Vina Mazumdar
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Vina Mazumdar
Vina Mazumdar (28 March 1927 - 30 May 2013) studied at Calcutta University and at Oxford University. She taught Political Science at the University of Patna and Berhampur University, and had been a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She was the founder-Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) in 1980, New Delhi, a position she held till 1991.
She was a women's activist and a recorder and chronicler of the Indian Women's Movement, and came to be called "the grandmother of women's studies in South Asia".
- The Mind and the MediumINR 350
Vina Mazumdar revisits the questions crucial to understanding the intellectual history of colonial India. She analyses the many dimensions of colonial policy, the intentions and motivations of the ...
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M.K. Bhadrakumar
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for 3 decades, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995–98) and to Turkey (1998–2001). He was al
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Kristoffel Lieten
Kristoffel Lieten is a professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches development sociology, and where he holds the chair of Child Labour Studies on behalf of the International Institut
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Kumkum Sangari
Kumkum Sangari, editor of the book, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, Ame
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Morgan Chua
Morgan Chua, author of Tiananmen: 25th Anniversary Edition, is a Singapore-born cartoonist who started drawing for the Singapore Herald in 1970. When the paper was closed down by the government in
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Roger E. Kanet
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Damien Millet
Damien Millet teaches mathematics and is a spokesperson for CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt) France. He is the author of L Afrique sans dette, and co-author with Eric Toussai
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Navneet Sethi
Navneet Sethi was an Associate Professor in the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, until her unfortunate demise in 2018. She had received her PhD from the Indian Institute of
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