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{{short description|Indian historian (born 1957)}}
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'''Tapati Guha-Thakurta''' (born 1957) is an Indian historian who has written about the [[cultural history]] and art of India. She is a director and professor in history at the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], and was previously a professor at [[Presidency College, Kolkata]].

==Biography==
Guha-Thakurta was born in [[Calcutta]] and obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree in history from the [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] and [[Calcutta University]]. She finished her DPhil. at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://global.uchicago.edu/tapati-guha-thakurta|title=Tapati Guha-Thakurta | University of Chicago Global|website=global.uchicago.edu}}</ref> Guha-Thakurta was married to historian [[Hari Vasudevan]], who died in May 2020 after contracting the [[Covid-19 virus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/coronavirus-historian-hari-vasudevan-no-more/cid/1771949|title=Coronavirus: Historian Hari Vasudevan no more|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1995, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at [[Wolfson College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFzjSSnT5NUC&pg=PR13|title=Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India|first=Tapati|last=Guha-Thakurta|date=August 5, 2004|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231503518|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 2011, she was a Visiting Fellow at the [[Yale Center for British Art]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa|first=Tapati|last=Guha-Thakurta|date=March 1, 2013|journal=South Asian Studies|volume=29|issue=1|pages=77–109|doi=10.1080/02666030.2013.772801|s2cid=154610286}}</ref>
In 2018, she was a visiting professor at [[Brown University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/humanities/people/tapati-guha-thakurta|title=Tapati Guha-Thakurta | Cogut Institute for the Humanities | Brown University|website=www.brown.edu}}</ref> She has written exhibition monographs and curated many art exhibitions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/from-kalighat-to-the-new-woman/cid/898851|title=FROM KALIGHAT TO THE NEW WOMAN|website=www.telegraphindia.com}}</ref> In 2019, she was assigned by the Indian Ministry of Culture to prepare a dossier proposing the inclusion of [[Durga Puja]] in the [[UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/i-t-notices-to-durga-pujas-even-as-festival-seeks-unesco-status/article25980616.ece|title=I-T notices to Durga Pujas even as festival seeks UNESCO status|first=Shiv Sahay|last=Singh|date=January 12, 2019|via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref>

==Books==
*{{cite book |last=Guha-Thakurta |first=Tapati |date=2007 |title=The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850–1920 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-0521052733}}
*{{cite book |last=Guha-Thakurta |first=Tapati |date=2004 |title=Monuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post–Colonial India |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |isbn=978-0231129985}}
*{{cite book |last=Guha-Thakurta |first=Tapati |date=2015 |title=In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-9384082468}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.cssscal.org/faculty_tapati_guha_thakurta.php Centre for Studies in Social Sciences - Profile]
*[https://www.brown.edu/academics/humanities/people/tapati-guha-thakurta Brown University - Profile]
*[https://global.uchicago.edu/tapati-guha-thakurta University of Chicago - Profile]

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