0000-0002-9523-4437 About
Charu Gupta is Senior Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. The focus of her work is gender, sexuality, masculinity, caste, religious identities and vernacular literatures in early twentieth century north India. Her monographs include Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (Permanent Black, 2001), and The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print (University of Washington Press, 2016). She has been a Visiting Professor and ICCR Chair at the University of Vienna, a Visiting Faculty at the Yale University, the Washington University and the University of Hawaii. She has also been a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi, the Social Science Research Council, New York, the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Thailand, the Wellcome Institute, London, and the University of Oxford. She is presently working on social histories of particular genres and subjects through life narratives in Hindi in early twentieth century north India.
Employment
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University of Delhi Senior Professor1992 - Present
Education
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SOAS University of London PhD1997 - 2000
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Publications (91)
- Caste-ized Cities: Sweepers in Early Twentieth-Century United Provinces Save
- Laughing at Brahmanical Orthodoxy: Dube ji ki Chitthi and the Satirical Hindi Public Letter in Colonial India Save
- Performing Masculinities: Hindu Reform, Ascetic Celibacy, and Dalit Manhood in Colonial North India Save
- Kitchen Hinduism: Food politics and Hindi cookbooks in colonial North India Save
- Virangana Women: Dalit Counter-Histories of 1857 Save
- Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak's Autobiography Save
- Love taboos: Hindus, Muslims and moral panics Save
- A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations Save
- Love taboos Save
- Communal Geographies: An Introduction Save