Kashi Gomez

Kashi Gomez is the Lecturer in Sanskrit in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the intersection of Sanskrit literary traditions and early modern commentary through a politics of gender. Her current book project examines the intellectual and social investments of two co-wives and their husband, who were writing Sanskrit commentaries in eighteenth-century Maratha-ruled Tanjavur. The book explores new articulations of regional identity and investments in strīdharma (the ritual and social obligations of women) that were emerging in Brahmin Sanskrit-intellectual circles at this regional court.