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Talk:Mytheli Sreenivas

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By Anirudha Patel

Mytheli Sreenivas is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University as of September 2022[1][2]. According to her university profile, her research interests include Women's History, the History of Sexuality and the Family, Colonialism and Nationalism, the Cultural and Political Economy of Reproduction, and Modern South Asian History.

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

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 of 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."[3]

On November 5, 2017, she signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[4] 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"[5][6][7]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions ​

Publications related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Sreenivas, Mytheli. Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Journals[edit]

  1. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Emotion, Identity, and the Female Subject: Tamil Women's Magazines in Colonial India, 1890-1940." Journal of Women's History, vol. 14, no. 4, 2003, pp. 59-82.
  2. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Conjugality and Capital: Gender, Families, and Property under Colonial Law in India." The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 63, no. 4, 2004, pp. 937-960.
  3. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Creating Conjugal Subjects: Devadasis and the Politics of Marriage in Colonial Madras Presidency." Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011, pp. 63-92.
  4. Sreenivas, Mytheli. Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India. University of Washington Press, 2021.
  5. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Sexuality and Modern Imperialism." In A Global History of Sexuality: The Modern Era, 2014, pp. 57-88.
  6. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Birth Control in the Shadow of Empire: The Trials of Annie Besant, 1877–1878." Feminist Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, 2015, pp. 509-537.
  7. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Teaching about 'Other' Women: Developing a Global Perspective on Gender in the Classroom." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, vol. 15, no. 1, 2004, pp. 28-39.
  8. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Feminism, Family Planning and National Planning." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2021, pp. 313-328.
  9. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Introduction: A Country of Her Making." Co-authored with A Bhardwaj Datta and U Sen. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2021, pp. 218-227.
  10. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Women’s and Gender History in Modern India: Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present." In Making Women’s Histories, 2013, pp. 161-184.
  11. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Family and Modernity: New Perspectives on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." Journal of Women's History, vol. 24, no. 1, 2012, pp. 188-197.
  12. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Nationalizing Marriage in Tamil India, 1890s–1940s." University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
  13. Sreenivas, Mytheli. "Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice Introduction." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, 2013, pp. VII-XIV.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Mytheli Sreenivas page on The Ohio State University accessed September 27, 2022
  2. ↑ Mytheli Sreenivas page on Google Scholar accessed September 27, 2022
  3. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
  4. ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  7. ↑ 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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