Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Professor and Head,Department of Cultural Studies,Lingnan University,Hong Kong. She is also Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Science at Ahmedabad University,India. She is co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,Bangalore,which offered an innovative inter-disciplinary PhD programme from 2000 2012. During 20122016,she headed the Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences,Mumbai,and was Indian-language advisor to Wikipedia. She is the author of Siting Translation:History,Post-structuralism and the Colonial Context(Berkeley,1992),Mobilizing India:Women,Music and Migration between India and Trinidad(Durham,2006),and a forthcoming monograph on musicophilia in Mumbai. Her most recent edited volume,with Wang Xiaoming,is Genealogies of the Present:Situating Inter-Asia Cultural Studies(Delhi,2015).
179 Alternative Frames? Questions for Comparative Research in the Third World
209 Language, a Place of Struggle
279 Why Culture Matters: Rethinking the Language of Feminist Politics
297 Nationalism Re.gured: Contemporary South Indian Cinema and the Subject of Feminism