{"id":1387,"date":"2025-03-04T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/?page_id=1387"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:38:22","slug":"kanika-sharma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/people\/kanika-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanika Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Gender, and Media, SOAS University of London<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr\u00a0Kanika\u00a0Sharma\u00a0is 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&rsquo;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:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/24730580.2021.1962083?scroll=top&amp;needAccess=true\">Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai (1886) ILR 10 Bom 301: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India<\/a>. This article won the Indian Law Review best article prize for 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Gender, and Media, SOAS University of London Dr\u00a0Kanika\u00a0Sharma\u00a0is a Senior Lecturer at SOAS University of London. She is a legal historian of colonial South Asia &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002712,"featured_media":0,"parent":379,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1387","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1387\/revisions\/1389"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}