Talk:Kavita Philip

By Sachi Anjunkar

Kavita Philip is a professor of History, with specializations in modern South Asia, environmental history, and the history of computing.^[1] at University of California as of June 2024. According to her university profile, her research interests is science technology history theory.

She has published no books, research or papers pertaining to Hindus, Ancient India, 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:

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]

Da Costa, Beatriz, and Kavita Philip, editors. Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. MIT Press, 2008.
Philip, Kavita. Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India. Rutgers University Press, 2003; Orient Longman, 2004.
Philip, Kavita, and Andor Skotnes, editors. Multiple Contentions. Special issue of Radical History Review, issue 88, Duke University Press, Winter 2004.
Monshipouri, Mahmood, Neil Englehart, Andrew Nathan, and Kavita Philip, editors. Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. M. E. Sharpe, 2003.

References[edit]

↑ Kavita Philip University Profile accessed on June 21, 2024
↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
↑ 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.
↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
↑ 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"

[1] Kavita Philip University Profile accessed on June 21, 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"

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