Barnita Bagchi

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Barnita Bagchi (born 1973) is an Indian feminist and academic. She is a faculty member [1] at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata [2]. She was educated at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Feminist historian and sociologist of girls' and women's education; well-known also as translator and scholar of Bengali and South Asian feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Bagchi's academic work is at the interface of gender, education, and development, focusing on the period from the late eighteenth century to contemporary times and on Britain and South Asia. She combines analysis of field-based and literary narratives of education, from a feminist human development perspective. Translator of Bengali literature, of authors such as Jyotirmoyee Devi, Santosh Kumar Ghose, and Selina Hossain.

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Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814 ISBN 818522983X (2004)

Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India ISBN 817074265X (Co-ed., with Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Dipankar Sinha, 2005)

Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias, by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, part-translated and introduced by Barnita Bagchi ISBN 0144000032(2005)

'In Tarini Bhavan: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossains Padmarag und der Reichtum des südasiatischen Feminismus in der Förderung nicht konfessionsgebundener, den Geschlechtern gerecht werdender menschlicher Entwicklung', in Wie schamlos doch die Mädchen geworden sind! Bildnis von Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ISBN 3889398359 ed. G.A. Zakaria (Berlin: IKO—Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2006)

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Secondary Sources

Review by Sachidananda Mohanty of Bagchi's book Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors, in Economic and Political Weekly [3]

Jackie Kirk and Shree Mulay, McGill University, Academic Article 'Towards a Sustainable Peace: Prioritizing Education for Girls', drawing on Bagchi's academic work on girls' and women's education in South Asia

Gender Page of Uttorshuri, website of Bangladeshi feminists and social thinkers, anthologizing Bagchi's writing on Rokeya and women's education in South Asia

Awaaz-South Asia website [6] (public interest group working for secularism in South Asia from the UK) anthologizing Bagchi's writing on Indian multiculturalism

Asiapeace.org, website of the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) anthologizing Bagchi's writing on syncretism

Review of Bagchi's translation and edition of Sultana's Dream and Padmarag, The Daily Star, July 16, 2005

Review of Bagchi's translation and edition of Sultana's Dream and Padmarag, The Statesman, September 25, 2005

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Review of Bagchi's translation and edition of Sultana's Dream and Padmarag, The Telegraph, June 24, 2005

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Review of Bagchi's translation and edition of Sultana's Dream and Padmarag, Deccan Herald, 21 August, 2005

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Review of Bagchi's book Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors, Frontline, April 8-21, 2006

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The Independent, London, December 2, 2005 chooses Bagchi's introduction and translation of Padmarag as a book of the year

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Bagchi's Penguin author-page [15]

Bagchi's profile [16]on the Women's Writing Website, created and maintained by the feminist publisher Zubaan [17]

Primary Sources: Online Works by Bagchi

'Girls' Education in Murshidabad: Tales from the Field,' article, 2003

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'Engendering ICT and Social Capital', article, 2005

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'Multiculturalism Alive in India', article, 2003[20]

'Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain' article, 2003[21]

'Inside Tarini Bhavan: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Padmarag and the Richness of South Asian Feminism in Furthering Unsectarian, Gender-Just Human Development', article, 2003

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'Bengali Folklore and Children’s Literature', article, 2006 [23]

'The Heroines of Dignified Struggle', review article, 2006[24]

Translation, Santosh Kumar Ghose's short story 'Hoina', 2002

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'Instruction a Torment?: Jane Austen’s Early Writing and Conflicting Versions of Female Education in Romantic-Era ‘Conservative’ British Women’s Novels’, 2005 [26]

Review of 'Storylines', 2003 [27]

'Not This, Not This', review article, 2007.