Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Gender, and Media, SOAS University of London
Dr Kanika Sharma is a Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London. She is a legal historian of colonial South Asia with a special interest in the development of women’s rights during the period, and the use of images and architecture in political trials in India. She has written extensively on the Rukhmabai case including a co-authored feminist judgment that seeks to offer an alternative judgment for the case: Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai (1886) ILR 10 Bom 301: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India. This article won the Indian Law Review best article prize for 2021.