Notes
- We thank Vijay Prashad, Sheldon Pollock, C. M. Naim, Mary Hancock and Dipesh Chakrabarty for comments and feedback on various versions of this essay. All errors remain our own.
- See http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/development.html.
- Other schools involved in such campaigns include Harvard and Indiana University, and the University of British Columbia in Canada.
- Francis C. Assisi, “The India Chair at U.C. Berkeley” India Currents, June 1991, 20.
- In 1991, the Tamil community also initiated an endowment drive to support the study of Tamil language and culture at U.C. Berkeley. This campaign was successfully concluded in 1995, and endowed a Chair in Tamil Studies. See http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/development.html.
- Though the situation has since changed, in 1991 Padmanabh Jaini was the only tenured South Asian in the Department of South and South East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.
- Assisi, 21. In the years since the Indo American Chair at U.C. Berkeley was established, a number of Indian scholars have come to teach on a temporary basis, with appointments varying from one-half a semester to a year.
- On the relationship between area studies and ethnic studies, see Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Reconstructing Liberalism? Notes Toward a Conversation Between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies,” Public Culture 10: 3 (Spring 1998), 457–81; Mary Hancock, “Unmaking the Great Tradition: Ethnography, National Culture and Area Studies in India,” Identities 4: 3–4 (1998), 343–389; and Vijay Prashad, “ngo anthropology,” Left Curve 23 (1999), 72–81.
- For two recent attempts, see Aihwa Ong, “Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States,” Current Anthropology 37: 5 (December 1996), 737–62; Kamala Visweswaran, “Diaspora By Design: Flexible Citizenship and the South Asian Diaspora in U.S. Racial Formations,” Diaspora 6: 1 (Spring 1997), 5–29.
- For an analysis of this process in South Asian area studies, see Mary Hancock's excellent paper, “Unmaking the Great Tradition.” For some of the recent literature on whiteness, see George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998); Ruth Frankenberg, The Social Construction of Whiteness (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993); and David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness (New York: Verso, 1991).
- Anuradha Advani, “The Development of a South Asian Labor Organization: An Examination of Identity-Based Organizing,” Positions 5: 2 (1997), 589–604; and Annanya Bhattacharjee, “A Slippery Path: Organizing Resistance to Violence Among Women,” in Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, Sonia Shah, ed. (Boston: South End Press, 1996).
- See Nazli Kibria, “Not Asian, Black or White? Reflections on South Asian Racial Identity,” Amerasia Journal 22: 2 (1996), 77–86; Deborah Misir, “The Murder of Navroze Mody: Race, Violence and the Search for Order,” Amerasia Journal 22: 2 (1996), 55–76; Arvind Rajagopalan, “Better than Blacks? Or, Hum Kale Hain To Kya Hua,” Samar 5 (Summer 1995), 4–9; Rita Choudhury Sethi, “Smells like Racism: A Plan for Mobilizing Against Anti-Asian Bias,” in The State of Asian America. Activism and Resistance in the 1980s, K. Aguilar-San Juan, ed. (Boston: South End Press, 1994); and Jenny Sharpe, “Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration and Race,” Diaspora 4: 2 (1995), 181–199.
- Shamita Das Dasgupta and Sayantani Dasgupta, “Sex, Lies and Women's Lives: An Intergenerational Dialogue,” Patchwork Shawl, S. Das Dasgupta, ed. (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1998); Gayatri Gopinath, “Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion,” Positions 5: 2 (1997), 467–91; Naheed Islam, “Naming Desire, Shaping Identity: Tracing the Experiences of Indian and Bangladeshi Lesbians in the U.S.,” Patchwork Shawl; Shah, Dragon Ladies; Rakesh Ratti, ed., A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience (Boston: Alyson, 1993); Aparna Rayaprol, Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Diaspora (New Delhi: Oxford, 1997); Women of South Asian Descent Collective, Our Feet Walk the Sky (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1994).
- This would allow us, we think, to more thoughtfully evaluate the parallels between, and the stakes underlying, the articulation of the Black Atlantic counter-modernity of Paul Gilroy and Mike Hanchard, and something like the South Asian alternate modernities proposed by Dipesh Chakrabarty and others. Does it matter whether we speak of one (regional) counter-modernity or many? Do the debates about Pan-Africanism and nationalism on that continent speak in any way to the debates about South Asian nationalism and regionalism on the Indian subcontinent (and vice versa)?
- Peter Simunovich, “The New New Yorkers/Indian Studies Bolstered,” Newsday, February 17, 1999, A29.
- Ibid.
- For critiques of liberalization in India, see Prabhat Patnaik, Whatever Happened to Imperialism and Other Essays (Delhi: Tulika, 1995); C.T. Kurien, Rethinking Economics: Reflections Based on a Study of the Indian Economy (New Delhi: Sage, 1996); and Terence Byres, ed., The State, Development Planning and Liberalization in India (New York: OUP, 1997).
- Thomas Goetz, “Field Notes; Subcontinental Rift,” Lingua Franca, February 1997, 9.
- In fact, this joint seminar is one of two seminars run by the Southern Asian Institute.
- Hinduja Foundation, Newsletter 11 (1998), 9.
- See the DHIRC website.
- We thank Biju Mathew for this point.
- Hancock.
- See Romi Mahajan, “Racism, Prejudice and the Rise of Hindutva in the U.S.,” M.A. Thesis, University of Texas, Austin, August 1998.
- For separate treatments of Hindutva as a transnational phenomenon, see Hancock; Biju Mathew, “Byte-Sized Nationalism: The Saffron Dollar and Murder as Foreign Exchange,” Rethinking Marxism (in press); and Biju Mathew and Vijay Prashad, “The Protean Forms of Yankee Hindutva,” Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming.
- Mathew, “Byte-Sized.”
- Celia Dugger, “India Offers Rights to Attract its Offspring's Cash,” New York Times, April 4, 1999, 4.
- Ibid.