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Audrey Truschke
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Solid New Jersey vibes on this bumper sticker.
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Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Tweets academic + educational + critical | Anti-fascist + pro-education
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Audrey Truschke
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Solid New Jersey vibes on this bumper sticker.
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Audrey Truschke
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I’m thrilled to be speaking about pluralism in Indian history, Hindu nationalism, the South Asian American diaspora, receiving hate mail, and much more next week at the Chautauqua Instituton in upstate New York!
www.chq.org/event/audrey...
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I’m celebrating this July 4 hard… like it might be our last… with baseball, grilling, a double rainbow, and lots of (legal) fireworks.
#July4 #July4th2024
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Fun article on a deposition of the leader of a far-right Hindu nationalist group, parts of which were recently unsealed.
Sitting through that 8-hour deposition was, well, really interesting for me.
americankahani.com/perspectives... #Hindutva
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The discovery in the Hindu American Foundation lawsuit has been unsealed.
I'll do a mega thread later (it's summer... maybe in a few weeks).
In the meantime, reporters can reach out to me for a pdf of the documents, including parts of the deposition transcript of HAF’s head. #Hindutva #HAF
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Grim, if fitting, recognition of Israel’s genocidal war and targeting of children. Shame on them and shame on us for giving them weapons and support for such atrocities. #Israel #Gaza_Genocide
www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Audrey Truschke
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Getting sued was definitely non-ideal. But this is a pretty sweet reward on the back end.
I value knowledge above all else in my professional life. I'm so thrilled to be able to share and discuss this trove of internal documents from HAF.
More soon...
www.audreytruschke.com/timelinehafs...
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One of HAF's current plans is to start a legal clinic... so they can do this again? No comment.
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Pride is a great fault. HAF did not have to turn over these documents -- about their donors, their failures, and more -- to those they saw as critical. This is a known risk of defamation litigation, and they disrespected donors who trusted them, out of hate for perceived critics
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Transparency is a beautiful thing. I was sued by HAF (my lawyers argued) because I was doing research on them. Then, because of their arrogance, they gave me a bunch of interesting documents in discovery. Now, I and all who work on US Hindutva, can cite and use those documents.
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The court decision describes the documents, and will also post them in full on my website once they are publicly filed.
For now, some thoughts, in no particular order --
www.audreytruschke.com/documentshaf...
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NEWS -- Judge Amit Mehta has unsealed all Hindu American Foundation (HAF) discovery documents in their dismissed lawsuit against me and 4 others! These include financial information, donor gifts (anonymized), HAF's expulsion from groups, cancelled events, denied grants, and more
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Audrey Truschke
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On that Columbia law review article — Just saying that when I have had things censored or otherwise faced attacks, I put them on my CV. Section: Other Honors. #academia #AcademicChatter
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Audrey Truschke
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While many look to India's future, I'm drawn to its past.
How will we write the history of the decade of #Hindutva dominance (2014–24) that unleashed hate, violence, and ignorance?
I don't fully know, yet. But I share this recent documentary in which I feature.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQOf...
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Historically, Hindu perspectives trended more to the polytheistic. There was also monism in premodern Hinduism (and remains part of the tradition today). So, short story — Lots of options, and an embrace of multiplicity rather than a single view.
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If it helps — I generally teach that Hinduism encompasses both polytheistic and monotheistic views. In contemporary times, the monotheistic perspective gets a lot of play, and that largely comes out of the Hindu reform movements of the 19th century that responded to Christian missionary criticisms
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The Modi Mandir falls flat with voters. #faizabad #AyodhyaTemple #Hindutva
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India’s Hindu nationalists have engaged in robust voter suppression.
This might hand them the power. But it’s also a grim reminder that free and democratic India is now part of history.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202... #India #BJP #Hindutva
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Reactions thus far— Patriotic Americans: 🍸 Trump: [incoherent rant] Alito’s wife: Where is my goddamn flag collection?! Alito: It’s her fault.
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Current status — Am tracking the many Ayodhyas that have been imagined or named, mythical and physical cities, over the past 2,000 years or so. Short version — It’s a lot. Not all of them are associated with Rama, and Rama sometimes has an alternative home city.
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Common across all three cases is Hindu nationalists’ penchant for using force and coercion to achieve their aims at the expense of Muslim communities. I argue that Hindu nationalists deploy the intertwined frameworks of Hindu supremacy and Islamophobia in contemporary India with dangerous results.
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I analyze 3 key events -- all within less than one year -- that advanced the agenda to transform India from a secular democracy into a Hindu supremacist state: 2019 state policy changes regarding Kashmir late 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act February 2020 Delhi riots.
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Audrey Truschke
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My latest, from my modern research interests in Hindu nationalism --
#Hindutva #Modi #BJP #Kashmir #Delhi #violence #ethnonationalism
www.academia.edu/120217030/Di...
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Audrey Truschke
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My latest — Not everybody at the Mughal court supported translating Sanskrit texts, like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, into Persian...
hopscotchtranslation.com/2024/05/26/e...
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On those brave enough to oppose the hate of Hindutva—
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/w...
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That warm fuzzy happy feeling when you move into production with a book manuscript. 😎
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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Audrey Truschke
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The U.S. can demand of India— -- Absolutely, without question, no more assassination plots on the North American continent. This is not too much to ask. The Biden administration must act now to protect American citizens and residents from India’s reckless, authoritarian actions.
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The U.S. can demand of India— -- No more intelligence-organized trolling that directs death threats at American citizens. --No more politically motivated restrictions on the activity of US scholars, experts, and journalists.
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you read this and think, well, what can Biden and America actually do about it, the article has some answers. The U.S. can demand of India— -- No more hauling elderly parents of US residents in for military interrogations. …
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"Human rights activists, experts, and Indian American community organizers are aware of India’s efforts and speak of its campaign as an everyday concern for themselves and people they know. Which means it’s probably working."
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"When you put all of these stories together, a clear picture emerges. The Indian government has developed a repertoire of tactics for repressing criticism abroad, and is currently deploying all of them as part of a campaign of intimidation in the United States."
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The article meticulously details the range of targeted critics, from members of the US Congress to journalists to professors to one guy who played a minor role in making a short documentary. Modi’s India is targeting us all, relentlessly creating an atmosphere where everyone is terrified.
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Threatening family members to assassination plots.
Read every word to see how far Modi's India is going to repress its critics and how the Biden administration is allowing the targeting of US citizens and residents.
www.vox.com/world-politi... #India #BJP #Modi #India
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“Rampant” antisemitism at Rutgers? In a word, no.
A clear, direct op-ed — by a Jewish faculty member at #Rutgers — about recent activism on campus against the war in Gaza and why we must protect free speech, even if you dislike that speech.
www.nj.com/opinion/2024...
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India
This is hard reading, but don’t look away from the increasing bleakness of Hindu-first India.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/w...
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India not Bharat
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Legislation on Hinduphobia ™ is being introduced in local councils and other bodies all over the US, particularly Chicago suburbs, Florida and NJ. Hinduphobia is weaponized Hindu supremacist politics of victimhood. It is dangerous. Fight it.
www.southasiacollective.org/statements/a...
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For more information on the discredited concept of “Hinduphobia,” its harms, and the far-right agenda at work in promoting it, please see the list of resources at the bottom of SASAC’s statement: www.southasiacollective.org/statements/a...
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SASAC urges lawmakers to avoid collaborating with far-right organizations and instead work with broad coalitions of individuals negatively impacted by racism and other forms of bigotry. This approach is essential for pursuing sincere efforts to combat discrimination in the U.S.
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Both federally and in New Jersey, the bills are being championed by Hindu supremacist groups, some of whom maintain overseas ties. That should be enough for the bill sponsors to withdraw them. Regardless, other reps should be hyper vigilant
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The term "Hinduphobia" attempts to mimic and thus undermine "Islamophobia," a genuine and pervasive issue in contemporary America. This tactic is akin to far-right claims of anti-white racism in the US, which aim to invalidate the serious issue of anti-black racism.
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The term “Hinduphobia” was popularized and promoted by far-right Hindu nationalists whose aims are fundamentally at odds with the principles of a democratic society. The concept is widely used to attack scholars, clamp down on free speech, and work against civil rights.
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SASAC is a coalition of US-based scholars with extensive expertise in South Asia and the Indian American diaspora. SASAC has spoken out against the far-right concept of “Hinduphobia” since 2021 and speaks again now since bills have been introduced federally and in New Jersey
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The South Asia Scholar Activist Collective (SASAC) issues warnings against legislative efforts at local, state, and federal levels in the U.S. to introduce the discredited, far-right concept of "Hinduphobia."
Short 🧵
www.southasiacollective.org/statements/a...
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A Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies explains why politicizing the definition of anti-Semitism in the U.S.—
(1) is itself anti-Semitic
(2) makes Jews less safe
(3) is largely used to target Arabs and Muslims
time.com/6977457/weap...
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Jewish Professors: We Support Rutgers' Handling Of Gaza Protest
patch.com/new-jersey/n... #Rutgers #Gaza
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I’m going to frame this and put it in my office on campus, to remember this challenge to higher education, the many leaders who failed us, the few leaders who rose to the occasion, and the students and faculty who showed the path forward. #highered
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When it’s not the answer you wanted, but it works—
On a final exam question, I asked students to name the political party currently in power in India. A student answered the RSS.
#academiclife #professor #highered #India
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Letter from Jewish faculty opposed to adopting the viewpoint-discriminatory IHRA definition of “antisemitism.”
Still collecting signatures—
bit.ly/ConcernedJew...
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USCIRF recommends—for a fifth year in a row—that India be labeled a country of particular concern due to infringing on religious freedom. The Biden administration should act on this. The situation in India continues to worsen. Religious freedom matters.
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