page_title: Padma Anagol
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Padma Anagol / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Keynote Address by Dr. Padma Anagol, at “Women in India and Ireland Connected Pasts”, 30 March 2017
context_page_description: Padma Anagol is a historian known for her work on women's agency and subjectivities in colonial India. Her work broadly focuses on gender and women's history in colonial British India. Her research interests also include a wide spectrum of topics such as material culture, consumption and Indian middle classes, theory, historiography and periodization of Modern India and comparative histories of Victorian and Indian patriarchies over the issues of social legislation.
context_section_description: Anagol is a Reader in history at the Cardiff School of History, Religion and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom (UK). She teaches British Imperial and Modern Indian History at the Cardiff University. Fluent in three Indian languages, Anagol mainly uses Marathi (Devanagari script) and Kannada (Dravidian script) for her research work. Much of her research work is anchored in understanding women's subjectivities. She has also held visiting fellowships at various institutions. Before joining as a senior lecturer at the Cardiff School of History, Religion and Archaeology in 1995, Dr. Anagol taught south Asian history at the Bath Spa University, Bath, UK from 1993-95.
  Anagol was the editor of Cultural and Social History, a journal published under the aegis of Social History society, UK from 2006-2011. She is the founder member of Asian Literatures in translation, an online journal. She is also a member of the editorial board of South Asia Research and Women's History Review. A believer in popular history, Anagol likes to disseminate information about the past and its uses to public and has taken on the position of Asia Consultant for BBC History Magazine since 2001.
caption: Keynote Address by  Padma Anagol, at “Women in India and Ireland Connected Pasts”, on 30 March 2017
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