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Chao Center for Asian Studies
“Hindutva in Transnational Alignments”
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Deepa Reddy
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies at UHCL
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University of Houston Clearlake |
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
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119 Humanities Building
Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas, USA
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ABSTRACT: Her presentation is part of a longer work entitled “Hindutva: Genealogies and Logics”: a review-style essay that (1) surveys the literature on hindutva to date, but also (2) tracks the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism from its initial conception in Savarkar’s ideological manifesto Hindutva to contemporary politics in India and in diaspora. By focusing on the shifting ways in which hindutva is articulated and arguments about it made over time, she shows that it is neither a stable nor an easily bounded phenomenon—although arguments about hindutva (its own and those of its critics) do come into alignment and stabilize in particular contexts, around particular issues. |
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BIO: Deepa Reddy is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Studies at UHCL. She has written on the contestations of identitarian politics in India, the globalization of caste via the discourses of race and human rights, and on how sample collection and donor registration initiatives such the International HapMap Project and the U.S. National Marrow Donor Program facilitate reconceptualizations of bioethics, civic identities, and even the role of the market in medicine and genetics. Her book, Religious Identity and Political Destiny, was published in 2006. Her current research interests range from (bio)ethics in human and animal research to medical tourism and drug development in India. Her research has been funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Association for University Women (AAUW), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Beyond research, teaching, and writing, Deepa hopes that, slowly, slowly, slowly, she will work to build her ever-growing collection of children's books into a library collection in India that brings together good books and good music for benefit of local communities. |
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