LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
Dr. Padma Anagol
BOOKS
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The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920, (Aldershot UK and
Burlington VT USA, Ashgate, 2006), [ISBN: 0754634116], x + pp.264.
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Laxmibai Dravid and the Birth of the Hindu Right, (Delhi: Zubaan, most
likely 2008). On-going project, two-thirds completed.
ARTICLES
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‘From the Symbolic to the Open: Women’s resistance in colonial
Maharashtra,’in Ghosh. A (ed.), Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and
the Everyday in Colonial South Asia, (Delhi, Permanent Black, 2007),
word count: 14,076. ISBN 817824201X
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‘Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women’s
Discourses and Participation in the Debates over Restitution of Conjugal
Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s’, in
S.Sarkar and T. Sarkar, (eds.), Women and Social Reform in Modern India
: A Reader, (Delhi, Permanent Black), scheduled for Feb. 2008, word
count: 17,465. E-Reader (Two Volumes).
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‘The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and Survival
under the Raj’, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2002, vol. 53, pp. 7393. [ISSN 1363-3554]
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‘Indian Christian Women and Indigenous Feminism, c.1850 - c.1920’, in
Gender and Imperialism (Editor Clare Midgley), (Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 1998), (Studies in Imperialism Series), pp.79-103, ISBN 07190-4819-2 and 0-7190-4820-6.
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Anagol-McGinn P - ‘Sexual Harassment in India: a case-study of Eveteasing in Historical Perspective’, in Rethinking Sexual Harassment (Editors
Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too), (London, Pluto, 1994), pp.220-34, ISBN 07453-0837-6 and 0-7453-0838-4.
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Anagol-McGinn P - ‘The Age of Consent Act (1891) Reconsidered:
Women’s Perspectives and Participation in the Child Marriage Controversy
in India’, South Asia Research, 12:2, November 1992, pp.100-19.
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‘Colonial Ideology and Colonial Literature: The creative world of Rudyard
Kipling’, Studies in History, 3:1, 1987, pp.75-96.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PUBLICATIONS
In Marathi
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‘Vasahatkalin Bharatatil Marathi Madhyamvargiya Striyanche ghargutee
Baget’ (Marathi), or ‘Family Budgets, Thrift and Thrift and Household
management as reflected in the writings of middle class Maharashtrian
women in colonial India’, (in translation), published in Marathi
Samshodhan Patrika or [Quarterly Journal of the Marathi Research
Institute], in translation, 53:1, October 2006, pp.23-32, ISSN
RNI/31743/63.
For further information about the RNI number please follow this link:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/images/image-77323-full.jpg
MANUSCRIPTS (in preparation)
1) Women as Subjects: Gender and nationalism, Karnataka 1880-1947, [I have
completed the collection of primary source materials for this project].
2) The Making of Karnataka: history, language and regional nationalism in
Southern India, 1800-1947. [I have finished gathering fifty percent of the
source-materials and also written approximately 20,000 words]
3) Anagol P (ed.) - The Age of Consent Debates in Colonial India, 1890-1929
[early stages of the project].
4) ‘The world turned upside down: Girijabai Kelkar and ‘Men’s Rebellion’, [This
will be a translation with a long introduction of an Indian feminist writer of the
early 20th century who has adapted Christine De Pizan’s work ‘City of Ladies’.
Early stages of the project].
ARTICLES (in press and/or ready to go to press)
‘Agency, change and periodisation in gender and women’s history of colonial India’,
Gender and History, Special Issue on the theme of ‘Gender, Change and
Periodization’ [Article Submitted, Word Count: 9670] Likely date of publication,
Summer 2008.
‘Britishness and Indianness: Configuring the Raj through Indian Women’s Eyes’,
[Submission to Cardiff Historical Paper Series, to appear in Volume 1, Oct. 2007].
‘Writing Modern Indian History: Proposal for a new script to write on the questions of
historical change and women’s agency’, [Submission to Cardiff Historical Paper Series,
to appear in Volume 2, Dec. 2007].
ARTICLES (In Preparation)
‘Civil society, Indian elites and the colonial state: Seizing control of the movement for
the higher education of women as an alternative hegemony’, Indian Economic and
Social History Review, [Date of submission intended for Jan. 2008].
‘An analysis of women’s ‘Letters to the Editor’ as a new source for writing the
women’s history of India’, intended for Journal of Gender Studies, [Date of
submission intended for April 2008].
Indian women’s contribution to the No Taxation Campaigns in Karnataka, 1926-30’,
intended for publication in Women’s History Review.
‘Revisiting the ‘Women’s Question’: Myths and mythography in the nationalist and
subaltern historiography of India’, intended for Modern Asian Studies. Journal
published by Cambridge University.
‘The "New Woman": Krupabai Satthianathan and second generation Christian women of
nineteenth century India’, [article, two/thirds completed, intended for submission to a
refereed journal - Indian Economic and Social History Review]
‘Feminist concepts in indigenous literary traditions’, for Critical Inquiry or Women’s
History Review.
‘Utopias in Western Indian women’s writing’, for Journal of Women’s History or
Feminist Studies.
‘Discourses of discontent: Marathi Women’s magazines in the nineteenth century’for
Women’s History Review.
‘The Arya Mahila Samaj and early feminist writings by Maratha women in Subodh
Patrika’, for Economic and Political Weekly.
‘Female militancy and warrior traditions in Southern India: The Rani Kittur Chenamma’,
for Modern Asian Studies.
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN COLLECTIVES AND BOOK REVIEWS
“Phipson, (Mary) Edith Pechey- (1845-1908).” In New Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2004. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56460 (accessed
September 24, 2004) A 3,500 word article.
Book Review of ‘State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the
Nineteenth Century’ Mariam Dossal and Ruby Maloni, eds. Popular Prakashan,
Mumbai, (1999) Indian Economic and Social History Review 38:3 (2001) 334-38,
ISSN 0019-4646.
‘Itinerant feminists, Restless Gazers and Anthropologists-in-reverse gear: A Review
Article on contemporary scholarship of travel literature’, Submitted and accepted by
Indian Economic and Social History Review, 3,000 word essay. [proposed publication
date: December issue of the journal in 2007], ISSN 0019-4646.
Book Review of Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, Women in the Nationalist Voices: Unseen
Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930-42, (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2006) for
Journal of Gender Studies, [Submitted a 1,200 word article on 1 May 2007 to appear
in the issue of Jan 2008]
‘Age of Consent and Child Marriage in Colonial India and Victorian Britain’, The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, (General Editor) Bonnie Smith,
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), [A 2800 word article. The final proofs
were sent in April 2007 and have been accepted. To appear in 2008]
9. SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED TALKS
9a.
TALKS AND LECTURES BY INVITATION
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‘Women’s agency and historical change in modern India’. Plenary Talk at the
invitation of and hosted by Social History Society of the UK, Annual
Conference of Social History Society held at University of Exeter, 30 March
to 1 April 2007.
‘Periodization, agency and change in Indian gender and women’s history’,
Paper at Gender and Change’ workshop hosted by Gender and History
Journal at Christ College, University of Cambridge, 16-18 April 2007.
Panelist in the morning session for a one day conference on the theme of
‘Women’s Empowerment in India: Past, Present and Future’. Venue:
Ahmedabad, India. Date: 22-8-2006.
‘Conquering prejudice: Bringing health care to Indian women in the past’
paper given at the one day conference on the theme of ‘Women’s
Empowerment in India: Past, Present and Future’. Venue: Ahmedabad, India.
Date: 22-8-2006.
‘Britishness and Indianness: Indian Women’s Perceptions of the Raj’ at a
‘Seminar on ‘‘Britishness’’ held in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, 13 Apr.2005.
‘From the Symbolic to the Open: Women’s assertion and resistance in colonial
Maharashtra.’ Presented at the Workshop on ‘Women in Colonial India: A
Contour of resistance’, (19-21st August 2004), Manchester University,
Manchester. UK
‘Of Wicked Men and Real heroes: Configuring the Raj through Subaltern
Eyes’, Cardiff Historical Association, Cardiff School of History and
Archaeology, (23 April 2004), Cardiff, Wales, UK.
‘Thrift, household management and the colonial economy in nineteenth and
early twentieth century Maharashtra, India.’ Presented at the 10th Annual
Conference on Maharashtra held at University of Pune, (15-18 Aug. 2003),
Pune, Maharashtra. India.
‘Eve-teasing’ or sexual harassment in India: Its origins’, At a one-day
workshop on ‘Sexual Harassment: Past and Present’ at Newnham College,
University of Cambridge, 20 July 1994.
9b.
SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
I have shared my research findings at several well-known and prestigious Centres for
South Asian Studies including the following:
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‘What has feminism got to do with salvation?’ Indian Christian women at the
turn of the century’, Department of Religious Studies, Cardiff University, 24
March 2002, Wales.
‘Religious conversions of Indian women during the social reform upheavals of
1880s and 1890s’, Department of History, Swansea, University of Wales, 21
Feb. 2000.
‘Pandita Ramabai and feminism during the nineteenth century Maharashtrian
conversion movements’, Panel speaker at the Annual Conference, British
Association of South Asian Studies Conference, 16-18 Aug. 1992.
‘Gender, Politics and Social reform in Maharashtra at the turn of the century’,
Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University, 24 Aug. 1990.
‘Shame, Honour or survival? Infanticidal women of nineteenth century speak’,
‘Comparative Colonialism and Post Colonialism Seminar Series’, Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, London, 7 September 1989.
‘Male social reformers, reformist ideals and women in Maharashtra, 1850-1920’,
Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, 18 Nov. 1989.
TEACHING RECORD
Courses developed and taught between 1993-95
(i) Undergraduate level
Emergence of Modern Asia: India, China and Japan, c.1800-1965.
Modern India: From Empire to Independence, c.1757-1947.
Empire and Literature: Colonial Writers and the Developing World.
Courses developed and taught between 1995-to present
(i) Undergraduate level (Level Two and Three)
Modern Asia: China, Japan and India, 1850-1970.
Modern India: From Empire to Independence, 1757-1947.
India and the Raj, 1857-1947.
In addition to the above I also taught on the following team taught courses:
HS 1102 Themes in Contemporary History (core course at Level One)
I was solely in charge of a block of lectures/seminars entitled ‘Themes in South and
South East Asia History’ for Level One students. The core text we used was
Hobsbawn’s Age of Extremes.
This was disbanded in 2001 and I replaced it with another Modern History module.
HS 1105 The Making of the Modern World (core course at Level One) ongoing
I devised this course to meet the new requirements of the modular scheme in year one
History. The course runs in a block of themes such as Nationalism, Gender, War and
Peace, Visual History and so on. It accommodates the diverse interests of modern
historians in the department. It has the largest number of students in the History
department ranging over the years from 110 to 230.
HS 1323 Approaches to History (Core Course at Level Two)
Introduces students to the philosophy of history and major theoretical models used in
historical scholarship including Marxism, Annales, Post structuralism, Gender and
Women and since my arrival in Cardiff - Subaltern Studies is taught too.
HS 1398 Independent Study: Exploring Historical Debate
In the year 1997 I devised a module worth 20 credits which helps students to generate
and bring a project to fruition on their own. The module is centred on exploring
historiography in which a student can pick up a key debate in history and write a 5-6000
word essay on it. Every year on average I first-mark around 6-8 and double-mark a
further 6-8 independent studies.
HS 1765 India & The Raj, 1857-1947
The module is designed to provide a critical introduction to the political, social and
cultural history of India from the assumption of direct rule by the Crown to
independence. The module follows a broadly chronological framework along major
themes which include – the consolidation of British rule after 1857; rebellion and
resistance by Indians including subordinated groups; the emergence of early nationalist
organisations; changes in the role and status of women; socio-religious and revivalist
movements; the nature of the nationalist movement; elite leadership and the growth of
communal identities; and finally the decolonisation debates and partition.
(1) Special Subject (Final Year BA Single Honours History level)
I have devised the following Special Subject which has tended to be a popular choice
amongst students. The Special Subject is worth 60 credits or 3 ordinary modules and the
student is expected to write a 10,000 word dissertation as part of the module
requirements.
HS 1402 Gender and Imperialism, India 1828-1947
HS 1403 Gender and Imperialism, India 1828-1947
HS 1399 Dissertation (Special Subject)
Normally I supervised around 8 to 12 dissertation students. The Special Subject was
disbanded in the year 2000 due to the staff/student disparity in ratio and replaced by an
Advanced Option which could accommodate increasing numbers of students.
(2) Advanced Option (Final Year BA Single Honours/Joint Honours History level)
In view of the new modular scheme I replaced the Special Subject with a new Advanced
Option. The Advanced Option is worth 30 credits although for some students who prefer
to attach a dissertation to it can go up to 60 credits. In 2005 I devised a new Advanced
Option which has proved to be attractive to students titled
HS 1855 Race, Sex and Empire: Britain and India 1757-1929.
Description: In this module the relations between Britain and India are treated as an
integrated dialogue between the ‘metropole’ or home country and the ‘periphery’ or
colony by applying the new categories of historical analyses: race and sex alongside
gender and class. Students will engage in a critical and in-depth study of the history and
politics of imperialism in this course. It will also provide multiple perspectives on the
changing relationships between the coloniser and the colonised through several themes
and topics which include: the nature and function of colonial knowledge of India;
theories of Aryanism, race and masculinity in the legitimation of empire; regulation of
sexual behaviour between the Raj and its subjects; the role of the memsahib in the
making and unmaking of empire; missions, missionary activity and the nature of Indian
conversions to Christianity; the myth of ‘global sisterhood’ examined through the
forging of imperial or Victorian feminism; and the attitudes of Indian women to Indian
patriarchy and the Raj.
(3) Currently I am exploring the feasibility of a Joint Honours scheme at the
undergraduate level with the Department of Religious Studies.
My undergraduate teaching has been mentored internally and has been judged
favourably by external assessors too over the years both at Bath and in Cardiff
Universities.
(ii) Postgraduate level
(From 2003-2005)
I devised and ran the MA South and South East Asian Studies programme for
postgraduates in History and Welsh History Section during the year 2003-5 under the
non modular scheme. This was an ambitious scheme in which I identified, convinced
and included the expertise of two other colleagues in my department and ran a cohort of
6 courses for the MA South and South East Asian Studies. In 2006 this was disbanded
in favour of the MA Modular Schemes. The details of the courses I ran under the nonmodular courses are:
HSP 668 Politics, Religion and Society in Modern India 1757-1947
HSP 669 Women and Gender in Colonial India.
(From 2006 - )
Currently I offer two PG courses on India via the following routes as pathways through
the MA History, leading to the award of named degrees:
MA History (Economic and Social History)
MA History (Asian Studies)
The titles of my MA courses are:
HST 661 Modern India, 1757-1947: Political and Social History
HST 631 Modern India, 1757-1947: Gender and Women’s History
Students opting to do an MA with the above course are also required to select two
further 10 credit course from a growing range of tailored training options, including
language and quantitative methods training which are now very strongly emphasised
as necessary by both the ESRC and the AHRC. All of these new training modules
have been approved and/or have been running in 2006-7.
The tailored research skills modules I offer are:
HST819 Sources for New Imperial Histories
HST820 Indian Gender and Women’s History: Sources and Interpretation
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER PG LEVEL TEACHING:
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I contribute a block of lectures/seminars on ‘Subaltern Studies: Perspectives from
Indian History’ as part of the History/Welsh History Department’s MA core
course: HSP544 Historical Theory and Historical Methods.
I have also taught a block called ‘Gender and History’ on the MA core course:
Historical Theory and Methods.
I have also contributed to the interdisciplinary programmes of our University in
the M.Sc. Econ Centre for Women Studies, Cardiff University. Here I taught a
block on a core course titled ‘Politics of Difference and Politics of
Representation’.
Currently I am exploring the feasibility of a post-graduate scheme with the Department
of Religious Studies and the Department of English Literature.
Courses being developed currently:
Feminism, Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia c.1850 - c.1990
Gender, Politics and Social legislation in Colonial India c.1829- c.1947
DOCTORAL STUDENTS:
Currently one doctoral student is under my supervision with the topic of ‘Seamen in
Britain: Lascar identities and experience of living in Liverpool, Cardiff and London.’
(AHRC funded doctoral research started in 2006)
Consultancies
Currently supervising a postgraduate student on a panel of advisors (external)
Details of the Ph.D. student: Name - Mrs. Carol Frankish
Department of History
School of Arts
University of Staffordshire
Topic: ‘Bengali women and Communalism during the partition of India, 1932-47’
I have also given informal supervision as an Internal Adviser to a doctoral student (Keith
White) on the topic ‘The Mukti Mission in Maharashtra: A Historical and sociological
perspective on the development of the Christian Faith’, from Spurgeon’s College
affiliated to University of Wales from 1999 to 2003. The student successfully completed
his doctorate in 2003.