Description : Sudhir CHANDRA is an historian. His main research topic is the formation of national indian consciousness in the XXe century.
He has published in 2002 Continuing Dilemmas: Understanding Social Consciousness (New Delhi, Tulika Books). He is also the author of Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Right (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997), The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1992) and Dependence and Disillusionment: Emergence of National Consciousness in Later Nineteenth Century India (New Delhi, Manas, 1975).