Sangeeta Dasgupta

Sangeeta Dasgupta teaches in the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is also Senior Research Associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, Brighton. She is an editor of The Indian Economic and Social History Review, and on the editorial board of ‘The Anthem Impact in Social History for South Asia’ series. She has been Agatha Harrison Memorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and Asa Briggs Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. She has also been the recipient of fellowships from the Charles Wallace India Trust, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the University Grants Commission. She is presently working on a digitization project funded by the Modern Endangered Archives Programme of the UCLA Library and is writing a biography of the anthropologist Sarat Chandra Roy.

The project

Title: Adivasis and Anthropologists: Intersecting Journeys in Jharkhand, India

Selection of publications

Books

• Dasgupta S., Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2022).

• Rycroft, D.J. and S. Dasgupta (eds.), The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi, Routledge, London and New York, 2011. (The Paperback Edition was published in 2013, and the First Indian Reprint was published in 2014.)

Occasional Paper

• Dasgupta, S., Beyond the Frames of Environmental History: Reading an Adivasi Movement in Colonial India, NMML Occasional Paper, Perspectives in Indian Development, New Series, 51, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2015, pp.1-38.

Special Issues of Journals

• ‘Multiple Worlds of the Adivasis’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 56, Issue 5, September 2022, Guest Editor: Sangeeta Dasgupta (with Vinita Damodaran).

• ‘Margins and the State: Caste, ‘Tribe’ and Criminality in South Asia’, Studies in History, Vol. 36, Issue 1, February 2020, Guest Editor: Sangeeta Dasgupta (with Joy L.K. Pachuau).

• ‘Reading the archive, reframing ‘adivasi’ histories’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 53:1, Special Issue, January – March 2016, Guest editor: Sangeeta Dasgupta.

Articles

• Dasgupta, S. ‘The Oraons of Chhotanagpur: A journey through colonial ethnography’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 56, Issue 5, September 2022, pp. 1375-1415.

• Dasgupta, S, ‘Multiple Worlds of the Adivasis. An Introduction’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 56, Issue 5, September 2022, pp. 1353-1374 (with Vinita Damodaran).