Talk:Nissim Mannathukkaren

By Anirudha Patel

Nissim Mannathukkaren is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University as of October 2022. According to his university profile, his research interests include left/communist movements, development and democracy, modernity, the politics of popular culture (esp., the politics of mass cultural forms like the media, cinema, and sport), and Marxist and postcolonial theories.

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 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 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

Articles

1. Mannathukkaren, Nissim, and Ajay Gudavarthy. “The Politics of Secular Sectarianism.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 49, no. 49, 2014, pp. 16-19.
2. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Nation, Class and Caste: The Culture of Servitude and the Case of the Indian Diplomat.” Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 38, issue 2, 2014, pp. 105-112.
3. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “The Rise of the National-Popular and its Limits: Communism and the Cultural in Kerala.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 14, 2013, issue 4, pp. 494-518.
4. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Redistribution and Recognition: Land Reforms in Kerala and the Limits of Culturalism.” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 38, issue 2, 2011, pp. 379-411.
5. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Postcolonialism and Modernity: A Critical Realist Critique.” Journal of Critical Realism, vol. 9, no. 3, 2010, pp. 299-327.
6. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “The 'Poverty' of Political Society: Partha Chatterjee and the People's Plan Campaign in Kerala, India.” Third World Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 295-314.
7. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “‘Media Terror’: Understanding Television and the Media in India in the Context of ‘26/11’.” South Asian History and Culture, vol. 1, no. 3, 2010, pp. 416-434.
8. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Reading Cricket Fiction in the Times of Hindu Nationalism and Farmer Suicides: Fallacies of Textual Interpretation.” International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 24, no. 9, Sep. 2007, pp. 1200-1225.
9. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Subalterns, Cricket and the Nation: The Silences of ‘Lagaan’.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 36, no. 49, 2001, pp. 4580-88.

Book Chapters

1. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Three Days of Mumbai Terror and the Media Circus.” In Indian Mass Media: Prejudices Against Dalits and Muslims, edited by Yoginder Sikand and Avinash Mishra, Hope India, 2010, pp. 189-194.
2. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “The Conjuncture of Late Socialism in Kerala: A Critique of the Narrative of Social Democracy.” In Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing Kerala Model of Development, edited by K. Ravi Raman, Routledge, 2010, pp. 155-171.
3. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. “Culture and Development.” In Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors and Issues, edited by Pierre Beaudet, Paul Haslam, and Jessica Schafer, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 463-484. (Second edition 2012)

Book Reviews

1. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. Review of Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India by Vinay Gidwani. Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 36, no. 2, 2009, pp. 464-466.
2. Mannathukkaren, Nissim. Review of Communities and Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India, edited by Surinder Jodhka. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 37, no. 3, 2003, pp. 531-533.