Faculty Profile

 
Name : Sangeeta  DasGupta
Designation : Assistant Professor
Centre : Centre for Historical Studies
School : Social Sciences
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Email : sangeetadasgupta@mail.jnu.ac.in   sangeetadasgupta@hotmail.com
Web Address : http://www.jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D 
                                    

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Adivasi/Tribal History; Colonial Ethnography; Missionary Studies 
                                    

Experience

12 + years; teaching in JNU since 2008 
                                    

Awards & Honours

1. Kuruville Zachariah Award from Presidency College, Kolkata (1987)
2. Junior and Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the University Grants Commission (1991-1997)
3. Research Fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for research at the Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel, Germany (June 1994 - September 1995)
4. UK Visiting Fellowship from the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK (2003-2004)
5. Fellowship from the Charles Wallace India Trust
6. Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, with the Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellowship (2005-2007)
7. International Visiting Fellow at Grinnell College, U.S.A (2010) 
                                    

International Collaboration/Consultancy

 
                                    

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)
1. Dasgupta, S. (2008), ‘Reordering a world: The Tana Bhagat movement, 1914-1919’, Studies in History, Vol. 15: 1.

2. Dasgupta, S. (2004), ‘The journey of an anthropologist in Chhotanagpur’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 42: 2.

3. Dasgupta, S. (2007), ‘Probing anthropological representations: An analysis of Sarat Chandra Roy and his writings on the “tribe” and the Oraons of Chhotanagpur’, in Gautam Sengupta, Suchira Roychoudhury and Sujit Som eds, Past and Present. Ethnoarchaeology in India, New Delhi.

4. Dasgupta, S. (2008), ‘Recasting the “Oraons and the “tribe”: A study of Sarat Chandra Roy’s anthropology’ in Satish Deshpande, Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi, eds, Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology, New Delhi.

5. D.J. Rycroft and S. Dasgupta (2011), ‘Indigenous pasts and the politics of belonging’ in D.J. Rycroft and S. Dasgupta (eds.), Indigenous Pasts and The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi, Routledge, London and New York. 
                                  

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)

1. D.J. Rycroft and S. Dasgupta (2011), ‘Indigenous pasts and the politics of belonging’ in D.J. Rycroft and S. Dasgupta (eds.), Indigenous Pasts and The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi, Routledge, London and New York.

2. Dasgupta, S., ‘Locating adivasi movements in colonial India: Oraons and Tana Bhagats in Chhotanagpur’, in Alpa Shah and Crispin Bates eds., Savage Attack: Adivasi Insurgency in India, forthcoming from Berghahn Press, Oxford and New York, and Indian Social Science Press, New Delhi.

3. Dasgupta, S., ‘From “heathen aboriginals” to “Christian Tribals”: Locating the Oraons in Missionary Writings of Chhotanagpur’ in Tanika Sarkar, Pius Malekandathil and Joy L.K. Pachuau eds. Christianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, New Delhi. 
                                    

Patents (if any)
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