G. Arunima teaches at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has researched and published on, both, historical and modern contexts in India, with a focus on cultural, visual and material texts, and on rethinking the politics of the contemporary. Her areas of interest include the study of family and kinship; different aspects of aesthetics and modernities; visual culture and theory; and religion and faith practices. She is the author of There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar, ca 1850-1940.
