Mridu Rai
Associate Professor
Office: HGS 206
Phone: (203) 432-1354
Email: mridu.rai@yale.edu
Mridu Rai joined the department in July 2001 as an assistant professor. She was educated at Delhi University; the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and Columbia University, where she received a PhD in modern south Asian history.
Her doctoral research focused on the problem of religion and politics in the making of protest in modern Kashmir between the 1840s and the 1940s. In 2004 it culminated in her book, Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir. Professor Rai's new research turns to the region of Bihar, to explore the relationships between caste, territory, region and nation as they evolved from the period of British colonial rule into the postcolonial era.
