Talk:Mrinalini Chakravorty

By Renuka Joshi

Mrinalini Chakravorty is Director of Modern and Global Studies at the University of Virginia as of May 30, 2023. According to her university profile, her research areas are postcolonial studies; history of the novel; British and Anglophone literatures; queer theory.

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 in the context of B.J.P. Government.

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."

Publications related to India

1. Chakravorty, Mrinalini. “No Future for South Asia: Tagore’s Universality and the Refusal of Geopolitics.” South Asian Review, Taylor and Francis, Dec. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2017.12023350.
2. Chakravorty, Mrinalini. "A History of the Indian Novel in English." Asian Literature, Cambridge University Press, 8 July 2015, https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/asian-literature/history-indian-novel-english.