APARNA VAIDIK is Associate Professor of History at Ashoka University. She has
previously taught at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and Delhi University.
She studied at St. Stephen’s College and the University of Cambridge and received a
PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. Her research monograph, Imperial
Andaman: Colonial Encounter and Island History, was published by Palgrave Macmillan,
Cambridge Imperial and Postcolonial Studies Series in 2010; her forthcoming book
is Waiting for Swaraj: Inner Lives of Indian Revolutionaries.