Talk:Mukul Kesavan

By Renuka Joshi

Mukul Kesavan is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia as of May 2023. His areas of Interest include History, Politics, and cricket.

As per his bio, he has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, 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, he 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

Books

1. Kesavan, Mukul. Homeless on Google Earth Permanent Black , Delhi 2013. Essays, principally on politics.)
2. Kesavan, Mukul. The Ugliness of the Indian Male and other Propositions Black Kite, Delhi 2008 (Essays, political commentary.)
3. Kesavan, Mukul. Men in White: A Book of Cricket, Penguin India, Delhi 2007 Secular Common Sense Penguin India, Delhi 2001 (An essayon communal conflict in late 20th Century India.)
4. Kesavan, Mukul. Slowly Down the Ganga (with Sanjeev Saith), Roli, New Delhi 1989. Co-Editor, Civil Lines, Volumes 1 to 6. Civil Lines is a literary journal each volume of which is published as a book.

Essays before 2010

1. Kesavan, Mukul. An Undergraduate History of Hindi Cinema’ in Tomorrow’s India, edited by B.G. Verghese. New Delhi: Penguin 2006‘Invoking a Majority: The Congress & the Muslims of the United Provinces, 1945-47’ in Self-Images, Identity and Nationality, edited by P.C. Chatterji

Reference

1. Mukul Kesavan page on Guardian website accessed on 15/5/2023