Talk:Sangeeta Kamat
Sangeeta Kamat is Professor, Grace Lee Boggs Faculty Fellow at the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst[1][2], as of November 2022. According to her University profile, her research focuses on globalization and education reform, critical theory, gender analysis, South Asia.
She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, the Indian Government in the context of BJP government, the Indus Civilization, the impact or relationship between caste system and Hinduism as of May 2023.
In 2021, she 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."[3]
In 2016, she signed a letter[4] addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:
- "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."
- "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
- "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.' "
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- Kamat, Sangeeta. "Neoliberal Globalization and Higher Education Policy in India," Chapters, in: Roger King & Simon Marginson & Rajani Naidoo (ed.), Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
- Kamat, Sangeeta G. and Biju C. Mathew. “Mapping Political Violence in a Globalized World: The Case of Hindu Nationalism.” Social Justice 39, 2003.
- Kamat, Sangeeta. Development Hegemony. Oxford University Press, USA, 2002.
- Kamat, Sangeeta. Postcolonial aporias, or what does fundamentalism have to do with globalization? the contradictory consequences of education reform in India. August 5, 2006
References[edit]
- ↑ Sangeeta Kamat page on University of Massachusetts Amherst accessed November 24, 2022
- ↑ Sangeeta Kamat page on Academia accessed November 24, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf