Tejaswini Niranjana is Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She was formerly at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, which she co-founded. Among her books are SITING TRANSLATION: HISTORY, POST-STRUCTURALISM AND THE COLONIAL CONTEXT (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1992), and MOBILIZING INDIA: WOMEN, MUSIC, AND MIGRATION BETWEEN INDIA AND TRINIDAD(Durham: Duke UP, 2006).