Gautam Bhadra ( bn, গৌতম ভদ্র) is a

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and was a member of the erstwhile

Subaltern Studies The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) or Subaltern Studies Collective is a group of South Asian scholars interested in the postcolonial and post-imperial societies. The term ''Subaltern Studies'' is sometimes also applied more broadly to others who sha ...

collective. Bhadra was born in

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in 1948. He obtained education at Presidency College ( bn, প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ, কলকাতা), Jadavpur University and

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( bn, জওহরলাল নেহরু বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়). He started teaching at the Department of History, University of Calcutta ( bn, কলিকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) and continued there for more than 15 years. After that, he became the professor of history at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta ( bn, সেন্টার ফর স্টাডিজ ইন সোশাল সায়েন্সেস) (1996-2010). He was the second Tagore National Fellow at the

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in Kolkata. Currently he is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre).

Awards and honours

In 2011, Bhadra was conferred with the prestigious Bengali literary award,

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( bn, আনন্দ পুরস্কার), for his book 'Nyara Bot-tolaye Jai Ko-bar?' ( bn, ন্যাড়া বটতলায় যায় কবার?)

References

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