Tanika Sarkar
(2005 - 2006)
Contact Information:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Centre for Historical Studies
Nwe Meharauli Road
New Dehli, 110067
India
email: t.sarkar@mail.jnu.ac.in
Bio
Tanika Sarkar is a Professor of Modern History at the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Dr. Sarkar is one of the foremost scholars of South Asian history working today, and many of her publications, including Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation and Bengal, 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest, have become standard text for scholars of women's histories and social movements in colonial and post-colonial India. Her more recent research focuses on the rise of the Hindu right and particularly on the implications and impacts for women in the emergence of contemporary right-wing Hindu movements in India. Dr. Sarkar was in residence at the Simpson Center for the Humanities from October 1 - November 30, 2005.
Selected Bibliography & Links
Publications
- Adhunikatar Du-Ek Dik : Dharma, Sahitya, Rajniti, Camp, Calcutta, 2001. ( A Bengali publication)
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation : Religion, Community, Cultural Nationalism, Permanent Black, Delhi, and Indiana University Press, 2000
- Words to Win: A Modern Autobiography, Kali for Women, Delhi, 1999
- Women and the Hindu Right, (Co-edited, along with Urvashi Butalia) Kali for Women, Delhi , and Zed Press , London , 1995
- Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of Hindutva, (Co-authored, along with Tapan Basu et al)Orient Longman, Delhi, 1993
- Bengal, 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987
Links
- "Ethnic Cleansing In Gujarat: An Analysis of a few Aspects," akhbar, 2002, no. 3, July
- "Charting cultural nationalism" (book review of Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation), The Hindu, August 19, 2001
- "Opinion: Hindu Rashtra or secular state?," The Hindu, November 24, 1998
