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Hany Babu (born 16 August 1966) is an associate professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is a linguist, a scholar of caste and language, and has been active in the pro-reservation and other social justice movements within the University of Delhi.(https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/)



Hany Babu M T Hany Babu in 2020

Born

16 August 1966 (age 54)

Kerala

Nationality

Indian

Alma mater

EFLU (PhD) Occupation

Professor

Spouse(s)

Jenny Rowena P

Hany Babu (born: 16 August 1966) is an Associate Professor in the English Department of University of Delhi. (https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/) He is a Linguist, a scholar of caste and language, and has been active in the pro-reservation and other social justice movement within the University of Delhi.

Contents

1. Life and Career

2. Activism in Delhi University

4. Litigation

5. Selected Writings

6. External Links

Life and Career

Hany Babu is a Malabar Muslim belonging to the Moplah caste, which comes under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in Kerala. (https://frontline.thehindu.com/social-issues/article29507287.ece) He did his schooling and graduation in Kerala and after acquiring the Junior Research Fellowship, shifted to Hyderabad to pursue his PhD degree in Linguistics from the English and Foreign Languages University.

While doing his PhD, he won the "Best Young Linguist" award for the best paper presented by a research scholar at the All India Dravidian Linguistics Conference conducted by the Dravidian Linguistics Association, Thiruvananthapuram in 1995. (https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/) He also won a Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the Graduiertenkolleg "Universalität und Diversität: Sprachliche strukturen und Prozesse" at the University of Leipzig and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena from December 1997 to November 2000. (https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/) He also worked as Research Assistant at the University of Kontanz, December 2000 to November 2001.

He started his teaching career as an Assistant Professor in the English and Foreign Languages University https://www.efluniversity.ac.in/, Hyderabad in 2002. (https://thewire.in/rights/hany-babu-arrest-nia-academics-reaction)

He worked there in the Distance Education Department till 2007. He was one of the first persons to come in through the OBC category to EFLU, after the implementation of the Mandal Commission in the field of higher education. https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mandal-commission-report) He shifted to New Delhi in 2008, when he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi.   http://www.du.ac.in/du/

Hany Babu’s main area of research is in linguistics, within which he has specialized in the area of syntax and semantics of natural languages. Other than linguistics, he has an active interest in Language Ideology, Language Policy and Language Politics; Marginalized Languages, Linguistic Identity, and Social Justice. (https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/

He has been active in working towards the proper implementation of reservations in Delhi University.

As General Secretary of Academic Forum for Social Justice, he collected data from 30 colleges in Delhi University and exposed the huge gap in the number of seats allocated for OBC students and those that are filled. https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/08/loot-of-obc-seats-at-du/. He was also active participant in the protests and litigations concerning the same.

He also undertook a successful litigation against the discriminatory practices that were followed in the admission process for SC/ST students in Delhi University. https://www.dalitcamera.com/two-glass-system-in-a-central-university-the-unseen-ways-of-caste-discrimination/

He was active in the teachers’ movement against the Four Year Undergraduate Program in Delhi University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Year_Undergraduate_Programme_protests

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6648:a-sure-way-to-produce-dalit-dropouts&catid=123&Itemid=139

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6514:fyup-a-critique-from-a-social-justice-perspective&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluu5u5R5jo

He was also an integral part of the movement by SC/ST/OBC teachers attempt to implement the 200 point roster. https://caravanmagazine.in/policy/protests-against-thirteen-point-roster

Hany Babu was also a proponent of English as a tool of liberation for Dalit Bahujans and has written and spoken about the problems of the language policy in India. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320310247_Breaking_the_Chaturvarna_System_of_Languages_The_Need_to_Overhaul_the_Language_Policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL0PUgcQBMg

Litigation

On 10 September 2019, the police raided Babu’s home, without a search warrant, in connection to the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence and an alleged Maoist plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[2][23] There was huge criticism about the nature in which the raid was conducted and many Dalitbahujan student organizations came out in support of Hany Babu.

https://zh-cn.facebook.com/DalitCameraDC/videos/live-from-jnu-bapsa-protests-illegal-raid-on-prof-hany-babus-apartment/3494433083903988/

The day after the raid, the students of the University of Delhi came out in support of him in huge numbers.

https://www.edexlive.com/news/2019/sep/11/hany-babu-is-our-professor-students-in-du-jnu-uoh-to-protest-raids-on-du-teachers-house-8036.html

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/delhi-university-students-protest-raid-at-varsity-professor-hany-babus-house/articleshow/71085923.cms

https://duexpress.in/du-professor-hany-babus-home-raided-students-teachers-organised-flash-protest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cAlf7WNYhg On July 14 2019, the NIA send a summons notice to him to appear before them in Mumbai, as a “witness” in the Elgar Parishad case.

https://thewire.in/rights/elgar-parishad-nia-hany-babu-summons. Citing covid, Hany Babu asked for time, which he was given till July 24. He was interrogated for 5 days in the NIA office in Mumbai and arrested on the 4th day of interrogation, that is on 28th. He is now lodged in Taloja Jail.

https://thewire.in/government/nia-bhima-koregaon-hany-babu-arrest-gn-saibaba

https://frontline.thehindu.com/dispatches/prof-hany-babu-of-delhi-university-a-human-rights-activist-arrested-by-nia-in-elgar-parishad-case/article32220849.ece Prof Hany Babu’s arrest was condemned by more than 2000 Indian and International scholars including Prof Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Prof Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge), Prof Philip Gabriel (University of Arizona), Prof Ali Rattansi (City, University of London), Jignesh Mevani (MLA, Vedgam, Gujarat) etc.

(https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/scholars-urge-indian-government-to-release-hany-babu/article32249865.ece). The statement expressed concern about the onslaught on India’s public intellectuals and they urged the Indian Government to free Dr. Hany Babu, in the interest of preserving democratic values and human rights. (https://thewire.in/rights/du-professor-hany-babu-statement-support-solidarity-bhima-koregaon-arrest-nia). The member organizations of the International Labor Network of Solidarity and Struggle, Paris released a statement in support of Prof Hany Babu, calling his arrest as part of a particularly harsh, repressive policy of governments which increases discrimination (https://www.laboursolidarity.org/India-Freedom-for-anti-caste?lang=fr). Writer Arundhati Roy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy

on Wednesday slammed the government for the “relentless and ongoing incarceration of activists, academics and lawyers”, a day after an associate professor of the Delhi University was arrested by the NIA in the Bhima Koregaon Elgar Parishad case. https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/arundhati-roy-on-professor-hany-babu-arrest-155858-53359. Expressing “outrage” at the recent arrest of renowned linguist, Dr Hany Babu MT, faculty member at the Delhi University, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case, India’s premier human rights organization, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), has said, this again shows the Government of India’s “desperate and diabolic endevour” to silence intellectuals and criminalise those questioning its actions and holding a different view.

https://www.counterview.net/2020/08/arrest-of-hany-babu-state-acting-in.html

Selected Writings

Breaking the Chaturvarna system of languages: The need to overhaul the language policy”.

Economic and Political Weekly June 10, 2017, LII 23:112-119.

(2) “Converging struggles and diverging interests: A look at the recent unrest in universities.” September15,CaféDissensius. https://cafedissensus.com/2016/09/15/converging-struggles- and-diverging-interests-a-look-at-the-recent-unrest-in-universities/ “Unequal rights: Freedom, equality, life and liberty of citizens and “others”. http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8196:unequal- rights-freedom-equality-life-and-liberty-of-citizens-and-others&catid=119&Itemid=132 “Balancing interests”. Article published on Roundtable India. https://www.dalitcamera.com/balancing-interests/ “Two glass system in a Central University: The Unseen Ways of Caste Discrimination” July, 2012. Roundtable India

http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5427:two- glass-system-in-a-central-university-the-unseen-ways-of-caste-discrimination- &catid=119:feature&Itemid=132 External Links (same as given in body of article)

https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/)

(https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/) (https://thewire.in/rights/hany-babu-arrest-nia-academics-reaction) https://www.encyclopedia.com/international/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mandal-commission-report) http://www.du.ac.in/du/

(https://englishdu.ac.in/index.php/staff-pages/m-t-hany-babu-ph-d-ciefl-hyderabad/

https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/08/loot-of-obc-seats-at-du/.https://www.dalitcamera.com/two-glass-system-in-a-central-university-the-unseen-ways-of-caste-discrimination/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Year_Undergraduate_Programme_protests

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6648:a-sure-way-to-produce-dalit-dropouts&catid=123&Itemid=139

https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6514:fyup-a-critique-from-a-social-justice-perspective&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluu5u5R5jo

https://thewire.in/government/nia-bhima-koregaon-hany-babu-arrest-gn-saibaba https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/scholars-urge-indian-government-to-release-hany-babu/article32249865.ece https://thewire.in/rights/du-professor-hany-babu-statement-support-solidarity-bhima-koregaon-arrest-nia) (https://www.laboursolidarity.org/India-Freedom-for-anti-caste?lang=fr). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy https://www.asiavillenews.com/article/arundhati-roy-on-professor-hany-babu-arrest-155858-53359 https://www.counterview.net/2020/08/arrest-of-hany-babu-state-acting-in.html