Barnita Bagchi

Barnita Bagchi (born 1973) is an Indian feminist and academic. She is a faculty member in Literary Studies [1] at Utrecht University[2], and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata [3]. She was educated at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge.^[1]

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 human development perspective. She has translated works from Bengali literature, of authors such as Jyotirmoyee Devi, Santosh Kumar Ghose, and Selina Hossain.

Bibliography

• Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814 ISBN 81-85229-83-X (2004)
• Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India ISBN 81-7074-265-X (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 0-14-400003-2(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 3-88939-835-9 ed. G.A. Zakaria (Berlin: IKO—Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2006)

External links

• Review by Sachidananda Mohanty of Bagchi's book Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors, in Economic and Political Weekly
• 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 (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
• The Independent, London, December 2, 2005 chooses Bagchi's introduction and translation of Padmarag as a book of the year

Published works

• 'Girls' Education in Murshidabad: Tales from the Field,' 2003
• 'Engendering ICT and Social Capital', 2005
• 'Multiculturalism Alive in India', article, 2003
• 'Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain' article, 2003
• 'Inside Tarini Bhavan: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Padmarag and the Richness of South Asian Feminism in Furthering Unsectarian, Gender-Just Human Development', article, 2003
• 'Bengali Folklore and Children’s Literature', article, 2006
• 'The Heroines of Dignified Struggle', review article, 2006
• Translation, Santosh Kumar Ghose's short story 'Hoina', 2002
• 'Instruction a Torment?: Jane Austen’s Early Writing and Conflicting Versions of Female Education in Romantic-Era ‘Conservative’ British Women’s Novels’, 2005
• Review of 'Storylines', 2003
• 'Not This, Not This', review article, 2007
• 'Securing Gender Justice', review article, 2007
• 'Violence and the Work of Time', review article, 2007
• 'The Ultimate Site of Social Coercion,' review article, 2007
• 'Feminist Economics', review article, 2006
• 'Feminist History', review article, 2006

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