Sucheta Mahajan

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Sucheta Mahajan is Professor of Modern Indian History at and was Chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU and was Chairperson of P.C. Joshi Archives on Contemporary History, JNU. She taught at the University of Delhi and was Visiting Professor at Wooster College, Ohio, USA. She was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla, Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio, Italy and SPECTRESS Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has published widely on the history and politics of India in the 20th century. Her important publications include Inde-pendence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India (2000), India’s Struggle for Independence (1988) (co-authored with Bipan Chandra et al.), Rites of Passage: A Civil Servant Remembers: H.M. Patel (2005) and Education for Social Change: MVF and Child Labour (2008). She has also edited three parts for the 1947 volume in the prestigious Towards Freedom series sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research. The first two parts were published in 2013 and 2015, the third part is forthcoming.