Tithi Bhattacharya
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Tithi Bhattacharya is an American activist and writer. She is Professor of South Asian history at Purdue University in the United States.[1]
Career
Bhattacharya is a Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017.[2] Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).[citation needed]
Bhattacharya is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto,[3][4][5] which ties feminism to other modes of struggle, including anti-racism and anti-capitalism. On the topic of gender Bhattacharya has written the book The Sentinels of Culture, which developed from her dissertation on the British-educated middle class in 19th-century Kolkata.[6][1] She has also written on the politics of Islamophobia and women in Islam.
In March 2022, Bhattacharya was one of 151 international feminists to sign Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.[7] This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.[8][9][10]
In 2025, she published Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.[11][12][13][14]
Biography
Bhattacharya was born in India.[15] She applied for U.S. citizenship in 2015 after living there for nearly a decade. She cited the stress of applying for visas and the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister as reasons for applying for citizenship.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tithi Bhattacharya". Purdue College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
- ↑ "Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power". The Guardian. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ↑ Otto, Jess (February 2023). "Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto. Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-78873-442-4)". Hypatia. 38 (1): e10. doi:10.1017/hyp.2022.19. ISSN 0887-5367.
- ↑ Siddiqui, Sophia (April 2, 2020). "Review: Feminism for the 99%: a manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser Witches, Witch-hunting and Women by Silvia Federici". Race & Class. 61 (4).
- ↑ White, Dana (2019-07-16). "Review: Feminism for the 99%". Socialist Alternative. Retrieved 2026-06-03.
- ↑ Kumar, Nita (1 April 2007). "Tithi Bhattacharya. The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848–85). New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $35.00Reviews of BooksAsia". The American Historical Review. 112 (2): 483–484. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.2.483. ISSN 0002-8762. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ↑ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Spectre Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ↑ Hendl, Tereza (2022). "Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building meaningful transnational feminist solidarity with Ukraine" (PDF). Gender Studies. 26: 62–93.
- ↑ Ashley Smith (June 23, 2022). "Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin's War". Spectre Journal.
- ↑ "Russia's women are fighting back against the war in Ukraine". OpenDemocracy.net. 4 October 2022. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Bellenoit, Hayden J (2025-08-18). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal By Tithi Bhattacharya". Journal of Social History. doi:10.1093/jsh/shaf076. ISSN 0022-4529.
- ↑ Moitra, Aheli (2026). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya, Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2024, xi + 214 pp., US $26.95, ISBN 9781478030713 (paperback)". Religion. 56 (1): 175–178.
- ↑ De, Aniket (2026-05-06). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal". The Journal of Asian Studies. doi:10.1215/00219118-12394454. ISSN 0021-9118.
- ↑ Bose, Neilesh (2025). "Ghostly past, capitalist presence: a social history of fear in colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2024, 232 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478030713 (hardback), ISBN: 9781478026464 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478059691 (ebook)". South Asian History and Culture. 16 (4): 480–482.
- ↑ Bhattacharya, Tithi. "The day I said goodbye to a country I could no longer call home". Salon. Retrieved 15 March 2026.
External links
- Official website
- Tithi Bhattacharya publications indexed by Google Scholar
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