Vikas Bharati Bishnupur

From Sabrang/FOIL’s Appendix H of The Foreign Exchange of Hate Report:

Vikas Bharati  With a name like “Bharati” how can it be anything other than sinister, to the FOIL-minded? R-rated. Allegedly into “Hinduization” of tribals.

Other funding for this project comes from the Mahamana Malaviya Mission [[i]], started in 1978 by alumni of Benares Hindu University (BHU).  BHU is a major university established during the days of the British Empire, and site of one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology) in memory of Madanmohan Malaviya, a prominent leader and educator in North India. Office-bearers of Vikas Bharati include the Vice-Chancellor of Benares Hindu University – who appears to be a permanent Patron. The President is Justice Giridhar Malaviya, formerly of Allahabad High Court. The Vice-President is Ramesh Chandra, Ex. Executive Director, the Times of India – one of India’s best-known newspapers  - which, incidentally, was the first to carry the interview [ [ii]] with Dr. Biju Mathew, spokesperson for the authors of [4].

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WHO WANTS VIKAS BHARATI CLOSED DOWN?

The South Asia Faculty / FOIL

Dr. Biju Mathew, Rider U., Dr.Angana Chatterji, CIIS, Vijay Prashad, Trinity College, CT, Dr. Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, UCLA, Jamal Badawi, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University, Tayyab Mahmud, Cleveland State University, Muhammad Umar Memon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Malini J. Schueller, University of Florida, Asma Afsaruddin, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Notre Dame, Syed Akbar Hyder, Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Sahir Imam, Adjunct Faculty, Miami-Dade Community College, Ashutosh Varshney, University of Michigan, Sylvat Aziz, Associate Professor, Art, Queen's University, Kingston ON , Elena Bashir, The University of Chicago, Dina M. Siddiqi, University of Pennsylvania, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Padmini Mongia, Franklin & Marshall College Montclair State University, Shahnaz Rouse, Chair, Social Science Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, Arjun Appadurai, Yale University, C.M. Naim, University of Chicago, Shankar Mahalingam, UC Riverside, George Verghese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, Isha Ray, UC Berkeley, Moiez A. Tapia, University of Miami, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Hamilton College, Satya Mohanty, Cornell University, Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Institute of Technology , Muneer Ahmad, American University, Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Institute of Technology, Omar Atalib, Ashland University, Meena Alexander, City University of New York, Ali Asani, Harvard University, Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley, Milind Wakankar, SUNY Stony Brook, Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University, Ainslee Embree, Columbia University, Omar Atalib, Ashland University, Lloyd Rudolph, University of Chicago Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago Gail Minault, University of Texas, Austin Jayadev Misra, Schlumberger Chair, University of Texas at Austin Bella Mody, Michigan State University Purnima Bose, Indiana University Paula Chakravartty, UC San Diego Meenakshi Chakraverti, Independent Scholar, South Asian Studies Sharad Chari, University of Michigan Manu Bhagavan, Manchester College Vivek Bhandari, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Rajesh Bhatt, University of Texas, Austin Mohan Trivedi, UC San Diego Stephen Slawek, University of Texas at Austin Amritjit Singh, Rhode Island College Prem Singh, Johnson and Wales University Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology George Verghese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University Joanna Williams, University of California, Berkeley Ritu Birla, University of Toronto, Aamir Mufti, UCLA, Himadeep R. 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