Talk:Partha Chatterjee

By Sachi Anjunkar

Partha Chatterjee is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at the Columbia University. His researches encompasses topics of that Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism War, Nationalism, Displacement, Trauma Institutions, Law, Governmentality Empires, States, and Sovereignties as of February 2023.

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."[1]

In 2016, she 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."
3. "The geographic location of the Indus Civilization lies in what is now contemporary India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The use of "South Asia" to describe this shared civilizational heritage is thus entirely appropriate in some places of the framework, even though South Asia is a modern term, and some source materials use the term ‘Ancient India.' "

Published Books

1. . Chatterjee, Partha. "A Princely Impostor?" Princeton University Press, 2020.
2. . Chatterjee, Partha. "I Am the People : Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today". Columbia University Press, 2020.
3. . Chatterjee, Partha. "Nationalist Thought and Colonial World : A Derivative Discourse". Zed, 1993.
4. . Chatterjee, Partha. "The Nation and Its Fragments : Colonial and Postcolonial Histories". Princeton University Press, 1993.
5. . Chatterjee, Partha. "The Politics of the Governed". Columbia University Press, 2006.
6. . Chatterjee, Partha. "The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak". State University of New York Press, 2022.
7. . Chatterjee, Partha. "BLACK HOLE of EMPIRE : History of a Global Practice of Power". Princeton University Press, 2013.
8. . Chatterjee, Partha. "The Black Hole of Empire History of a Global Practice of Power". Princeton University Press, 2012.