USCIRF issues mid-year update on #BJP-run#India’swww.uscirf.gov/news-room/re...
It was a true pleasure to welcome @hfhr.bsky.social#Hinduism#Rutgers! Our topics? The Ramayana, retelling stories, Hinduism and social justice, and more!
Publication alert -- Mughal Arts (in French) releasing in two weeks! The book includes two articles by yours truly: respectively, on religion and on reading / writing at the Mughal court (the latter co-authored with the amazing Yael Rice). citadelles-mazenod.com/product/les-...#Mughals#art
Next on the reading list -- What do we do now that 'decolonization' has been hijacked by Hindu supremacists with a vast, oppressive state apparatus behind them? anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...#Hindutva#decolonization#India
Sharp, insightful, detailed article on the rise of far-right Hindu supremacy in America and its fierce influence on U.S. politicians, Republican and Democrat. Especially devastating is how Newsom was ordered to veto California's popular anti-caste bill. harpers.org/archive/2024...
How Hindu nationalism spreads in America
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The Rutgers administration has botched protecting free speech on campus. But the Rutgers faculty/grad union is here with some clarifications, for everyone. dailytargum.com/article/2024... #Rutgers #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom
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DN Jha was one of India's great historians. He was right about a lot of things, including that a "golden age" is factually false and intellectually bankrupt for premodern India. [interview from 2018; Jha passed in 2021] frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cul...#India#history#historiography
Interview with Prof. D.N. Jha, historian.