About the Author

Kumkum Roy teaches at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral thesis on 'The Emergence of Monarchy in North India' was published in 1994. She has edited an anthology titled Women in Early Indian Societies (1999). Her other publications include A Historical Dictionary of Ancient India (2009), and The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power (2010). Her areas of interest include political institutions, social history and issues of gender, as well as pedagogies of history teaching in schools and other institutions.