Kasturi Malavika

Biography

Malavika Kasturi teaches South Asian history in the Department of Historical Studies, and is graduate faculty at the Departments of History and the Centre for the Study of Religion. She completed her B.A. and M.A at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and received her PhD at from the University of Cambridge. Dr Kasturi’s first monograph, Embattled Identities, Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century Colonial North India (Oxford University Press, 2002) and related articles analysed the reconstitution of the family and martial masculinities amongst elite lineages in British India, against the backdrop of colonial ideologies, political culture and material realities. Her research interests include gender and households, monasticism and asceticism, religion and the public sphere, Hindu nationalism, and urban history. She is currently finalising a book manuscript entitled ‘Producing Hindu Publics’, Sadhus, Sampraday and Hindu Nationalism in Twentieth Century India’, which explores the intersection of monasticism with a host of political bodies espousing visions of the Hindu ‘nation’. This project was funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant. Malavika Kasturi teaches South Asian history in the Department of Historical Studies, and is graduate faculty at the Departments of History and the Centre for the Study of Religion. She completed her B.A. and M.A at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and received her PhD at from the University of Cambridge. Dr Kasturi’s first monograph, Embattled Identities, Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century Colonial North India (Oxford University Press, 2002) and related articles analysed the reconstitution of the family and martial masculinities amongst elite lineages in British India, against the backdrop of colonial ideologies, political culture and material realities. Her research interests include gender and households, monasticism and asceticism, religion and the public sphere, Hindu nationalism, and urban history. She is currently finalising a book manuscript entitled ‘Producing Hindu Publics’, Sadhus, Sampraday and Hindu Nationalism in Twentieth Century India’, which explores the intersection of monasticism with a host of political bodies espousing visions of the Hindu ‘nation’. This project was funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant.

Research Interest

gender and households, monasticism and asceticism, religion and the public sphere, Hindu nationalism, and urban history