G Arunima

G Arunima is a historian who teaches at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has researched and published on both the historical and contemporary contexts of Kerala and India, focusing on cultural, visual and material texts, and rethinking the politics of the contemporary. 

Her publications include There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar ca 1850-1940 (Orient Longman, 2003); The Hijab: Islam, Women and the Politics of Clothing, edited with PK Yasser Arafath (Simon & Schuster, 2022); and Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa, edited with Patricia Hayes and Premesh Lalu (Palgrave, 2021). She has translated Rosie Thomas's Malayalam biography Ivan Ente Priya CJ, of the iconic cultural critic CJ Thomas, into English (He, My Beloved CJ, Women Unlimited, 2018).