2025 SSESW Athena SWAN Annual Lecture
In this talk, Dr Nandita Banerjee Dhawan critically examined the strategic calculations and political constructions of ‘belonging’ and ‘othering’ as integral to majoritarian privilege in contemporary India.
Focusing on gender as the terrain where religious-cultural and national-political tensions unfold, she argued that Hindu(tva) rhetoric was mainstreamed well before 2014, challenging assumptions that fundamentalism and religious-cultural exclusion are exclusive to a particular political ideology.
Dr Nandita Banerjee Dhawan is an Associate Professor at the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University.
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