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Anupama Rao
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
History, Barnard College |
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Biography
Research and Teaching Interests:
Histories of gender, caste and nationalism in South Asia, historical anthropology, political theory, law, human rights, colonial and non-Western histories
Publications:
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The Caste Question: Struggles for Civil Rights and Recognition by Untouchables in India, 1927-1991(forthcoming ms.)
- Co-editor with Shani D’Cruze, “Violence, Vulnerability, and Embodiment,” a special issue of Gender and History (forthcoming November 2004).
- Death of a Kotwal: Injury, and the Violence of Recognition,” Subaltern Studies XII (forthcoming, 2003)
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Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 2003.
- Co-editor, with Steven Pierce, of Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism. (forthcoming, Duke University Press).
- Problems of Violence, States of Terror: Torture in Colonial India,” special issue “Discipline and the Other Body,” Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2001: 186-205. [reprinted in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVI, No. 43, October 27, 2001: 4125-4133; reprinted in Postcolonial Passages. ed.Saurabh Dube. Delhi: Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2003).
- Understanding Sirasgaon: Notes Towards Conceptualizing the Role of Law, Caste, and Gender in a Case of 'Atrocity' , " in ed. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998: 103-136.[1]
- "Making Women's History Spectacular: Bombay Doordarshan, Maharashtrian Social Reform, and the ‘Literary’,” Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 1995: 17- 35.
- *Review of Human Rights Watch Report Broken People and Mendelsohn and Vicziany’s The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India,“ Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars July-September, Volume 32, Number 3, July-September 2000: 65-67.
- Interview with Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Volume 1, Number 4, 1999: 590-604.
Women's Studies Teaching:
Gendered Controversies: Women's Bodies and Global Contestations (Spring 2002) | |
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