Talk:Prof. Rachel Sturman

By Sachi Anjunkar

Rachel Sturman is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College as of April 2024. According to her university profile, she specializes in the history of modern South Asia, with a focus on colonial and postcolonial India.

In 2016, she signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India

Book

1. Sturman, Rachel. The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Book Chapter

1. Sturman, Rachel. Marriage & Family in Colonial Hindu Law. Hinduism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Timothy Lubin, Donald R. Davis, Jr., and Jayanth K. Krishnan, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 89-104.
2. Sturman, Rachel. Marriage and the Morality of Exchange: Defining the Terrain of Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Western India. Decentering Empire: Britain, India, and the Transcolonial World, edited by Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy, Orient Longman, 2006, pp. 51–75.

Journal Article

1. Sturman, Rachel. Property and Attachments: Defining Autonomy and the Claims of Family in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 47, no. 3, July 2005, pp. 611–637.
2. Sturman, Rachel. Gender and the Human. Gender & History, vol. 23, no. 2, Aug. 2011.
3. Sturman, Rachel. Indian Indentured Labor and the History of International Rights Regimes. American Historical Review, vol. 119, no. 5, Dec. 2014, pp. 1439-1465.