Talk:Shukla Sawant

By Anirudha Patel

Shukla Sawant is an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU as of August 2023. According to her university profile, her research areas are Modernism and Contemporary Art with a focus on South Asia; Art in Colonial India; Print Cultures and Photography; New Media Practices; Artist's Collectives and Organizations; Postcolonial criticism and Historiography.

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 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference 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."

Publications Related to India

1. Sawant, Shukla. Out Of India: Landscape Painting Beyond the Picturesque Frame. In Landscape Painting, the Changing Horizon, edited by Kishore Singh, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 6-44.
2. Sawant, Shukla. Machine, Mechanics, Chemistry and Collectivity. In The Embodied Image: Krishna Reddy A Retrospective, edited by Archana Shastry, IGNCA, New Delhi, 2011, pp. 45-51.
3. Sawant, Shukla. Artist collectives in the age of anxiety, 1940-50. In Art and Visual Culture in India, edited by Gayatri Sinha, Marg in collaboration with National Culture Fund and Bodhi Art, 2009, pp. 136-149.
4. Sawant, Shukla. Instituting Artists’ Collectives: the Bangalore/Bengaluru Experiments with ‘Solidarity Economies’. Journal of Transcultural Studies, Volume 1, Heidelberg University, 2012, pp. 122-149.