Talk:Devika Chawl

By Anirudha patel

Devika Chawla is a Professor and Director of Studies at the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University as of December 2022. Her research focuses on communicative, performative, and narrative approaches to studying family, home, and its relationship to social identity.

She 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.

In 2021, she 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. Chawla, Devika. Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India’s Partition. Fordham University Press, 2014.
2. Chawla, Devika. Performing Home/Storying Selves: Home and/as Identity in Oral Histories of India’s Partition. In Identity Research in Intercultural Communication, edited by Nilanjana Bardhan, and Mark P. Orbe, Lexington Books, 2012, pp. 87-100.
3. Chawla, Devika. Enacting Conflict as Resistance: Urban Indian Women in Hindu Arranged Marriages. In Family Communication: Theory and Research, edited by Lorin B. Arnold, Allyn & Bacon, 2008, pp. 228-236.
4. Chawla, Devika. Remaking Hindu Arranged Marriage in the Narrative Performances of Urban Indian Women. In Remaking ‘Family’ Communicatively, edited by Leslie A. Baxter, Peter Lang Publishing, 2014, pp. 103-120.
5. Chawla, Devika. Habit, Home, Threshold. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, vol. 3, no. 2, Winter 2014, pp. 152-161.