ദേവിക, born 6 May 1968) is a Malayali historian, feminist, social critic and academic from Kerala.
[6][7] In her later research, Devika explores contemporary political and social issues through a historical lens and her concerns are wider than gender, and rather, focus on intersectional power.
The Hindu reports in their review "Authored by J. Devika, Associate Professor at the CDS, the book is an incisive take on the invisible spaces to which women have been consigned in conventional history and reaches out to the silent depths where women's powerful actions and articulations of the past lay buried.
Notable among them are the translation of Nalini Jameela's autobiography[12] and the short stories of K. R. Meera[13][14][15] and Sarah Joseph.
Devika also writes extensively in Malayalam, in contemporary publications.She has also written for children, and her work was published by the Kerala Shastra Sahitya Parishat She also has a website about the first generation Malayalee feminists called Swatantryavaadini.