Kamran Asdar Ali, Director
WCH 4.132, Mailcode G9300, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-3550
Gail Minault
Professor — Ph.D., 1972, University of Pennsylvania
Contact
- E-mail: gminault@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-7214
- Office: GAR 3.118
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Research interests
19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women's movements.
Courses taught
Her major teaching fields are the history of India, Islam in South Asia, and women in Asia.
Recent Publications
Professor Minault is the author of The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (1982). She edited The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan(1981) and co-edited Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia(1982) and Abul Kalan Azad: A Religious and Intellectual Biography (1988). She has also translated Voices of Silence (1986). Her latest work isSecluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Reform in Colonial India (1997).
