Talk:Prof. Ravi Arvind Palat

By Sachi Anjunkar

Ravi Arvind Palat, is a professor of socioogy at State University of New York as of April 2024.

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

In 2016, he 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."

Publications related to India

Book

1. Palat, Ravi Arvind. The Making of an Indian Ocean World-System, 1250-1650: Princes, Paddy fields, Bazaars. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Articles

1. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Empire, Food and the Diaspora: Indian Restaurants in Britain." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, 2015, pp. 1-16.
2. Palat, Ravi Arvind, and William G. Martin. "Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Beyond the ‘New Bandung’ or a ‘New Colonialism’?" Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, vol. III, no. 1, 2014, pp. 125-50.
3. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "From Native to Citizen: Colonial Genealogies of Citizenship in Contemporary EuroNorth America." Outiç! Journal of (post)European Philosophy, vol. IV, no. 2, Sept. 2013, pp. 293-312.
4. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia." Critical Asian Studies, vol. XLV, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 397-410.
5. Palat, Ravi Arvind, and Caglar Keyder. "Geopolitics and New Spatial Imaginaries: An Introduction." Critical Asian Studies, vol. XLV, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 393-96.
6. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Power Pursuits: Interstate Systems in Asia." Asian Review of World History, vol. I, no. 2, July 2013, pp. 227-63.
7. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Much Ado About Nothing: World-historical Implications of the Re-emergence of China and India." International Critical Thought, vol. II, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 139-55.
8. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "India Suborned: The Global South and the Geopolitics of India’s Vote Against Iran." Japan Focus, 24 Oct. 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=427.
9. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Is India Part of Asia?" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. XX, no. 6, Nov. 2002, pp. 669-691.
10. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies." Development and Society, vol. XXIX, no. 2, Dec. 2000, pp. 105-36.
11. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Popular Revolts and the State in Medieval South India: A Study of the Vijayanagara Empire (1360-1565)." Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, vol. CXII, 1986, pp. 128-44.

Book Chapters

1. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée, 1250-1750." The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis, edited by Richard Lee, State Univ. of New York Press, 2012, pp. 171-200.
2. Palat, Ravi Arvind, and Immanuel Wallerstein. "Of What World-System was pre-1500 ‘India’ a Part?" Merchants, Companies, and Trade, edited by S. Chaudhuri & M. Morineau, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 21-41.
3. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Symbiotic Sisters: Bay of Bengal Ports in the Indian Ocean World-Economy." Cities in the World-Economy, edited by R. Kasaba, Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 17-40.
4. Palat, Ravi Arvind. "The Vijayanagara Empire: Reintegration of the Agrarian Order of Medieval South India, 1336-1565." Early State Dynamics, edited by H. J. M. Claessen & P. van de Velde, E. J. Brill, 1987, pp. 170-86.