Talk:Sunalini Kumar

By Rutvi Dattani

Sunalini Kumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Global Affairs at Ambedkar University, Delhi, as of November 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests include political theory, especially from the global south; global feminist theory and transnational practices; and comparative histories of urbanization and developmentalism in the twentieth century.

As per her bio, 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 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."

Publications related to India

Book Chapters

1. Kumar, Sunalini. "Sense and Sentimentality: A Political Fable." The State of Hurt: Sentiment, Politics, Censorship, edited by Rina Ramdev, Sandhya Devisan Nambiar, and Debaditya Bhattacharya, Sage, 2015. ISBN 9789351503040.
2. Kumar, Sunalini. "Chronicle of a Death Untold: The Lethal Geographies of Delhi’s Periphery." Critical Studies in Politics: Sites, Selves, Power, edited by Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam, and Sanjay Palshikar, Orient Blackswan, 2013. ISBN-10: 8125052704; ISBN-13: 978-8125052708.
3. Kumar, Sunalini. "Clean Air; Dirty Logic?" Urbanising Citizenship: Contested Spaces in Indian Cities, edited by Renu Desai and RomolaSanyal, Sage, 2012. ISBN 9788132107309.
4. Kumar, Sunalini. "Nationalism." Political Theory: An Introduction, edited by Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya, Penguin-Pearson, 2008. ISBN 8131706257, 9788131706251.