Rekha Pande

Rekha Pande
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Born	India
Occupation	Historian and activist
Subject	History and Women's Studies
Notable works	Member of Mahila Samkhya Programme
Spouse	Dr. Suresh Pande
Website
http://rekhapande.indiaseed.in/

Rekha Pande is a Professor Emeritus of history and women's studies at the Henry Martin Institute, an International Centre for Research, Interfaith Relations and Reconciliation, Hyderabad. She is also currently the Director of the Society for Empowerment through Environment Development (SEED). She is the former Head of the Centre for Women's Studies and the former Head of the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad, India. She has also served as a Director Centre for Women's Studies at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad. As a feminist historian, Pande researches the theoretical and methodological problems of reconstructing women's history and understanding the roots of women's subordination within the South Asian context. She also attempts to examine the varied historical contexts at the regional/local levels and explain the reproduction and subordination of women at the national and global scale—in various related, albeit different, contemporary contexts. She is an academic activist also associated with the women's movement in India.

Early life and education

Pande was born in Uttrakhand in the Himalayan valleys. Her earlier schooling was in different parts of the country. She studied at Holy Family High School and Kendriya Vidyalaya. She attended the University of Allahabad, studying history, English literature, and political science. After graduation, she continued to study history and obtained a PhD from Allahabad University in 1981 and joined the University of Hyderabad in 1984.

Career

Rekha Pande has taught at three different universities: Allahabad University, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, and the University of Hyderabad. She has also introduced a course on India's religious and cultural heritage for four years at the International Institute of Information Technology. She is a professor of history and teaches in the Department of History. She is the former head of the Centre for Women's Studies Department at the University of Hyderabad. Before this, she was the head of the Department of History. She has been the founding member of two centres for women's studies, one at Maulana Azad National Urdu University and the other at the University of Hyderabad. She was the chair of the Women's World Congress in 2014, organized for the first time in India.

She has been the editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP). She edited Foreign Policy Analysis. She is on the editorial board of the academic journal Palgrave Communication, London, Palgrave Macmillan, International Feminist Journal of Politics, International Journal of Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric (IJSVR), and Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities. She was nominated as the Peace ambassador for the South Asia region by the International Women's Peace Group, Korea in 2016. She has received the Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Birkbeck, University of London, an International Visiting Fellowship in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, U.K. Academic Fellow, University of Buffalo, USA, and an International Visiting Scholar, at Maison De Research, Paris and Visiting Professorship at the University of Artois, Arras, France.She has worked and published in the interdisciplinary are of History and Women Studies.

Publications

I. Books:

1. Pande, Rekha, 2023, Women’s work in the Unorganised sector: Issues of Exploitation and Globalisation in the Beedi Industry, Routledge.
2. Pande, Rekha ( with Goel, A.K,  Ravulapali Madhavi,  Zarina Parveen), 2023,  Telangana Land and People , From 1724 to 1858 CE. Vol. III.  Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, SARS Foundation, Bookline Publication, Hyderabad, ISBN No. 978-81-957545-1-6
3. Pande, Rekha ( with Goel, A.K.Ravulapali Madhavi, Zarina Parveen), 2023,Telangana Land and People, From 1323 to 1724 CE, Vol. II, Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, SARS Foundation, Bookline Publication, Hyderabad.
4. Pande, Rekha ( with Goel, A.K, D.Satyanarayana, Ravulapali Madhavi), 2022, Telangana Land and People , From Stone Age to 1323 CE. Vol.1, Dr. MCR Human Resource Development Institute, SARS Foundation, Bookline Publication, Hyderabad.
5. Pande, Rekha, 2020, Divine Sounds from the Heart Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices, Cambridge Scholars Publishing UK.
6. Pande, Rekha (with S.Jeevanandam), 2017, Devdasis in South India – a Journey from sacred to profane spaces, Kalpaz Publications, Gyan Books, New Delhi .
7. Pande, Rekha, 2016, Sex Trafficking in South Asia with a Special Focus on India, Kalpaz Publication, Gyan Books, New Delhi.
8. Pande Rekha, 2010, Divine Sounds from the Heart, Singing unfettered in their own voices -The Bhakti Movement and its Women saints (12th to 17th century), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, U.K.
9. Religious Movements in Medieval India, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi.
10. Pande, Rekha, 2000, (with Subhash Joshi), Gender Issues in the Police, S.V.P. National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
11. Pande, Rekha, 1998, Child Labour in Beedi Industry, Delta Publishers, Hyderabad.
12. Pande, Rekha, 1990, Succession in the Delhi Sultanate, Common Wealth Publications, New Delhi.

II. Edited Books:

1. Pande, Rekha (with Sita Vanka), (eds), 2020, Gender violence : International perspectives, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
2. Pande, Rekha (with Sita Vanka), (eds), 2019, Gender and structural violence, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
3. Pande, Rekha (with Sita Vanka), (eds), 2019, Gender, Law and Health: International Perspectives, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
4. Pande, Rekha (with Sita Vanka and Bharat Chillakuri eds), 2019, Gender and Work: International Perspectives, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
5. Pande, Rekha (with Th.P. van der Weide, ed), 2018, Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology Series), IGI Global; Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
6. Pande, Rekha, 2018, Gender and History, Rawat Publication, Jaipur.
7. Pande, Rekha, (ed), 2016, Women's Studies Narratives: Travails and Triumphs, The Women Press, New Delhi.
8. Pande, Rekha, (ed), 2015, Gender Lens: Women's Issues and Perspectives, Rawat Publication, New Delhi.
9. Pande, Rekha, (with Theo P. van der Weide) ed. 2012, Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey USA.]
10. Pande, Rekha, (with Shivkumar Nalini and Mahalingam, Rema, ed), 2007, Women in Nation Building- A Multi-dimensional perspective, Panchajanya Publications, Hyderabad.

III. Selected Articles in Books:

1. Pande, Rekha, 2022," Razia Sultan: The First Woman Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate", in Apostles of Transformation, Anthology of Muslim Women Trailblazers in India ( eds), Akhtarul Wasey and Juhi Gupta . Peter Lang Oxford, New York, pp. 177-198.
2. Pande, Rekha, 2021, Globalisation and Commercial sexual exploitation of women’s bodies in India, in Elisha Jasper Dung & Augustine Avwunudioba ( ed), Human Trafficking: Global History and Perspectives. Lexington Books. An Imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, New York, London , pp. 53-79.
3. Pande, Rekha (with Wen liu, and Hsunhui Tseng), 2020, Feminist Theory and Methodologies Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries, Fanny M. Cheung and Diane F. Halpern (Ed), The Cambridge Handbook of the International Psychology of WomenU.K. Cambridge University Press, pp. 14–26.
4. Pande, Rekha, 2019, "Emergence of grass root leadership among women in the fight against Arrack (Liquor)", The Time is Now: Feminist Leadership for a New Era: (Eds), Araceli Alonso and Teresa Langle de Paz, The Global Network UNESCO Chairs on Gender Collaboration, Communication and innovation in gender research and practices, University of Wisconsin-Madison. pp. 86–93.
5. Pande, Rekha, 2018," The forgotten widows of Vrindawan", in Pande, Rekha and Th.P. van der Weide (ed), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Perspectives on Gender and Aging (Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology Series), IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 200–216.
6. Pande, Rekha, 2018, "Role of Women in the early environment Movements in India", in Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India: Losing Nature, Zélia M.Bora & Murali Sivaramakrishnan, (eds), Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London.
7. Pande, Rekha, 2017, India: Madrasas an Enduring Space for Muslim Girls Education, in Education in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands, Edited by Hema Letchamanan and Debotri Dhar, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, Oxford, New York, pp. 107–133.
8. Pande, Rekha, 2017, Being Eunuch, the Violence Faced by Hijra's Involved in Sex Work— A case study, Marginalities in India : Themes and Perspectives, Edited by, Asmita Bhattacharyya and Sudeep Basu, Singapore, Springer Nature, pp. 207–228.
9. Pande, Rekha (Varun Pande, Theo van der Weide), 2016, Computer games and the reinforcement of gender gaps, in Steans, Jill and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, (Eds.) Handbook of Gender in World Politics, Oxford: Edward Elgar, pp. 333–344.
10. Pande, Rekha, 2016, My intellectual autobiography and the discovery of women's Studies, in Pande, Rekha (ed), 2016, Women's Studies Narratives: travails and Triumphs, The Women Press, New Delhi. pp. 285–317.
11. Pande, Rekha, 2014, "My tryst with women’s studies", Pande, Rekha (ed), 2014, Journey’s into women’s studies- crossing interdisciplinary Boundaries, Palgrave Macmillan Press, U.K. pp. 101-121.
12. Pande, Rekha, 2014, Human Security, Globalization, and Trafficking of Women and Children "in South Asia", in, Globalization, Development and Security in Asia, (ed) Zhquin Zhu, Foreign Policy and Security in an Asian Century: Threats, strategies and Policy choices, Vol 1, (ed), Benny The Cheng Guan, World Scientific. Hackensack, N.J. U.S.A. pp. 277–296.
13. Pande Rekha, 2012, Gender Gaps and Information and Communication Technology :A case study of India, in Pande Rekha (with Theo P. van der Weide) ed. 2012, Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity: Social Impacts of ICTs, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey USA. pp. 271–291.
14. Pande, Rekha, 2010, Gender issues in South Asia, with special reference to India, Challenges in the new Millennium, in Family in Development, Hopes and Challenges, (Eds), Simon Polinder, Evert Jan Brouwer and Hank Jochesen, Just development Series, Prisma, Shaker Publishing, Netherlands, pp. 47–58.
15. Pande, Rekha, 2008, "Ritualized Prostitution: Devdasis to Jogins- A few case studies", in Prostitution and Beyond, An analysis of sex work in India (eds), Rohini Sahni, V. Kalya Shnkar and Hemant Apte, Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 101– 117.
16. Pande, Rekha, 2008, Digital Divide and Gender in India, in, Global Information technologies, Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and applications, (ed) Felix B. Tan, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, Hershey, New York, USA. Chapter 4.8, pp. 1440–1450.
17. Pande, Rekha (K. C. Bindu and Viqar Atiya) 2007, "Remade womanhoods, Refashioned Modernities: The construction of Good woman hood in Annisa an Early 20th Century Women’s Magazine in Urdu", in New Readings in the Literature of British India- C.1780-1947, ed, Shafquat Towheed, Ibedem- Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 147–172.
18. Pande, Rekha, 2006, Virshaivism, in J.S. Grewal (ed), Religious Movements and Institutions in Medieval India, Vol. VII, Part, 2. in D.P. Chattopadhyay (general editor), History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 66–80.
19. Pande, Rekha, 2006, Digital divide, gender and the India experience in IT, Vol. 1, Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, (ed) Eileen M. Trauth, Pennsylvania State University, IGI Global, USA. pp. 191– 199.
20. Pande Rekha, 2005, Solidarity, Patriarchy and empowerment- Women's struggle against arrack in India, in Luciana Ricciutelli, Angela Miles, Margaret M.Mcfadden (ed) Feminist Politics, Activism and Vision,- Local and Global Challenges, ed. Zed Publications, New York, pp. 212–226.
21. Pande, Rekha, 2004, Engendering University Curricula and teaching Women's Studies in India- a critical evaluation, in The indigenization of Women's Studies Teaching- The Asian Experience, Beijing, pp. 52–82.