Nita Kumar

Nita Kumar is Brown Professor Emerita of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College, California. She is the author of The Artisans of Banaras (Princeton, 1988), Friends, Brothers and Informants (Berkeley, 1992), Lessons from Schools (Sage, 2001), The Politics of Gender, Community and Modernity (Oxford, 2007), Women, Gender and History in India (Routledge, 2023), editor of Women as Subjects (Virginia, 1994), translator of Mai (Kali for Women, 2000) and Udhar ke Log (Niyogi, 2023), co-editor of Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia (Bloomsbury, 2020), and has published assorted essays, blogs, plays and scripted the movie Shankar’s Fairies. She runs the organisation NIRMAN that works for children, families, education, and the arts, and the school Vidyashram the Southpoint, in Varanasi, India, a progressive, “Changemaker School.”