Books that shaped my thinking.
Memory, trauma, and love at the intersection of the personal and the historical.
Language as river, as monsoon, as protest.
Where my interest in feminist historiography began.
A single day in London. Everything about time, memory, and the inner lives of women.
Dorothea Brooke's idealism and Eliot's extraordinary compassion for human frailty.
Oral histories of Partition. The female body as a site for the politics of power.
Female identity, domesticity, and the nationalist movement in colonial Bengal.
Women's movements in India from the colonial period to the present.
A critical lens on Western feminist evaluations of the "Third World Woman." Foundational for my research.
The question that haunts every historian who works with colonial archives.
Gender as a useful category of historical analysis.
Class, intimacy, and the things people can't say to each other.
Four generations of a Korean family. History through the choices of women.
An 80-year-old woman crosses the border. Language as border, bridge, and garden.