Bharat Mata ki beti (daughters of Mother India) is a contradiction in terms, for the Motherland produces only sons – Hindu savarna (uper caste) sons to protect their mother’s ever fragile honour.
Who are the daughters, especially the unruly daughters?
In this lecture Professor Nivedita Mennon will explore potential and actual resistances to the Hindu nationalist project (Hindutva), that arise from within the folds of the heterogeneous practices that have come to be called Hinduism.
Event Speakers
Professor Nivedita Mennon
Nivedita Mennon is Professor at the Center for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and the author of Seeing like a Feminist (2012). She was awarded the AK Ramanujan Award for translation of fiction and non-fiction from Hindi and Malayalam into English, and from Malayalam into Hindi.