Arunima Datta

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Datta, A. (2012). Criminalizing Munniammah: Camouflaging Irresponsibility of Colonial Enterprise in Malaya. Conference Proceedings of Indian Association of Asian Pacific Studies (2012). Conference Proceedings of Indian Association of Asian Pacific Studies.
• Datta, A. (2011). Tracing the Roots of Marginalization of Indians During the Colonial Period of Malaysia: Alienation of Bhumiputras from Bhumi by Chettiars. Indian History Congress Proceedings, (2011). Indian History Congress Proceedings (2011).
• Datta, A. (2010). Silent Marginalization of Indian Women Migrant Labour in Colonial Malaysia. Indian History Congress Proceedings (2010). Indian History Congress Proceedings (2010).

Author Interview

• Datta, A. (2021). Author Interview: Q & A with Dr Arunima Datta on Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. Singapore, ARIScope. https://ari.nus.edu.sg/ariscope/author-interview-q-a-with-dr-arunima-datta-on-fleeting-agencies-a-social-history-of-indian-coolie-women-in-british-malaya/

Book

• Datta, A. (2023). Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Traveling Ayahs in Britain. NA (NA) 320. Oxford, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/waiting-on-empire-9780192848239?cc=us&lang=en&#
• Datta, A. (2021). Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fleeting-agencies/7D6665787FAAB05DA94554B563615B32

Book Chapter

• Datta, A. (2024). Intimate Lives on Rubber Plantations: The textures of Indian coolie relations in British Malaya. Beyond Indenture: Gender, Agency and Resistance. Cambridge University Press.
• Datta, A. (2022). Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak. Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism. Routledge.
• Datta, A. (2018). “Immorality”, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground. Women's History Review. Connecting Women's Histories: The local and the global. Routledge.

Book Review

• Datta, A. (2021). Datta on Singha, 'The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labor in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921. H-Asia. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55881
• Datta, A. (2021). Review of Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s by Karen Teoh. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 22 (2) Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
• Datta, A. (2021). Review of Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67 by Stan Neal. Britain and the World. 14 (2) 191-193. Britain and the World.
• Datta, A. (2019). Review of Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society: Bugis Practices of Sexuality and Marriage by Nurul Ilmi Idrus. 47 (3) Asian Journal of Social Studies.
• Datta, A. (2018). Review of Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia edited by Tiantian Zheng. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 7 (3) 512-514.
• Datta, A. (2018). Review of Tamils and the haunting of Justice: History and recognition in Malaysia’s plantations. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 49 (1) 168-171. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Datta, A. (2017). Review of Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives edited by Jayati Bhattacharya and Coonoor Kripalani. Economic and Political Weekly. 52 (34)
• Datta, A. (2016). Review of Tragic Orphans: Indians in Malaysia by Carl Vadivella Belle. 44 (3) 419-422. Asian Journal of Social Science.
• Datta, A. (2015). Review of Where Gendered Spaces Bend: The Rubber Phenomenon in Northern Laos by Anna-Klara Lindeborg.

Broadcast Media

• Datta, A. (2024). BBC Radio -Sheffield: Episode on Chai and Chat with Rav. Appeared to talk about my research on ayahs, the women’s day workshop I hosted with the Sheffield Archives on 8 March 2024 and talk about how my life inspired my work.
• Datta, A. (2024). Race, Anxiety and Shopping in the Australian Outback: Indian Hawkers and Victoria's 1884 Smallpox Outbreak. Indian Ocean World Podcast.
• Datta, A. (2023). The Misrepresentation of coolie women in nationalist discourses. The Swaddle. https://www.theswaddle.com/the-misrepresentation-of-indian-coolie-women-with-arunima-datta
• Datta, A. (2023). Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain. New Books Network Podcast in Women’s History. https://newbooksnetwork.com/waiting-on-empire
• Datta, A. (2021). Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya. https://newbooksnetwork.com/fleeting-agencies
• Datta, A. (2021). South Asians in Britain: Sake Deen Mohamad and introduction of Shampoo in Britain. BBC4, You are Dead to Me episode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09xcyhg
• Datta, A. (2021). “Author Interview: Q & A with Dr Arunima Datta on Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya,”.

Journal Article

• Datta, A. (2025). Entertaining the Metropole: Vagrancy, repatriation and Indian performers in Britain. Immigrants & Minorities. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02619288.2025.2500973
• Datta, A. (2024). Reading Silenced Identities through Visual Archives: Indian Travelling Ayahs in Service of the British Empire. Critical Collective.
• Datta, A. (2023). Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 30 (1) 33-54. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/09715215221133541
• Datta, A. (2022). Becoming Visible: Travel Documents and Travelling Ayahs in the British Empire. South Asian Studies. 38 (2) 141-160. South Asian Studies: British Association of South Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2022.2111087
• Datta, A. (2022). Pony Up!: Managing Destitution among British Grooms from Australia in Nineteenth Century India. 122 (1) Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History. https://doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2022.3
• Datta, A. (2021). Responses to Traveling Indian Ayahs in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain. Journal of Historical Geography. 71 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2021.02.001
• Datta, A. (2020). Knocker Ups: A Social History of Waking up in Victorian Britain’s Industrial Towns. Journal of Victorian Culture. 25 (3) 331-348. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcaa013
• Datta, A. (2017). Negotiating Gendered Spaces in Colonial Press: Wives of European Planters in British Malaya. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. 18 (3) 10.1353/cch.2017.0041
• Datta, A. (2016). Immorality’, Nationalism and the Colonial State in British Malaya: Indian ‘coolie’ women’s intimate lives as ideological battleground. Women's History Review. 25 (4) 584-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2015.1114326
• Datta, A. (2015). Social Memory and Indian Women from Malaya and Singapore in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Journal of Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 88 (2) 77-103. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26527714

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Datta, A. (2022). Managing horses on the High Seas: Horse Grooms in the Service of the British Empire. Summer 2022 (2) Radical Currents, Labour Histories.
• Datta, A. (2021). Curry tales of the Empire. Journal of Victorian Culture Online (The blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture). https://jvc.oup.com/2021/05/27/curry-tales-of-the-empire/
• Datta, A. (2020). Shampoo Empire: Bengali Migrant’s Trade in Britain. History Today. 70 (3) 40-49. History Today.
• Datta, A. (2020). Women in the business of waking up industrial Britain. Journal of Victorian Culture. Journal of Victorian Culture Online (The blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture).
• Datta, A. (2019). Punkhawallahs: Keeping British India Cool. History Today. 69 (9) 54-63. History Today.

Reprinted Article

• Datta, A. (2025). Keeping India Cool. The British Empire. (Special Edition) History Today.

Written Case with Instructional Material

• Datta, A. (2025). “Travelling Ayahs in Britain".

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Datta, A., "Visiting Fellowship, Queen Mary University of London," sponsored by Queen Mary University of London, International, $7000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Visiting Scholar in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics," sponsored by Queen's University Belfast, International, $13000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "President’s Graduate Fellowship Award," sponsored by National University of Singapore, Other, $3100 Funded. (2014 - 2014).

Grant - Research

• Datta, A. (Co-Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Fund for Innovation in Texas History," sponsored by UNT History department, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (2025).
• Datta, A., "Department FY26 Research Grant," sponsored by Department of History UNT, University of North Texas, $2000 Funded. (2025 - 2026).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "UNT Small Travel Grant for Conference -2025 Fall," sponsored by UNT History Department, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2025 - 2025).
• Datta, A., "Faculty Success -Conference Support," sponsored by Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. ( - 2025).
• Datta, A., "Global Venture Fund," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $3418 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
• Datta, A., "Royal Historical Society, UK - workshop grant," sponsored by Royal Historical Society, UK, International, $1000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
• Datta, A., "UNT CREATE (Creative and Research Enhancement Activity Time for Engagement) Grant," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
• Datta, A., "UNT History Department Travel grant 2024 for conference travel," sponsored by UNT History Department, University of North Texas, $2600 Funded. ( - 2024).
• Datta, A., "UNT Small Travel Grant for Conference -2023 Fall," sponsored by UNT History Department, University of North Texas, $500 Funded. ( - 2023).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Research and Creative Activity Grant 2023," sponsored by Idaho State University Research and Creative Activity, Other, $5000 Funded. ( - 2023).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Course Release Grant for Research," sponsored by Idaho State University, Other, $5000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Travel Grant 2022-2023," sponsored by Idaho State university, Other, $2000 Funded. ( - 2022).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Course Release Grant, 2021," sponsored by Idaho State University, Other, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Travel Grant, 2021-22," sponsored by Idaho State University, Other, $2000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
• Datta, A., "Idaho Humanities Council Grant (sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities)," sponsored by Idaho Humanities Council Grant (sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities), Federal, $3500 Funded. (2020 - 2021).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Idaho State University Travel Grant, 2019-20," sponsored by Idaho State University, Other, $2000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Asia Research Fieldwork/Archive Grant, NUS," sponsored by National University of Singapore, National, $5000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "NUS, Academic Event/Conference Grant, July 2016," sponsored by National University of Singapore, National, $25000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Asia Research Fieldwork/ Archive Grant, NUS," sponsored by National University of Singapore, National, $5000 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
• Datta, A. (Principal), "Graduate Research Support Scheme Award for research fieldwork," sponsored by National University of Singapore, National, $5000 Funded. ( - 2012).

Grant - Service

• Datta, A. (Other), "Idaho State University Cultural Events Grant," sponsored by Idaho State University, State, $2500 Funded. ( - 2022).