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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate expose the correspondence between textbooks and the colonial-racist discourse. This racist discourse produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.

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Talk:Jyoti Puri

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Renuka Joshi


Jyoti Puri is a Professor and Hazel Dick Leonard Chair, Simmons University as of April 19, 2023.[1]. According to her university profile, she writes and teaches at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality studies, death studies, and postcolonial feminist theory and her interests include sexuality, gender, race, nation, state, death, and religion.

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]

Books[edit]

  1. Puri, Jyoti. Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India. Duke University Press, 2016.
  2. Puri, Jyoti. Encountering Nationalism. Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
  3. Puri, Jyoti. Woman, Body, Desire in Post-colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Articles[edit]

  1. Puri, Jyoti. Sculpting the Saffron Body: Yoga, Hindutva, and the International Marketplace. In Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India, edited by A. Chatterji and T. B. Hansen, C. Hurst and Co (Publishers) Ltd., 2019.
  2. Puri, Jyoti. Sexualizing Neoliberalism: Identifying Technologies of Privatization, Cleansing, and Scarcity. Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, vol. 13, no. 3, 2016, pp. 308-323.
  3. Puri, Jyoti. Forging Hetero-Collectives: Obscenity Law in India. In Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism, edited by L. Glass and C. Williams, Ohio State University Press, 2011.
  4. Puri, Jyoti. Stakes and States: Sexual Discourses from New Delhi. Feminist Review, vol. 83, no. 1, August 2006.
  5. Puri, Jyoti. Concerning Kamasutras: Challenging Narratives of History and Sexuality. SIGNS: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 27, no. 3, Spring 2002.
  6. Puri, Jyoti. Reading Romances in Postcolonial India. Gender & Society, vol. 4, August 1997, pp. 434-452.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Jyoti Puri Simmons university profile, accessed April 19, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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