Divya Cherian

Divya Cherian is a historian of pre- and early colonial India/South Asia interested in histories of embodied difference. Her first book examined shifts in articulations of caste, untouchability, and Hindu-ness in eighteenth-century, pre-colonial South Asia. While at the Institute, she will be writing a history of witch persecution and primitivity in the transition from early modernity to colonial modernity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South Asia.