Harmony Siganporia

Harmony Siganporia teaches in the area of Culture and Communication at MICA. She has a Ph.D. in social history, and her first book, I am the Widow: An Intellectual Biography of Behramji Malabari (Orient Blackswan 2018) was on the langue and parole of reformist discourse around the ‘women’s question’ in late-19th century Western India. It was awarded the Prof. Sneh Mahajan award for best book on modern Indian history (2015-2018) by the Indian History Congress in 2019.

A practicing musician, Harmony’s other research areas/interests include ethnomusicology, gender and performativity, culture and conflict, modern Indian history, the role of cultural artefacts in the emplacement of identities in exile, and semiotic theory.

Research Areas/Interests

• Gandhi Studies
• Modern Indian History
• Semiotic theory
• Social Reform Movements (with a focus on Western India in the late-19th century) -Gender Studies
• Narrative theory

Education

• PhD in Social History (CEPT University, 2015)
• M.Res in English Literature and Cultural Studies (University of Hull, 2004)
• Diplome Superieur in French Literature (Alliance Francaise d'Ahmedabad, 2002)
• B.A. in English Literature (St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, 2002)

Areas of Research

• The Making of Modern India
• Ethnomusicology
• Semiotics
• Social Reform Movements (with a focus on Western India in the late-19th century)
• Gender Studies
• Gandhi studies
• Narrative theories
• Culture/s and Conflict