Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

Angana P. Chatterji

RESEARCH ANTHROPOLOGIST, UC BERKELEY
FOUNDING CHAIR, POLITICAL CONFLICT, GENDER AND PEOPLE'S RIGHTS INITIATIVE

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Anatomy of Unbelonging: Hindutva Citizenship and Muslim Dispossession

April 3, 2024

Angana P. Chatterji

The self-ministered deification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya and the nationalisation of prejudicial citizenship both signal the erasure of the Muslim from Hindu-India, portentous of the unfolding grotesque.

https://thewire.in/government/the-anatomy-of-unbelonging-caa-nrc-and-muslim-disp…

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Unchecked by Consequences, a New Authoritarianism Is Unfolding in India

April 4, 2023

Angana P. Chatterji

The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.

The Narendra Modi-led government’s drive to remake India as a Hindu nationalist state has instigated states...

https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/unchecked-by-consequences-a-new-authoritar…

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#KashmirUnknownMassGraves

July 29, 2022

United Nations Human Rights - Office of the High Commissioner

#KashmirUnknownMassGraves

UN OHCHR statement premised on findings in BURIED EVIDENCE: 2,700 unmarked and mass graves containing more than 2,940 bodies in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Graves Report: http://www.kashmirprocess.org/reports/graves/01Front.html

https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gI…

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Kashmir on the Edge of the Abyss

August 13, 2019

Tariq Ali

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.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/13/kashmir-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss/

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Kashmir: A Place Without Rights

August 5, 2020

Angana P. Chatterji

“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.”

https://www.justsecurity.org/71840/kashmir-a-place-without-rights/

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India is replaying Trump's favorite strategy by accusing the media of fake news in Kashmir, where it cut off the internet and tried to silence journalists

September 19, 2019

Alexandra Ma

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

https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-crisis-india-accuses-media-fake-news-usi…

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Rule of the majority

September 27, 2019

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

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

https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/article29382642.ece

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USCIRF Spotlight Podcast “Religion, Law and Citizenship In Assam, India”

September 2, 2021

USCIRF

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

For the past two years, USCIRF has recommended that India be designated a Country of Particular of Concern (CPC) by the State Department due the government’s promotion of Hindu...

https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/uscirf-spotlight/religion-law-and-citizenship-a…