Talk:Yumna Siddiqi
By Renuka Joshi
Yumna Siddiqi is an Associate Professor of English at Middlebury College[1][2] as of May 2023. According to her university profile, she specializes in postcolonial literature and theory, diaspora and migration studies, and literary theory. She has published articles on postcolonial literature and culture in Cultural Critique, Victorian Literature and Culture, Renaissance Drama, Alif, South Asia Research, and Textual Practice.
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 in 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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- Siddiqi, Yumna. "Bombay Noir: Violence, Intrigue, and Politics in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh." Textual Practice, vol. 27, 2013, doi:10.1080/0950236X.2013.821158.
- Siddiqi, Yumna. "'Power Smashes into Private Lives': Violence, Globalization and Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown." South Asia Research, vol. 27, 2007, pp. 293-309, doi:10.1177/026272800702700303.
- Siddiqi, Yumna. "Police and Postcolonial Rationality in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason." Cultural Critique, no. 50, 2002, pp. 175-211, doi:10.1353/cul.2002.0012.
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- ↑ Yumna Siddiqi University Page accessed on 10/5/2023
- ↑ Yumna Siddiqi Research Gate Page accessed on 10/5/2023
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
- ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf