Talk:Shailaja D Paik

By Sachi Anjunkar

Shailaja D Paik is a Charles Phelphs Taft Distinguished Research Professor of History and Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies as of April, 2024. According to her university profile, her research interests lie at the intersection of a number of fields: Modern South Asia; Dalit studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; social and political movements; oral history; human rights and humanitarianism.

In 2016, she signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications related to India

Peer Reviewed Publications:

1. Paik, Shailaja D. "Chhadi lage chham chham, vidya yeyi gham gham (The harder the stick beats, the faster the flow of knowledge): Dalit Women’s Struggle for Education." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 16.2 (2009): 175-204.
2. Paik, Shailaja D. "Amchya Jalmachi Chittarkatha (The Bioscope of Our Lives): Who is Our Ally?." The Economic and Political Weekly xliv.40 (2009): 39-47.
3. Paik, Shailaja D. "Mahar-Dalit-Buddhist: The history and politics of naming in Maharashtra." Contributions to Indian Sociology 45.2 (2011): 217-241.

Book:

1. Paik, Shailaja D. Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

Book Chapter:

1. Paik, Shailaja D. "Refashioning Futures: Dalit Women’s Education and Empowerment in Maharashtra" in The Impact of Education in South Asia: Perspectives from Sri Lanka to Nepal, edited by Helen Ullrich. Anthropological Studies of Education. Springer & Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Paik, Shailaja D. "Education, Self-respect, and Rise of the New Dalit Woman" in Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality edited by Anupama Rao. Women Unlimited: New Delhi.
3. Paik, Shailaja D. "Health, Hygiene, and Sustainability among Valmiki (Sweeper) Women in Maharashtra," in Dalit Women’s Rights and Health: A Glimpse of Awakening edited by Imrana Qadeer. Panos Institute India: New Delhi. (Hindi Version).
4. Paik, Shailaja D. "Bey eka bey, bey doni char (Two times One is Two, Two times Two is Four): Dalit Women’s Schooling," in Claiming Power From Below: Dalits and the Subaltern Question in India eds. Manu Bhagavan and Anne Feldhaus. Oxford University Press: New Delhi.
5. Paik, Shailaja D. "The Flood" in Joel L. Lee and K. Satyanarayana, ed. Concealing Caste Oxford University Press, 2023.

Other Publications:

1. Paik, Shailaja D. "Kamala: the story of a dancer" [Abstract]. All India Women's Studies Centre, 2005.
2. Paik, Shailaja D. "Building Bridges: Articulating Dalit and African American Women's Solidarity" Women's Studies Quarterly (Feminist Press at the City University of New York). 42: 3&4. Fall/Winter 2014.
3. Paik, Shailaja D. "Forging a New Dalit Womanhood in Colonial Western India: Discourse on Modernity, Rights, Education, and Emancipation." Journal of Women's History 28:4, 2016, pp. 14-40.
4. Paik, Shailaja D. "Mangala Bansode and The Social Life of Tamasha," Biography 40:1, Winter 2017.
5. Paik, Shailaja D. "The Rise of New Dalit Women in Indian Historiography," History Compass, 2018. Wiley.
6. Paik, Shailaja D. "Dr. Ambedkar and the 'Prostitute': Caste, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India," Gender and History. Fall 2021. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12557.
7. Paik, Shailaja D. "Dalit Feminist Thought," Economic and Political Weekly 56:25, June 2021 and re-printed in Leela Fernandes ed. Routledge Handbook on Gender in South Asia.
8. Paik, Shailaja D. "To kiss or not to kiss? Cinema, Vulgarity, and Marathi Manus in 1960s and 1970s Maharashtra" South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, June 2023.