Professional Summary
Email: Narayara@ucmail.uc.edu
Rochisha Narayan is a historian of Early Modern and Modern South Asia. She is interested in exploring histories of family and community, colonialism, law and capital, and women’s movements and social protests through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Her book manuscript titled, “Agents of Capital: Widows, Family, Community and Law in Early Colonial India” studies widows in the transition to colonial rule to offer a gendered history of capital, sovereignty and law in early modern India. She is working on a second project which examines the production of genealogy and family history as contingent practices of status formation, negotiation and control in modern India. She has experience teaching a wide range of survey and upper-level courses on South Asia as well as global and comparative courses on women’s and gender history and world history.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
‘Agents of Capital: Matriarchs, Law and Agrarian Transactions in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Eighteenth-Century India’, Modern Asian Studies, Volume 58 , Issue 3 , November 2024 , pp. 655 – 685.
‘Making Modern Mughals: Gendered Labor, Colonial Governance, and the Stratified Household in Colonial India,’ Gender & History, published online May 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12700
‘A Mughal Matriarch and the Politics of Motherhood in Early Colonial India,’ Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 32, Number 2, Summer 2020, 149-151.
‘Widows, Family, Community and the Formation of Anglo-Hindu Law in Eighteenth-century India,’ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 50, Issue 3, May 2016, 866-897.
Book Reviews
Review of Asiya Alam, ‘Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia’ (Leiden: Brill, 2021) in Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 60, Issue 2, April-June 2023, 231-243.
Review of Chandrima Chakraborty, ‘Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and Present Imaginings of India’ (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2011) in South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 4, Issue 3, July 2013, pp. 428-431.
Non-Refereed Publications
‘Gandhi, Indira’ in Bonnie Smith (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 2 (New York: Oxford University Press), 2008, p. 345.
‘Kripalani, Sucheta’ in Bonnie Smith (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Vol. 3 (New York: Oxford University Press), 2008, pp. 41-42.
Education
Ph.D. in History: Rutgers University- New Brunswick New Jersey, USA,
Contact Information
Academic - Narayara@ucmail.uc.edu
Narayara@ucmail.uc.edu