Janaki bakhle bio
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Janaki Bakhle at Princeton UniversitySavarkar and the Making of Hindutva
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) was an intellectual, ideologue, and anticolonial nationalist leader in India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India’s tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century.
Janaki Bakhle examines the full range of Savarkar’s voluminous writings in his native language of Marathi, from political and historical works to poetry, essays, and speeches. She reveals the complexities in the various positions he took as a champion of the beleaguered Hindu community, an anticaste progressive, an erudite if polemical historian, a pioneering advocate for women’s dignity, and a patriotic poet. This critical examination of Savarkar’s thought shows that Hindutva is as much
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1983
University of Bombay
India
Bachelors
1988
Temple University
Philadelphia
Ph.D.
1996
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Masters
2001
Columbia University
New York
Ph.D.
- 2009-2016, Director | South Asia Institute, Columbia University
- July 2010, Associate Professor with tenure | Department of History, Columbia University
- September 2005, Associate Professor | South Asian History, Department of History, Columbia University
- July 2002-2005, Assistant Professor | South Asian History, mittpunkt East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
- Spring 2002, Adjunct Lecturer | Department of antropologi, Columbia University
- 1990-1995, Senior Acquisitions Editor | University of Minnesota Press
- 1988-1990, Assistant Editor | Temple University Press
Scholastic Awards and Fellowships
- Senior Short-tenn Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2007
- Senior Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007
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- Intellectual History of Religion
- Politics and Modern India
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Janaki Bakhle
Professor
Education
Columbia University, New York, färsk, 1997-2001
PhD, Department of History
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995-1996
MA, Department of History
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1984-1988
PhD candidate, Department of Mass Communications
University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1979-1983
BA, Major: Economics
Research Interests
Employment
Director, South Asia Institute, Columbia University, 2009-2016
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of History, Columbia University, July 2010-2013
Associate Professor, South Asian History, Department of History, Columbia University, September 2005-2013
Assistant Professor, South Asian History, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, July 2002-2005
Adjunct Lecturer. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, Spring 2002
Senior Acquisitions Editor, University of Minnesota Press, 1990-1995
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