Aparna Basu

Authors Biography

Aparna Basu

Late Dr. Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. Formerly a Professor of History at the University of Delhi, Dr. Basu obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women’s history and the history of education. Dr. Basu served on the editorial board of the Indian Economic and Social History Review and was on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has authored biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi. She also held fellowships at St. Antony’s College and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK. Late Dr Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. Formerly a Professor of History at University of Delhi, Dr Basu obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women’s history and history of education. She was on the editorial board of Indian Economic and Social History Review and also on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has published biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi, and has been a Fellow of St. Antony’s College and Queen Elizabeth House Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.