Coming close on the heels of an open letter from the civil servants (IAS, IPS, IFS), mounting a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Kathua and Unnao horror, the academicians and scholars from across continents now gather together to voice similar concerns to the Prime Minister.
Citing ‘Pattern of Inaction’, over 600 Scholars write an open letter to PM Modi expressing ‘deep anger and anguish’ over these “monstrous crimes” at Kathua and Unnao and the effort by the state governments concerned to protect the alleged perpetrators.
Reproducing the full text of the open letter here:
Mr Prime Minister,
We are academics and independent scholars from India and abroad, writing to express solidarity with, and to endorse the sentiments expressed by, forty-nine retired civil servants in their open letter to you of April 16th 2018 ( https://news4masses.com/retired-ias-ifs-ips-officers-mount-scathing-attack-pm-modi/ ).
Along with these civil servants and countless other citizens of India and the world at large, we wish to express our deep anger and anguish over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events; over the efforts, in both cases, of those administering the relevant States to protect the alleged perpetrators of these monstrous crimes; over the subsequent profoundly distasteful efforts of rationalisation, deflection and diversion that have been so much in evidence in the reactions of your party’s spokespersons in the media; and finally over your own prolonged (and by now familiar) silence that was broken only recently with wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims.
Kathua and Unnao are not isolated incidents. They are part of a pattern of repeated targeted attacks on minority religious communities, Dalits, tribals and women, in which rape and lynching have been employed as instruments of violence by gau rakshaks and others, in a sequence of events spread across Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (2015), Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir (2015), Bijapur and Sukma in Chhattisgarh (2015-16), Harda in Madhya Pradesh (2016), Latehar in Jharkand (2016), Una in Gujarat (2016), Rohtak in Haryana (2017), Delhi (2017), Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh (2017), and now Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh (2018).
Many of these events have occurred in States with BJP Governments, and all of them after the BJP assumed power at the Centre. This is not to associate violence exclusively with your party and with State governments presided over by your party. But there is an undeniable association with the ruling dispensation.
There is little evidence, in government action, of an appreciation of the importance of providing assistance to vulnerable sections of the society – whether through promotional measures aimed at enabling tribals and nomads to have access to forest and common property rights, or through preventive measures aimed at discouraging blatant breaches of the rule of law. Even the Allahabad High Court on April 12th 2018 observed: “If this is the conduct of the police in the state, whom will a victim approach to register a complaint? If this is the stand you are repeatedly taking then we will be forced to observe in our order that law and order has collapsed in the state”.
We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman.
Signed:
List of signatories
1. N Abhilaasha, Centre for Urban Equity, Ahmedabad
2. Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University, New York, USA
3. Arnab Acharya, Independent researcher, Washington D.C.
4. Anindita Adhikari , Brown University, USA
5. Tanvir Aeijaz, Ramjas College, Delhi
6. Farzana Afridi, Delhi
7. Aftab Ahmad, Columbia University, New York, USA
8. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, San Diego State University, CA, USA
9. Aniket Alam, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
10. Seema Alavi, University of Delhi, Delhi
11. Meena Alexander, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
12. Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster, UK
13. S.Anandhi, Chennai.
14. V. Krishna Ananth, SRM University – AP Amaravati
15. Mary Anderson: Harvard University and Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
16. Aneesh, K.A., Jawaharlal Nehru Institute, New Delhi
17. Gil Anidjar, Columbia University, New York, USA
18. Anitha Kumary L, Trivandrum
19. Sundari Anitha, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom
20. E. Annamalai, University of Chicago, USA
21. J. Shaik Dawood Ansari, Open Campus Madang, University of Papua New Guinea
22. Arjun Appadurai, New York University, New York, USA
23. Anjali Arondekar, UCLA, USA
24. Balveer Arora, Emeritus Professor and Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism
25. P K Yasser Arafath, University of Delhi, Delhi
26. Shoba Arun, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
27. G. Arunima, JNU, New Delhi
28. Nina Asher, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
29. Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
30. Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University, USA
31. Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington, USA
32. Venkatesh Athreya, Social Activist and Retired Academic, Chennai
33. Madhav Badami, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
34. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, (Emeritus), Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
35. Barnita Bagchi, Utrecht University, Netherlands
36. Neha Bagle, IIM Ahmedabad
37. Vidura Jang Bahadur, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
38. Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
39. Mira Bakhru, Retd faculty, IIM Bangalore, Bnagalore.
40. Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi, Delhi
41. Radhika Balakrishnan, Rutgers University, U.S.A
42. Sai Balakrishnan, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
43. Sujata Balasubramanian, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
44. Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
45. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Retd Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
46. Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
47. Arindam Banerjee, Ambedkar University, Delhi
48. Chinmoy Banerjee, Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
49. Sukanya Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
50. Sumanta Banerjee, Independent Researcher, Hyderabad
51. Parama Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
52. Syamal Kumar Basak (Retd), Presidency College/University, Kolkata
53. Rakesh Basant, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
54. Alaka Basu, Cornell University, U.S.A
55. Amrita Basu, Amherst College, Mass, USA
56. Deepankar Basu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
57. Kunal Basu, University of Oxford, UK
58. Lopamudra Basu, University of Wisconsin-Stout
59. Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
60. Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi
61. Rana P. Behal, University of Delhi, India.
62. Jyothsna Belliappa, Bangalore
63. Yael Berda, Hebrew University and Harvard University, USA
64. Amit Bhaduri, (Emeritus), JNU, New Delhi.
65. Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, University of Mississippi
66. Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY, New York, USA
67. Alok Bhalla, Former Professor of English, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
68. Sheila Bhalla, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Visiting: Institute of Human Development, New Delhi
69. Brenna Bhandar , SOAS, University of London, London UK
70. Gauri Bharat, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
71. Ira Bhaskar, JNU, New Delhi
72. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
73. Baidik Bhattacharya, University of Delhi. Delhi
74. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
75. Sucheta Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
76. Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
77. Devaki Bhaya, Stanford, CA, USA
78. Bhangya Bhukya, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
79. Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, U.S.A.
80. A K Biswas, Former Vice-Chancellor, B R Ambedkar Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
81. Bënil Biswas, Ambedkar University, Delhi
82. Moinak Biswas, Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
83. Cavery Bopaiah, Bangalore
84. Mita Bose, retired, Indraprastha College, Delhi University and currently Adjunct faculty at ICFAI Business School, Gurugram, Haryana
85. Tirthankar Bose, Simon Fraser University, Canada
86. Saronik Bosu, New York University, New York, USA
87. Guillaume Boucher, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
88. Milind Brahme, Chennai, India
89. Vacha Brat, IIM, Ahmedabad
90. Carmen Bugan, writer and independent scholar, Long Island, USA
91. Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
92. Maya Chadda, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
93. Kunal Chakrabarti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
94. Achin Chakraborty, Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata
95. Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
96. Lekha Chakraborty, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
97. Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia College Chicago
98. Pinaki Chakraborty, New Delhi
99. Rudrashish Chakraborty, Kirori Mal College, Delhi
100. Shouvik Chakraborty, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
101. Ranabir Chakravarti, JNU, New Delhi
102. Paula Chakravartty, New York University, New York, USA
103. Mrinalini Chakravorty, University of Virginia, USA
104. Barnali Chanda, Techno India University, Kolkata
105. Sudhir Chandra, Historian
106. Vinita Chandra, Ramjas College, Delhi
107. C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
108. Tarun Chandrayadula, IIT Madras, Chennai
109. S. Charusheela, University of Washington Bothell, USA
110. Sayaka Chatani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
111. Amita Chatterjee, Retired Professor of Philosophy, Jadavpur University
112. Ananya Chatterjea, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
113. Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin, USA
114. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay, Bangalore
115. Suchetana Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
116. Ruchi Chaturvedi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
117. Amit Chaudhuri, Writer, Calcutta
118. Aparna Chaudhuri, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
119. Rosinka Chaudhuri, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
120. Sudip Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
121. Sukanta Chaudhuri, (Emeritus), Jadavpur University, Kolkata
122. Supriya Chaudhuri, (Emeritia). Jadavpur University, Kolkata
123. Wendy Chavkin MD, MPH, Columbia University, New York, USA
124. Ying Chen, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
125. Anuradha Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
126. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
127. Dolores Chew, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
128. Anita Chikkatur, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
129. Camille Cole, Yale University, U.S.A
130. Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
131. Amrita Chhachhi, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
132. Jagdeep Chhokar, Professor (Retired), Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad
133. Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
134. Deborah Choate, MD, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston, USA
135. Noam Chomsky, ( Emeritus) Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and University of Arizona, U.S.A
136. Deepta Chopra, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
137. Elora Halim Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
138. Indira Chowdhury Bengaluru, India
139. Indranil Chowdhury, University of Delhi, Delhi
140. Nusrat S Chowdhury, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
141. Sayandeb Chowdhury, Ambedkar University, Delhi
142. Francis Cody, University of Toronto, Canada
143. Karen Coelho, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
144. Camille Cole, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
145. Jonathan R. Cole, Columbia University, New York, USA
146. Andrew Cornford, Geneva Finance Observatory, Switzerland
147. Romar Correa, (Retd from) University of Mumbai, Mumbai
148. Vedita Cowaloosur, Charles Telfair Institute, Mauritius
149. Vasudha Dalmia, (Emerita), University of California, Berkeley
150. Katyayani Dalmia, The New School for Social Research, New York, USA
151. Sumangala Damodaran, Ambedkar University, Delhi
152. Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
153. Bijay K Danta, Tezpur, Assam
154. Jane D’Arista, U/Mass, Amherst, USA
155. Debapratim Das, Guwahati
156. Debarshi Das, IIT Guwahati
157. Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
158. Raju J. Das, York University, Toronto, Canada
159. Samantak Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
160. Shinjini Das, University of Oxford, UK
161. Amlan Dasgupta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
162. Anirban Dasgupta, South Asian University, New Delhi
163. Indraneel Dasgupta, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
164. Sunanda Dasgupta, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
165. Sejuti Das Gupta, Michigan State University, USA
166. Tanya Das Gupta, Toronto, Canada
167. Minati Dash, ICSSR, New Delhi.
168. Manipadma Datta, TERI School of Advanced Studies( Deemed University), New Delhi
169. Ruth Davis, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
170. Subah Dayal, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
171. Rohit De, Yale University, New Haven, USA
172. Ananya Debnath, Jodhpur, Rajastahn
173. Sowmya Dechamma C C, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
174. Narayana Delampady, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
175. Minoo Derayeh, Toronto, Canada
176. Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
177. Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada
178. Jigna Desai, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
179. Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
180. Miki and Madhavi Desai, Ahmedabad
181. Renu Desai, Ahmedabad
182. Anirudh Deshpande, Department of History, Delhi University
183. Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
184. Satish Deshpande, Delhi University, Delhi
185. Sudhanva Deshpande, LeftWord Books, New Delhi
186. Peter Ronald deSouza, CSDS, Delhi
187. Sanchia deSouza, University of Toronto, Canada
188. Devika, J. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
189. Ritu Dewan, Centre for Development Research and Action; Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai
190. Bikramjit Dey, The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
191. Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton, U. K
192. Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
193. Anubha Dhasmana, Bangalore
194. Roopa Dhawan, Ramjas College, Delhi University
195. Jean Dreze, (Visiting): Ranchi University
196. Rohan D’Souza, Kyoto University, Japan
197. Prasenjit Duara, Duke University, Durham, USA
198. Navroz K. Dubash, New Delhi
199. Vebhuti Duggal, Ambedkar University, Delhi
200. S.Durga Bhavani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
201. Madhumita Dutta, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
202. Nandini Dutta, Miranda House, Delhi
203. Souraj Dutta, St Andrews University, UK
204. Nata Duvvury, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
205. Carolyn Elliott, Professor Emerita, University of Vermont
206. Meher Engineer, All India Forum on the Right to Education, New Delhi
207. Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
208. Pradeep Esteves, Context India, Bangalore
209. Richard Falk, (Emeritus): Princeton University, U.S.A
210. Alfredo Saad Filho, Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London
211. Michelle Fine, CUNY, New York, USA
212. Nancy Folbre, PERI, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
213. Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita, State University of New York Oswego, USA
214. Colm Fox, Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences, Singapore
215. Smitha Francis, New Delhi
216. Karen Gabriel, St Stephen’s College, Delhi
217. Rahul K Gairola, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
218. Toral Gajarawala, New York University, New York, USA
219. Rajmohan Gandhi, Gurgaon
220. Lata Gangadharan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
221. M. Gangadhar, All India Forum for Right to Education
222. Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
223. Geetanjali Shree, Writer
224. Maitreesh Ghatak, London Shool of Economics, U.K
225. Saran Ghatak, Professor, Keene State College, USA
226. D. Asher Ghertner, Rutgers University, USA
227. Professor Aisha K. Gill, University of Roehampton, UK.
228. Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow, UK
229. Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University, U.S.A
230. Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
231. Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
232. Partha Ghosh, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi
233. Suman Ghosh, Florida Atlantic University , USA
234. Geetha Gokul, St. Thomas’ College, Trichur, Kerala
235. Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, UK
236. Radha Gopalan, Independent Researcher and Educationist, Goa
237. Gayatri Gopinath, New York University, New York, USA
238. Manu Goswami, New York University, New York, USA
239. Gregory Goulding, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
240. Paul Greenough, University of Iowa, USA
241. Sumit Guha, University of Texas at Austin, USA
242. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, Kolkata
243. Akhil Gupta, University of California, Los Angeles
244. Bishnupriya Gupta, Warwick University, UK
245. Ruchira Gupta, New York University and University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A
246. Sayan Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai.
247. Smita Gupta, independent economist, New Delhi
248. Vikas Gupta, Department of History, Delhi University, Delhi
249. Vishal Gupta, Ahmedabad
250. Dean Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
251. Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University, NJ, USA
252. Jaideep Gupte, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
253. Shubhra Gururani, York University, Toronto, Canada
254. Abha Dev Habib, Miranda House, Delhi
255. John Harriss, Simon Fraser University and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Goettingen, Germany
256. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.
257. Zoya Hasan, (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
258. Rim Hassen, Warwick University, UK
259. Neeraj Hatekar, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
260. John C. Hawley, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
261. Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
262. Indira Hirway, Center For Development Alternatives, Ahmedabad
263. Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA
264. Priyadarshini Iyer, IIM – Ahmedabad
265. Srikanth Krishnan Iyer, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
266. Vijay Iyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
267. Krati Jain, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
268. Sanjay Jain, University of Oxford, UK
269. Sarandha Jain, Columbia University, New York, USA
270. Sheena Jain, formerly Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
271. Kathleen James-Chakraborty, University College, Deublin, Ireland
272. Sadia Jamil, Islamabad, Pakistan
273. Russell Janis, J.D., University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A
274. Niraja Gopal Jayal, JNU, New Delhi
275. D. Jayaraj, retired economist, Chennai
276. Rajshri Jayaraman, ESMT Berlin, Germany
277. Katherine Jellison, Ohio University, USA
278. Praveen Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
279. Gita Johar, Columbia University, New York, USA
280. May Joseph, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
281. Yogi Joseph, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
282. Chitra Joshi, Delhi University, New Delhi
283. Rutul Joshi, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
284. Amalendu Jyotishi, Amrita School of Business, Bangalore
285. Tanishka Kachru, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
286. K K Kailash, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
287. M.A. Kalam, C. K. Prahalad Centre for Emerging India, Loyola campus, Chennai
288. Vidya Kalaramadam, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
289. Sangeeta Kamat, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
290. Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading, Reading, UK
291. Milind Kandlikar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,
292. Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
293. Ankur Kapoor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
294. Geeta Kapur, independent art critic, New Delhi
295. Manju Kapur, writer and ex faculty Miranda House College, Delhi University, Delhi
296. Ajit Karnik, Mumbai/Dubai
297. Massoud Karshanas, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K
298. Malavika Kasturi, University of Toronto, Canada
299. Nilofer Kaul, Delhi
300. Nitasha Kaul, University of Westminster, UK
301. Rajender Kaur, William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA
302. Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
303. Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
304. Rana Khan, Toronto, Canada
305. Stuti Khanna, IIT Delhi, Delhi
306. Sushil Khanna, (Retd.), Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
307. Reetika Khera, IIT, Delhi
308. Ateya Khorakiwala, Princeton University, NJ, USA
309. Ayesha Kidwai, , Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
310. Viktoriya Kim, Osaka University, Japan
311. Praveena Kodoth, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
312. Dean Kotlowski, Salisbury University, MD, USA
313. Ashok, Kotwal, (Emeritus): The University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C, Canada
314. Ashutosh V. Kotwal, Duke University, Durham, USA
315. Astrid von Kotze, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
316. Jane Krishnadas, School of Law, Keele., UK
317. Preeti Krishnan, Bengaluru
318. Radhika Krishnan, IIT Hyderabad
319. Aishwary Kumar, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, USA
320. Arun Kumar, Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
321. Avinash Kumar, Jawaharla Nehru University, New Delhi.
322. Deepak Kumar, JNU, New Delhi
323. Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, USA
324. Udaya Kumar, Centre for English Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
325. Rachel Kurien, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
326. Somjita Laha, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
327. Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University, Delhi
328. Vinay Lal, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
329. Rachel Lee, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
330. Roselyn Lemus, Mexico City, USA
331. Mark Liechty, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
332. Cynthia A. Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University, PA, USA
333. David Lelyveld, New York, USA
334. Karen Leonard, University of California at Irvine, CA, USA
335. Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA
336. Ania Loomba, University of Pennsylvania, USA
337. David Ludden, New York University, New York, USA
338. Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor, New York University, USA.
339. Anuja Madan, Kansas State University, Kansas, USA.
340. Punnappurath Madhavan, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
341. Aruna Magier, New York University, New York, USA
342. Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad
343. Swadesh M Mahajan, University of Texas at Austin, USA
344. Ram Mahalingam, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
345. Durairaj Maheswaran, NYU, New York, USA
346. Pushkar Maitra, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia
347. Bipasha Maity, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana
348. Rochona Majumdar, The University of Chicago, USA
349. Anshu Malhotra, University of Delhi, Delhi
350. Meenakshi Malhotra, Hansraj college, Delhi
351. Ashok Malla, McGill University, Canada
352. Mukul Mangalik, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
353. Anandi Mani, University of Oxford, UK
354. Preetha Mani, Rutgers University, USA
355. Nissim Mannathukkaren, Dalhousie University Canada.
356. Anuradha Marwah, Zakir Hussain College, New Delhi
357. Raveena Mascarenhas, Mangaluru
358. Manu V. Mathai, Bengaluru
359. John Mathew, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
360. Shency Mathew, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
361. Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
362. Deepak Maun, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
363. Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
364. Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK
365. Rushi Mehta, Utrecht, Netherlands
366. Uday S. Mehta, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
367. Gayatri Menon, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru
368. Kalyani Devaki Menon, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
369. Ritu Menon, Women Unlimited, New Delhi
370. Kalyani Menon-Sen, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
371. Tushar Meshram, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
372. Zain R. Mian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
373. John Miller, Wheaton College, Massachussetts, U.S.A
374. Raza Mir, William Paterson University, NJ, USA
375. Payoshni Mitra, Independent researcher and activist, London, UK
376. Siddhartha Mitra, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
377. Sona Mitra, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi
378. Gautam Mody, New Trade Union Initiative
379. Nasreen A. Mohamed, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
380. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University, NY, USA
381. Mritiunjoy Mohanty, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
382. Himansu S. Mohapatra, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
383. Bidisha Mondal, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
384. Radhika Mongia, York University, Canada
385. Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
386. Sripad Motiram, University of Massachussetts, Boston, U.S.A
387. Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick, UK
388. Projit Bihari Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania, USA
389. Ankhi Mukherjee, University of Oxford, UK
390. Arun P. Mukherjee, Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada.
391. Ashesh Mukherjee, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
392. Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York, USA
393. Debraj Mukherjee, Ramjas College, Delhi
394. Sajni Mukherji, Retd. Professor, English dept., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
395. Sanjukta Mukherjee, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
396. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University, UK
397. Harbans Mukhia, Former Professor of History and Rector, JNU, New Delhi
398. Akshaya Mukul, Delhi
399. Angelie Multani, Academic, New Delhi.
400. Kanta Murali, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
401. Maroona Murmu, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
402. Hema A Murthy, Dept. of CS&E IIT Madras
403. Ishwar Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
404. M V N Murthy, Professor Emeritus, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
405. Rajluxmi Vaish Murthy, IIMB, Bangalore
406. Milind Murugkar , researcher, Nashik , India
407. Barnali Nag, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
408. Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
409. R. Nagaraj, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
410. Harini Nagendra , Bangalore
411. Ratna Naidu, Professor (retd.) University of Hyderabad and former Vice Chancellor,
SPMVV, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
412. Sirisha Naidu, Wright State University, Ohio
413. Janaki Nair, JNU, New Delhi
414. Constantine Nakassis, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
415. Ashis Nandy, CSDS, Delhi
416. Gaura Narayan, Purchase College State University of New York, USA
417. Sudha Narayanan, Economist, Mumbai
418. Balmurli Natrajan, Willliam Paterson University of New Jersey, USA
419. Nandan Nawn, TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi
420. Nalini Nayak, Associate Professor (Retired), PGDAV (M) College, Delhi University
421. Nandini Nayak, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
422. Anuradha Dingwaney Needha, Oberlin College, OH, USA
423. Neeraja D, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore
424. Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University (New Jersey), USA
425. Madhurima Nundy, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi
426. Noreen O’Connor, King’s College, Pennsylvania
427. Rupal Oza, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, USA
428. Shivarama Padikkal, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
429. Debabrata Pal, New Delhi
430. Parthapratim Pal, IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
431. Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa
432. Bratati Pande, Retired, Delhi University, Delhi
433. Gyanendra Pandey, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
434. Rajyashree Pandey, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
435. Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
436. Ameet Parameswaran, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
437. Rajendra Parihar Ramjas College, Delhi
438. D. Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
439. Sujata Patel, National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
440. Krishna Patel, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
441. Shekhar Pathak, Historian and Editor, Pithorgarh, Uttarakhand
442. Vikram Pathania, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
443. Prabhat Patnaik, (Emeritus): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
444. Ramesh Patnaik, Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee,
445. Utsa Patnaik (Emerita): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
446. Sonali Perera, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
447. Rosalind Petchesky, (Emerita):, Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
448. Geralyn Pinto, Mangalore
449. Justin Podur, York University, Toronto, Canada
450. Robert Pollin, University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.A.
451. Sheldon Pollock, Columbia University, New York, USA
452. Anupama Potluri, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
453. Gopalji Pradhan, School of Letters, Ambedkar, University Delhi
454. H.R.Prakash. ARTIC, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
455. Lokesh Malti Prakash, Activist & Writer, Office Secretary, All India Forum for Right to Education
456. Anup Pramanik, Indian Institute of Management, Indore
457. Madhu Prasad. New Delhi
458. Vijay Prashad, LeftWord Books.
459. Navtej Purewal, SOAS University of London
460. Jyoti Puri, Simmons College, Boston, USA
461. Bandana Purkayastha, Grafton, MA, USA
462. Meena Radhakrishna, former faculty, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
463. Raghavendra, N. Faculty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
464. Harriet Raghunathan, Jesus and Mary College (retired), New Delhi
465. Rohit Rahi, London School of Economics, UK
466. Shirin M. Rai, Warwick University, UK
467. Rajeswari Sarla Raina, Scientist, New Delhi
468. Anisa Rahim, Jersey City, NJ
469. Arvind Rajagopal, New York University, New York, USA
470. Mrinalini Rajagopalan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
471. Advaita Rajendra, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
472. Prabina Rajib, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
473. Surampudi Bapi Raju, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
474. Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington, Seattle
475. Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto, Canada
476. Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
477. Vasanthi Raman, Independent social scientist, New Delhi
478. Bharat Ramaswami, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
479. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, Durham USA
480. Kavitha Ranganathan, IIM-Ahmedabad
481. Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC
482. Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge, UK
483. Ajay Rao, University of Toronto, Canada
484. Anupama Rao, Barnard College, New York, USA
485. M. Govinda Rao, (Emeritus): National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Bangalore
486. J. Mohan Rao, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
487. Mohan Rao, JNU, New Delhi
488. Nitya Rao, University of east Anglia, Norwich, UK
489. Sumathi Rao, Harish-chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
490. Rashmi Kumari, IIM Ahmedabad
491. Manav Ratti, Salisbury University, MD, USA
492. Chitra Ravi, visiting faculty at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India.
493. Anushnath Ravichandran, Coimbatore
494. Vikas Rawal, Jawaharlal Nehru Uiversity, New Delhi
495. Debraj Ray, New York University, New York, USA
496. Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
497. Ranjan Ray, Economist, Melbourne, Australia
498. Aparna Rayaprol, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
499. Chandan Reddy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
500. Gayatri Reddy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
501. Rammanohar Reddy, (Visiting): Goa University, Hyderabad
502. Rohit Revi, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
503. Shaunna Rodrigues, Columbia University, New York, USA
504. Dunu Roy, Director, Hazards Centre, New Delhi
505. Mallarika Sinha Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
506. Modhumita Roy, Tufts University, USA
507. Parama Roy, University of California, Davis
508. Satyaki Roy, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi
509. Srila Roy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
510. Srirupa Roy, University of Göttingen, Germany
511. Anamitra Roychowdhury, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
512. Marlene Rutzendorfer, Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Cambridge, MA, USA
513. Sachin N, Dyal Singh college, New Delhi
514. Niladri Saha, Basirhat College, West Bengal
515. Poulomi Saha, University of California, Berkeley, USA
516. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu, University of Delhi., Delhi
517. Arupjyoti Saikia, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
518. Rajgopal Saikumar, New York University, New York, USA
519. Kalyani Samantray, Visiting Professor, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar
520. Padmanabh Samarendra, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
521. Preeti Sampat, Ambedkar University Delhi.
522. N. Samson, Nizamabad district, Telengana
523. Sudipto Sanyal, Techno India University, Kolkata
524. Aditya Sarkar, University of Warwick, UK
525. Sumit Sarkar, (Retired): Delhi University, New Delhi
526. Tanika Sarkar, (Retired): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
527. Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
528. Susan Seizer, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA
529. Abhijit Sen, Retd from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
530. Hari Sen, Ramjas College, Delhi
531. Nivedita Sen, Hansraj College, Delhi
532. Rukmini Sen, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
533. Sambuddha Sen, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi
534. Sanghita Sen, St Andrews University, UK
535. Abhijit Sengupta, University of Essex, UK
536. Debjani Sengupta, IP College, Delhi University, Delhi
537. Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, Delhi
538. Puneet Seth, Beachwood, Ohio
539. Sanjay Seth, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
540. Svati P. Shah, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
541. Rachna Shanbog, Dublin, UK
542. Krupa Shandilya, Amherst College, USA
543. Arul Shankar, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
544. Shiva Shankar, Scientist, Chennai.
545. Alpana Sharma, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
546. Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada
547. Shailja Sharma, De Paul University, Chicago, USA
548. Shilpa Sharma, University of Delhi, Delhi
549. Abhishek Shaw, Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai
550. Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, USA
551. Sherin B.S, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
552. Parinitha Shetty, Mangaluru, Karnataka
553. Tim Shiell, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
554. Snehal Shingavi, Associate Professor, English, University of Texas, Austin
555. Anooradha Iyer Siddiqui, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA
556. Amritjit Singh, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
557. Harjinder Singh, IIIT- Hyderabad.
558. Natasha Singh, Oakland, CA
559. Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford
560. Radhika Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
561. Supriya Singh, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
562. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi, New Delhi
563. Vidhu Singh, San Francisco, CA, USA
564. Dipa Sinha, Ambedkar University Delhi
565. Rita Sinha, Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi
566. Shana Sippy, Centre College, KY, and Carleton College, MN, USA
567. Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
568. T.Sobha Rani, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
569. Srilata, K., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
570. Jeena T Srinivasan, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
571. Krithika Srinivasan, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
572. Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
573. Ravindran Sriramachandran, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana
574. Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
575. Priyanka Srivastava, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
576. Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
577. Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
578. Abigail J. Stewart, University of Michigan
579. Catherine Stimpson, New York University, New York, USA
580. Sivagami Subbaraman, Washington D.C., USA
581. Binaya Subedi, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
582. K Venkata Subrahmanyam, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai.
583. Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA, USA
584. Lakshmi Subramanian, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France
585. Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
586. S. Subramanian, Independent Scholar and former ICSSR National Fellow, Chennai.
587. Mita Sujan, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
588. Nandini Sundar, Delhi University, New Delhi
589. Vivan Sundaram, artist, New Delhi
590. V.S. Sunder, retired professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
591. Kaushik Sunder Rajan, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
592. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University, U.S.A.
593. Shamina Talyarkhan, New York, USA
594. Ashwini Tambe, University of Maryland, MD, USA
595. Tanima, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
596. Akshaya Tankha, University of Toronto, Canada
597. Anand Teltumbde, GIM, Goa
598. Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University, USA
599. Manish Thakur , IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
600. Binitha Thampi.. IIT Madras, Chennai
601. Susie Tharu, Hyderabad
602. Dania Thomas – University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
603. Thomas Joseph Thoomkuzhy, Gulati Institute of Finance & Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram
604. Miriam Ticktin, The New School for Social Research, NYC, USA
605. E. Ahmet Tonak, (Visiting): University of Massachussetts Amherst, U.S.
606. Nasir Tyabji, formerly with Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
607. Sahana Udupa, Professor of Media Anthropology, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
608. Lalit Vachani, CeMIS, University of Göttingen
609. Ananya Vajpeyi, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
610. Vamsi Vakulabharanam, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
611. Achin Vanaik, Retd from Delhi University, New Delhi
612. Sarah Van Arsdale, NYU and Antioch University/LA
613. Hendrik Van Den Berg, (Emeritus): University of Nebraska, U.S.A
614. Poornima Varma, IIM, Ahmedabad.
615. Rahul Varma, playwright and artistic director of Teesri Duniya Theatre
616. Rashmi Varma, Warwick University, UK
617. Rohit Varman, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
618. Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
619. Sylvia Jane Vatuk, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
620. Malathi Velamuri, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
621. Shikha Verma, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
622. P. K. Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi
623. Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge, UK
624. Sujata Visaria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
625. Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, New York, USA
626. Kamala Visweswaran, University of California San Diego, CA, USA
627. Shweta Wagh, KRVIA Mumbai
628. Gareth Wall , University of Birmingham, UK
629. Jini Watson, New York University, New York, USA
630. Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College, USA
631. Thomas Weisskopf, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, U.S.A
632. Jeannette Wicks-Lim, PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , USA
633. David Winter, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, USA
634. Pramod Yadava, Retd Professor, JNU, New Delhi
635. Louise Yelin, Professor Emerita, Purchase College, Purchase NY, USA
636. Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan
637. Shundana Yusaf, University of Utah, USA
ge, USA
627. Thomas Weisskopf, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, U.S.A
628. Jeannette Wicks-Lim, PERI, University of Massachusetts, Amherst , USA
629. David Winter, (Emeritus): University of Michigan, USA
630. Pramod Yadava, Retd Professor, JNU, New Delhi
631. Louise Yelin, Professor Emerita, Purchase College, Purchase NY, USA
632. Nobuharu Yokokawa, Musashi University, Japan
633. Shundana Yusaf, University of Utah, USA
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