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Tanika Sarkar
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Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India based at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right.
Life and career[edit]
Tanikar Sarkar was born to Amal Bhattacharya, professor of English at Presidency College, and Sukumari Bhattacharya, eminent Sanskritist and scholar on early Indian culture. She is married to fellow historian, Sumit Sarkar.[1]
Sarkar earned a B.A. in History from the Presidency College, University of Calcutta in 1972. She also earned a degree in Modern History from the University of Calcutta in 1974. She received her PhD from the University of Delhi in 1981.
She is a professor of history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has also taught at the St. Stephen's College, and the Indraprastha College, Delhi University. She has also taught modern Indian History at the University of Chicago.[2]
Publications[edit]
Tanika Sarkar has published the following Monographs:
- Bengal 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest, (Oxford University Press India, 1987), ISBN 978-0195620764.
- Words to Win: A Modern Autobiography (Kali for Women, 1999).
- Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu Right (coauthored with Tapan Basu, Pradip Datta, Sumit Sarkar and Sambuddha Sen; Orient Longman 1993), ISBN 978-0863113833.
- Women and the Hindu Right (edited jointly with Urvashi Butalia, 1995), ISBN 978-8185107677.
- Women and Right-Wing Movement: Indian Experiences (edited jointly with Urvashi Butalia, 1998), ISBN 978-1856492898.
- Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, Cultural Nationalism (Hurst, 2001), ISBN 978-1850655824.[3]
- Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader (two volumes, edited jointly with Sumit Sarkar, 2008), ISBN 978-0253220493
- Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times (University of Chicago Press, 2009), ISBN 978-1906497293.[4]
- Caste in Modern India: A Reader (two volumes, edited jointly with Sumit Sarkar, Permanent Black, 2013), ASIN B00O122Q6E.
- Words to Win: The Making of a Modern Autobiography (2014), ISBN 978-9381017906.
- Calcutta: The Stormy Decades (2015) edited with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Recognitions[edit]
In 2004, she has received the Rabindra Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, the highest literary award given in West Bengal. It was reported that she intended to return it in protest over the police firing in Nandigram in March 2007.[1][5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nandigram was more shocking than Jallianwala Bagh". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae: Tanika Sarkar" (PDF). Trinity College Dublin. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ↑ "Charting cultural nationalism". The Hindu. 19 August 2001. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ↑ Mythily Sivaraman (15 February 2000). "The image of widowhood". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
- ↑ "Historians to return award". The Hindu. 17 March 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
External links[edit]
- Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
- Bengali historians
- Historians of South Asia
- 20th-century Indian historians
- Indian women historians
- Living people
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Delhi University faculty
- Jawaharlal Nehru University faculty
- University of Chicago faculty
- Writers about Hindu nationalism
- Indian women political writers
- 20th-century Indian women scientists
- 20th-century Indian scientists
- Indian women science writers
- Indian social sciences writers
- 21st-century Indian women writers
- 21st-century Indian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Indian women scientists
- 21st-century Indian scientists
- 20th-century women writers