ACADEMIC BACKGROUND :
PhD in History from University of Cambridge
M.Litt from University of Oxford
M.A. in History from University of Calcutta
B.A. with Honours in History from
Calcutta University
POSITIONS HELD :
Reader in History at Calcutta University
Lecturer in Department of History in
Calcutta University
Research Fellow in Trinity College
Cambridge UK
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
     
         
    PUBLICATIONS :  
         
    1. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India,   
        The Bengal Jute Industry  
        Cambridge University Press,  
        Cambridge,1999  
         
    2. A Case for Labour History -  
        The Jute History in Eastern India  
        K. P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1999  
        (edited with Arjan de Haan)  
         
    ARTICLES :  
         
    1. “Motherhood And Mothercraft : Gender and Nationalism in Bengal”  
        in Gender and History, 5, 2, Summer 1993  
         
     2. “Honour and Resistance: Gender, Community and Class in Bengal, 1920-40”  
         in Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Abhijit Dasgupta and Willem van Schendel (ed.),  
         Bengal: Communities Development and States,  
         Manohar Publications, 1994  
         
    3. “Unsettling the Household : Act VI (of 1901) and the Regulation of  
        Women Migrants in Colonial Bengal” in Shahid Amin and  
        Marel van der Linden(eds.)  
       “Peripheral” Labour? Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianisation  
        International Review of Social History, Supplement 4, 41, 1996  
         
      4. “Gendered Exclusion : Domesticity and Dependence in Bengal”,  
          International Review of Social History 42, 1997  
           
      5. “Segregation and Solidarity : Women in Working Class Politics,  
          Bombay and Calcutta, 1920-40”, in R. Samaddar (ed.)  
          Women in Asia, Calcutta, 1997  
           
      6. Revised version ” Segregation and Solidarity: Women Textile Workers in  
          Calcutta and Bombay, 1920-1940”,  
          Bharati Ray (ed) volume on “Women in Politics”,  
          K. P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 2000  
           
      7. Interview with Vidya Munshi (8 and 16 July 1997),  
          Journal of Women's Studies 2,1,1997  
           
       8. “Offences Against Marriage: Negotiating Custom in West Bengal”  
           Paper presented at the National Workshop on “Rethinking Indian Modernity”  
           The Political Economy of Sexuality”, Madras 1-3 August 1996  
           In Janaki Nair and Mary John (eds),  
           A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India,  
           Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1999  
           
      9. “Class or Gender? Women and the Bengal Jute Industry”  
          in Arjan de Haan and Samita Sen (eds.)  
          A case for Labour History: The Bengal Jute Industry, K.P. Bagchi Calcutta 1999  
           
      10. “ At the Margins: Women workers in the Bengal Jute Industry”  
            in Jan Breman, Johnathan Parry and Karin Kapadia (eds.)  
            The World of Industrial Labour  
            Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1999  
            (Also in special edition of Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1999)  
           
       11. “ A Father's Duty? State, Patriarchy and Women's Education  
              in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed.), Education and Dis-Privileged Groups in India  
              In preparation for publication  
           
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
           
      REVIEWS :  
           
      1. Sunil Kumar Sen, Working Class Movement in India , 1885-1975  
          In Calcutta Historical Journal, XVI, 2, 1994  
           
      2. Jashodhara Bagchi, Indian Women: Myth and Reality  
          In Journal of Gender Studies, 1997  
           
      3. Martha Alter Chen, Widowhood in India  
          Social Neglect and Public Action  
          In The Statesman, 15 March 1999  
           
      NEWSPAPER ARTICLES :  
           
      1. Nama: In Deaths as in Life , a Pawn  
          The Telegraph, 1995  
           
      2. Platform Inaction (The Beijing Conference)  
          The Telegraph, 9 October 1995  
           
      3. Indian Feminism  
          Asian Age, April 1996  
           
      4. Queen of Hurts ( Violence Against Women)  
          The Telegraph, 4 December 1996  
           
      5. Diary of a Single Woman  
          Asian Age, 13 April 1997  
           
      6. Diana O Tar Bhabmurti (Bengali)  
          Ananda Bazaar Patrika, September 1997  
           
      7. Charting a New Course (On Women's Studies)  
          The Telegraph, 19 January 1998  
           
      8. The Path Forward (The Pune Conference of the IAWS)  
          The Telegraph, June 1998  
           
      9. Defuse the Power  
          The Telegraph, 23 August 1998  
           
      10. Woman Power, Go Get It (On reservation of seats)  
            The Telegraph, 6 September 1998  
           
      11. CITU Changes Tack ( Labour in West Bengal)  
            The Statesman, 20 January 1999  
       

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