Meenakshi Jain

Meenakshi Jain
Born
Delhi, India
Alma materUniversity of Delhi (PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian, Writer, Political scientist
Known forSati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse
FatherGirilal Jain
RelativesSunil Jain (brother)
Sandhya Jain (sister)
AwardsPadma Shri (2020)

Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi. In 2014, she was nominated as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research by the Government of India.[1] In 2020, she was conferred with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for her work in the field of literature and education.[2]

Jain wrote Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse on the practice of Sati in colonial India and had also authored a school history textbook, Medieval India, for NCERT, which replaced a previous textbook co-authored by Romila Thapar, Satish Chandra et al.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Full list of 2020 Padma awardees". The Hindu.
  3. ^ "Being proud of India's Hindu past is great, but worry about the present too". The Financial Express.