Talk:Veena Das

By Anirudha patel

Veena Das is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University. According to her university profile, her research interests are ethnography, Anthropology, and Philosophy.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, 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 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

Books

1. Das, Veena. Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. New edition with a Foreword by Bhrigupati Singh and an Afterword by Veena Das, Oxford University Press, 2018.
2. Das, Veena. Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual. With a new Introduction, Oxford Perennials, 2012.
3. Das, Veena. Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India. Oxford University Press, 1995. [Reprinted 2001].
4. Das, Veena. Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual. Oxford University Press, 1977. [Reprinted in 1982, 1991, 2012].

Edited/ Special Issue books

1. Das, Veena, and Jacob Copeman, editors. On Names in South Asia: Iteration, (Im)propriety and Dissimulation. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), 2015.
2. Das, Veena, and Ranendra Das, editors. Anthropology and Sociology of Economic Life: The Moral Embedding of Economic Action. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2010.
3. Das, Veena, Dipankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi, editors. Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Essays in Honour of T.N. Madan. Sage Publications, Delhi, 2002.
4. Das, Veena, editor. Mirrors of Violence. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991.
5. Das, Veena, editor. The Word and the World: Fantasy, Symbol and Record. Sage Publications, Delhi, 1986.

Journal Articles

1. Das, Veena. At the Point of Confluence of Sociology and Indology. Comment on Axel Michaels. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 54, no. 3, 2020, pp. 388-408.
2. Das, Veena. A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 53, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-36.
3. Das, Veena, et al. Use of Standardised Patients to Assess Gender Differences in Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Urban India: A Two-City, Cross-Sectional Study. The Lancet Global Health, vol. 7, no. 5, 2019, e633-e643.
4. Das, Veena, et al. Use of Standardised Patients for Healthcare Quality Research in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 5, 2019, e001669.
5. Das, Veena, et al. Variations in the Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Urban India: A Cross-Sectional, Standardised Patient Study in Two Cities. PLoS Medicine, vol. 15, no. 9, 2018, e1002653.
6. Das, Veena, et al. Effect of Social Franchising Programs on Healthcare Provider Knowledge and Quality of Care in Bihar, India: A Quasi-Experimental Difference-in-Difference Analysis. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol. 95, no. 5, 2017, pp. 343.
7. Das, Veena, et al. Use of Standardised Patients to Assess Antibiotic Dispensing for Tuberculosis by Pharmacies in Urban India: A Cross-Sectional Study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 16, no. 11, 2016, pp. 1261-1268.
8. Das, Veena. Medical Pluralism and Health Care for the Poor. MFC Bulletin, Nov. 2016-April 2016, pp. 59-62.
9. Das, Veena. The Boundaries of the ‘We’: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life. Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, vol. 17, no. 2, 2016, pp. 168-185.
10. Das, Veena. Naming Beyond Pointing: Singularity, Relatedness and the Foreshadowing of Death. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), vol. 12, 2015.
11. Das, Veena, and Jacob Copeman. Introduction On Names in South Asia: Iteration, (Im)propriety and Dissimulation. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), vol. 12, 2015.
12. Das, Veena, and Shalini Randeria. Social Sciences and Public Debates: The Case of India. Socio: Inventer les Sciences Sociales Postoccidentales, vol. 5, 2015, pp. 81-98.
13. Das, Veena. Corruption and the Possibility of Life. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 49, no. 3, 2015, pp. 322-343.
14. Das, Veena, and Shalini Randeria. Politics of the Urban Poor: Aesthetics, Ethics, Volatility, Precarity. Current Anthropology, vol. 56, Suppl. 11, 2015, pp. 3-14.
15. Das, Veena, and Michael Walton. Political Leadership and the Urban Poor. Current Anthropology, vol. 56, Suppl. 11, 2015.
16. Das, Veena, et al. Use of Standardised Patients to Assess Quality of Tuberculosis Care: A Pilot, Cross-Sectional Study. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015, doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00077-8.
17. Das, Veena, and Shalini Randeria. Democratic Strivings, Social Sciences and Public Debates; The Case of India. American Anthropologist, vol. 116, no. 1, 2014, pp. 60-65.
18. Das, Veena. Cohabiting an Interreligious Milieu: Reflections on Religious Diversity. In A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion, edited by Janice Boddy and Michael Lambek, Wiley Blackwell, London, 2013, Chapter 3, pp. 69-84.
19. Das, Veena. Being--‐together with Animals: Death, Violence and Non--‐cruelty in Hindu Imagination. In Living Beings: Perspectives on Interspecies Engagements, edited by Penny [Publisher and year needed].
20. Das, Veena. Violence and Non-violence at the Heart of Hindu Ethics. In Oxford Handbook on Religion and Violence, edited by Mark Jurgensmeyer, Margo Kitts, and Michael Jerryson, Oxford University Press, New York, 2012, pp. 15-41.
21. Das, Veena. The Dreamed Guru: Entangled Lives of an Amil and a Guru. In The Guru in South Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Jacob Copeman and Aye Ikigama, Routledge, London, Chapter 7 [Year needed].
22. Das, Veena. Moral Striving in the Everyday: To be a Muslim in Contemporary India. In Ethical Life in South Asia, edited by Anand Pandian and Daud Ali, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2012, pp. 232-253.
23. Das, Veena. If This Be Magic: Excursions into Contemporary Hindu Lives. In Religion: Beyond a Concept, edited by Hent de Vries, Fordham University Press, New York, 2008, pp. 259-282.
24. Das, Veena. The Citizen as Sexed: Women, Violence and Reproduction. In Women and the Contested State, edited by Monique Skidmore and Patricia Lawrence, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, pp. 29-50.
25. Das, Veena, and R.K. Das. Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local. In Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices, edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman. Duke University Press, 2006, pp. 171-206.
26. Das, Veena. Sexual Violence, Discursive Formations, and the State. In States of Violence, edited by Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski. University of Michigan Press, 2006, pp. 393-425.
27. Das, Veena, and Deborah Poole. State and Its Margins: Comparative Ethnographies. In Anthropology in the Margins of the State, edited by Veena Das and Deborah Poole. SAR Press, 2004, pp. 3-35.
28. Das, Veena, and Deborah Poole. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility. In Anthropology in the Margins of the State, edited by Veena Das and Deborah Poole. SAR Press, 2004, pp. 225-253.
29. Das, Veena, and R. Singh Bajwa. Community and Violence in Contemporary Punjab. In Violence/Non-Violence: Some Hindu Perspectives, edited by Denis Vidal, Gilles Tarabout, and Eric Meyer. Manohar, 2003, pp. 54-68.
30. Das, Veena. Sexual Violation and the Making of Engendered Subject. In Discrimination and Toleration, edited by K. Hastrup and G. Urlich. Kluwer International, 2002, pp. 257-265.
31. Das, Veena, Deepankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi. Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Framing the Issues. In Tradition, Pluralism and Identity, edited by Veena Das, Deepankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi. Sage Publications, 2002, pp. 1-26.
32. Das, Veena, and Renu Addlakha. Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender and the Making of the Subject. Public Culture, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001, pp. 511-531.
33. Das, Veena, and Ranendra K. Das. Disease Control and Immunization: A Sociological Enquiry. Economic and Political Weekly, Special Issue on Social Science and Immunisation, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 625-633.
34. Das, Veena. The Making of Modernity: Gender and Time in Indian Cinema. In Questions of Modernity, edited by Timothy Mitchell. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
35. Das, Veena. Scientific and Political Representations: Cholera Vaccine in India. With Abhibit Dasgupta. Economic and Political Weekly, Special Issue on Social Science and Immunisation, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 633-645.
36. Das, Veena. Anthropological Knowledge, Alterity and Autobiographical Voice. In Anthropological Journeys: Reflections on Fieldwork, edited by Meenakshi Thapan, Orient Longman Limited, Hyderabad, India, 1998, pp. 41-54.
37. Das, Veena. Hunger. Seminar, Special Issue on Children, 1998, pp. 67-75.
38. Das, Veena. Specificities: Official Narratives, Rumour, and the Social Production of Hate. Social Identities, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, pp. 109-130.
39. Das, Veena. Dislocation and Rehabilitation: Defining a Field. Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 31, no. 24, 1996, pp. 1509-1514.
40. Das, Veena. National Honor and Practical Kinship: Unwanted Women and Children. In Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction, edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995, pp. 212-234.
41. Das, Veena. Modernity and Biography: Women’s Lives in Contemporary India. Thesis Eleven, vol. 39, 1994, pp. 52-62.
42. Das, Veena. Composition of the Personal Voice: Violence and Migration. Studies in History, vol. 7, no. 1, 1991, pp. 65-77.
43. Das, Veena. The Imaging of Indian Women: Missionaries and Journalists. In Conflicting Images: India and the United States, edited by Sulochana Raghavan Glazer, Riverdale Co. Publishing, 1990, pp. 203-220.
44. Das, Veena. Subaltern as Perspective. Subaltern Studies, VI, 1989, pp. 310-325.
45. Das, Veena. On Female Body and Sexuality. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 57-66.
46. Das, Veena. Gender Studies, Cross--‐Cultural Comparison and the Colonial Organization of Knowledge. The Berkshire Review, vol. 21, 1986, pp. 58-76.
47. Das, Veena. The Work of Mourning: Death in a Punjabi Family. In The Cultural Transition: Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan, edited by Merry White and Susan Pollak, Routledge, New York, 1986, pp. 179-210.
48. Das, Veena. Anthropological Knowledge and Collective Violence: The Riots of Delhi, November 1984. Anthropology Today, vol. 1, no. 3, 1985, pp. 4-6.
49. Das, Veena. Violence, Victimhood, and the Language of Silence. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 19, no. 1, 1985, pp. 177-95.
50. Das, Veena. The Language of Sacrifice. Man, vol. 18, 1983, pp. 445-62.
51. Das, Veena. The Mythological Film and Its Framework of Meaning. India International Center Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, 1980, pp. 43-56.
52. Das, Veena. The Uses of Liminality: Society and Cosmos in Hinduism. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 10, no. 2, 1976, pp. 245-263.
53. Das, Veena. Masks and Faces: An Essay on Punjabi Kinship. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 10, no. 1, 1976, pp. 1-30.
54. Das, Veena. The Categorization of Space in Hindu Ritual. In Text and Context: The Social Anthropology of Tradition, edited by Ravindra K. Jain, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1974.
55. Das, Veena. Sociology of Law. In A Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, edited by M.N Srinivas et al., Delhi: Popular Prakashan, Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 102-128.
56. Das, Veena. The Structure of Marriage Preferences: An Account from Pakistani Fictions. Man, vol. 8, no. 1, 1973, pp. 30-45.
57. Das, Veena. The Elementary Structure of Caste. With Jit Singh Uberroi. Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 5, 1971, pp. 33-43.
58. Das, Veena. A Sociological Approach to the Caste Puranas: A Case Study. Sociological Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 2, 1968, pp. 141.