Rekha Yadav

Assistant Professor

Department of History

GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Visakhapatnam

Education

Ph. D.

ryadav3@gitam.edu

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ORCiD

Rekha Yadav completed her Ph.D. in Modern Indian History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2023. She has presented her work at esteemed national and international platforms and received the Best Applicant and Travel Award from Kyoto University, Japan. Her specialization in modern and contemporary Indian history encompasses themes of colonialism, nationalism, gender studies, community studies and the socio-cultural dynamics of traditional sports like wrestling.

Research Publications

Yadav, R. 'Popular Religious Traditions, British Miliarty Recruitment and the Social Construction of Masculinity in Colonial Haryana,' Current Research Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 4, No. 2, October 2021.
Yadav, R. Akhara as a Gendered Space: Interrogating Changing Dynamics of Age-old Traditional Sport of Wrestling in Haryana’, in Aparna Singh (ed.), Cultural Dialogues: Contexts and Crossroads, Kolkata, PAIOLCK, 2019, pp. 116-23.