Satya Shikha Chakraborty
Associate Professor of History at The College of New Jersey and author of Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India; her research focuses on gendered domestic labor, race, caste, and empire in South Asia.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 1h 6min
Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Satya Shikha Chakraborty, Associate Professor of History who studies gendered domestic labor, race, caste, and empire. She traces the ayah archetype as a desexualized caregiver that bolstered imperial moral claims. Short sections cover ayahs in imperial imagination, legal and visual archives, journeys to Britain, caste and colonial medicine, and links to contemporary domestic labor.
Mar 25, 2026 • 1h 4min
Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Satya Shikha Chakraborty, Associate Professor of History who studies gender and colonial South Asia, explores ayahs — South Asian nannies/maids — and their role in shaping racialized domestic norms. She discusses archives, travel to Britain and abandonment, caste and medical advice, elite domestic modernity, and links to contemporary domestic labor. Multiple short, vivid historical threads illuminate caregiving and power.
