Subhadra Channa is a retired professor of anthropology from Delhi University. Her areas of research interest are in gender, cosmology, inequality, marginalization, identity, and urban studies. Her publications include Gender in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The Inner and Outer Selves (Oxford University Press, 2013), Life as a Dalit (Sage, 2013), Religious Pluralism in India (Routledge, 2023), Colonial Anthropology: Technologies and Discourses of Dominance (Routledge, 2024) and The Dhobis of Delhi: An Ethnography from the Margins (Oxford University Press, 2024). She has twelve books and more than eighty papers to her credit. She was the senior vice president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographical Studies (IUAES) and is at present the coeditor of Reviews in Anthropology. Her awards include two Fulbright teaching fellowships, Charles Wallace and several visiting professorships, as well as the Distinguished Teacher Award from Delhi University.