Dr. Ishita Pande

Biography

Ishita Pande is a historian specializing in post/colonial South Asia, particularly focusing on the British Empire. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005. Her research interests encompass Colonial and Postcolonial India, British Empire, Postcolonial Theory, Global History, Race, Gender, Sexuality History, and the History of Science and Medicine. Pande has authored notable works including 'Medicine, Race, Liberalism: British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire' (Routledge, 2010) and 'Sex, Law and Politics: Age, Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937' (Cambridge University Press, 2020), the latter exploring the nexus between law, science, and cultural practices around child marriage in colonial India. She continues to employ feminist and queer theory in her projects, examining the intersection of intimate and global categories of thought. Pande is also involved in graduate supervision for historical studies focusing on gender, race, and legal history during the eighteenth and twentieth centuries in India and the broader British colonial context.

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