Nita Kumar is the Brown Family Professor of South Asian History at
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. She is the author of The
Artisans of Banaras (1988), Friends, Brothers and Informants (1992), Women as
Subjects (1994), Lessons from Schools (2001) and The Politics of Gender,
Community and Modernities (2007). Since 1990 she has also been engaged in
innovative education in Varanasi, India, through both service and advocacy,
working with children, teachers and families to develop curricula, fiction for
children, arts materials and teachers training units.
