Aditi Sarkar

Historian and writer exploring voice, agency, and identity among women in post-colonial India.

BA History (Hons), Miranda House · MA History, Lady Shri Ram College · University of Delhi

Aditi Sarkar
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I study the past to understand whose stories got told — and whose didn't. My work centres on the voices of suburban women in India whose lives shaped history but rarely entered the archive. This is my orange garden: a place to grow those ideas in the open.

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From the Garden

Recent Notes

Ideas at every stage, growing in the open.

Bloom

Voices from the Suburbs of Lucknow

What interviews with middle-aged women revealed about agency, self-fashioning, and invisible histories.

Sprout

Mohanty and the Third World Woman

Rethinking Western feminist frameworks through the lives of women in post-colonial India.

Seed

Reforming History in Indian Schools

Why school curricula still erase women's agency, and what a better model might look like.

Writing

On the Desk

Essays, fiction, and reviews. New work coming soon.

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"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

Simone de Beauvoir