Ms Arora is the first professor and only female to teach at the college, which was the first women's college in the town of Jaisalmer when it opened in 1998.
Ms Arora was also the first woman in her family to make it to college after an arranged marriage at the age of 20.
"I lived in a joint family, and my in-laws didn't think I should study after marriage," she says. "I had to make all the meals, do all the wash, and all the house cleaning." She also had to take care of her two young children. Though she was busy with housework, she never lost her urge to learn.
For six years, she quietly studied all night, while the rest of her family was asleep. "From 10 at night to six in the morning, I would do my PhD write-up work. I would only sleep one or one-and-a-half hours," Ms Arora says.
Ms Arora became a sociology professor more than 25 years ago in her hometown of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. where she also taught at a women's college.
Her mother was from a village outside Jaisalmer where girls do not go to school. But her parents moved into the town when she was a baby, and they supported her education. "Every time I go to the village, I argue with them," she says. "I tell them to send the girls to school, but they reply 'why educate the girls? What will they go and do after that?' They think girls can't do anything."
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