Talk:Rachel Sturman
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Rachel Sturman is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College[1] as of April 2024. According to her university profile, she specializes in the history of modern South Asia, with a focus on colonial and postcolonial India.
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:
- 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 the founding of these religions
In 2016, she signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[6][7] 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[8] stated:
- "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
- "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
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Book[edit]
- Sturman, Rachel. The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Book Chapter[edit]
- Sturman, Rachel. Marriage & Family in Colonial Hindu Law. Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis, Jr., and Jayanth K. Krishnan, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 89-104.
- Sturman, Rachel. Marriage and the Morality of Exchange: Defining the Terrain of Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Western India. Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World, edited by Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy, Orient Longman, 2006, pp. 51–75.
Journal Article[edit]
- Sturman, Rachel. Property and Attachments: Defining Autonomy and the Claims of Family in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 3, July 2005, pp. 611–637.
- Sturman, Rachel. Gender and the Human. Gender & History, vol. 23, no. 2, Aug. 2011.
- Sturman, Rachel. Indian Indentured Labor and the History of International Rights Regimes. American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 5, Dec. 2014, pp. 1439-1465.
References[edit]
- ↑ Rachel Sturman University Profile accessed 19 April 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"
- ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
- ↑ 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.