Visiting Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change

Dr. Padma Anagol holds the post of Senior Lecturer in History at Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University. Her teaching and research interests are broadly in gender and women’s history of modern India. She is the author of Emergence of Feminism in Colonial India: 1850-1920 which was published in 2005 by Ashgate Publishing House. She has also published many articles on Indian women's lives in the nineteenth century especially on legal issues regarding Child Marriage, Infanticide, Property Rights, Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts. Fluent in three Indian languages she mainly uses Marathi (Indo European script) and Kannada (Dravidian script) for her research work. Much of her research work is anchored in understanding women’s subjectivities and her latest book - Indian Women Patriots on the Colonial State, Race and the Political Economy of Nationalism - promises to challenge perceived ideas of how and why Hindu fundamentalism grew amongst women in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is researching and writing on this project at ISEC, Bangalore on a Visiting Fellowship. From 2005 onwards she has been the Editor of a peer-reviewed history journal - Cultural and Social History Journal. She also serves on the Editorial Board of South Asia Research and Women’s History Review. A believer in popular history, Padma likes to disseminate information about the past and its uses to the public and has taken on the position of Asia Consultant for BBC History Magazine since 2001. She can be contacted on this email address: anagol@cardiff.ac.uk