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Talk:Nidhi Srinivas

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By Anirudha Patel

Nidhi Srinivas is an Associate Professor of Management at Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment [1] as of July 2023. According to her University Profile, her area of research interest are Social Innovation and Design; Postcolonial studies and inclusion; Global civil society and NGOs; and Critical theory.

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, the Indian Government, ancient India, the Indus Civilization, or caste as of June 2024.

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."[2]

On November 5, 2017, she signed the letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) to the California State Board of Education[3] where 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"[4][5][6]
  • Implied that Christians and Muslims existed in Ancient India, prior to the founding of these religions ​

In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[7][8] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[9] stated:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."


Publications related to India[edit]

  1. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Moving past binaries in management history: the scope for a postcolonial project and epistemic critique." Journal of Management History, 2020.
  2. Srinivas, Nidhi. "An anarchist prehistory of management." Management and Anarchism, edited by M. Parker, Routledge, 2020.
  3. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Environmental Grassroots Partnerships and Potential for Social Innovation." Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans: Struggles and Innovations in China and India, edited by Shikui Dong, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay & Sanjay Chaturvedi, Springer, 2017, pp. 145-164.
  4. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Could a subaltern manage? Professional habitus and practice in a colonial workplace." Organization Studies, vol. 34, no. 11, 2013, pp. 1655–1674.
  5. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Epistemic and performative quests for authentic management in India." Organization, vol. 19, no. 2, 2012, pp. 145-158.
  6. Jack, Gavin, et al. "Deepening, broadening and re-asserting a postcolonial interrogative space in organization studies." Organization, vol. 18, no. 3, 2011, pp. 275-302.
  7. Mintzberg, Henry and Nidhi Srinivas. "Juxtaposing doers and helpers in development." Community Development Journal, vol. 45, no. 1, 2010, pp. 39-57.
  8. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Against NGOs?: A Critical Perspective on Nongovernmental Action." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2009, pp. 614.
  9. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Mimicry and Revival: The Transfer and Transformation of Management Knowledge to India, 1959-1990." International Studies of Management & Organization, vol. 38, no. 4, 2008, pp. 38-57.
  10. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Managerialism and NGO advocacy: Handloom Weavers in India." The New Development Management: The Dual Modernization. London: Zed Books, 2008.
  11. Srinivas, Nidhi. "Cultivating Indian Management." The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the Future of Organization, 2002.
  12. Araújo, CCS, et al. "Debating Black slavery in management and organizational studies from decolonial and afro-diasporic perspectives." Cadernos EBAPE. BR, vol. 21, 2023, e2023-0100.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Nidhi Srinivas University Profile accessed July 15, 2023
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
  3. ↑ 2017 South Asia Faculty Group (SAFG) Letter to the California State Board of Education
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Danino, Michel. The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Penguin Books, 2010.
  6. ↑ 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"
  7. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
  8. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  9. ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.
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