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Beginning in the 1980s, Chakravarti wrote extensively on Indian history highlighting issues relating to gender, caste, and class, publishing seven books over the course of her career. Her body of work mostly focused on the history of Buddhism, and that of ancient and 19th century India.
Uma Chakravarti has 20 books on Goodreads with 1604 ratings. Uma Chakravarti’s most popular book is Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens.
Oct 27, 2014 · Chakravarti's book stands out as one of the most important critiques of gender and power relations in colonial India, with particular emphasis on issues of class and caste. Published by Zubaan.
- Uma Chakravarti
- Zubaan, 2014
- 9383074639, 9789383074631
Apr 10, 2019 · Her books include Rewriting history: the life and times of Pandita Ramabai, Everyday lives, everyday histories: beyond the kings and Brahmanas of 'ancient' India, The Delhi riots: three days in...
This essay examines women’s writing in the 19th century on the oppression of widows, focusing on voices that writer Uma Chakravarti believes have been invisibilized over the years.
Uma Chakravarti, a feminist and a historian, in her book Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens, argues that the systematic and structural oppression of women needs to be acknowledged in order to fully understand caste.
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Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore, nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts.
