Barnita Bagchi
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Barnita Bagchi is an India
n feminist and academic. She is a faculty member in Literary Studies http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/bagch101 at Utrecht University
http://www.uu.nl, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata http://www.idsk.edu.in. 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 human development
perspective. She has translated works from Bengali literature, of authors such as Jyotirmoyee Devi
, Santosh Kumar Ghose, and Selina Hossain
.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n feminist and academic. She is a faculty member in Literary Studies http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/bagch101 at Utrecht University
Utrecht University
Utrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....
http://www.uu.nl, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata http://www.idsk.edu.in. She was educated at Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University , is a premier educational and research institution in India.It is located in Kolkata, West Bengal and comprises two campuses - the main campus at Jadavpur and the new campus at Salt Lake...
, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
Feminist historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and sociologist of girls' and women's education; well-known also as translator and scholar of Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
and South Asian feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Bagchi's academic work is at the interface of gender
Gender
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...
, education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, and development
Human development (humanity)
Human development in the scope of humanity, specifically international development, is an international and economic development paradigm that is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. People are the real wealth of nations...
, focusing on the period from the late eighteenth century to contemporary times and on Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
and South Asia. She combines analysis of field-based and literary narratives of education, from a human development
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...
perspective. She has translated works from Bengali literature, of authors such as Jyotirmoyee Devi
Jyotirmoyee Devi
Jyotirmoyee Devi was an Indian writer in the early twentieth century. She wrote predominantly about women in the Rajasthan of her childhood and in what is now Bangladesh at the time of Partition...
, Santosh Kumar Ghose, and Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain, , a female author of Bengali Literature, living in Bangladesh, is a famous novelist.-Life:She is also an editor.She Founded Faria-Lara Foundation-Novels:*Jalochchwas...
.
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