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Report on CRG Forum "Canceling Critical Race Theory and the "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks" held via Zoom on Oct. 7, 2021.

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The Telegraph writer Prasanta Ray discusses Angana Chatterji’s co-authored book, Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India. 

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves 

Angana Chatterji, a scholar at the University of California, Berkeley notes that the Rajasthan murder is horrible in its specifics, but has to be considered in the larger context of repeated targeting of unarmed, ordinary Muslims by Hindu nationalist violence. “Systemic violence by state institutions and Hindu vigilante groups against Muslims are bound to commence cycles of violence,” she says.

Critical elections are proceeding in five states in India, including in its most populous state and political nerve center, Uttar Pradesh.

“These evictions in Dhalpur are part of the BJP’s drive to politicise and dismantle the citizenship rights of the Bengali Muslims in Assam, and this is a very dangerous path,” saidAngana Chatterji, an anthropologist at University of California, Berkeley, who recently wrote a study on the alleged abuses in Assam.

A spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the matter.

Weekly podcast series called “USCIRF Spotlight” hosted by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body.  Click here to listen to the episode.

RELIGION, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP IN ASSAM, INDIA
SEPTEMBER 02, 2021

Blog originally posted on April 23, 2021, on the Stanford Libraries site, Special Collections Unbound by Laura Wilsey.

PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release:  April 9, 2021
Contact: Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender (PCRes-CRG), email: rng2@berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley-Stanford Collaborative Project “From Nation to Homeland: Religion, State and Belonging in South Asia” Receives $370,000 Grant from Henry Luce Foundation 

“[T]his was part of an escalating strategy where public intellectuals, civil society advocates, and human rights defenders who are progressive, liberal, with a certain idea of the free university and freedom of speech in a democratic society, were being identified, discouraged, and targeted…it is dangerous to speak up in India today.”

“One year ago today, India revoked Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status. It is a place of no rights, shackled in concertina wire, suffocating in a state of interminable lockdown.”

Angana Chatterji, Research Anthropologist and Co-chair of CRG’s Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, authored an article that was released today for Just Security, titled “Kashmir: A Place Without Rights.” 

Research Scholar and Co-Chair ofPolitical Conflict, Gender & People’s Rights Initiative,Angana P. Chatterji, recently announced the opening of theArchive on Legacies of Conflict in South Asia: The Right to Heal.

Over the summer, I asked abuela Belem to tell me a story about my mother. Although my grandmother and mother only lived together for twelve years before my mother became a perpetual migrant, my grandmother decided that the story I needed was not a story about my mother, but a story of shape-shifting people and rituals in our community.

This is a story I won’t repeat, but what I will share is that ever since being offered this story, I have re-oriented my relationship to my entire family and to an understanding of stories as theory, transgression, and archives.

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Frontline writer Shaikh Mujibur Rehman reviewed Angana Chatterji’s (Co-chairPolitical Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) co-authored book, Majoritarian State

The Business Insider interviewed Angana Chatterji (Co-chair,Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) for its article about the crisis in Kashmir.

US-based Chatterji’s detailed study onBuried Evidence: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves, brought focus on the unmarked graves found in Kashmir for the first time. The unearthing happened in March 2008, and thereafter, Chatterji and her groups identified 2,700 such unknown, unmarked and mass graves that contained over 2,900 bodies in 55 villages in Bandipora, Baramulla, and Kupwara districts of Kashmir.

Tariq Ali of New York Review quoted CRG Research ScholarAngana Chatterji(Co-Chair,Political Conflict, Gender, & People’s Rights) in a recent article about Kashmir.

Narendra Modi’s op-ed in The Guardian includes Angana P. Chatterji’s (Co-chairPolitical Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) co-authored book, Majoritarian State to discuss the political climate in India.  

The Indian Express’ interview with Angana P. Chatterji (Co-chair,Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative) discusses her bookMajoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India.