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INDRANI CHATTERJEE Professor, Department of , University of Texas at Austin Email: [email protected]

Educational Qualifications: Ph.D. History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1996: Dissertation title, ‘Slavery, Household and the Law in Colonial India, 1776-1833’; M. Phil. History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 1987, 1st Division: Dissertation title, ‘The Bengali Bhadramahila, 1930-34’: M.A. in History, Delhi University, 1984, 1st Division; B.A. (Honors) History, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, 1982, 1st Division Scholarships and Awards: 2019-20: Faculty Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Studies, UT Austin [Spring Semester 2020 committee work only] 2016 January to December: Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (hereafter ACLS) 2009-2014 Srikant Dutt Book Award for Forgotten Friends, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi. 2010-2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University. 2009-10: Award for Scholar-Teacher of the year, from the Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University. NJ. 2004-05: ACLS, Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Faculty, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. 1997-1999: Senior Research Fellowship, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta. 1994-96: Overseas Research Students' Grant, Government of Britain 1993-96: Felix Scholarship to the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Publications: Monographs: 1999: Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2013: Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, Memories of Northeast India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Edited Volumes: 2004: Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia. Delhi and New Brunswick: Permanent Black and Rutgers University Press. Co-edited with Richard M. Eaton 2007: Slavery in South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Select Articles, Work in Progress, Book Chapters: Under Preparation (Commissioned by Cambridge University Press for a New Cambridge History of India, vol, 3), ‘The Making of the Social’ Under Preparation: Unbecoming Governors?: Householder Women, Dominant Castes and their Eclipse from in South Asia [tentative title]. Under Review, ‘Mughal North East and the Role of Nationalist Historiography in Erasing the Past’, in Ramya Sreenivasan and Richard M. Eaton eds. Oxford Handbook of Mughal History of India, New York: Oxford University Press. 2019. Interview on Comparative Slaveries, Borderlines, at https://www.borderlines- cssaame.org/posts/2019/10/31/theory-from-the-south-iii-on-slaves-and-freedmen-in- 2 precolonial-south-asia-a-conversation-with-indrani-chatterjee 2018 ‘Afro-Asian Capital and Its Dissolution’ in Mahmood Mamdani ed. Special Issue, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Middle East and Africa, 38:2, pp. 301-329, doi 10.1215/1089201x-6982073 2018 ‘Pastoral Care, Power and the Making of Disobedient Subjects under Colonialism’, pp. 58-81 in Stephen Legg and Deana Heath eds. South Asian Governmentalities: Michael Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings, Cambridge University Press, U.K. 2018. ‘Whose History? What Theory?: A Postcolonial Response’ to Ethan Kleinberg, Joan W. Scott and Gary Wilder’s ‘Theses on Theory and History’ on http://www.historyofthepresent.org/forum.html 2018. ‘Connected and the Impossibility of Decolonial History’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 41, 1 (Australia), 1-17, ISSN: 0085-6401 (Print) 1479-0270 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/csas20; to link to article, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1414768 2017. ‘British Abolition from the Vantage of Precolonial South Asia’, Chapter 19, pp 441-465 in Stanley Engerman, David Eltis and Seymour Drescher eds. Cambridge of Slavery: Volume IV. 2017 ‘The Locked Box in Slavery and Social Death’, pp. 151-166, in John Bodel and Walter Scheidel eds. On Human Bondage. Oxford and Maden Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. 2017 ‘Schooling a Missionary in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern India’, pp 123-154 in Carolien Stolte and Yoshi Kikuchi eds. Eurasian Encounters: Intellectual and Cultural Exchanges, 1900-1950, Amsterdam University Press. 2016 ‘Adivasi, Tribe and Other Neologisms for Erasing Precolonial Pasts: An Example from Northeast India’, Special Issue, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 53:1, 9-40. 2015. ‘Monastic Governmentality: Revisiting ‘Community’ and ‘Communalism’, History Compass, 13: 10, 497-511. 2015, First View on-line, ‘Women, Monastic Commerce and Coverture in Eastern India 1600- 1800’, Modern Asian Studies, (paper copy January 2016, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 175-216). 2013: ‘Monastic Governmentality, Colonial Misogyny and Postcolonial Amnesia’, History of the Present, 3:1, 57-96. 2012: ‘When “Sexualities” Floated Free of Histories in South Asia’, Journal of Asian Studies, 71: 4, 1-18. 2011: ‘Slaves and Households in the Near East: A Response’ in Slaves and Households in the Near East ed. Laura Culbertson. Chicago: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. 2008: ‘Captives of Enchantment: Gender, Genre and Transmemoration’ pp. 250-287 in History in the Vernacular eds. Raziuddin Aquil and Partha Chatterjee. Delhi: Permanent Black. 2007: ‘Renewed and Connected Histories’, 17-43, and ‘Slavery, Semantics and the Sounds of Silence’, 287-315 in Slavery in South Asian History ed. Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005: ‘The Muslim Family in South Asia’ in Encyclopedia of Islamic Women’s History eds. Afsaneh Najmabadi and Suad Joseph. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 2005: ‘Abolition by Denial: the South Asian example’ in The Aftermath of Abolition in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia ed. Gwyn Campbell. New York and London: Routledge. 2002: ‘Slavery and Kinship among the Indian Gentry in the Late Eighteenth Century’ in in India: The Impact of Civilizations ed. Asghar Ali Engineer. Delhi: ICCR and Shipra. 2002: ‘Genealogy, History and Law: the case of the Tripura Rajamala’ in History and the Present eds. Partha Chatterjee and Anjan Ghosh. Delhi and London: Permanent Black and Anthem Press. 3

2001: ‘Alienation, Intimacy and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in South Asia’ in Queering India: Same Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society ed. Ruth Vanita. New York and London: Routledge. 2000: ‘A Slave's Search for Selfhood in Eighteenth - Century Hindustan’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 37, no.1. 1999: Co-authored with Sumit Guha, ‘Slave-Queen, Waif-Prince: Slavery and Social Poverty in Eighteenth Century India’, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 36, no. 2. 1999: ‘Colouring Subalternity: Slaves, Concubines and Social Orphans under the East India Company’ in Subaltern Studies, vol. X. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Languages read and written: Native proficiency in reading and writing Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Urdu and English; basic reading skills in Persian and Tibetan. Select Invited Presentations: May 5, 2020: Pluralizing/Decolonizing the Study of Gender and Sexuality, University of Dublin, Ireland[ cancelled by Covid] March 2020: Panelist on Captives and Bondsmen, Asian Studies Conference, Boston [cancelled by Covid] January 23, 2020: Plenary Address to International Conference on ‘Relocating Governance in Asian History’, University of Leiden, Netherlands; and Commentator on Conference Panel ‘Subaltern Subjects of Governance’. October 23, 2019: Chair and Commentator for Panel on The Object of Sexuality, Annual Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. October 3, 2019: ‘Gendering Jajmani’, Seminar of the South Asia Institute, UT Austin, on ‘Boundaries between Religions’ organized by Professor Oliver Friedburger. May 13, 2019. Opening Keynote ‘On Decolonising Primary Accumulation from the Histories of the Global South’ at the European Conference of Asian Studies on Accumulation Across Frontiers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. May 3-5, 2019. ‘Gendering Jajmani, Caste-ing Capital’ Paper at the Workshop on New Directions in the of the Subcontinent, University of Pennsylvania, South Asia Center. April 23, 2019. Respondent for Professor Taymiya Zaman’s ‘Nostalgia and History’, jointly hosted by the South Asia Institute and the Institute for Historical Studies, UT Austin. April 12, 2019. ‘Freedom without Liberal Subjects’ Paper on Panel for the Institute of History Conference on Genealogies of Freedom, UT Austin. Feb 22, 2019. Public Address: ‘When Black Lives Mattered’ at Art Exhibition titled Africans in India: From Slaves to Generals and Rulers at the Frick Museum and Gallery, University of Pittsburg. Feb 15, 2019. Address to South Asia Graduate Studies Colloquium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on ‘Decolonising Gender and Governmentality’. Jan 14, 2019. Delivered paper and discussed ‘Abolition as Primitive Accumulation’ in the Vanderbilt History Seminar on the Theme ‘The Free and the Unfree’. October 26, 2018. Discussant, African Studies Seminar to Celebrate Professor Joseph C. Miller’s induction into the American Academy, Harvard University. October 25, 2018. Delivered talk titled ‘Missing Matrons from a History of Wealth’, Department of Art History and Religions and Mittal Institute of South Asian Studies, Harvard University. October 11-14, 2018. Presentation on ‘Missing Households’ at Symposium on Religious Networks, at Annual Conference of South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison, organized by Professor Brian Hatcher, Deptt of Religions, Tufts University; Discussant for two 4 panels on Caste and Gender in South Asian History. September 24, 2018. ‘Disentangling Slavery and Caste’, Paper for Seminar Discussion, Early Modern Empires, History Deptt., Yale University. March 13-15, 2018. Public Address: “Impossible Decoloniality and Unspeakable Pasts”, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (and participate in Graduate Seminar Discussion in the Department of Religion and Culture, with Professor Leslie Orr). Dec 20, 2017. National Foundation of India and India International Center, New Delhi, India sponsored Distinguished Lecture ‘Beyond Borders’. October 26 and 28, 2017. Chair, Session in Preconference on Connected Pasts; and Panelist on ‘Freedom’, Annual Conference on South Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin. August 3-13, 2017. Led Session in Middle Bangla [Romance] Languages and Literatures, Septania University, Transylvania, Rumania. February 10, 2017. ‘Ethnicity as Process’ Graduate Seminar in Race and Ethnicity, Deptt, UT January 6, 2017. Keynote Address to Society for South Asian Historical Studies, AHA, ‘Networks Before Nations’, Denver, Colorado [to be published]. January 6, 2017. Participant in Presidential Panel on ‘Indigenous Histories’ at the Annual Conference of the AHA, Denver, Colorado. September 30, 2016. ‘Impotent Husbands, Visiting Lovers or Polyandrous Women’, Center for Historical Research, Ohio State University, Columbus. July 8, 2016. Keynote ‘The Brahmaputra Valley: Corridor in Monastic Geographicity’, British Museum Exhibition and Conference on Northeast India (exhibition on Vrindavani Vastra), London, UK. April 20, 2016. Monastic Governmentality and Portfolio Capital, South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania, PA. March 21, 2016: Provincialising British Abolition, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; on the web-page of the UT Austin History Department. October 24, 2015. ‘Gender and Portfolio Capital: Widow zamindars and eastern India’, Panel on Gender and Capital at 44th Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison. June 24-29, 2015. ‘Siddi as Respectable Caste in Mughal India’, Ifriqiyya Colloquium Sponsored by Columbia University, New York and Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda. June 22-23, 2015. Speaker at Conference on Critical Subaltern Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. June 18-19, 2015. ‘Provincialising Abolitionism’, Jointly Organised by Leiden University, Netherlands and the University of Free State, Bloemfontain, South Africa. April 13, 2015. ‘How Not To See Like a State: Agnosia and Writing of Modern Indian History’, South Asia Institute, Cornell University, NY. Feb 27, 2015. ‘An Outline of a Program to Decolonize Abolition’, University of California at Irvine. Nov 21, 2014. ‘The Gender of Infrastructure’ Plenary at University of Washington, Seattle. Oct 18, 2014. ‘Monastic Governmentality: Seeing through Foucault’, Panel on Foucault and Governmentality, Annual Conference on South Asian Studies at Madison, Wisconsin. Sept 20, 2014. ‘Decolonizing Abolition for South Asia’. Cambridge World History of Slavery, Vol 4. Conference at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. May 22-24, 2014. ‘Coverture in European Law vs. South Asian Laws’, International Conference on Diversity, University of Vienna. 5

April 1-5, 2014. ‘Decolonial and Postcolonial Studies of Slaves in History’, Ifriqiyya Colloquium, Columbia University, New York. March 12, 2014. ‘How to Forget Friends and Influence Scholars’, Vanderbilt University. (followed by lecture to undergraduates on Histories of Sexuality and Sec. 377) February 21, 2014. ‘Decolonizing the History of Slavery’, The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Conference on Gender, Region, Slavery, UCSC. December 13, 2013. ‘Reading Adivasi Histories’, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi. October 27, 2013: Women and Wealth-Generation, Feminist Preconference, at the Annual Conference of South Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin. September 27, 2013: Engels’ Misses: Another History of Capital, Gender and Sexuality Symposium, University of Texas at Austin. February 20, 2013. ‘How To Forget Friends (and Turn Them Into Aliens)’, Art History, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. February 18, 2013. ‘Monastic Subjects Taken For Slaves’, History Department, Notre Dame University, Illinois. ‘Women’s Salt: Explaining Gandhi’, History Department, Notre Dame University, Illinois January 20, 2012. ‘Monastic Governmentality and the Making of Postcolonial Amnesia’, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi. April 13-15, 2012. ‘Translations of Adherence’, Paper at Conference ‘Being Nobody? Understanding Slavery Thirty Years After Slavery and Social Death’, Department of Classics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. April 7, 2012. ‘Missing Matrons and their Gifts: A Note from the History of Bengal’, Conference at South Asian Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 20-23, 2012. Presidential Roundtable on ‘Sexuality and the State’, Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Toronto. April 30, 2011. ‘Levirate and South Asian History: Marginal to Memory?’, History of Women and Gender Workshop organized by Professor Linda Gordon, New York University, NY. November 5, 2010. ‘Forgetting Cosmopolitanism’, Talk at the History Department, Yale University. August 29, 2010. ‘A Small History of Forgetting: Unakoti and Art History’, Talk at the South Asian Studies Council, Yale University. March 6, 2010. Response to Seminar on Slaves and Households in the Near East at Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. April 23, 2009. “Gendering Asia, Asianising Gender”, Keynote Address to the South Asian, Teaching Asia Conference (TAC), William Paterson University, NJ

Books Reviewed: For (2014): Andrea Major, Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. For American Historical Review (2012); Nandini Chatterjee, The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960, Cambridge Imperial and Post- Colonial Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011. For New West Indies Journal 87-1&2 (2013); Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph C Miller eds. Children in Slavery through the Ages. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2009.

For Gender and History, 2009: Andrea Major, Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati, 1500-1830, Oxford University Press, 2006 H- Net Book Review, Published for H-Asia, May 2007, [email protected], Durba Ghosh, Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press. 2006. 6

Journal of Women’s History, 2006, 18: 1, 192-196: ‘Between West and South: Asianist Women’s History and Islam’, Book Forum on Leslie Peirce, Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, University of California Press, 2004. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Judith E. Walsh, Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

Work Experience: Academic August 2013 to present: Professor, Department of History, UT Austin. Undergraduate Courses Offered, ‘Women and Wealth in South Asia’ (HIS 350L) and Performance and Power (HIS 350L); ‘Slavery and South Asian History’ (HIS 364G); Gender in Modern India (HIS 364 G); Survey of Modern India (HIS 346G); Graduate Course: ‘Postcolonialism: History as Theory’ (HIS 382N) and ‘Culture of ’ (HIS 382N) – New Course in Spring 2019, ‘Gender and Decolonial Histories’ (HIS 382N) Co-Advisor for Dissertation of Isabel Huacuja Alonso, ‘Radio for the Millions’, successfully defended on August 3, 2015. Examined and served on Committee for the dissertation of Jack Loveridge, successfully defended in 2017. Examined and served on the committee for the dissertation of Hilary Langberg, Department of Asian Studies, UT Austin, successfully defended on May 30, 2018. Examined and served on the committee for Katie Lazarowicz’s Dissertation Prospectus, September 2018. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Sandy Chang, Successfully defended Phd in May 2020. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Rupali Warke, Scheduled Ph Defence on August 3, 2020. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Jonathan Seefeld, graduate student in History. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Anuj Kaushal, graduate student in History. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Namrata Kanchan, ABD from July 2020, Department of Asian Studies. Serving Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Sundas Amer, ABD from April 2020, Department of Asian Studies. Principal Advisor for Plan II Thesis of Megan Lamonica. Participated as faculty advisor in Graduate Workshops for Grant Proposals, organized by the History Department in 2015, 2017, 2019.

July 2002 to June 2013: Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers. Undergraduate Courses offered, ‘Early Modern South Asia’ (01:508:330), ‘Slavery in South Asian History’ (01:508:332), ‘South Asian Civilizations’ (01:508:230), ‘Women in Modern South Asian History’ (01:508:331) and ‘Art, Power and Politics’ (01:508:333). Graduate courses: ‘Gender and Nation’ (16: 510: 539: 01); Colloquium for Women and Gender History (16: 510: 571: 01); Postcolonial Theory (16: 510: 511: 01). Recipient of SAS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2009- 2010. Sept 1, 2001 to June 2002: Raoul Wallenberg Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 1986 to 1993, and 1996-1997: Lecturer in History, Miranda House, Delhi University, India.

Work Experience: Service to the Profession: Referee for Bangla and Hindi/Urdu, U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships 7 for Intensive Summer Institute under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Selection Committee for the American Institute of Indian Studies, 2019-2021 (sole grant- making body for citizens and non-citizens studying India across all disciplines, including the sciences) Referee for American Council of Learned Societies, 2017-2019. Reader for Manuscript for Oxford University Press, 2010-2016. Numerous Tenure and Promotion Letters for Assistant to Associate, and Associate to Full Professors for Oxford, Harvard, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Minnesota, Indiana University, Rice University, University of Houston. Referee for manuscripts submitted to American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History (USA), Modern Asian Studies (U.K.), Indian Economic and Social History Review (India), Journal of Social History, Eighteenth-Century Studies (US), Gender and History, Feminist Theory (U.K), Modern Intellectual History (USA) Editorial board of Slavery and Abolition (UK), Brill Studies in Global Slavery (Leiden, Netherlands). Served as member of the Committee for Women Historians, American Historical Association, 2014-2015. External Examiner for the dissertations of Ms Swati Chawla, Department of History at University of Virginia (USA); completed examination for Nisha PR, Department of History, Delhi University (India) in 2015; and for Sanjukta Dutta, Department of History, Kolkata University (India) in 2014.

Service to the Department of History and to the University of Texas at Austin Chair of the Equity Committee, 2020-2021 and Member of the Equity Committee, 2019-2020, Department of History, UT. Selection Committee for COLA Competitive Undergraduate Scholarship 2018-2021. Member of Committee for the Promotion of Judy Coffin from Associate to Professor, August 2020. Chair of Committee for the promotion of Yoav di Capuo from Associate to Professorship, August 2018. Participant in Institute of Historical Studies’ Forum on ‘Marx at 200’ on 20 Feb 2018. Participant in Showcasing Women’s History in the Deptt for Visiting Committee in Fall 2017. Member of Scholarship Committee for the promotion of Professor Daina Berry, Summer 2017. Member of Committee for FII fields for History Department 2017 Service on Teaching Excellence Committee for 2016-2017 from January 1, 2017 Service on Salary Committee for 2016-2017 from January 1, 2017 Steering Committee, Institute of Historical Studies, Department of History 2013-2014; 2018- 2019. Executive Committee, 2014-2015; 2017-2019. Chair, Promotion Committee for Assistant to Associate Professor for Ruramisai, Summer 2014.

Service to South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin Organiser of International Conference on ‘Polycentric Governmentalities in South Asia’, scheduled for January 29-30, 2021. Member of Executive Council 2017-18, and service on FLAS Fellowship Committee in 2018. Observer for Professor Donald Davis’s Classroom and Teaching for his promotion to Full Professorship, Department of Asian Studies, September 6, 2017 Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Charlotte Giles, graduate student in Department of Asian Studies. Member of the Committee for the dissertation of Hilary Langberg, ABD in the Department of 8

Asian Studies. Convenor of Speaker Series and Seminar on ‘Networks’, Fall 2015. Served on Committee for FLAS Fellowships; Teaching Effectiveness Committee for Asian Studies Department for Shamim Ahmed, Instructor in Bengali, Fall 2015.