Anjali Gera Roy

Anjali Gera Roy is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She has published nearly a hundred essays on literary, film and cultural studies. More recently, she has documented the oral histories of survivors of the 1947 Partition as well as those of Sikhs and Anglo-Indians. Her books include Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India (2019); Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film ...See more

Anjali Gera Roy is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She has published nearly a hundred essays on literary, film and cultural studies. More recently, she has documented the oral histories of survivors of the 1947 Partition as well as those of Sikhs and Anglo-Indians. Her books include Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India (2019); Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film (2015) and Bhangra Moves: From Ludhiana to London and Beyond (2010). See less