MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
South Asian Studies Council

Rochisha Narayan

South Asian Studies Council
Academic Year: 2011-12

Rochisha Narayan, a postdoctoral associate with the Council, holds a PhD in History from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her dissertation title is, “Caste, Family and Politics in Northern India during the Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”. Rochisha has contributed entries on Indira Gandhi and Sucheta Kripalani for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Drawing on research interests encompassing women, gender, caste and family, she will offer courses on Women in Modern India and Family and Caste and Religion in Early Modern South Asia, c 1500-1800.