“Crafting Gendered Notions of Intimacy: Indian ‘Coolie’ Households in British Malaya and the Colonial Construction of ‘Everyday Violence’

Lecture by

Dr. Arunima Datta

Dr. Arunima Datta received her PhD in 2015 in Southeast Asian history from the National University of Singapore. She is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society. She has published several articles related to her dissertation, “Life Beyond Dependency and Victimhood: Indian Coolie Women on Rubber Estates of Colonial Malaya (1900-1945), most recently in Women’s History Review.