Melina Gravier is a PhD candidate in the history of modern South Asia at the University of Lausanne. She was awarded a 4-year Doc.CH Grant (Swiss National Science Foundation) for her doctoral research. She studies women’s writings on gold and jewelry to examine women’s property rights controversies in late colonial India. Drawing mainly on Hindi and Urdu women’s magazines, she seeks to write the story of women striving for economic rights in their everyday lives.