Professor Angana Chatterji Testifies About Kashmir Before the United States Congress

Monday 4 November 2019, by Inverse Journal

On October 22, 2019, the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on human rights in South Asia with a special focus on Kashmir. Here is the video of Professor Angana P. Chatterji’s expert testimony before the US Congress, along with a cited biographical profile of her professional, academic and research experience and the written submission that the three speakers on Kashmir were offered to make. Her submission is a 31 page document that is concise yet meticulously detailed to provide the proper context for her testimony as an expert with decades of research, academic and professional experience in multiple intersecting fields that have Kashmir as a core focal point. Professor Chatterji is also the Co-Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at the Center for Race and Gender at University of California, Berkeley, and the Founding Co-chair of the precursor, Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business (2012-2015). She has worked extensively on Kashmir from multiple angles, producing a notable and highly referenced body of academic work and research material that has had a profound impact on scholarship and human rights activism. As such, we include references to some of her academic publications and other resources here in the context of Kashmir to bring greater attention to her extensive work. Note: all embeds are made directly from the source with each source cited.

Source: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA05/20191022/110143/HHRG-116-FA05-Bio-ChatterjiA-20191022.pdf

Professor Chatterji’s “Submission on Human Rights in South Asia: A Focus on Kashmir”

Below is Professor Angana P. Chatterji’s 31-page written submission to the US Congress after the hearing. It is embedded directly from the source:

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA05/20191022/110143/HHRG-116-FA05-Wstate-ChatterjiA-20191022.pdf

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA05/20191022/110143/HHRG-116-FA05-Wstate-ChatterjiA-20191022.pdf.
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Chatterji’s publications include: sole authored books: Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa (Three Essays Collective, 2009); Land and Justice: The Struggle for Cultural Survival (forthcoming); co-contributed monograph for which she is lead editor: Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal; Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India (ACRes-CSSL, University of California, Berkeley, 2015; Zubaan, U. Chicago distribution, 2016); co-edited volume: Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (Zubaan, 2012, U. Chicago distribution, 2013); co-contributed anthology: Kashmir (Verso, 2011); reports for which she is lead author: BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir (2009), Communalism in Orissa (2006), and Without Land or Livelihood (2004); sole authored monograph: Community Forest Management in Arabari: Understanding Socioeconomic and Subsistence Issues (Ford Foundation, 1996); and co-edited journal double issue: Cultural Dynamics: Theory Cross-Culturesi (2004), “Gendered Violence in South Asia: Nation and Community in the Postcolonial Present”; and over thirty-five academic articles, book chapters, and research briefs and reports. Her latest and co-edited book is: Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (US: Oxford University Press, 2019, UK: Hurst, 2019, South Asia: Harper Collins, 2019)

Dr. Angana P. Chatterji

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