Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian and filmmaker. She has written widely on Buddhism, the nineteenth century, gender, caste, and labor and has an ongoing interest in the history of marginalized groups. Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2003) brings together many of these concerns. Currently, she is working on a book tentatively titled The Dying Lineage: The Politics of Reproduction in the Mahabharata. Among her recent works is an edited collection titled Thinking Gender, Doing Gender: Pedagogies, Histories, Cultural Practices (2016). Her films dwell on the lives of unknown women and have been screened widely in India and abroad.