Barnita Bagchi (born 12 June 1973) is a

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-speaking Indian feminist advocate, historian, and literary scholar. She is a faculty member in literary studies at

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, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata at the

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. She was educated at

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, in Kolkata, St Hilda's College, Oxford, and at the

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.About Barnita
She is a feminist historian, utopian studies scholar, literary scholar, and researcher of girls' and women's education and writing. She is also well-known also as translator and scholar of

and South Asian feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. She is the daughter of economist

Amiya Kumar Bagchi Amiya Kumar Bagchi (born 1936) is an Indian political economist. Biography His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, Kolkata. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fello ...

and feminist critic and activist Jasodhara Bagchi.

Selected works

*''Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814'' (2004) *''Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India'' (Co-ed., with

and Dipankar Sinha, 2005) *''Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias, by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain'', part-translated and introduced by Barnita Bagchi (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'' ed. G.A. Zakaria (Berlin: IKO—Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2006)

References

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

* [http://www.awaazsaw.org/weblog/2003_09_28_awaazlogarc.html 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, 2 December 2005 chooses Bagchi's introduction and translation of ''Padmarag'' as a book of the year

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

'Engendering ICT and Social Capital', 2005

'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

* ttp://www.mail-archive.com/sacw@insaf.net/msg00020.html Review of 'Storylines', 2003* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929115057/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=30&id=187174&usrsess=1 '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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