Talk:Pradip Kumar Datta

By Renuka Joshi

Pradip Kumar Datta is a Professor Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory at Jawaharlal Nehru University as of August 2022. According to her university profile, her areas of interests are Historical and Contemporary Identity formations in Modern India, Indian Political and Social Thought and Literary Studies.

As per his bio, 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.

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 of 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

Book and Book Chapters

1. Datta, Pradip Kumar. War and the World, Tagore’s Praxis of the Global from the 1890s to the 1920s. In India and the World in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, edited by Pradip Kumar Datta, 2017, pp. 102-133. doi:10.4324/9781351255325.
2. Datta, Pradip Kumar, Suhas Palshikar, and Achin Vanaik. Political Science, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 1-32. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082224.001.0001.

Journal Articles

1. Datta, Pradip Kumar. Rabindranath's Praxis: Perspectives on Remaking the Social. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 38-39.
2. Datta, Pradip Kumar. Rabindranath Tagore's Theology of Work. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 52, 2017, pp. 40-45.
3. Datta, Pradip Kumar, and Suhas Palshikar. Introduction: Reframing Indian Political Thought. Political Science, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2013. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082224.003.0001.
4. Datta, Pradip Kumar, and Ujjwal Kumar. From Democratic Autonomy to Authoritarian Sovereignty. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 48, 2013.
5. Datta, Pradip Kumar. The Interlocking Worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa/India. South African Historical Journal, vol. 57, 2007, pp. 35-59. doi:10.1080/02582470709464708.
6. Datta, Pradip Kumar. Hindu-Muslim Love and its Prohibitions: The Social Importance of Literature in Early Modern Bengal. Studies in History, vol. 18, 2002, pp. 323-333. doi:10.1177/025764300201800209.