#  Sudarshana Chanda 

History Prize Instructor

 

 

 



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Sudarshana entered the PhD program in 2018. She works on race, law, and intimacy in South and Southeast Asia.

Her dissertation, “Imaginary Boundaries: Race and Inter-ethnic Intimacy in British Malaya, 1920-1960” studies the intimate life of racial categories in British Malaya (present day Malaysia and Singapore) in the 20th century. She looks at interracial adoption, marriage, and repatriation of mixed families, to explore what happens when people fall in between categories. "Imaginary Boundaries" investigates this question during an important moment of transition – from colony to nation state – in Malaysia and Singapore, and within the wider context of their transregional connections with South Asia and China.

She holds an M.A. in China Studies from the Yenching Academy of Peking University, and a B.A. (Hons.) in History from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. From 2014-16 she was a teaching assistant at the Department of History at Ashoka University.



 

 

 





 

 

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