Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of South Asian history at Purdue University.[1] She is a prominent 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). She is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, 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.[3][1] She has also written on the politics of Islamophobia and women in Islam.

Tithi Bhattacharya

In March 2022, Bhattacharya was one of 151 international feminists to sign Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

References
  1. "Tithi Bhattacharya". Purdue College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  2. "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.
  3. 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.
  4. "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Specter Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.


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