Talk:Ruby Lal

By Renuka Joshi

Ruby Lal is a professor of South Asian Studies, Emory University as of June 4, 2023. According to her university profile, her fields of study include feminist history and theory, and the question of archive as it relates to writing about Islamic societies in early modern and modern world.

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 the context of B.J.P. Government.

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

Refereed/Peer reviewed

1. Lal, Ruby. In the Wake of Colonial Ascendancy: Rethinking Muslim Respectability. Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857, Vol. 5, "Muslim, Dalit and Subaltern Narratives, edited by Crispin Bates, Sage Publications, 2014.
2. Lal, Ruby, and Beverly Bossler. "Gender Systems: The Exotic Asian and Other Fallacies. What India and China Once Were: The Pasts that May Shape the Global Future, edited by Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Ellman, Columbia University Press, 2019.

Academic books

1. Lal, Ruby. Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness. Cambridge UP, 2015.
2. Lal, Ruby. In Pursuit of Playfulness: The Girl-Child/Woman and Nineteenth-Century India. Primus Books, 31 Jan. 2019.