Talk:Kavita singh

By Renuka Joshi

Dr. Kavita Singh is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University as of May 23, 2023. Her areas of expertise include History of Museums in Colonial and Postcolonial India, The Global Art Museum Repatriation, Religious Objects and Secularization of Art, Religious Revivalism and Its Cultural forms, Heritage Discourse, Historiography of Art History, History of Indian Courtly Painting.

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 as of October 2022.

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 in 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

Edited Books

• Singh, Kavita, and Saloni Mathur. No Touching, Spitting or Praying: Modalities of the Museum in South Asia. Routledge, Visual and Media Histories Series, 2015.
• Singh, Kavita, Parul Dave Mukherji, and Naman Ahuja (Editors). InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia. Sage Publications, 2014.
• Singh, Kavita, Deepti Mulgund, and Jaya Neupaney (Editors). Where in the World: Contemporary Indian Art in the Era of Globalization. Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, 2014.

Selected Chapters

• Singh, Kavita. "The Congress of Kings: Notes on a Painting of Muhammad Shah (r.1718-1739)." In Molly Aitken (ed.), A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting (In Tribute to Coomaraswamy). Marg Publications, 2016.
• Singh, Kavita. "Ghosts of Future Nations: The Uses of Holocaust Museum Paradigm in India." In Ruth B. Phillips and Annie E. Coombes (ed.), Museum Transformations. International Handbook of Museum Studies, Vol. VII. Blackwell, Oxford, 2015.
• Singh, Kavita. "The Mouse and the Alarm: On the Problems and Possibilities of India's Museums." Inheritances, special issue of Seminar Magazine, guest edited by Ananya Vajpeyi, New Delhi, 2014.