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Research Interests:
Social, Cultural and Political Histories of Mysore / Karnataka in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries, Feminist History, Women and Urban Studies
Courses Taught:
Problems in
Historical Method and Writing, Feminism and the Social Sciences, Envisioning
the City
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
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Social Municipalism
and the New Metropolis’ in Mary E. John et al (eds.), Contested
Transformations: Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India,
New Delhi, Tulika, 2006
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The Promise of the Metropolis:
Bangalore’s Twentieth Century,
Delhi:
Oxford
University Press, 2005
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Women and Law in Colonial
India: A Social History,
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1996
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Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture and
Politics in Princely
Mysore
,Delhi, Sage Publications, 1998
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A Question of Silence?
The Sexual Economies of Modern
India (co-editor with Mary
John)Delhi,Kali for Women, 1998
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Entry on "Imperialism"
in DR Woolf (ed).A
Global Encyclopedia
of Historical Writing, New York, 1998
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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'Tipu
Sultan, History Painting and the Battle for Perspective', Studies in
History, (forthcoming)
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'Beyond
Exceptionalism: South India and the Modern
Historical Imagination', IESHR, (forthcoming)
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'Feminism
and the Practice of Indian History',
Journal of the Moving
Image,
No. 3, 2004.
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"Un
tremplin
important: la
politique
desquotas"in
ENJEUX CONTEMPORAINS DU FEMINISME INDIEN eds. Danielle
Haase-Dubosc,
Mary E. John et al, Paris:
Maison
des Sciences de
l'Homme,
2003, pp.403-410
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'Slow
Pan to the Present: Notes on Historical Fieldwork', History Workshop
Journal,53, 2002
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'Past
Perfect: Architecture and Public Life in Bangalore', Journal of Asian
Studies, November, 2002
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'Battles for
Bangalore: Reterritorialising the City',www.iisg.nl/~sephis
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'Language
and the Right to the City', Economic and Political Weekly, November
18, 2000
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'Why
Singapore is not Bangalore’s Destiny', Economic and Political Weekly,April
29-May5, 2000
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'Drawing
a Line: K Venkatappa and his Publics',Indian
Economic and Social History Review,35.2,1998
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'Dangerous
Labour: Crime Work and Punishment in
Kolar Gold Fields', Studies in History
13.1 (new series) 1997
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'An important
springboard', Seminar ,Empowering Women 457: September 1997
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"Memories
of Underdevelopment': The Identities of language
in Contemporary Karnataka' Economic and
Political Weekly 21.42,October 12, 1996
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'Prohibited
Marriage: State Protection and the Child Wife',
Contributions to Indian Sociology (N.S.) 29:1&2
,1995,pp. 157-188.
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"Contending
Ideologies: The Mass Awakeners' Union in
Mysore, 1936-1942' Social Scientist
252-6.
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'Devadasi,
Dharma, and the State', Economic and Political
Weekly 29: 50 (1994), pp.
3157-3167.
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'Production Regimes,
Cultural Processes: Labour in
Mysore, 1900-1947', Indian Economic and
Social History Review ,30.3, 1993.
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'From
Devadasi Reform to SITA: Reforming Sex Work in
Mysore, 1892-1937',National Law School
Journal ,Feminism and Law, Vol 1,
1993
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'On the Question of
Female Agency in Indian Feminist Historiography', Gender and
History , 6.1,1994
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'Uncovering
the Zenana: Visions of Indian Womanhood in
Englishwomen's Writings' ,Journal of Women's History, 2.1 ,Spring
1990
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'Representing
Labour in Old Mysore:
Kolar Gold Fields Strike of 1930', Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. XXV No.30, July 28, 1990, pp. PE 73-86
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES:
Other Productions:
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Film: AFTER THE GOLD 60mins/Betacam/colour/1997
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Exhibition: BELADIDE
NODA BENGALURU NAGARA! An exhibition of maps, text and photographs
on Bangalore since 1949, which has been held at
Chitrakala Parishat, National Centre for
Biological Sciences, and Gallery Sumukha, in
June/July 2000. Hosted at:
www.cscsban.org\Bangalore
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