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	In addition, Tharu has served on the Advisory Panels of BODHI Centre for Dalit Bahujan Initiatives since 2003, and as a trustee for the Centre for Studies in Culture and Society in Bangalore since its inception. She has served on the Advisory Committee on National Biography for the National Book Trust, served as member of the Governing Council at the [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library\|Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] in New Delhi, as a trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and as a member of the Joint Committee for South Asia, Social Science Research Council in New York.<ref name=anveshi />		In addition, Tharu has served on the Advisory Panels of BODHI Centre for Dalit Bahujan Initiatives since 2003, and as a trustee for the Centre for Studies in Culture and Society in Bangalore since its inception. She has served on the Advisory Committee on National Biography for the National Book Trust, served as member of the Governing Council at the [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library\|Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] in New Delhi, as a trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and as a member of the Joint Committee for South Asia, Social Science Research Council in New York.<ref name=anveshi />

	Tharu retired as professor of the [[English and Foreign Languages University]], Hyderabad, India. She was employed since 1973, serving as an English Literature Teacher, a ~~Professor~~ of English Literature, and a Coordinator/Professor for the School of Critical Humanities.<ref name=dept /> She is currently Eminent Professor, Department of Cultural Studies. Both her research and teaching focus on feminism, issues of minority, literary and visual arts, and social medicine. In total, Tharu has published six books on these topics. Her most well known work which she edited with K. Lalitha is the two-part anthology titled ''Women Writing In India, 600 B.C.''<ref name=anveshi /> Her works are most well known for their critical viewpoint on the Indian women's movement and cultural theory.<ref name="fempress">{{cite web\|title=Women Writing In India: Volume I\|url=http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i\|website=The Feminist Press\|publisher=The Feminist Press\|access-date=28 October 2014\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012053251/http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i\|archive-date=12 October 2014\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>		Tharu retired as professor of the [[English and Foreign Languages University]], Hyderabad, India. She was employed since 1973, serving as an English Literature Teacher, a professor of English Literature, and a Coordinator/Professor for the School of Critical Humanities.<ref name=dept /> She is currently Eminent Professor, Department of Cultural Studies. Both her research and teaching focus on feminism, issues of minority, literary and visual arts, and social medicine. In total, Tharu has published six books on these topics. Her most well known work which she edited with K. Lalitha is the two-part anthology titled ''Women Writing In India, 600 B.C.''<ref name=anveshi /> Her works are most well known for their critical viewpoint on the Indian women's movement and cultural theory.<ref name="fempress">{{cite web\|title=Women Writing In India: Volume I\|url=http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i\|website=The Feminist Press\|publisher=The Feminist Press\|access-date=28 October 2014\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012053251/http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i\|archive-date=12 October 2014\|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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'''Susie Tharu''' (born 1943) is an Indian writer, publisher, professor, editor and women's activist.<ref name="dept">{{cite web|title=Susie Tharu|url=http://thedepartmentofculturalstudies.wordpress.com/susie-tharu/|website=Department of Cultural Studies, EFL|publisher=Department of Cultural Studies, EFL|accessdate=28 October 2014|date=2013-07-31}}</ref> Throughout her career and the founding of several women's activist organizations, Tharu has helped to highlight those issues in India.

==Career==

Tharu as a writer earned her membership on the executive committee for Anveshi, an Indian research group dedicated to feminist-theory, where she also served as secretary. She has been a part of the ''Suabaltern Studies'' editorial since 1992.<ref name="anveshi">{{cite web|title=Executive {{sic|Comm|itee|hide=y}}|url=http://www.anveshi.org.in/the-people-of-anveshi/executive-{{Not a typo|comm|itee}}/|website=Anveshi Centre for Women's Studies|publisher=Anveshi Centre for Women's Studies|accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref> She served on the Board of Advisors for [[The Feminist Press]], where she was also a publisher. She has taught in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at [[Indian Institute of Technology Delhi]] and in [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur|Kanpur]].<ref name=anveshi /> Most recently, she and a few others, like K. Lalita, Rama Melkote, Uma Brughubanda and Dr. Veena Shatrugna founded Stree Shakti Sanghatana (SSS) and Anveshi, two women's activist groups. She edited two volumes of dossier on [[Dalit literature|Dalit writings]] from South India that focus on the resurgence of Dalit politics in the 1990s.<ref name=anveshi />

In addition, Tharu has served on the Advisory Panels of BODHI Centre for Dalit Bahujan Initiatives since 2003, and as a trustee for the Centre for Studies in Culture and Society in Bangalore since its inception. She has served on the Advisory Committee on National Biography for the National Book Trust, served as member of the Governing Council at the [[Nehru Memorial Museum & Library|Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] in New Delhi, as a trustee of the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and as a member of the Joint Committee for South Asia, Social Science Research Council in New York.<ref name=anveshi />

Tharu retired as professor of the [[English and Foreign Languages University]], Hyderabad, India. She was employed since 1973, serving as an English Literature Teacher, a Professor of English Literature, and a Coordinator/Professor for the School of Critical Humanities.<ref name=dept /> She is currently Eminent Professor, Department of Cultural Studies. Both her research and teaching focus on feminism, issues of minority, literary and visual arts, and social medicine. In total, Tharu has published six books on these topics. Her most well known work which she edited with K. Lalitha is the two-part anthology titled ''Women Writing In India, 600 B.C.''<ref name=anveshi /> Her works are most well known for their critical viewpoint on the Indian women's movement and cultural theory.<ref name="fempress">{{cite web|title=Women Writing In India: Volume I|url=http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i|website=The Feminist Press|publisher=The Feminist Press|access-date=28 October 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012053251/http://www.feministpress.org/books/susie-tharu/women-writing-india-volume-i|archive-date=12 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Activism==
In 1978 she helped to found Sthri Shakti Sangatana (SSS-Women Power Organization), an organization whose main focus was women. The group consisted of women active in the Maoist Party. Through this organization, Tharu helped to stop the vegetable export which affected housewives, vegetable vendors, and middle-class women. The organization also has raised question about the Rape Law through a series of street performances and public campaigns.<ref name="interview">{{cite journal|last1=Eligedi|first1=Rajkumar|title=Interview with Susie Tharu, conducted on 25th July 2013|journal=Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies|date=December 2013|volume= 1|issue= 2|url=http://ijclts.wordpress.com/|accessdate=28 October 2014}}</ref>

Later, Tharu helped to found Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies. The organization was founded after SSS, when the ambitions of that organization grew too large for her. The organization was grown from the members of SSS and many still retain membership in both.<ref name=interview /> The new organization, Anveshi, is based on research, critical reflection, and activism surrounding our current historical moment. The organization looks to explore feminist theory and ways of understanding issues in education, Dalits and minorities, development studies, health and healthcare systems, legal studies, and the public domain. The centre is located in Hyderabad, India.<ref name=anveshi /> Tharu has expressed that Anveshi is very interested in connecting feminist thinking and other thinking, as well as exploring why feminism does not easily invite Muslim or Dalit women. This organization also does a large number of translations of Women's writing in India.<ref name=interview />

==Honors and awards==
*1962-65: Uganda Government Merit Scholarship, Makerere College, Uganda<ref name=anveshi />
*1994-96: Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship<ref name=anveshi />

==Publications==
* {{cite book |title=Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present | volume=I and II | publisher=Delhi: Oxford University Press, New York: Feminist Press and London: Harper Collins, 1990-1993 | editor=Susie Tharu (co-editor) }}<ref name=anveshi />
* {{cite book | title=Subject to Change: Literary Studies in the Nineties | location= Delhi | publisher=Orient Longman | year=1994 }}<ref name=anveshi />
*{{cite journal | title=Notes for a Contemporary Theory of Gender | journal=Subaltern Studies |volume=9 | year=1995 | author=Susie Tharu (co-author) }}<ref name=anveshi />
* {{cite journal | author=Susie Tharu | title=Caste and Desire in the Scene of the Family | journal=Economic and Political Weekly | volume=XXXI | number=22 | date=June 1996 }}<ref name=anveshi />
* {{cite book | title=Subaltern Studies | volume=10 | location=Delhi | publisher=OUP | year=1999 | editor=Susie Tharu (co-editor) }}<ref name=anveshi />
* {{cite book | title=New French Feminisms: An Indian Anthology | location=Delhi | publisher=Sage | year=2003 |editor=Susie Tharu (co-editor) }}<ref name=anveshi />
*{{cite book | title=Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today | location=Hyderabad | publisher=Orient Blackswan, forthcoming |editor1=Susie Tharu |editor2=Anand Zachariah |editor3=R. Srivatsan}}<ref name=anveshi />
*{{cite book | author=Susie Tharu | title=No Alphabet in Sight: New Dalit Writing in South India, Dossier 1: Tamil and Malayalam | editor=K. Satyanarayana | editor-link=K. Satyanarayana (academic) | location=New Delhi | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2011 }}<ref name=anveshi />
*{{cite book | author=Susie Tharu |title=Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing in South India, Dossier 2: Kannada and Telugu |editor=K. Satyanarayana | location=New Delhi | publisher=Penguin Books | year=2013 }}<ref name=anveshi />

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