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Tanika Sarkar's Degrees

PhD History Delhi University
Masters History Delhi University
Bachelors History Delhi University

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According to Wikipedia, Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India based at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right.

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Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism (2001) (260)
Women and the Hindu right : a collection of essays (1995) (83)
Women and right-wing movements : Indian experiences (1998) (72)
A Prehistory of Rights: The Age of Consent Debate in Colonial Bengal (2000) (47)
The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation: Domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth century Bengal (1992) (43)
Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader (2007) (36)
A Book of Her Own. A Life of Her Own: Autobiography of a Nineteenth-Cenury Woman (1993) (34)
Enfranchised Selves: Women, Culture and Rights in Nineteenth‐Century Bengal (2001) (31)
Words to Win: The Making of Amar Jiban: A Modern Autobiography (2015) (22)
Educating the Children of the Hindu Rashtra: Notes on RSS Schools (1994) (22)
Talking about Scandals: Religion, Law and Love in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal (1997) (20)
Bengal, 1928-1934, the politics of protest (1987) (19)
The meaning of Nandigram: Corporate land invasion, people's power, and the Left in India (2009) (17)
Politics and women in Bengal- the conditions and meaning of participation (1984) (15)
Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times (2010) (14)
The Women's Movement in India Today-New Agendas and Old Problems (2000) (14)
Missionaries, Converts and the State in Colonial India (2002) (11)
The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi: Gandhi and social relations (2011) (9)
special guest contribution: is love without borders possible? (2018) (9)
The Women of the Hindutva brigade (1993) (9)
Understanding Communal Violence-Nizamuddin Riots (1990) (7)
How the Sangh Parivar Writes and Teaches History (2019) (7)
Calcutta: The Stormy Decades (2015) (6)
Caste in modern India : a reader (2014) (5)
Bankimchandra and the Impossibility of a Political Agenda (1994) (5)
Notes on a Dying People (2009) (5)
Ineligible for History (2014) (5)
Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates (2008) (5)
Making in India (2015) (5)
The Vedas, Hinduism, Hindutva (2005) (4)
Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal (2012) (3)
How To Think Universalism from Colonial and Post Colonial Locations: Some Indian Efforts (2008) (3)
Violent and Violated Women in Hindu Extremist Politics (2015) (2)
Reassessing secularism and secularisation in South Asia (2013) (2)
Rebellion as modern self fashioning: A Santal movement in colonial Bengal (2011) (2)
A Just Measure of Death?: Hindu Ritual and Colonial Law in the Sphere of Widow Immolations (2013) (2)
Strishiksha, or Education for Women (2021) (2)
Who Rules India? A Few Notes on the Hindu Right (2018) (1)
Pragmatics of the Hindu Right (1999) (1)
Book Reviews : RADHIKA SINGHA, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. xxix +342, Rs 550 (2001) (1)
View from outside the field: An afterword (2016) (1)
Book review: Sarvani Gooptu, The Actress in the Public Theatres of Calcutta (2020) (1)
History as Patriotism: Lessons from India (2022) (1)
Holy infancy: love and power in a ‘low caste’ sect in Bengal (2011) (1)
Caste in Modern India (2013) (1)
Hindutva: The Dominant Face of Religious Nationalism in India (2021) (0)
Introduction (2002) (0)
Book Review : A Critique of Fairbank (1987) (0)
Hindu Nationalism in India (2022) (0)
What is to be written? : setting the agendas for studies of history : the Academic Frontier Project, Social Change in Asia and the Pacific : workshop proceedings (2004) (0)
Can We Write History? : Between Postmodernism and Coarse Nationalism : the Academic Frontier Project, Social Change in Asia and the Pacific : Workshop proceedings (2003) (0)
Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai (1886) ILR 10 Bom 301: rewriting consent and conjugal relations in colonial India (2021) (0)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Mission Statement (2013) (0)
Book Review: Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair (eds), Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee. (2013) (0)
Women and the Vote: a world historyJAD ADAMS (2015) (0)
Evaluating the Ideology of Hindurashtra (2016) (0)
University Culture and The Three Hundred Ramayanas controversy – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
India: Notes on a Dying People [in Lalgarh] – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Rupa Viswanath. The Pariah Problem. Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India. [Cultures of History.] Columbia University Press, New York (NY) 2014. xviii, 396 pp. $60.00. (2016) (0)
Gendering of Public and Private Selves in Colonial Times (2012) (0)
Intimate Violence in Colonial Bengal: A Death, a Trial and a Law, 1889–1891 (2020) (0)
A Shudra Father for Our Lord: Balakdashis and the Making of Caste, Sect and Community in Modern Bengal (2000) (0)
In This Issue (2020) (0)
Book Reviews : SEKHAR BANDOPADHYAY, Caste Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872-1937, Calcutta, 1990, K.P. Bagchi and Co., Rs. 150 (1992) (0)
India: Love, control and punishment – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
India: Appeal for talks with broader section of people's struggles in the forest and mineral belt – South Asia Citizens Web (2020) (0)
Writing and teaching the history of women and the subalterns in India (2018) (0)
Notes on contributor (2016) (0)
Book Reviews : TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI, Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1988, 369 pp., Rs. 170 (1990) (0)
Reconstituting masculinities/femininities (2021) (0)
Short Notices (1999) (0)
UCC and Women's Movement (2016) (0)
Time in Place (2017) (0)

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