Talk:Prof. Shefali Chandra

By Sachi Anjunkar

Shefali Chandra is an Associate Professor of History, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Asian American Studies and Co-Director of Graduate Programs in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis as of April 2024.

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

Books

1. Chandra, Shefali. The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India. Duke University Press, 2012. Reprint, Zubaan Books, New Delhi, 2014.

Edited Special Issue

1. Chandra, Shefali, and Saadia Toor, editors. Solidarities. Special issue, Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, 2014.

Articles

1. Chandra, Shefali. Decolonizing the Orgasm: Caste, Whiteness and Knowledge Production at the ‘End of Empire’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Winter 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2020.1846283.
2. Chandra, Shefali. 'India Will Change You Forever: Hinduism, Islam and Whiteness since 9/11'. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 40, no. 2, Winter 2015, pp. 487-512.
3. Chandra, Shefali. The World’s Largest Dynasty: Caste, Sexuality and the Manufacture of Indian ‘Democracy’. Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 38, no. 2, 2014.
4. Chandra, Shefali. Global India and the Divergent Temporalities of South Asia. In The Feedback Loop: Historians Theorize the Links Between Teaching and Research, edited by Antoinette Burton, American Historical Review, 2013, pp. 29-34.
5. Chandra, Shefali. Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality and the Agenda of Transnational Studies. Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 2011, pp. 127-153.
6. Chandra, Shefali. Re-Orienting South Asia Studies: Sri-Lanka, Gender and World History. Book Forum Participant on Kumari Jayawardena’s ‘Erasure of the Euro-Asia: Recovering Early Radicalism and Feminism in South Asia.’ Journal of Women’s History, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 248-252.
7. Chandra, Shefali. Mimicry, Masculinity and the Mystique of Indian English: Western India 1870-1900. The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 68, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 199-226.
8. Chandra, Shefali. Gendering English: Gender, Sexuality and the Language of Desire in Modern India 1850-1940. Gender & History, vol. 19, no. 2, August 2007, pp. 284-304.

Book Chapter

1. Chandra, Shefali. Vivaham Sadacharaviruddham. In Keralam Laingikatha Linganeethi [‘Marriage is unethical’ in Sexuality and gender justice in Kerala], edited and translated by K.M. Venugopal, Sign Books, 2006, pp. 163-167.
2. Chandra, Shefali. The Social Life of English. In The Politics of Language, edited by Neelam Hussain, Simorgh Feminist Publications, 2005, pp. 63-84.