Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya is an American activist and writer. She is a professor of South Asian history at Purdue University.[1]

Biography

Bhattacharya was born in India.[2] 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.

Career

Bhattacharya is a Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017.[3] Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

Bhattacharya is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto,[4][5][6] 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.[7][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.[8] This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.[9][10][11]

In 2025, she published Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.[12][13][14][15]

Research

Bhattacharya was an editor of the book Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, a book that advanced social reproduction theory, a Marxist feminist theory that analyzes the role of women's labor under capitalism.[16] She was described as a researcher "operating on the cutting edge of recent work on social reproduction theory".[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tithi Bhattacharya". Purdue College of Liberal Arts. Purdue University. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
  2. ^ Bhattacharya, Tithi. "The day I said goodbye to a country I could no longer call home". Salon. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
  3. ^ "Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power". The Guardian. February 6, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ White, Dana (July 16, 2019). "Review: Feminism for the 99%". Socialist Alternative. Retrieved June 3, 2026.
  7. ^ Kumar, Nita (April 1, 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 February 28, 2021.
  8. ^ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Spectre Journal. March 17, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  9. ^ Hendl, Tereza (2022). "Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building meaningful transnational feminist solidarity with Ukraine" (PDF). Gender Studies. 26: 62–93.
  10. ^ Ashley Smith (June 23, 2022). "Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin's War". Spectre Journal.
  11. ^ "Russia's women are fighting back against the war in Ukraine". OpenDemocracy.net. October 4, 2022. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  12. ^ Bellenoit, Hayden J (August 18, 2025). "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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ De, Aniket (May 6, 2026). "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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ "«What is social reproduction theory?»: Tithi Bhattacharya" (in Spanish). October 17, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2026.
  17. ^ Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (1 ed.). Pluto Press. 2017. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1vz494j.4. ISBN 978-0-7453-9989-8.
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