Meenakshi Jain
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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]
Meenakshi Jain | |
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| Alma mater | University of Delhi |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, political scientist |
| Known for | Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse |
| Awards | Padma Shri (2020) |
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]