Aparajita BASU

Aparajita Basu (also known as Ajlai) is a PhD candidate in the department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has an MPhil in Social Anthropological Analysis from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford. She is now working on a doctoral thesis on Indian women and anti-colonial politics in British Malaya in the interwar period. Her interests include studying migration and South Asian diasporas in the twentieth century, women’s history and the circulation of ideas as well as social and cultural practices between India and Southeast Asia in the modern period.