no. 82, 2016.
  3. Nair, Janaki. "Indian Urbanism and the Terrain of the Law." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 50, no. 36, 2015.
  4. Nair, Janaki. "Mysore's Wembley? The Dasara Exhibition's Imagined Economics." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 47, no. 5, 2013, pp. 1549-1587.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Janaki Nair JNU profile, accessed May 23, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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