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Talk:Suchetana Chattopadhyay

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By Anirudha Patel


Suchetana Chattopadhyay is a Professor of History at Jadavpur University as of August 2023[1][2]. According to her university profile, her research interest includes Political, Economic and Social History Of Modern India/ Communism In India/Colonial Surveillance/ Urban Social History.

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 BJP 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 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]

Publications Related to India[edit]

Articles[edit]

  1. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Impression of Ships: Calcutta during the 1910s. Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination, vol. 1, edited by Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora, Primus, 2019, pp. 161-184. ISBN 978-93-5290-786-1.
  2. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, Wartime Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, edited by Rita Kaur Dhamoon et al., University of British Columbia Press, 2019, pp. 56-75. ISBN 978-0-7748-6066-6.
  3. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Towards Communism: 1917 and the Muhajirs from India Adrift in Central Asia. Social Scientist, vol. 47, no. 7-8, July-August 2019, pp. 3-30. ISSN 0970-0293.
  4. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Workers and Militant Labour Activists from Punjab in Bengal (1921-1934). Socialist Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018, pp. 97-113. ISSN 1918-2821.
  5. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. From the Printed Sphere to Secret Societies: Local Responses to the Voyage of Komagata Maru and Sikh Revolutionaries in Bengal (1914-1916). Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, April-September 2018, no. 1-2, pp. 88-107. ISSN 0033-5800.
  6. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. War-time in an Imperial City: The Apocalyptic Mood in Calcutta (1914-1918). India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment, edited by Roger D. Long and Ian Talbot, Routledge, 2018, pp. 79-99. ISBN 9781138558588.
  7. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. From London to Calcutta: The ‘Bolshevik’ Outsider and Imperial Surveillance, 1917-1921. Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb, edited by Ezra Rashkow et al., Routledge, 2018, pp. 232-247. ISBN 978-1-138-10412-9.
  8. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Closely Observed Ships. Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru, edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo, Routledge, 2017, pp. 203-222. ISBN 13-978-1-138-70190-8.
  9. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Being Naren Bhattacharji. Communist Histories, vol. 1, edited by Vijay Prashad, LeftWord Books, 2016, pp. 29-71. ISBN 978-93-80118-33-8.
  10. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Closely Observed Ships. South Asian Diaspora, vol. 8, no. 2, 2016, pp. 203-222. ISSN 19438192.
  11. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Jihad at Wartime? South Asian History and Culture, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 155-174. ISSN 19472498.
  12. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. The Myth of the Outsider: From Whitehall to Elysium Row, 1917-21. Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, no. 6, 2014, pp. 105-123. ISSN 1758-6437.
  13. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Fear, Scarcity and Repression in Kolkata during the First World War. Challenges of History Writing in South Asia: Special Volume in Honour of Dr. Mubarak Ali, edited by Syed Jaffar Ahmed, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi & Pakistan Labour Trust, 2013, pp. 321-355. ISBN 978-969-8791-43-8.
  14. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. War, Migration and Alienation: The Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad. History Workshop Journal, vol. 64, no. 1
  15. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. The Bolshevik Menace: Colonial Surveillance and the Origins of Socialist Politics in Calcutta. South Asia Research, vol. 26, no. 2, 2006.

Articles[edit]

  1. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Impression of Ships: Calcutta during the 1910s. Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination, vol. 1, edited by Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora, Primus, 2019, pp. 161-184. ISBN 978-93-5290-786-1.
  2. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, Wartime Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta. Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories, edited by Rita Kaur Dhamoon et al., University of British Columbia Press, 2019, pp. 56-75. ISBN 978-0-7748-6066-6.
  3. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Towards Communism: 1917 and the Muhajirs from India Adrift in Central Asia. Social Scientist, vol. 47, no. 7-8, July-August 2019, pp. 3-30. ISSN 0970-0293.
  4. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Workers and Militant Labour Activists from Punjab in Bengal (1921-1934). Socialist Studies, vol. 13, no. 2, 2018, pp. 97-113. ISSN 1918-2821.
  5. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. From the Printed Sphere to Secret Societies: Local Responses to the Voyage of Komagata Maru and Sikh Revolutionaries in Bengal (1914-1916). Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, April-September 2018, no. 1-2, pp. 88-107. ISSN 0033-5800.
  6. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. War-time in an Imperial City: The Apocalyptic Mood in Calcutta (1914-1918). India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment, edited by Roger D. Long and Ian Talbot, Routledge, 2018, pp. 79-99. ISBN 9781138558588.
  7. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. From London to Calcutta: The ‘Bolshevik’ Outsider and Imperial Surveillance, 1917-1921. Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb, edited by Ezra Rashkow et al., Routledge, 2018, pp. 232-247. ISBN 978-1-138-10412-9.
  8. Chattopadhyay, Suchetana. Closely Observed Ships. Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru, edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo, Routledge, 2017, pp. 203-222. ISBN 13-978-1-138-701


References[edit]

  1. ↑ Suchetana Chattopadhyay University Profile accessed August 2023
  2. ↑ [https://jdvu.academia.edu/SuchetanaChattopadhyay SuchetanaChattopadhyay Academia Profile] accessed August 2023
  3. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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