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Dr Padma Anagol
(she/her)
Reader
Overview
Research interests
- Women's agency and subjectivities in colonial India
- Hindu Right Wing Movements and Women's roles
- Theory, Historiography and Periodisation of Modern India
- Material Cultures, Consumption and Indian Middle Classes
Publication
2023
- Wiesner-Hanks, M., Pierik, B. and Anagol, P. 2023. The Patriarchs: The origins of inequality. Women's History Review 32(7), pp. 1072-1077. (10.1080/09612025.2023.2248574)
2022
- Anagol, P. 2022. Introduction. In: Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. Mapping Women's History: Recovery, Resistance and Activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Bhatkal Sen, pp. ix-xxxvi.
- Anagol, P. 2022. The Navin Stri (New Woman), male reformers, and alternative hegemonies through higher education in Colonial Maharashtra. In: Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. Mapping Women's History: Recovery, Resistance and Activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Bhatkal Sen, pp. 56-89.
- Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. 2022. Mapping women's history: recovery, resistance, and activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Kolkata, India: Stree.
2020
- Anagol, P. 2020. Historicising child sexual abuse in early modern and modern India: Patriarchal norms, violence and agency of child-wives and young women in the institution of child marriage. South Asian Studies 36(2), pp. 177-189. (10.1080/02666030.2020.1821515)
2017
- Anagol, P. and Grey, D. J. 2017. Rethinking justice and gender in South Asia, 1772-2013: : Introduction to special issue. Cultural and Social History 14(4) (10.1080/14780038.2017.1358972)
- Anagol, P. 2017. Languages of Injustice: The culture of 'prize-giving' and information gathering on female infanticide in nineteenth-century India. Cultural and Social History 14(4), pp. 429-445. (10.1080/14780038.2017.1329124)
2013
- Anagol, P. 2013. The infanticidal woman. In: Roy, A. and Dube, S. eds. Crime Through Time. Themes in Indian History Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-180.
- Anagol, P. 2013. Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth-century Indian woman-patriot's text 'Essays in the Service of a Nation'. Women's Studies International Forum 37, pp. 104-113. (10.1016/j.wsif.2012.11.002)
2010
- Anagol, P. 2010. Feminist inheritances and foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India. Women's History Review 19(4), pp. 523-546. (10.1080/09612025.2010.502398)
2008
- Anagol, P. 2008. Agency, periodisation and change in the gender and women's history of colonial India. Gender and History 20(3), pp. 603-627. (10.1111/j.1468-0424.2008.00539.x)
- Anagol, P. 2008. 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: Sarkar, S. and Sarkar, T. eds. Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 282-312.
2007
- Anagol, P. 2007. From the symbolic to the open: women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra. In: Anindita, G. ed. Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia. Permanent Black, pp. 21-57.
2006
- Anagol, P. 2006. The emergence of feminism in India, 1850-1920. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Anagol, P. 2006. Vasahatkalin Bharatatil Marathi Madhyamvargiya Striyanche ghargutee Baget (Marathi) or Family budgets, thrift and household management as reflected in the writings of middle class Maharashtrian women in colonial India. (English translation). Marathi Samshodhan Patrika or Quarterly Journal of the Marathi Research Institute 53(1), pp. 23-32.
2002
- Anagol, P. 2002. The Emergence of the female criminal in India: Infanticide and survival under the Raj. History Workshop Journal 53(Spring), pp. 73-93. (10.1093/hwj/53.1.73)
Articles
- Wiesner-Hanks, M., Pierik, B. and Anagol, P. 2023. The Patriarchs: The origins of inequality. Women's History Review 32(7), pp. 1072-1077. (10.1080/09612025.2023.2248574)
- Anagol, P. 2020. Historicising child sexual abuse in early modern and modern India: Patriarchal norms, violence and agency of child-wives and young women in the institution of child marriage. South Asian Studies 36(2), pp. 177-189. (10.1080/02666030.2020.1821515)
- Anagol, P. and Grey, D. J. 2017. Rethinking justice and gender in South Asia, 1772-2013: : Introduction to special issue. Cultural and Social History 14(4) (10.1080/14780038.2017.1358972)
- Anagol, P. 2017. Languages of Injustice: The culture of 'prize-giving' and information gathering on female infanticide in nineteenth-century India. Cultural and Social History 14(4), pp. 429-445. (10.1080/14780038.2017.1329124)
- Anagol, P. 2013. Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth-century Indian woman-patriot's text 'Essays in the Service of a Nation'. Women's Studies International Forum 37, pp. 104-113. (10.1016/j.wsif.2012.11.002)
- Anagol, P. 2010. Feminist inheritances and foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India. Women's History Review 19(4), pp. 523-546. (10.1080/09612025.2010.502398)
- Anagol, P. 2008. Agency, periodisation and change in the gender and women's history of colonial India. Gender and History 20(3), pp. 603-627. (10.1111/j.1468-0424.2008.00539.x)
- Anagol, P. 2006. Vasahatkalin Bharatatil Marathi Madhyamvargiya Striyanche ghargutee Baget (Marathi) or Family budgets, thrift and household management as reflected in the writings of middle class Maharashtrian women in colonial India. (English translation). Marathi Samshodhan Patrika or Quarterly Journal of the Marathi Research Institute 53(1), pp. 23-32.
- Anagol, P. 2002. The Emergence of the female criminal in India: Infanticide and survival under the Raj. History Workshop Journal 53(Spring), pp. 73-93. (10.1093/hwj/53.1.73)
Book sections
- Anagol, P. 2022. Introduction. In: Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. Mapping Women's History: Recovery, Resistance and Activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Bhatkal Sen, pp. ix-xxxvi.
- Anagol, P. 2022. The Navin Stri (New Woman), male reformers, and alternative hegemonies through higher education in Colonial Maharashtra. In: Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. Mapping Women's History: Recovery, Resistance and Activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Bhatkal Sen, pp. 56-89.
- Anagol, P. 2013. The infanticidal woman. In: Roy, A. and Dube, S. eds. Crime Through Time. Themes in Indian History Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-180.
- Anagol, P. 2008. 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: Sarkar, S. and Sarkar, T. eds. Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 282-312.
- Anagol, P. 2007. From the symbolic to the open: women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra. In: Anindita, G. ed. Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia. Permanent Black, pp. 21-57.
Books
- Anagol, P., Banerjee, P. and Banerjee, S. eds. 2022. Mapping women's history: recovery, resistance, and activism in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Kolkata, India: Stree.
- Anagol, P. 2006. The emergence of feminism in India, 1850-1920. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Anagol, P. 2013. The infanticidal woman. In: Roy, A. and Dube, S. eds. Crime Through Time. Themes in Indian History Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166-180.
- Anagol, P. 2013. Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth-century Indian woman-patriot's text 'Essays in the Service of a Nation'. Women's Studies International Forum 37, pp. 104-113. (10.1016/j.wsif.2012.11.002)
- Anagol, P. 2010. Feminist inheritances and foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India. Women's History Review 19(4), pp. 523-546. (10.1080/09612025.2010.502398)
- Anagol, P. 2008. Agency, periodisation and change in the gender and women's history of colonial India. Gender and History 20(3), pp. 603-627. (10.1111/j.1468-0424.2008.00539.x)
- Anagol, P. 2008. 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: Sarkar, S. and Sarkar, T. eds. Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 282-312.
- Anagol, P. 2007. From the symbolic to the open: women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra. In: Anindita, G. ed. Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia. Permanent Black, pp. 21-57.
- Anagol, P. 2006. The emergence of feminism in India, 1850-1920. Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Anagol, P. 2006. Vasahatkalin Bharatatil Marathi Madhyamvargiya Striyanche ghargutee Baget (Marathi) or Family budgets, thrift and household management as reflected in the writings of middle class Maharashtrian women in colonial India. (English translation). Marathi Samshodhan Patrika or Quarterly Journal of the Marathi Research Institute 53(1), pp. 23-32.
- Anagol, P. 2002. The Emergence of the female criminal in India: Infanticide and survival under the Raj. History Workshop Journal 53(Spring), pp. 73-93. (10.1093/hwj/53.1.73)
Research
Current Research Projects
- Indian Women Patriots on Caste, Community, Race and the Political Economy of Nationalism
- Critical edition and translation of three volumes containing the eye witness accounts of Kannadiga participants in the Indian national movement
Research networks
I am a member of the following interdisciplinary networks:
- Centre for the History of Religion in Asia (CHRA)
- The West of England and South Wales Women's History Network (2010 – present)
- Families, Identities and Gender Research Network (FIG)
- Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster (SHARE)
Teaching
I welcome undergraduate students interested in gaining an in-depth knowledge of Modern South Asia with specific reference to Modern Indian history. The contents of the courses can be found below:
Undergraduate year one modules
- History in Practice: Fury, Folly and Footnotes - 20 credits (HS1107)
- Making of the Modern World (HS1105)
Undergraduate year two modules
Undergraduate year three modules
- Race, Sex & Empire: Britain & India 1757-1929 - 30 credits (HS1855)
- Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
Postgraduate
I welcome postgraduate students to work with me on aspects of British imperial history in relation to race, sexuality, women and gender. The courses listed below give a flavour of the contents and substance of the MA in Asian History. Students can also combine Modern China and Modern India in this particular pathway: MA in Asian History
- Modern India, 1757-1947: Gender and Women's History - 20 credits (HST631)
- Modern India, 1757-1947: Political and Social History - 20 credits (HST661)
- Sources for New Imperial Histories - 10 credits (HST819)
- Indian Gender and Women's History: Sources and Interpretation - 10 credits (HST820)
- Historiographical Study I: Key themes - 10 credits (HST698)
- Historiographical Study II: Key debates - 10 credits (HST699)
- Historical Theory and Historical Methods - 30 credits (HST644)
- Key Research Skills - 10 credits (HST643)
Postgraduate supervision
Suitably qualified doctoral students are very welcome to apply to study their PhD with me. Themes and topics that cover broadly British Imperial History in relation to India and the political, social and cultural history of Modern and Contemporary India. Knowledge of Indian languages is an asset but not compulsory. A flavour of the kind of topics and themes from completed and on-going research projects and a list of students working with me is given below.
Doctoral students
- Ved Prakash BARUAH
Title: 'Opium-eaters and Opium Peddlers: Cultural Manifestations of Opium in Northeast India and its Echoes in a Transnational Age, 1750–1950', (Start date: April 2012). Candidate holds a SHARE Studentship.
- Ceri-Anne FIDLER
Title: 'Lascars, c.1850 – 1950: the lives and identities of Indian seafarers in Imperial Britain and India', (Completed Jan 2010). Candidate was an AHRC Award holder and held a post doc fellowship titled 'Power Fellowship' at the Economic History Society, UK from 2010-2011.
- Sohini DASGUPTA
Title: 'Contending Authenticities: Representations of 'Hindu Custom' in Late Nineteenth century Colonial Bengal'. (Completed March 2010, External Examiner)
- Kieth D WHITE
Title: 'Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922): A Re-Evaluation of her Life and Work.' [Completed 2003]
Biography
Education and qualifications
BA History, Economics and English Literature (University of Mysore, India)
MA Modern and Contemporary Indian History (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
MPhil International Relations (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
PhD School of Oriental and African Studies, (University of London, 1995)
Career overview
1993-95 Lecturer, South Asian History, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK
1995-Present Senior Lecturer in History, Dept of History/Welsh History, Cardiff University
Honours and awards
AHRC (UK) One year Research Leave Award (2005-6).
Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi. A 5 year scholarship awarded in 1987 for a PhD in History. I declined this in favour of the Commonwealth Scholarship.
ACU Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD programme in Modern Indian History at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in September 1987.
Professional memberships
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society (2023 - )
- Social History Society, UK (2006 - )
- Women's History Network, U.K (1994 - )
- American Association of Asian Studies, USA (1994 – 2000)
- British Association of South Asian Studies, (1991 - )
- London Library, UK, (2000 – 06)
- Royal Asiatic Society, London (1998 – 2009)
- Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London, (1995-2006)
- The Nehru Centre, High Commission of India, London (1994 – 2008)
Supervisions
Suitably qualified doctoral students are welcome to apply to study their PhD with me. Themes and topics that cover broadly British Imperial History in relation to the Indian sub continent and the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Modern and Contemporary India fall within my expertise. Knowledge of Indian languages is an asset but not compulsory. A flavour of the kind of topics and themes from completed and on-going research projects and a list of students working with me is given below.
CURRENT DOCTORAL STUDENTS
- Sampurna Nandy (SWWDTP Scholarship)
- Serena Rattu
- Thomas Keegan-Hobbs
- Meg G. Cook [sept. 2024]
- Yan Ziwei (National Scholarship, China) joining in 2024.
PAST DOCTORAL STUDENTS [Completed]
- PRIYANKA KANOJIA, 'Indian Suffragettes: History of the Making of Indian Women's Rights, 1917-1945', [submitted in 2023], Departmnet of History, JNU, Delhi. (as External Examiner)
- WANG WEN, "Causes and Impact of Plague on Bombay City", Exchange Student, China [2022-2023]
- TIMOTHY MOORE, "Imperial Soldiering: Enlistment, Recruitment and the Human Dimension of the Lives of British Other Ranks 1844-1943", [SHARE Scholarship] [completed in 2023 under my primary supervision]
- Dyuti CHAKRAVARTY ‘” Break the Cage: Women's Body Politics of Respectability and Autonomy in India and Ireland’ [Completed from UCD, Dublin in 2022 and I was one of the internal supervisors on the dissertation committee]
- VINEETA KUMARI ‘Gender Violence and Cultural Trajectories in Colonial and Contemporary Haryana’ [Completed from JNU, Delhi in March 2021, I was the external examiner]
- PRIYAMVADA ‘The Education of Women in Colonial United Provinces in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' [Completed in 2021. I was the External Examiner]
- Lloyd Edward PRICE [AHRC award] ‘Workers, mothers, pests: Co-evolutionary perspectives on domesticated cattle in early twentieth century North India.’ (Completed January 2019 under my primary supervision)
- Ghee BOWMAN [AHRC Award] ‘‘‘No Pakis at Dunkirk’: Forgetting and Remembering Force K6 in Europe, 1939-1945’, [Completed in Nov. 2019. Co-supervised with Dr Gajendra Singh, Exeter]
- Arya SAKET KUMAR ‘Removing the Lid: Propaganda and Cinema in Colonial India, 1910-1930.’ [Completed MPhil from JNU, Delhi in November 2018. I was the External Examiner]
- Ved Prakash BARUAH ‘Addicts, Peddlers and Reformers: The Local, National and Transnational Politics of Opium—A Study of Colonial Assam, 1826–1947’, [Candidate held a SHARE Studentship during the duration of his doctorate and completed under my primary supervision in 2016].
- Elena BORGHI ‘Feminism in Modern India: the experience of the Nehru Women (1900-1930)’, [Completed in 2015 from EUI, Florence, Italy. I was on her dissertation committee as a primary supervisor].
- Ceri-Anne FIDLER 'Lascars, c.1850 – 1950: the lives and identities of Indian seafarers in Imperial Britain and India', (Completed Jan 2010). Candidate was an AHRC Award holder and held a post doc fellowship titled 'Power Fellowship' at the Economic History Society, UK from 2010-2011.
- Sohini DASGUPTA 'Contending Authenticities: Representations of 'Hindu Custom' in Late Nineteenth century Colonial Bengal'. (Completed March 2010, External Examiner)
- Keith D WHITE 'Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922): A Re-Evaluation of her Life and Work.' [Completed 2003, primary supervisor on dissertation committee]
