Angana P. Chatterji

Angana P. Chatterji is Founding Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. An anthropologist and feminist historian of the present, she is also a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University. Variously acclaimed for her work, Chatterji’s investigations with colleagues into Kashmir’s unknown mass graves exposed their existence. Works include Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India; Kashmir: The Case for Freedom; Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence; Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; and Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present.