Dhobis of Delhi: An Urban Ethnography from the Margins, 1974-2023

Subhadra Mitra Channa, Retired Professor of Anthropology, University of Delhi

Subhadra Mitra Channa retired as Professor of Anthropology from the University of Delhi in 2016 and has been honoured with the University’s Distinguished Teacher Award. The recipient of many international fellowships, she has been a Charles Wallace Fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK (2000); Visiting Professor, Maison de Sciences l’Homme, Paris, France (2002); Fulbright Visiting Lecturer, Auburn University, USA (2003); and Visiting Professor, University of South Carolina, USA (2008-09). She has published more than eighty scholarly papers and ten books, specializing in gender, religion, environment, and identity studies. Channa is the recipient of the S.C. Roy Gold Medal from the Asiatic Society for Lifetime Achievement and has been on the executive committees of several international organizations. Presently the editor of Reviews in Anthropology (Taylor & Francis), she has also served as the editor of Indian Anthropologist and on the editorial boards of international journals.