Centre for South Asian Studies

Profile

Yashaswini's research areas include the arts and cultures of the Himalayas, Rajasthan, Mughal India and colonial India. She aims to establish a link between the past that survives in archives, museums and historiography, that which is reformulated in popular imagination, and the past that exists as lived history in contemporary India. Her research is driven by extensive fieldwork. It is oriented to approach political and cultural centres from the peripheries and takes special interest in the role of animals and women in shaping history and their visual representations. Her first book, The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback, explores the historical relationship between horses and humans in India, together with its global connections. Her current book project is conceptualised to be a women’s history of colonial India related as intimate experiences intertwined with colonial spaces.

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