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PhD Anthropology Stanford University
Masters Anthropology Stanford University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Nita Kumar completed her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in History and has taught at the University of Chicago, Brown University, and the University of Michigan among other places. She presently holds the Brown Family Chair of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. Kumar studied Anthropology alongside History and has been productive in research and publishing in both fields. She has further moved on to include women's and gender studies, literary criticism, education and performance studies in her approach.

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The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986 (1991) (72)
Lessons from Schools: The History of Education in Banaras (2000) (46)
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories (1994) (36)
Friends, Brothers and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras (1993) (30)
The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity: Essays on Education in India (2007) (26)
Saints, Goddesses, and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900. (1992) (24)
Delhi through the ages : essays in urban history, culture, and society (1989) (20)
Mothers and Non‐Mothers: Gendering the Discourse of Education in South Asia (2005) (12)
Provincialism in Modern India: The Multiple Narratives of Education and their Pain (2006) (9)
The Logic of Retribution: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman (2003) (9)
Work and Leisure in the Formation of Identity: Muslim Weavers in a Hindu City (2006) (9)
Class and gender politics in the Ramlila (1992) (7)
The Middle-class Child: Ruminations on Failure (2020) (7)
Book Review: Nandini Chatterjee, The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830–1960 (2013) (7)
The Scholar and her Servants: Further Thoughts on Postcolonialism and Education (2006) (5)
Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre. PETER VAN DER VEER (1990) (5)
Open Space and Free Time: Pleasure for the People of Banaras (1986) (4)
The Educational Efforts of Rabindranath Tagore (2015) (3)
The Business of Friendship (1930) (3)
Widows, Education and Social Change in Twentieth Century Banaras (1991) (3)
The History of Education in South Asia (2020) (3)
Lessons from Contemporary Schools (1998) (3)
The Curriculum, and the Hidden Curriculum, in Indian Education, 1985 to the Present (2018) (3)
Identity, consciousness and the past : the South Asian Scene (1992) (3)
The Mazars of Banaras: a New Perspective on the City’s Sacred Geography (1987) (3)
Religion and Ritual in Indian Schools: Banaras from the 1880s to the 1940s (1996) (2)
Children and the Partition: History for Citizenship (2002) (2)
Languages, families and the plural learning of the nineteenth-century intelligentsia (2001) (2)
Why Do Hindus and Muslims Fight? Children and History (2002) (2)
Eating and fasting as a complex professional strategy (2020) (1)
Urban Culture in India: the World of the Lower Classes (1994) (1)
The (No) Work and (No) Leisure World of Women in Assi, Banaras (2006) (1)
Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India . By Veronique Benei. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. xviii, 346 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). (2010) (1)
Learning Modernity? The Technologies of Education in India (2001) (1)
A Postcolonial School in a Modern World: Vidyashram: The Southpoint (2003) (1)
A Postcolonial School in a Modern World (2003) (1)
The Modernization of Sanskrit Education in Banaras (1997) (1)
Meanings of Pilgrimage (1986) (1)
Banaras reconstructed: architecture and sacred space in a Hindu holy city (2021) (1)
Labour, capital, and the Congress: Delhi Cloth Mills, 1928-38 (1989) (1)
The modernization of Sanskrit education (1997) (0)
The Space of the Child (2008) (0)
Poonam Trivedi and Dennis Bartholomeusz, ed. India’s Shakespeare: Translation, Interpretation, and Performance Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 303 p. $57.50. ISBN: 0-87413-881-7. (2006) (0)
Buddhist women and food-gift ing to monks (2020) (0)
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook (review) (2010) (0)
Susan Bayly. Saints, Goddesses, and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700–1900. (Cambridge South Asian Studies, number 43.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1989. Pp. xv, 504. $59.50 (1992) (0)
s: Gender and class in South Asian and Indonesian interdomestic rituals (2020) (0)
The Color of the Critic (2020) (0)
Philip C. Kolin Understanding Adrienne Kennedy Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. 222 p. $34.95. ISBN: 1-57003-579-2. (2006) (0)
Book Review: Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee (2013) (0)
History at the Madrasas (2002) (0)
Children and Childhood in Hinduism (2019) (0)
Patronage, Identity and Culture Change: Five Melas of Banaras (1986) (0)
Indian modernity as the problem of Indian education (2019) (0)
Why Does Nationalist Education Fail (1998) (0)
The Gender of Madrasa Teaching (2008) (0)
Reviews of Books:Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Formation in Nineteenth-Century Telugu-Speaking India Michael Katten (2003) (0)
Book Reviews : MICHAEL R. ANDERSON and SUMIT GUHA, eds, Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 288 (2000) (0)
From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial:: Technologies and Philosophies of Education in India (2016) (0)
Parna Sengupta. Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2011. Pp. x, 211. Cloth $65.00, paper $18.95 (2012) (0)
Book Reviews : VASUDHA DALMIA, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra andNineteenth-centuryBanaras, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997, pp. xii + 490, Rs 575 (1998) (0)
Tithi Bhattacharya. The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848–85). New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $35.00 (2007) (0)
Book reviews (1985) (0)
India’s Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood (2012) (0)
Book Review: Faisal Devji, The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2015) (0)
Learning Modernity? The Technology of Education in India (2011) (0)
Age and Control: The Nation, the Neighbourhood and the Home (2007) (0)
Academic pilgrimages: what I learnt on studying Banāras (2014) (0)
The Great Indian Education Debate: Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781–1843 . Edited by Lynn Zastoupil and Martin Moir. pp. xvi, 357. Richmond, Curzon, 1999. (2000) (0)
The “Ramlila Project” (2010) (0)
The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India (2017) (0)
Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India: The Construction of the Subaltern through Education: Historical Failure of Mass Education in India (2014) (0)
The Life of a Text: Performing the Rāmamcarit‐mamāanas of Tulsidas. PHILIP LUTGENDORF (1994) (0)
Book Reviews : BRADLEY R. HERTEL and CYNTHIA ANN HUMES, eds, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context, New Delhi, Manohar, 1998, pp. 320 (2001) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
The Many Faces of the Modern in Banaras (1995) (0)
How to Understand "Bicultural Education" and "Transnational Interactions in Education" (2012) (0)
Michael S. Dodson. Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture: India, 1770–1880. (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. xiv, 268. $74.95 (2010) (0)
Book Review:Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India Catherine Weinberger-Thomas, Jeffrey Mehlman, David Gordon White (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Leadership in a Flat World: the Past, Present and Future of India* (2007) (0)
Learn from the past, live in the present, dream for the future: Melbourne Youth Force stepping up the pace (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Jamal Malik, Colonialization of Islam: Dissolution of Traditional Institutions in Pakistan, Delhi, Manohar, 1996, pp. 349 (1999) (0)

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