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Sangeeta DasGupta

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@mail.jnu.ac.in, sangeetadasgupta@hotmail.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.)

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.