Aparna Basu

Dr Aparna Basu is currently Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. She was formerly Professor of History, University of Delhi. Aparna Basu obtained her BA and Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, UK and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women's history and history of education. She was on the editorial board of Indian Economic and Social History Review and is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has...See more

Dr Aparna Basu is currently Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. She was formerly Professor of History, University of Delhi. Aparna Basu obtained her BA and Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, UK and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women's history and history of education. She was on the editorial board of Indian Economic and Social History Review and is on the advisory board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has published biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji and Kasturba Gandhi. She was a Fellow of St. Antony's College and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK. See less