Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti taught history in Miranda House, University of Delhi from 1966 to 1998. She has also taught women's studies courses at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Wardha and at the Institute of Women's Studies, Lahore. She has held the Ingalls Fellowship at Harvard University, the J.P. Naik Fellowship at the Centre for Women's Development Studies and was the National Professor at the ICHR from 2012 to 2014. Uma Chakravarti writes on Buddhism, early Indian history, the nineteenth century and...See more

Uma Chakravarti taught history in Miranda House, University of Delhi from 1966 to 1998. She has also taught women's studies courses at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Wardha and at the Institute of Women's Studies, Lahore. She has held the Ingalls Fellowship at Harvard University, the J.P. Naik Fellowship at the Centre for Women's Development Studies and was the National Professor at the ICHR from 2012 to 2014. Uma Chakravarti writes on Buddhism, early Indian history, the nineteenth century and the present with a special focus on gender, caste, and class. Among her publications are The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism (1987), Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai (1998), Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2004), Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of 'Ancient' India (2006); and On the Social Philosophy of Buddhism: Four Essays (2015). She has edited Thinking Gender Doing Gender (2013), and Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation (with Nandita Haskar, 1987). See less