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Janaki Bakhle
International Affairs Building, Room 1128B
Director, South Asia Institute, Associate Professor, History Department
Phone: 212-854-6987
jb588@columbia.edu
Biography:
Janaki Bakhle specializes in modern South Asian history. Her areas of specialization include Indian political history, Indian feminist history, nationalism, gender and culture. Her first book, Two Men and Music: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition was published by Oxford University Press, 2005. She has published in CSSH, and is currently engaged in her second book project about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, known as the chief ideologue of Hindu fundamentalism, and is writing about sedition, colonial surveillance, and the emergence of Hindu fundamentalism in late nineteenth century India.
Bakhle earned her PhD from Columbia University, MA from the University of Pennsylvania and BA from the University of Bombay, India.