Divya Kannan Contributor

Divya Kannan, Assistant Professor, Department of History & Archaeology, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR, is the author of Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

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