Talk:Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee was a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at the Columbia University. According to his university profile, his research encompasses topics of that Slavery, Colonialism, Race, Racial Capitalism War, Nationalism, Displacement, Trauma Institutions, Law, Governmentality Empires, States, and Sovereignties[1] as of February 2023.
He 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, he along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban co-signed a letter supporting "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar 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."[2]
In 2016, he signed a letter endorsing a letter submitted by the South Asia Faculty Group[3][4] where it addressed the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. In this letter they requested removing the word India from textbooks. In addition, they falsely[5] stated:
- "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
- "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
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Books[edit]
- Chatterjee, Partha. A Princely Impostor? Princeton University Press, 2020.
- Chatterjee, Partha. I Am the People : Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today. Columbia University Press, 2020.
- Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and Colonial World : A Derivative Discourse. Zed, 1993.
- Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments : Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Chatterjee, Partha. The Politics of the Governed. Columbia University Press, 2006.
- Chatterjee, Partha. The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak. State University of New York Press, 2022.
- Chatterjee, Partha. BLACK HOLE of EMPIRE : History of a Global Practice of Power. Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Chatterjee, Partha. The Black Hole of Empire History of a Global Practice of Power. Princeton University Press, 2012.
References[edit]
- ↑ Partha Chatterjee University Profile accessed February 27, 2023,
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
- ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
- ↑ Gupta, S. P. 'The Dawn of Civilization.' In History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: Volume I: Part 1, edited by G. C. Pandey and D. P. Chattopadhyaya. New Delhi: Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 1999.