About
Dr. Rajni Chandiwal is a historian. She has more than seven years of teaching and research experience. Her research work focuses on the social history of cleanliness and hygiene, colonial modernity, questions of caste inequality, children’s literature, gender in colonial discourse, urban history, and sanitation. She has acquired her doctorate degree in 2018 from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
-
Research focuses on
- Social history of cleanliness and hygiene,
- Colonial modernity
- Questions of caste inequality
- Children’s literature
- Gender in colonial discourse
- Urban history and sanitation
- Research Interests :
- Social history of cleanliness and hygiene,
- Colonial modernity
- Questions of caste inequality
- Children’s literature
- Gender in colonial discourse
- Urban history and sanitation

Dr Rajni Chandiwal
Assistant Professor
PHDSchool of Liberal Arts and Sciences