She Recovered Many Histories: A Tribute to Aparna Basu

Aparna Basu had all the credentials of a high-flying scholar-a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a job as professor of history at the University of Delhi, membership of the editorial board of several academic journals like the Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Indian Economic and Social Histo...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2019-01
Main Author: Jain, Devaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biographies
Education
Gender studies
Scholars
Social history
Women
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Summary:Aparna Basu had all the credentials of a high-flying scholar-a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a job as professor of history at the University of Delhi, membership of the editorial board of several academic journals like the Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Indian Economic and Social History Review, to mention only a couple. Aparna Basu had all the credentials of a high-flying scholar-a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a job as professor of history at the University of Delhi, membership of the editorial board of several academic journals like the Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Indian Economic and Social History Review, to mention only a couple. The book, which is the scholarly production of her lively and enthusiastic mind, is thoroughly documented in both unpublished and published primary sources, and is buttressed with maps and tables based on the public and private papers of the administrators, and four important leaders of the national movement. Breaking Out of Invisibility: Women in Indian History marks a welcome recognition of the importance of situating women's history within the broader perspective of social history, and illustrates the wide variety of themes in women's history on which historians have been working over the last few decades.
ISSN:0012-9976