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Sangeeta DasGupta

Sangeeta DasGupta
Sangeeta DasGupta
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Historical Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
307, SSS-III
Off. Phone
011-26704456
Email
sangeetadasgupta[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, sangeetadasgupta[at]hotmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sdasgupta/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph.D 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Adivasi Studies; Environmental History; Colonial Ethnography; Missionary Studies; Visual Representations

Experience

22+ years; teaching in JNU since 2008 

Awards & Honours
  1. UK Visiting Fellowship, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2020-2021
  2. Asa Briggs Fellow, University of Sussex, 2017
  3. Visiting Fellow at the Fondation  Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 2016
  4. Research Award, University Grants Commission, 2012-2014
  5. Invited to the Program in Agrarian Studies and the Program in South Asian Studies, Yale University, 2013
  6. Research Grant, Charles Wallace India Trust, 2011
  7. International Visiting Fellow, Grinnell College, 2010
  8. Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 2005-2007
  9. UK Visiting Fellowship and Small Study and Research Grant, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2003-2004
  10. Scholarship from the Deutscher Akademisher Austauschdienst (DAAD), 1994-1995
  11. Junior and Senior Research Fellow, University Grants Commission, 1992-1997
  12. Kuruville Zachariah Prize, Presidency College, 1987
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  1. Senior Research Associate, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex
  2. Project Lead for ‘Planning Grant’ from the Modern Endangered Archives Programme, UCLA Library and Arcadia for the project titled ‘Political Pamphlets, Photographs and Local Journals: Narrating ideas of Indigeneity in Jharkhand, India’ (https://meap.library.ucla.edu/indigeneity-jharkhand-india-jnu). Co-applicant: Vinita Damodaran, University of Sussex.
  3. Member of Advisory Council of the Leverhulme project titled ‘An Antique Land: Geology, Philology and the Making of the Indian Subcontinent, 1830-1920’, Department of History, University of Kent, 2013-2015.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography, Modern Asian Studies (forthcoming, 2022)
  2. Adivasi Studies: From a historian’s perspective, History Compass, First Published: 11 September 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12486)/ History Compass, Vol. 16, Issue 10, October 2018.
  3. Mapping histories: Many narratives of Tana pasts, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, First Published: February 10, 2016 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0019464615619546)/ The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 53, Issue 1, Special Issue, January – March 2016, pp. 99-129.
  4. ‘Heathen aboriginals’, ‘Christian tribes’ and ‘animistic races’: Missionary narratives on the Oraons of Chhotanagpur in colonial India, Modern Asian Studies, First Published: July 24, 2015 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X15000025)/ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 50, Issue 2, March 2016, pp. 437-478.
  5. The journey of an anthropologist in Chhotanagpur, The Indian Economic and Social History Review, First Published: April 1, 2004 (https://doi.org/10.1177/001946460404100203) /The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 42, Issue 2, 2004, pp. 165-198.
  6. Reordering a world: The Tana Bhagat movement, 1914-1919, Studies in History, First Published: February 1, 1999 (https://doi.org/10.1177/025764309901500101)/ Studies in History, Vol. 15, Issue 1, 1999, pp. 1-41.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2021.
  2. Religion as protest: Tana Bhagats, in Marine Carrin ed., Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia (BERIPSA), Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2021, pp. 283-292.
  3. The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi (with D.J. Rycroft), Routledge, London and New York, 2011.

(The Paperback Edition was published in 2013, and the First Indian Reprint was published in 2014.)