Publications

@book{KosambiLetters2019,
title = {A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee by Meera Kosambi},
editor = { R Ramaswamy and M Kolhatkar and A Mukherji},
url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429266386},
doi = {10.4324/9780429266386},
isbn = {9780429266386 },
year = {2019},
date = {2019-08-30},
publisher = {Routledge, UK},
edition = {First Edition},
abstract = {“This book is a search for ‘the real Anandibai Joshee’ —— a search in which the readers are invited to participate.”

In her short and eventful life, Anandibai Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree, broke many stereotypes. Literate at a time when it was taboo for a girl to attend school or even ‘pick up a paper’, she was courageous, articulate, and assertive. And ambitious. Fuelled by a desire to improve the healthcare that was available to Indian women at that time, she travelled across the seas to the United States to study medicine.

Meera Kosambi’s biography of Anandibai is more than just a retelling of the life of a woman who was ahead of her times. Drawing on a host of narratives, Kosambi recovers Anandibai’s many voices that have been submerged in history — that of a conflicted feminist, a nationalist, and a reformer among others — and her engagement with the world at large.

This volume is a testament to Meera Kosambi’s commitment to social history. When she passed away in 2015, she left an incomplete manuscript that has painstakingly been put together by the editors. Drawing on archival research, including a host of Anandibai’s letters, her poems in Marathi, newspaper reports and rare photographs, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, sociology, gender, and South Asian studies.},
keywords = {Anandibai, Book, Kosambi},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@book{KosambiEssays2016,
title = {Adventures Into the Unknown: Essays},
editor = {Ram Ramaswamy},
url = {https://threeessays.com/books/adventures-into-the-unknown/},
isbn = {978-93-83968-11-4},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-06-01},
publisher = {Three Essays Collective},
address = {Gurugram, India},
edition = {First Edition},
abstract = {As the essays in this collection testify, even half a century after his death in 1966, D D Kosambi continues to be provocative, instructive, and contemporary. Many of the arguments that he makes in his two didactic and hitherto unpublished essays are insightful and incisive, and display, in a new setting, the range of his scholarship and the breadth of his interests. The other essays that are included here are his passionate advocacy of solar energy, and his posthumously published autobiographical essay that outlines his credo, and that lends its title to the book.},
keywords = {Book, Kosambi},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@book{KosambiMaths2016,
title = {D.D. Kosambi: Selected Works in Mathematics and Statistics},
editor = {Ramaswamy, Ramakrishna},
url = {https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236740
},
doi = {10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4},
isbn = {978-81-322-3676-4},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
publisher = {Springer India},
edition = {First Edition},
abstract = {This book fills an important gap in studies on D. D. Kosambi. For the first time, the mathematical work of Kosambi is described, collected and presented in a manner that is accessible to non-mathematicians as well. A number of his papers that are difficult to obtain in these areas are made available here. In addition, there are essays by Kosambi that have not been published earlier as well as some of his lesser known works. Each of the twenty four papers is prefaced by a commentary on the significance of the work, and where possible, extracts from technical reviews by other mathematicians.},
keywords = {Book, Kosambi},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@book{Mandakini2012,
title = {The Girl’s Guide to a Life in Science},
editor = {Mandakini Dubey, Ram RAmaswamy, Rohini Godbole},
url = {https://zubaanbooks.com/shop/the-girls-guide-to-a-life-in-science/},
isbn = {9789381017111},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
publisher = {Zubaan Books, New Delhi and Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore},
edition = {First Edition},
abstract = {Inspiring, informative, insightful? meet some of India’s most celebrated female scientists. What led them to choose their particular field? Who encouraged them? What were their struggles? What are their sources of inspiration? What are the key questions at the cutting edge of modern research? Why choose a life in science at all? From astrophysics to zoology, learn what it takes to make a career in science.

Telugu translation, by A V Padmakara Reddy: Vignanashastra Rangamlo Mahila Sphoorthipradatalu, (Emesco Books, Vijaywada, 2013).},
keywords = {Book, Women in Science},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

@book{Rohini2008,
title = {Lilavati’s Daughters: The women scientists of India},
editor = {Rohini Godbole, Ram Ramaswamy},
url = {https://ramramaswamy.org/books/Leelavati-daughters-2018.pdf
https://archive.org/details/A0560IASLeelavathisDaughterFullBook/page/n20},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-11-01},
publisher = {Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, November 2008},
address = {Bangalore, India},
abstract = {This initiative of the Women in Science (WiS) Panel relates to
mentoring of young women who are potentially looking for careers in
science, engineering, medicine etc.

WiS has compiled a collection of essays on the lives of Indian women
scientists in the form a book titled ‘Lilavati’s Daughters: The Women
Scientists of India’. The book contains brief biographical and
autobiographical sketches of about one hundred women scientists from
India. Covering a range of disciplines, in these essays the women
scientists talk of what brought them to science, what kept their
interest alive, and what has helped them achieve some measure of
distinction in their careers.

The Panel of Women in Science hopes that this collection would
represent our cultural diversity as well as cover a large range of
disciplines so that any woman student could gain from the insights and
experiences of women to whom they can relate at many levels.

The book ‘Lilavati’s Daughters: The Women Scientists of India’ was
successfully released during the Inaugural session of the Annual meeting
of the Indian Academy of Sciences on 31st October, 2008, by Dr. D.
Balasubramanian, President of IAS, at the Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi.

Lilavati’s Daughters: The Women Scientists of India

Our inspiration for this drive was from the book “One Hundred Reasons
to be a Scientist”, a volume of essays put together by Prof. K R
Sreenivasan, Director of the International Center for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste.
},
keywords = {Book, Women in Science},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}