View source for Biography:Tithi Bhattacharya

{{Short description|Indian activist and writer}}
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'''Tithi Bhattacharya''' is Associate Professor of [[Biology:Outline of South Asian history|South Asian history]] at [[Organization:Purdue University|Purdue University]].<ref name=purdue>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Tithi Bhattacharya|url=https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/tithi-bhattacharya.html|access-date=2021-02-28|website=Purdue College of Liberal Arts|publisher=Purdue University|language=en}}</ref> She is a prominent Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017.<ref>{{cite news|title=Women of America: we're going on strike. Join us so Trump will see our power |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/06/women-strike-trump-resistance-power|work=The Guardian | date=6 February 2017 | accessdate=28 July 2017}}</ref> Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). She is one of the authors of ''Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto'', which ties feminism to other modes of struggle, including anti-racism and anti-capitalism. On the topic of [[Biology:Gender|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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kumar |first1=Nita |title=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 |journal=The American Historical Review |date=1 April 2007 |volume=112 |issue=2 |pages=483–484 |doi=10.1086/ahr.112.2.483 |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/112/2/483/41333 |access-date=28 February 2021 |language=en |issn=0002-8762}}</ref><ref name=purdue /> She has also written on the politics of [[Religion:Islamophobia|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 Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web | title=Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto | date=17 March 2022 | website=Specter Journal | url=https://spectrejournal.com/feminist-resistance-against-war/ | access-date=31 March 2022 }}</ref>

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