Devaki Jain

Devaki Jain is a graduate of Oxford University, where she is now an Honorary Fellow. A development economist and activist, she has held a wide range of academic and institutional positions and is the founder of several key organizations for women in the social sciences. The author of The Brass Notebook (The New Press), she lives in Delhi.

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The New Press Blog

Learn more about Devaki Jain and read an excerpt from her memoir The Brass Notebook on The New Press Blog.

Publishers Weekly

Read a review of Devaki Jain's The Brass Notebook in Publishers Weekly.

Books by Devaki Jain

The Brass Notebook
A Memoir of Feminism and Freedom

Devaki Jain