Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny, and Postcolonial Amnesia in South Asia

Indrani Chatterjee is currently Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and will join the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. She is the author of Gender, Slavery and the Law in Colonial India (1999), Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages and Memories of Northeast India (2013) and of “When Sexuality Floated Free of Histories in South Asia,” Journal of Asian Studies (2012). She has edited Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia (2004) and coedited, with Richard M. Eaton, Slavery and History in South Asia (2007).