GENDER STUDIES FROM PERMANENT BLACK

We've published some of India's most highly reputed scholars on gender. Permanent Black's gender studies list traverses law, culture, sexuality. See below.

Meera Kosambi
CROSSING THRESHOLDS
Feminist Essays in Social History
HB/ 350PP + 7 B/W PICTURES / RS 695.00 / WORLD RIGHTS

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
THE SCANDAL OF THE STATE
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
HB/ 350PP/ RS 595.00

Nivedita Menon
RECOVERING SUBVERSION
Feminist Politics Beyond the Law
HB / 275PP / RS 595.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS / 2004

Charu Gupta
SEXUALITY, OBSCENITY, COMMUNITY
Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
HB / 400PP, 30 ILLUSTR. / RS 350 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS / 2005

Tanika Sarkar
HINDU WIFE, HINDU NATION
Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism
PB/ 280PP / RS 295 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Ratna Kapur
EROTIC JUSTICE
Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
HB/ LARGE FORMAT / 210PP / RS 595.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Jörg Fisch
IMMOLATING WOMEN
A Global History of Widow-burning from Ancient Times to the Present
PB/ 600PP, + 25 B-W PIX / RS 495.00/ SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan, editors
SUBALTERN STUDIES XI
Community, Gender and Violence
PB/ 360 PP / RS 325.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Nazir Ahmed
THE BRIDE’S MIRROR
a translation by G.E. Ward of the first Urdu bestseller, Mirat ul-Arus
by Maulvi Nazir Ahmad, with an Afterword by Frances W. Pritchett
HB / 250PP / RS 350.00 / WORLD RIGHTS

Meera Kosambi, editor and translator
RETURNING THE AMERICAN GAZE
Pandita Ramabai’s The Peoples of the United States (1889)
HB/ 300PP + 4 B/W PICTURES / RS 595.00

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The Unfamiliarity of the Past

Joya Chatterji's most recent book is PARTITION’S LEGACIES . It was published by Permanent Black in June 2019. In this wide-ranging conversation about her books and her career as a teacher, she begins with talking about what drew her to history in the first place. She answers questions put to her by Uttara Shahani (a research scholar at Cambridge University) and Sohini Chattopadhyay (a history researcher at Columbia University) 1. Why did you become a historian? Let’s start at the very beginning . . . . . . A very good place to start. But before I launch into my answer, I want to thank you both for such excellent questions. They all force (or encourage) me to reflect on a lifetime of work. From a personal standpoint, this is a great moment for me to think backwards and ask myself: what did it all add up to? So I am grateful for your critical but generous-spirited questions. Why History? Why indeed. My relationship with the subject is best likened to a love affair. I was introduce...

Romila Thapar remembers an old friend

A few weeks before he passed away, Eric Hobsbawm and his wife invited Romila Thapar to the historian’s 95 th birthday party in London. John Williams played the guitar. The gathered companions drank to the great man’s health. He was convivial and had all his wits about him—as seems evident in the pictures below. A century seemed possible ... In her obituary below, Romila Thapar recounts what Hobsbawm’s work meant to her, and its intellectual legacy more broadly. REMEMBERING ERIC HOBSBAWM Romila Thapar Eric Hobsbawm was the kind of historian whose work, although largely on the last three centuries of European history, was relevant even to those of us who work on a different space and time. The process of historical investigation for him was not restricted to a narrow engagement with a specific subject, but with having to situate it in an extensive ...

UNSETTLING THE PAST: D.D. KOSAMBI AND ROMILA THAPAR

In the Permanent Black pipeline for next year (2013) are two wonderfully interesting books by two great historians of ancient India, D.D. Kosambi and Romila Thapar. Romila Thapar toasting Eric Hobsbawm at his 95th birthday celebration in London, July 2012 The book by Kosambi (actually, two parts of it are by him and one part is on him) is called UNSETTLING THE PAST. The book by Thapar is called THE PAST BEFORE US. UNSETTLING THE PAST Unknown Aspects and Scholarly Assessments of D.D. Kosambi The Kosambi book is a collection of obscure and pretty unknown writings by D.D. Kosambi alongside assessments of his contribution to various areas of scholarship -- ancient history, mathematics, Sanskrit literature, numismatics, and marxism as a method for understanding the past. An array of the great man's unpublished letters, unearthed from the Harvard and TIFR archives by his daughter Meera Kosambi, will comprise one section of the book. Kosambi's corresponden...

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