M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Teaching & Research Interest
Socio-Cultural history of Modern India
History of Childhood
History of Children’s Literature
History of Mentalite’
History of Symbols
Teaching currently
Pre-History, History of Ancient India
History of Early Modern Europe
History of Modern India
International History
History of Architecture
Feminism, Gender
Socio-cultural History of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Bengal.
Publication
• ‘The City and its Other’: Ghost Stories of Early Calcutta’ in Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora eds, Kolkata in Space,Time and Imagination, vol.2, Primus, Delhi, 2020.
• ‘Ekti Shahorer Punarnirmaan: Ekti Bhoutik Rajnaitik Akhyan, Anil Acharya, ed, Anushtup, 2020.
• ‘Thakurmar Jhuli: A Romance of the Nation’, in Suchetana Chattopadhyay, ed, Journal of History, Jadavpur University,vol.33 (2018-19)
• ‘Unreason and Uncanny: An Analysis of Body beyond Colonial Governmentality’ in Tanweer Alam Mazhari, ed, The Body Speaketh: Interrogating Cultural Constructions of the Body, Kolkata, 2017
• ‘Pagla Dashu: Ek Ulatpuraner Akhyan’ in Srijanshilpe Dui Purush: Upendrakishore O Sukumar, UGC sponsored National Level Seminar, for two days at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandir, Belur Math, Dept. of Bengali, 2013 (published on 23 January 2014, ISBN-978-81-928110-2-4)
• ‘Bangla Adventure Golpo: Swapnajaponer Prayash’ in Parikatha, May issue, 2014 (ISSN 2231- 2986)
• ‘ChanderPahar: Another Adventure’ in Journal of History, Department of History, Jadavpur University Vol. -XXVIII. (2010-11)
• ‘Bramho Manoshe – Soisobjapon: Unish o Bish Shatak’ in Dosho-Dishi, 2014 (ISSN 2320-3153)
Papers presented in conference:
• ‘Space, Historicity and Spectral Selves: Ghost Women of Bengali Stories in the late 19th century’, paper presented as a resource person in the international webinar on ‘Women in History’, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, 2020
• ‘The Spectral Return: Revisiting Partition Memory’, paper presented in UGC Sponsored International Conference on Reappraising the Partition of India, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College,Howrah, 2017
• ‘Politics of Folktales: Story of a Propagandist Nation’, paper presented in Indian Council of Historical Research sponsored National Level Seminar on Exploring Eurasia: Traditions and Prospects, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, 2016
• ‘An – other Life: The Haunted Domesticity in Rabindranath Tagore’s Stories’, paper presented in UGC-CPE sponsored International Conference on Gender and Empowerment, Bgijoy Krishna Girls’ College in collaboration with School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2016
Workshops attained:
• workshop on ‘Research Methodology in Humanities and Social Sciences: Contemporary Issues and Challenges’ organized by Scottish Church College, Kolkata and United Board of Christian Higher Education in Asia, 2017
• workshop on ‘Aspects of Teaching Early History: From Pre-History to the Decline of Rome’ organized by Department of History, West Bengal State University and Ramakri8shna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, 2018
• UGC-Sponsored Orientation Programme, HRDC, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2017
• workshop on ‘Starting Your Oral History Project’, Oral History Association of India, 2020
• UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course in Literary Studies and the Question of Interdisciplinarity,
HRDC, Jadavpur University, 2021
Academic Qualifications:
• Ph.D. in Modern History at Department of History, Jadavpur University
• dissertation title: Psychotrope of a Colonial Society: Motifs and Metaphors in Children’s Literature of Bengal
• M.Phil. in Modern History at CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Title of the Dissertation: Texts Decoded: The Interplay of Authority and Imagination in Bengali Children’s Literature (1820 – 1940)
• M.A. in History – Jadavpur University
o Specialization – Social History of Modern India.
o ranked 3rd (First Class) in the university
• B.A. in History (Hons.) – Presidency College, University of Calcutta
• ranked 3rd (First Class) in the university
• Higher Secondary Examination – West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
• Madhyamik Pariksha, – West Bengal Board of Secondary Education
