Biography:Tithi Bhattacharya

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Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya is an American activist and writer. She is a professor of South Asian history at Purdue University.[1]

Biography

Bhattacharya was born in India.[2] She applied for U.S. citizenship in 2015 after living there for nearly a decade. She cited the stress of applying for visas and the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister as reasons for applying for citizenship.

Career

Bhattacharya is a Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017.[3] Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Bhattacharya is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto,[4][5][6] which ties feminism to other modes of struggle, including anti-racism and anti-capitalism. On the topic of gender Bhattacharya has written the book The Sentinels of Culture, which developed from her dissertation on the British-educated middle class in 19th-century Kolkata.[7][1] She has also written on the politics of Islamophobia and women in Islam.

In March 2022, Bhattacharya was one of 151 international feminists to sign Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.[8] This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.[9][10][11]

In 2025, she published Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.[12][13][14][15]

Research

Bhattacharya was an editor of the book Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, a book that advanced social reproduction theory, a Marxist feminist theory that analyzes the role of women's labor under capitalism.[16] She was described as a researcher "operating on the cutting edge of recent work on social reproduction theory".[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tithi Bhattacharya" (in en). Purdue University. https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/tithi-bhattacharya.html. 
  2. ↑ Bhattacharya, Tithi. "The day I said goodbye to a country I could no longer call home". https://www.salon.com/2015/09/26/the_day_i_said_goodbye_to_a_country_i_could_no_longer_call_home/. 
  3. ↑ "Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power". The Guardian. 6 February 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power. Retrieved 28 July 2017. 
  4. ↑ Otto, Jess (February 2023). "Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto. Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, 2019 (ISBN 978-1-78873-442-4)" (in en). Hypatia 38 (1): e10. doi:10.1017/hyp.2022.19. ISSN 0887-5367. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/feminism-for-the-99-a-manifesto-cinzia-arruzza-tithi-bhattacharya-and-nancy-fraser-brooklyn-ny-verso-2019-isbn-9781788734424/64A52EF2BDBA346F3F5E5C9E61D7E60E. 
  5. ↑ Siddiqui, Sophia (April 2, 2020). "Review: Feminism for the 99%: a manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser Witches, Witch-hunting and Women by Silvia Federici". Race & Class 61 (4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396820913484. 
  6. ↑ White, Dana (2019-07-16). "Review: Feminism for the 99%" (in en-US). https://www.socialistalternative.org/2019/07/16/review-feminism-for-the-99/. 
  7. ↑ Kumar, Nita (1 April 2007). "Tithi Bhattacharya. The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (1848–85). New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 272. $35.00Reviews of BooksAsia" (in en). The American Historical Review 112 (2): 483–484. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.2.483. ISSN 0002-8762. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/112/2/483/41333. Retrieved 28 February 2021. 
  8. ↑ "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". 17 March 2022. https://spectrejournal.com/feminist-resistance-against-war/. 
  9. ↑ Hendl, Tereza (2022). "Towards accounting for Russian imperialism and building meaningful transnational feminist solidarity with Ukraine". Gender Studies 26: 62-93. http://kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/26/gs26-2022_full.pdf#page=62. 
  10. ↑ Ashley Smith (June 23, 2022). "Inside the Russian Resistance Against Putin’s War". https://spectrejournal.com/inside-the-russian-resistance-against-putins-war/. 
  11. ↑ "Russia's women are fighting back against the war in Ukraine". 4 October 2022. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-feminist-resistance-to-ukraine-war/. 
  12. ↑ Bellenoit, Hayden J (2025-08-18). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal By Tithi Bhattacharya" (in en). Journal of Social History. doi:10.1093/jsh/shaf076. ISSN 0022-4529. https://academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jsh/shaf076/8237567. 
  13. ↑ Moitra, Aheli (2026). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya, Duke University Press, Durham & London, 2024, xi + 214 pp., US $26.95, ISBN 9781478030713 (paperback)". Religion 56 (1): 175-178. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2025.2585824. 
  14. ↑ De, Aniket (2026-05-06). "Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal" (in en). The Journal of Asian Studies. doi:10.1215/00219118-12394454. ISSN 0021-9118. https://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asian-studies/article/doi/10.1215/00219118-12394454/409921/Ghostly-Past-Capitalist-Presence-A-Social-History. 
  15. ↑ Bose, Neilesh (2025). "Ghostly past, capitalist presence: a social history of fear in colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2024, 232 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478030713 (hardback), ISBN: 9781478026464 (paperback), ISBN: 9781478059691 (ebook).". South Asian History and Culture 16 (4): 480-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2025.2552018. 
  16. ↑ "«What is social reproduction theory?»: Tithi Bhattacharya" (in es). 2017-10-17. https://marxismocritico.com/2017/10/17/what-is-social-reproduction-theory/. 
  17. ↑ Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (1 ed.). Pluto Press. 2017. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1vz494j.4. ISBN 978-0-7453-9989-8. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vz494j. 



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