Tithi Bhattacharya

Tithi Bhattacharya is an American activist and writer. She is a professor of South Asian history at Purdue University.

Biography Bhattacharya was born in India. She applied for U.S. citizenship in 2015 after living there for nearly a decade. She cited the stress of applying for visas and the election of Narendra Modi as prime minister as reasons for applying for citizenship.

Career Bhattacharya is a Marxist feminist and one of the national organizers of the International Women's Strike on March 8, 2017. Bhattacharya is a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).

Bhattacharya is one of the authors of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, which ties feminism to other modes of struggle, including anti-racism and anti-capitalism. On the topic of gender Bhattacharya has written the book The Sentinels of Culture, which developed from her dissertation on the British-educated middle class in 19th-century Kolkata. This manifesto was criticized by both Ukrainian feminists and members of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance themselves.

In 2025, she published Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.

Research Bhattacharya was an editor of the book Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression, a book that advanced social reproduction theory, a Marxist feminist theory that analyzes the role of women's labor under capitalism. She was described as a researcher "operating on the cutting edge of recent work on social reproduction theory".