Malavika Kasturi teaches in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She finished her B.A. and M.A at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and received her PhD at Cambridge University. Professor Kasturi’s areas of research include women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and post-colonial law; and popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism. Her first book is entitled Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India (2002). Other publications include “Taming the Dangerous Rajput: State, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Colonial North India” (2004), and “Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India” (2002).
Humanities Division, UTM &
Department of History
BA, MA (Jawaharlal Nehru), PhD ( Cambridge )
Mailing address:
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
tel: (416) 978-1963
email: malavika.kasturi@utoronto.ca
Office:
Rm. 227, North Building, Mississauga.
tel: (905) 828-3748
Selected publications
“Taming the Dangerous Rajput: State, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Colonial North India” (2004)
Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India (2002)
“Archive on Female Infanticide: Selections from the Records of the Government of the North Western Provinces, 1871 (2000)