How many of us know about Professor Uma Chakravarti, who taught at Miranda House, Delhi, for more than three decades? She is the teacher who created the thesis of “Brahmanical patriarchy”.

1. Do you know that she wrote a research essay in 1993 titled “Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste, Class and State”? It was published by the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). This one research essay changed the leftist discourse from the debate on patriarchy to “the Brahmanical patriarchy”. Soon it became a staple diet of all the leftists, from DU to JNU, from TISS to Kolkata.

2. In 2003, her entire research thesis on Brahmanical patriarchy was published as a book titled “Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens”. In this book she goes to great lengths to explain how Brahmanical codes of patriarchy originated in the Vedic scriptures, and that it was a method to protect ‘caste’ endogamy through the controlled sexual exploitation of women in Hindu society.

3. In 2013, Critical Quest, a Delhi-based leftist publishing platform owned by activist G. Aloysius alongside activist Josna T. Jacob, published a booklet titled Brahmanical Patriarchy, based on Uma Chakravarti’s 1993 research essay. It became fodder for all the leftist student ghettos.

4. This is the summary of Uma Chakravarti’s entire thesis of Brahmanical patriarchy. Do you agree with this kind of pejorative academic distortion of Hindu society?

5. Uma Chakravarti was a member of the International Tribunal on Justice for Gujarat (2002–2003). It was founded by a coalition of non-profits to investigate, document and provide a feminist analysis of the state-wide communal violence, focusing specifically on the systematic physical and sexual violence unleashed against Muslim women following the February 2002 Godhra train burning. The coalition members for this platform were:

• Citizens’ Initiative (Ahmedabad)
• People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) – Vadodara Shanti Abhiyan
• Forum Against Oppression of Women (FAOW) (Mumbai)
• Communalism Combat
• Awaaz-E-Niswaan and Stree Sangam
• Saheli, Jagori, Sama and Nirantar (Delhi)

6. Uma Chakravarti has been a member of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). In 1981, the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) was formed as a part of PUCL, but PUDR later split from it. PUDR partners with:

• Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR)
• People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
• Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR), Mumbai
• Telangana Civil Liberties Committee (TCLC)
• Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO)
• World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

Interestingly, Gautam Navlakha, who has been accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence, has been a long-term member and former secretary of PUDR. PUDR has relentlessly campaigned for his release during his arrests and for dropping all the charges against him. That speaks for itself.

7. Uma Chakravarti has been an advisory board member of Partners for Law in Development (PLD India). It has been funded by:

• Ford Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• American Jewish World Service
• HIVOS

8. Uma Chakravarti has been associated with Just Futures Pahal (JFP), a Nepal-based not-for-profit that describes its work on its website as research on dignity, justice, equity, inclusive democracy and sustainability through the lens of caste. JFP has been funded by:

• Wikimedia Foundation – Knowledge Equity Fund (US$150,000, 2024)
• Ford Foundation
• Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), USA (NPR 6,647,843.25, 2024)

9. Uma Chakravarti served on the jury of the Independent People’s Tribunal on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur (2024–2025), hosted by the PUCL. The 14-member jury was chaired by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph and included retired judges K. Kannan and Dr Anjana Prakash; former civil servants M.G. Devasahayam and Dr Swaraj Bir Singh; Prof. Uma Chakravarti, Prof. Virginius Xaxa, Prof. Rosemary Dzuvichu and Prof. Tanweer Fazal; activists Dr Sandeep Pandey, Manjula Pradeep and Dr Navsharan Singh; advocate Henri Tiphagne; and journalist Aakar Patel. Three subject-matter experts assisted the tribunal: public health academic Prof. Brinelle D’Souza, feminist activist Sandhya Gokhale and author-activist Prof. Apoorvanand. It was a 694-page report full of colloquial Leftist gibberish of an anti-state narrative.

10. Uma Chakravarti has been working very closely with the Ford Foundation through projects funded by it:

• Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS), where she worked as Core Executive Committee Member and Consultant: the Ford Foundation funded its permanent office building and a Library and Archive Digitisation Project for feminist literature in Bharat.
• Partners for Law in Development (PLD): funding for cross-border South Asian consultations framing legal strategies regarding women’s human rights, culture and structural systems.

(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread originally tweeted by The Story Teller (@IamTheStory__) on October 31, 2026. It includes minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)