Urban South Asia: Past, Present and Future

Subhadra Channa is a retired professor of anthropology from Delhi University. Her areas of research interest are in gender, cosmology, inequality and marginalization, identity and urban studies. Her publications include Gender in South Asia (Cambridge University Press), The Inner and Outer Selves (Oxford University Press), Life as a Dalit (Ed, Sage), Religious Pluralism in India (Ed, Routledge), The Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins (Oxford University Press) and Sacred Landscapes (ed, Routledge). She has twelve books and more than eighty papers to her credit. She was the senior vice president of the IUAES and is at present the co-editor of Reviews in Anthropology. Her awards include two Fulbright teaching fellowships, Charles Wallace and several visiting professorships, as well as the Distinguished Teacher Award from Delhi University.