Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India. Professor 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. She is also one of the pioneers of the approach to viewing the Partition of India in 1947 into the two independent nation-states of India and Pakistan as a result of right-wing Hindu rather than right-wing Islamist politics.[1]
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Tanika Sarkar has a first class degree in B.A in History, from the Presidency College, University of Calcutta, 1972. She has a first class degree in Modern History from the University of Calcutta, 1974 . She received her PhD Degree from the University of Delhi in 1981.
She is presently 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.
Professor Tanika Sarkar has published following Monographs; Bengal 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987; A World to Win: A Modern Autobiography, ; Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Religion, Community, Cultural Nationalism, . She has also co-authored, along with Basu et al., Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of Hintutva, ; co-edited, with Urvashi Butalia, Women and the Hindu Right,.
Born to Amal Bhattacharya, legendary 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. [2]