Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (born 1950) is an Indian feminist scholar, a professor in English, and author of several books on issues related to feminism and gender.
Her research interest has covered many subjects such as of the pre and post colonial period, Indian English writing, gender and cultural issues related to South Asia, and the English literature of the Victorian era.
In New Delhi, her assignments have been as Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and at the Centre for Women's Development Studies(CWDS).
She has also worked at the Oberlin College, Ohio as Shansi Visiting Professor.
[3] her essay on the practice of Sati (1990) has appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism and her book The Lie of the Land (1992) is on post-Independence English studies.