Author: Aparna Basu

Aparna Basu, Ph.D. (Cantab) was Professor of History, University of Delhi. She is the UGC Convenor ofthe national subject panel on Historyand Archaeology. She is the author ofseveral books including Growth of Education and Political Development in India Women”s Struggle :A History of All India Women”s Conference, Rebel With a Cause: Biography of Mridula Sarabhai, From Indepedence to Freedom : Women and Fifty Years of India”s Independence and a History of Delhi University on the occasion of its Platinum Jubilee. She is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Gender and History, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Indian Journal of Gender Studies and Women”s History.