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Cinema and Media Studies / South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Rochona Majumdar is Associate Professor in the Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies. A historian of modern India, her research interests span histories of Indian cinema, gender and marriage in colonial India, and Indian intellectual thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of two books, Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal (Duke University Press, 2009) and Writing Postcolonial History (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2010), and is currently researching the history of the film society movement in India from 1947 to 1977.