Talk:David Lelyveld

By Anirudha Patel

David Lelyveld retired as a professor at William Paterson University in 2012. According to his CV, his area of interest is Sir Syed and Macaulay’s Curse, a three-generation study of an Indian Muslim family .

He has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government in the context of BJP Government as of October 2024.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, Adivasis, and other dissident Hindus. Women in these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Lelyveld, David. "The Qutb Minar in Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s Āsār us-ṣanādīd." In Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India, edited by Indra Sengupta and Daud Ali, Palgrave, 2011.
2. Lelyveld, David. "The Colonial Context of Muslim Separatism: from Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi to Sayyid Ahmad Khan." In Living Together Separately: Cultural India in History and Politics, edited by Mushirul Hasan and Asim Roy, Oxford University Press, 2005.
3. Lelyveld, David. "Talking the National Language: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in Indian Broadcasting and Cinema." In Thinking Social Science in India: Essays in Honor of Alice Thorner, edited by Sujata Patel, Sage, 2002; reprinted in Language and Politics in India, Oxford University Press, 2009.
4. Lelyveld, David. "Words as Deeds: Gandhi on Language." Annual of Urdu Studies, 2001; also in Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer, edited by Paul R. Brass and Achin Vanaik, Orient Longman, 2002.
5. Lelyveld, David. "Upon the Sub-dominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio." Social Text 39 (Summer 1994); in Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World, edited by Carol Breckenridge, University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
6. Lelyveld, David. "Zuban-i Urdu-i Mu'alla and the Idol of Linguistic Origins." Annual of Urdu Studies, 1994.
7. Lelyveld, David. "Colonial Knowledge and the Fate of Hindustani." Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 1993.
8. Lelyveld, David. "The Fate of Hindustani: Colonial Knowledge and the Project of a National Language." In Orientalism and the Post-Colonial Predicament: Perspectives on South
9. Lelyveld, David. "Three Aligarh Students." Modern Asian Studies 9, 1975, pp. 227-240.
10. Lelyveld, David. "The Campaign for a Muslim University, 1898-1920." Modern Asian Studies 8, 1974, pp. 145-189 (with Gail Minault); expanded version in Gail Minault, Gender, Language and Learning: Essays in Indo-Muslim Cultural History, Permanent Black, 2008.