Rishabh Bajoria
Biographic Data
| ID | 1533327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rishabh Bajoria |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rishabh |
| FAMILY NAME | Bajoria |
| SIGNATURE | BAJORIA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kashmir’s Erasure from International Law
From East Timor to Palestine, political erasures flowing from the legal concepts of self-determination and permanent (state) sovereignty over natural resources remain enduring sites of struggle. This article traces how international law produced such an erasure in Kashmir through a pre-history of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. David Lilienthal, famous as the architect of the Tennessee Valley Authority, argued that harnessing the Indus waters for I…
Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). However, this framing of discrimination remains inadequate. The Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the UN Sub-Commission for the …
A Month under Occupation
These field notes present personal reflections and observations from the author's visit to Srinagar in June 2017, where he was working as an intern with the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons. The author's nascent understanding of India's attempts to assimilate the Kashmir Valley into the Indian Union was heavily influenced by the 2016 uprising in the Valley following the death of the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Muzzafar Wani. …
Silent Narrative
In this article, I describe my public history project seeking to transform a street in Connaught Place, New Delhi, into a militarised Srinagar marketplace. Through this phenomenological project, I aim to make Hindu, middle- class, upper-middle-caste Indians realise that the Indian presence in the Kashmir Valley is a colonial, military occupation. Through this, I want them to reconsider India's claims of being a secular, liberal-democracy. To cont…
Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). However, this framing of discrimination remains inadequate. The Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the UN Sub-Commission for the …
Silent Narrative
In this article, I describe my public history project seeking to transform a street in Connaught Place, New Delhi, into a militarised Srinagar marketplace. Through this phenomenological project, I aim to make Hindu, middle- class, upper-middle-caste Indians realise that the Indian presence in the Kashmir Valley is a colonial, military occupation. Through this, I want them to reconsider India's claims of being a secular, liberal-democracy. To cont…
A Month under Occupation
These field notes present personal reflections and observations from the author's visit to Srinagar in June 2017, where he was working as an intern with the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons. The author's nascent understanding of India's attempts to assimilate the Kashmir Valley into the Indian Union was heavily influenced by the 2016 uprising in the Valley following the death of the Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Muzzafar Wani. …
Kashmir’s Erasure from International Law
From East Timor to Palestine, political erasures flowing from the legal concepts of self-determination and permanent (state) sovereignty over natural resources remain enduring sites of struggle. This article traces how international law produced such an erasure in Kashmir through a pre-history of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty. David Lilienthal, famous as the architect of the Tennessee Valley Authority, argued that harnessing the Indus waters for I…
Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism
Since 1996, international human rights law (IHRL) has attempted to address caste-based discrimination through the rubric of racial discrimination by reading caste into ‘descent’ under Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). However, this framing of discrimination remains inadequate. The Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and the UN Sub-Commission for the …
South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Caste (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)