Prachi Deshpande

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 3223 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday, 3-4pm
Phone: (510) 642-1102
Email: pdeshpande@berkeley.edu

Education

Ph.D., Tufts University, 2002
M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1995
B.A., Fergusson College, University of Pune, 1993

Selected Publications

Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960, Columbia University Press, New York; Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2007.

Articles

Entries on "Kashibai Kanitkar", "Durgabai Deshmukh" and "Lakshmibai Tilak" in Bonnie Smith edited, Encyclopedia Of Women in World History. (forthcoming)

"Muslims and Dalits as Subalterns," review of Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History, edited by Shail Mayaram, MSS Pandian and Ajay Skaria, (New Delhi 2005) in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLI, No 34. Aug 26- Sep 1, 2006, pp. 3701-3.

"Writing Regional Consciousness: Maratha History and Regional Identity in Modern Maharashtra" in Rajendra Vora and Anne Feldhaus, ed. Region, Culture and Politics in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2006.

"Caste as Maratha: History, Colonial Sociology and Social Conflict in Colonial Maharashtra," Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. XLI, No. 1, Jan-Mar 2004, New Delhi.

"A Woman Called Aai," an award-winning English translation of a Marathi short story by Priya Tendulkar, in Geeta Dharmarajan, et. al., eds., Katha Prize Stories, Vol. 6, New Delhi, 1996.

Courses

History 280F: Epistemic Moments?: South Asian Historiography (Fall 07)

History 103F: Nationalism and Colonialism in South Asia (Fall 06)

History 101: History and Memory in South Asia (Spring 07)

History 114B: Modern South Asia (Spring 07)