Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

Election In India’s Largest State Accelerates Anti-Muslim Hate Speech And Violence

February 14, 2022
Angana P. Chatterji

Critical elections are proceeding in five states in India, including in its most populous state and political nerve center, Uttar Pradesh. The election there in particular illustrates the majoritarian nationalism that is driving...

https://www.justsecurity.org/80203/election-in-indias-largest-state-accelerates-…

‘Hindu Lives Matter’ Emerges As Dangerous Slogan After Horrific Killing In India

July 1, 2022
Sanya Mansoor

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.

‘‘Hindu Lives Matter’ presumes those lives have been overlooked. Hindu lives have not been overlooked in a Hindu majoritarian state,” Chatterji says. “This is a revisionist...

https://time.com/6193304/hindu-lives-matter-india-killing/

Gendered and Sexual Violence in and beyond South Asia

Angana P. Chatterji
2016

Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence in states and collectives of the (post)colony holds in place fraught, unjust histories and relations between elites and subalterns, majoritarian subjects and non-dominant ‘Others’. At the intersections of nationalist and decolonial confrontations, such violence regularizes states of emergency and exception. The following excerpts are curated from the co-edited and co-contributed monograph, Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal. The monograph elucidates the centrality of political and...

BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam

Angana P. Chatterji
Mihir Desai
Harsh Mander
Abdul Kalam Azad
2021

BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam chronicles how prejudicial laws and policies are weaponizing citizenship in India today. A pivotal objective of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has been to alter the basis of Indian citizenship. Toward this, the Government of India passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (2019) and determined to commence an all-India National Register of Citizens. While changes to citizenship are scheduled for enforcement across the country, the BJP’s pilot implementation is focused...