Participant Info
- First Name
- Urvi
- Last Name
- Khaitan
- Country
- India
- State
- urvikhaitan@fas.harvard.edu
- Affiliation
- Harvard University
- Website URL
- https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehppf/khaitan.html
- Keywords
- Gender, labour, colonial India, Second World War, Bengal Famine, women's work, feminist economics
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- https://history.web.ox.ac.uk/people/urvi-khaitan
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a social historian of the economics of gender in twentieth-century India.
- Recent Publications
‘Women beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India during the Second World War’, War & Society, 39/3 (August 2020), pp. 171-188
‘Radical Objects: ‘These are not ordinary women’’, History Workshop Online
‘Unheard and Unseen: Mining Women in British India’,Social History Society Exchange
‘‘The Women had Saved the Situation’: Indian Women’s Work in War and Famine’, Royal Historical Society ‘Writing Race’ Blog Series
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @urvikhaitan
- Country Focus
- India
- Expertise by Geography
- India
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Economic History, Gender, Labor, Race, Sexual Violence, Women, World War II
