Talk:Arvind Rajagopal

By Sachi Anjunkar

Arvind Rajagopal is Professor of Media Studies at New York University. He is an affiliated faculty in the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis as of April 2024.

In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016 falsely stating the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India or Hindu Dharma

Books

1. Rajagopal, A. Politics after Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Indian Public. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
2. Rajagopal, A. The Indian Public Sphere: Readings in Media History. Oxford University Press, 2009.
3. Rajagopal, A., Rao, A. Media and Utopia: History, Imagination, and Technology. Routledge, 2017.
4. Rajagopal, A. Technologies of Perception. Duke University Press, 2001.

Articles in Academic Journals

1. Rajagopal, A. "Hindu Nationalism in the US: Changing Configurations of Political Practice." Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, 2000, pp. 467-496.
2. Rajagopal, A. "The Rise of National Programming: The Case of Indian Television." Media, Culture & Society, vol. 15, no. 1, 1993, pp. 91-111.
3. Rajagopal, A. "The Emergency as Prehistory of the New Indian Middle Class." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 45, no. 5, 2011, pp. 1003-1049.
4. Rajagopal, A. "Advertising, Politics, and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer." Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1998, pp. 14-31.
5. Rajagopal, A. "Urban Segregation and the Special Political Zone in Ahmedabad: An Emerging Paradigm for Religio-Political Violence." South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2011.
6. Rajagopal, A. "Media versus Masses? Contemporary Populism and the Crisis of Late Liberalism: Notes from the US and India." Culture Machine, vol. 19, 2020.
7. Rajagopal, A. "Robert Bellah: A Cold War Sociologist?" Civic Sociology, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, 37887.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

1. Rajagopal, A. "Television in India: Ideas, Institutions, and Practices." The SAGE Handbook of Television Studies, 2014, pp. 83-104.
2. Rajagopal, A. "Art for Whose Sake? Artistic Citizenship as an Uncertain Thing." Artistic Citizenship, 2006, pp. 143-156.
3. Rajagopal, A., Dube, S., Banerjee-Dube, I. "Advertising in India: Genealogies of the Consumer-Subject." Handbook of Modernity in South Asia: Modern Makeovers. Oxford, 2011.
4. Rajagopal, A. "The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India." This is Enlightenment: An Invitation in the Form of an Argument, 2010.
5. Rajagopal, A., Morley, D. "A Nation and its Immigration: the US After September 11." Media and Cultural Theory, London and New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 71-86.

Articles in Economic and Political Weekly

1. Rajagopal, A. "Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: Hawkers, Demolition Raids and a New Regime of Consumption." Economic and Political Weekly, 2002, pp. 65-76.
2. Rajagopal, A. "Ram Janmabhoomi, Consumer Identity and Image-Based Politics." Economic and Political Weekly, 1994, pp. 1659-1668.
3. Rajagopal, A. "Visibility as a Trap in the Anna Hazare Campaign." Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, pp. 19-21.
4. Rajagopal, A. "Reforms with a Dalit Face?" Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, no. 49, 2004, pp. 5229-5231.

Collaborative Works

1. Rajagopal, A., Vohra, P. "On the Aesthetics and Ideology of the Indian Documentary Film: A Conversation." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 7-20.
2. Goldman, R., Rajagopal, A. "Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict." 1991.