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Dr Angana P. Chatterji is a cultural anthropologist and human rights specialist. In 2005, she convened a people's tribunal in Odisha, calling attention to the impending violence against minorities and religionized oppression. In 2009, her collaborative work through a people's tribunal she co-convened in Jammu & Kashmir called attention to the issue of unknown graves and the need for accountability to families of the disappeared, and subsequently received corroboration from the State Human Rights Commission of Jammu & Kashmir. Her publications include: Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa (Three Essays Collective, 2009); a co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (Zubaan, 2012); and the reports, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir (2009), Communalism in Orissa (2006), and Without Land or Livelihood (2004).

Gender and the Hindu Right in India

The Gender Institute in collaboration with the Freedom Without Fear Platform and South Asia Solidarity Group will host a panel discussion on Gender and the Hindu Right in India.

Date: Monday 3rd March 2014
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speakers: Nishrin Jafri Hussain, Angana P. Chatterji and Meena Kandasamy
Chair: Kalpana Wilson
In the context of the forthcoming Indian elections in which the current Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi is the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, a panel of human rights campaigners and academics will discuss questions including:

What are the implications of the rise of the Hindu Right for gendered violence in India -- and what would a possible victory for Narendra Modi at a national level mean?
What are the experiences of those seeking justice for the victims and survivors of organized violence against minority communities in Gujarat and Odisha? What has been the role of the state in the violence and its aftermath in each case?
How does the Hindu right mobilize gendered discourses of religion and caste?
How have practices of 'moral policing' and fabrications such as 'love jihad' impacted on gender relations, and how are they being resisted?
What is the relationship of the British and U.S. governments, transnational corporations and diaspora communities with the Hindu right in India?