Talk:Charu Gupta

By Sachi Anjunkar

Charu Gupta is a Senior Professor at the Department of History, University of Delhi as of April 2024. According to her CV, her specialization is modern Indian history and gender history.

In 2016, she signed a letter supporting SAFG letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. They falsely stated:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India or Hindu Dharma

Articles in Journals

1. Das Gupta, M., C. Gupta, and K.M. Teaiwa. "Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies." Cultural Dynamics, vol. 19, nos. 2-3, 2007, pp. 125-140.
2. Gupta, Charu. "(Im)possible Love and Sexual Pleasure in Late-Colonial North India." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 2002, pp. 195-221.
3. Gupta, Charu. "‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, Apocalypses and Utopian Ram Rajya." The Indian Economic & Social History Review, vol. 58, no. 2, 2021, pp. 213-248.
4. Gupta, Charu. "‘Innocent’ Victims/‘Guilty’ Migrants: Hindi Public Sphere, Caste and Indentured Women in Colonial North India." Modern Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 5, 2015, pp. 1345-1377.
5. Gupta, Charu. "Anxieties of Hindu Right in Everyday Realm." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 37, 2002, pp. 198-199.
6. Gupta, Charu. "Articulating Hindu Masculinity and Femininity: 'Shuddhi' and 'Sangathan' Movements in United Provinces in the 1920s." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 33, no. 13, 1998, pp. 727-735.
7. Gupta, Charu. "Cast (e) ing and Translating Sex in the Vernacular: The Writings of Santram BA in Hindi." Porn Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 19-35.
8. Gupta, Charu. "Dalit 'Viranganas' and Reinvention of 1857." Economic and Political Weekly, 2007, pp. 1739-1745.
9. Gupta, Charu. "'Dirty' Hindi Literature: Contests about Obscenity in Late Colonial North India." South Asia Research, vol. 20, no. 2, 2000, pp. 89-118.
10. Gupta, Charu. "Disease and the Untouchable: Insights from Vernacular Histories of North India." Studies in People’s History, vol. 10, no. 2, 2023, pp. 230-245.
11. Gupta, Charu. "Feminine, Criminal or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India." The Indian Economic & Social History Review, vol. 47, no. 3, 2010, pp. 309-342.
12. Gupta, Charu. "Gendering and Vernacularizing Conversions in India: Christianity, Clothing, and Cartoons." American Religion, vol. 3, no. 2, 2022, pp. 32-50.
13. Gupta, Charu. "Hindu Women, Muslim Men: Love Jihad and Conversions." Economic and Political Weekly, 2009, pp. 13-15.
14. Gupta, Charu. "Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances." The India Forum, 2021. Available online: [1].
15. Gupta, Charu. "Malleability of the Vernacular: Personal Anecdotes." South Asian Review, vol. 41, no. 2, 2020, pp. 197-199.
16. Gupta, Charu. "Pluralities of Voices." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 45, no. 51, 2010, pp. 36-38.
17. Gupta, Charu. "Politics of Gender: Women in Nazi Germany." Economic and Political Weekly, 1991, pp. WS40-WS48.
18. Gupta, Charu. "Portrayal of Women in Premchand's Stories: A Critique." Social Scientist, 1991, pp. 88-113.
19. Gupta, Charu. "Writing Sex and Sexuality: Archives of Colonial North India." Journal of Women's History, vol. 23, no. 4, 2011, pp. 12-35.
20. Sharma, M., and C. Gupta. "Search for Answers at India Social Forum." Economic and Political Weekly, 2006, pp. 4937-4939.

Books

1. Gupta, Charu, and M. Sharma. Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia. Routledge India, 2012.
2. Gupta, Charu. Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism. Orient Blackswan, 2012.
3. Gupta, Charu. Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India. Permanent Black, Palgrave, 2001.
4. Gupta, Charu. The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print. Permanent Black and University of Washington Press, 2016.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

1. Gupta, Charu. "5 Intimate Desires." In Living with Religious Diversity, 2015, p. 69.
2. Gupta, Charu. "72Virangana Women: Dalit Counter-Histories of 1857." In Making the 'Woman', 2023, pp. 72-87.
3. Gupta, Charu. "A Vernacular Archive of Sex and Sexuality: Personal Annotations." In Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia, 2023.
4. Gupta, Charu. "Allegories of ‘Love Jihad’ and Ghar Wapsi: Interlocking the Socio-Religious with the Political." In Rise of Saffron Power, 2018, pp. 84-110.
5. Gupta, Charu. "Archives and Sexuality: Vignettes from Colonial North India." In Gendering Colonial India, 2012, pp. 317-344.
6. Gupta, Charu. "Condemnation and Commemoration: (En) Gendering Dalit Narratives of 1857." In Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising Of 1857, 2014.
7. Gupta, Charu. "Gains, Losses and/or Potential Possibilities: Gender and Social Reform in the United Provinces." In Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Postcolonial India, 2005.
8. Gupta, Charu. "Procreation and Pleasure: Writings of a Woman Ayurvedic Practitioner in Colonial North India." In Studies in History, vol. 21, no. 1, 2005, pp. 17-44.
9. Gupta, Charu. "Studying and Teaching Gender-Caste Histories in India: Problems, Possibilities, and Pleasures." In Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference, vol. 1, 2023, pp. 26-34.
10. Gupta, Charu. "The Icon of the Mother in Late Colonial North India: 'Bharat Mata', 'Matri Bhasha', and 'Gau Mata'." In Sexuality, Obscenity, Community, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

Reports

1. Deshpande, S., C. Gupta, et al. "Social Science Teaching in Hindi: An Inventory and Analysis of Current Curricular Materials at Six North Indian Universities." Institute for Social and Economic Research and HEIRA, CSCS, Delhi, 2010.