P.K. Yasser Arafath is a historian of medieval and early modern India. His research papers and essays are published in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals that include Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist, and The Medieval History Journal. His first book (co-edited with Haris Qadeer, London:2021) was titled Sultana's Sisters: Gender, Genres, and Histories in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction. Currently, he is in the process of completing a monograph on Indian Ocean texts, titled Malabarnama: Intimate Texts, Ulema, and the Lyrical Resistance in the Age of Disorder (1500-1900). He was at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, as the Dr. L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow in 2017.
G. Arunima is a historian and Professor at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at present the Director of the Kerala Council for Historical Research. She has researched and published widely on both the historical and the contemporary contexts of India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary. Currently she is completing a monograph on the cultural history of Kerala, bringing together questions of gender, caste and power, and ways of rethinking the social. Her publications include There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar ca 1850-1940 (2003); Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa, edited along with Pa... See more
P.K. Yasser Arafath is a historian of medieval and early modern India. His research papers and essays are published in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals that include Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist, and The Medieval History Journal. His first book (co-edited with Haris Qadeer, London:2021) was titled Sultana's Sisters: Gender, Genres, and Histories in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction. Currently, he is in the process of completing a monograph on Indian Ocean texts, titled Malabarnama: Intimate Texts, Ulema, and the Lyrical Resistance in the Age of Disorder (1500-1900). He was at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, as the Dr. L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow in 2017.
G. Arunima is a historian and Professor at the Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at present the Director of the Kerala Council for Historical Research. She has researched and published widely on both the historical and the contemporary contexts of India, focusing particularly on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary. Currently she is completing a monograph on the cultural history of Kerala, bringing together questions of gender, caste and power, and ways of rethinking the social. Her publications include There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar ca 1850-1940 (2003); Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa, edited along with Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu (2021); He, My Beloved CJ (translation of Ivan Ente Priya CJ, Rosie Thomas's biography of her iconic litterateur husband, CJ Thomas, 2018). She contributes regularly to newspapers and news magazines.
