The late Dr. Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi, India. Formerly a Professor of History at the University of Delhi, Aparna obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women’s history and the history of education. Aparna served on the editorial board of the Indian Economic and Social History Review and was on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has authored biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji and Kasturba Gandhi.