Talk:Sanjukta Sunderason

By Rutvi Dattani

Sanjukta Sunderason is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Amsterdam, as on October 2022. Her research focuses on the entanglements between (left-wing) aesthetics and 20th-century decolonization in South Asia and across transnational formations in the Global South.

As per her bio, 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 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 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."

Publication related to India

Books

1. Sunderason, S. (2022). "The Aesthetics of Decolonization in South Asia”. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (Oxford Research Encyclopedia). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.421
2. Sunderason, S., & Hoek, L. (Eds.) (2022). Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics, Networks, Connected Histories. (Critical Perspectives in South Asian History). Bloomsbury Academic.
3. Sunderason, S. (2021). "A Melancholic Archive: Chittaprosad and socialist art in postcolonial India". In S. Sunderason, & L. Hoek (Eds.), Forms of the Left in Postcolonial South Asia: Aesthetics, Networks, Connected Histories: Sanjukta Sunderason and Lotte Hoek (eds). (pp. 33-65). Bloomsbury.
4. Sunderason, S. (2020). Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization. Stanford University Press.
5. Sunderason, S. (2020). Book Review: Benjamin Robert Siegel, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xi, 280. Paper $34.99. American Historical review, 1855–1856.
6. Sunderason, S. (2018). Book Review, "Sudeshna Guha, Artefacts of History: Archaeology, Historiography and Indian Pasts". History of Humanities, 3(2), 441-443.
7. Sunderason, S. (2018). Book Review: Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World, Ritu Gairola Khanduri, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 305 pp. The Journal of Asian Studies, 77(1), 10-12.
8. Sunderason, S. (2012). “Making Art ‘Modern’: Revisiting Artistic Modernism in India”. In S. Dube (Ed.), Modern Makeovers: A Handbook of Modernity in South Asia (pp. 245-262). Oxford University Press.
9. Sunderason, S. (2011). "As Agitator and Organiser: Chittaprosad and the Art for the Communist Party of India,”. Object, 13, 76-96.

Journal Articles

1. Sunderason, S. (2019). “Framing Margins: Mao and Visuality in Twentieth-century India”. In J. Galimberti, N. de Haro-García, & V. H. F. Scott (Eds.), Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (pp. 67-87). Manchester University Press.
2. Sunderason, S. (2017). “Shadow-Lines: Zainul Abedin and the Afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943”. Third Text, 31(2-3), 239-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2017.1381426
3. Sunderason, S. (2016). “Arts of Contradiction: Gaganendranath Tagore and the Caricatural Aesthetic of Colonial India”. South Asian Studies, 32(2), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2016.1222669