Talk:Kanishka Chowdury

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Kanishka Chowdhury is a Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul[1] as of April 2024. According to his university profile, his research interests include human rights; immigration studies; race and contemporary US film; the politics of abolition

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

In 2016, he signed a letter supporting the SAFG letter[2][3] addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. They stated:

  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[edit]

  1. Chowdhury, K. Interrogating 'Newness': Globalization and Postcolonial Theory in the Age of Endless War. Cultural Critique, 2006, pp. 126-161.
  2. Chowdhury, K. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization. Springer, 2011.
  3. Chowdhury, K. It's All Within Your Reach: Globalization and the Ideologies of Postnationalism and Hybridity. Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, vol. 9, 2002.
  4. Chowdhury, K. Afrocentric Voices: Constructing Identities, [Dis]Placing Difference. College Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, 1997, pp. 35-56.
  5. Chowdhury, K. Teaching the Postcolonial Text: Strategies and Interventions. College Literature, vol. 19, no. 3/1, 1992, pp. 191-194.
  6. Chowdhury, K. Theoretical Confrontations in the Study of Postcolonial Literatures. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, 1991, pp. 609-616.
  7. Chowdhury, K. ‘Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us’: Rights Discourse, the State, and Toxic Capitalism in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People. Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age, Springer, 2019, pp. 149-185.
  8. Chowdhury, K. Transnational Transgressions: Reading the Gendered Subject in Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra, Deepa Mehta’s Fire, and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, Springer, 2011, pp. 145-181.
  9. Chowdhury, K. Writing Histories, Constructing Identities: Postcolonial Narratives of Cultural Recovery. Purdue University, 1993.
  10. Chowdhury, K. Going Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, Springer, 2011, pp. 23-58.
  11. Chowdhury, K. Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, Springer, 2011, pp. 59-105.
  12. Chowdhury, K. ‘Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?’ Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, Springer, 2011, pp. 183-209.
  13. Chowdhury, K. The Prompter’s Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide. The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization, Springer, 2011, pp. 107-144.
  14. Chowdhury, K. It's All Within Your Reach: Nationalisms in the Age of the Global Economy. Cultural Logic, 2002.
  15. Chowdhury, K. The Rhetoric of English India, by Sara Suleri. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 1993, p. 206.
  16. Chowdhury, K. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 1991, pp. 331-332.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Kanishka Chowdhury University Profile accessed 17 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group
  3. ↑ 5-17 Prof. S. Shankar et al support letter
Retrieved from "https://hindupedia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Kanishka_Chowdury&oldid=146690"