Talk:Sanjay Joshi

By Anirudha Patel

Sanjay Joshi is a Professor of History at Northern Arizona University, as of November 2022. According to his university profile, his research focuses on South Asian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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 in the context of BJP Government.

In 2021, he 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."

Publications related to India

Journal Articles

1. Joshi, Sanjay. India’s Middle Class. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, edited by David Ludden, 2017.
2. Joshi, Sanjay. Juliet Got it Wrong: Names and Identities among Christian converts in Kumaon, 1850-1930. Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 74, no. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 843-862.
3. Joshi, Sanjay. Thinking About Modernity from the Margins: The Making of a Middle Class in Colonial India. The Making of the Middle Class: A Transnational History, edited by Abel Ricardo López and Barbara Weinstein, Duke University Press, 2012, pp. 29-44.
4. Joshi, Sanjay. The Specter of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India. Both Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, edited by Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray, Routledge, 2011, pp. 83-107.
5. Joshi, Sanjay. Contesting Histories and Nationalist Geographies: A Comparison of School Textbooks in India and Pakistan. South Asian History and Culture, vol. 1, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 357–377.
6. Joshi, Sanjay. Virtually There: Cricket, Community, and Commerce on the Internet. International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 24, no. 9, Sep. 2007, pp. 1225–1240. Republished in The Politics of Sport in South Asia, edited by J. A. Mangan, Boria Majumdar, Mark Dyreson, Routledge, 2009.
7. Joshi, Sanjay. Indian Independence Movement. Encyclopedia of Modern Revolutions, Vol. II, edited by James V. DeFronzo, ABC-CLIO, 2006, pp. 383-94.
8. Joshi, Sanjay. Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion and the Middle Class. The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief and Politics in History, edited by Derek Peterson and Darren Walhof, Rutgers University Press, 2002, pp. 79-99.
9. Joshi, Sanjay. The Indian Independence Movement, 1885-1947 and Regional Revolts in India. Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, edited by Jack Goldstone, Congressional Quarterly Press, 1998, pp. 232-36.

Book Publications

1. Joshi, Sanjay, editor. The Middle Class in Colonial India. Oxford University Press Themes in Indian History Series, Oxford University Press, 2010. Second and third hardback impressions, 2010, 2011.
2. Joshi, Sanjay. Fractured Modernity: The Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. Oxford University Press, 2001. Second hardback impression, 2002, paperback edition, 2005.