Talk:Dr. Gautam Premnath

By Sachi Anjunkar

Gautam Premnath signed as an independent scholar, but he is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley as of April 2024. According to his university profile, he focuses on the influential body of work produced by contemporary Indian writers working in English, highlighting their often tense relationship with received narratives of Indian nationalism, and showing how their positions and attitudes invoke ideologies of authorship generated in Indian diasporic writing

In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India

Book

1. Gandhi, Leela. Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. Politics, History, and Culture series. Duke University Press, 2006.
2. Premnath, Gautam. "Postmark Patna." Rethinking Marxism, Taylor & Francis, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan. 2005.

Article

1. Premnath, Gautam. "Arguments with Nationalism in the Fiction of the Indian Diaspora." PhD thesis, Brown University, 2003.