Edited by Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, and published in 1989, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, used gender as an analytical tool and reworked notions of social reform during the colonial period.

Kumkum Sangari speaks to Souradeep Roy about this landmark anthology from the Indian women’s movement; and the challenges, then and now, of finding common ground among women and among movements.