Elena ValdameriElena Valdameri is Senior Researcher at the Professorship for the History of the Modern World, ETH Zurich. She is the author of 'Indian Liberalism between Nation and Empire. The Political Life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale' (Routledge, 2022). She works onthe history of modern South Asia, with specific interest and expertise in the history of political thought, the anticolonial movement, the politics of the body and citizenship. Her current project examines the role of physical education and outdoor activities for girls and women in late colonial and early independent India as a part of broader modernizing projects that focused on the body as a site of political intervention and used it to convey norms and values of 'good' citizenship. Read More Read Less