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Sanjukta Das Gupta

Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indian History
Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Sapienza University of Rome

Adivasis and the politics of indigeneity and agrarian and environmental history of colonial India

Subjects: Asian Studies, History

Biography

Sanjukta Das Gupta is an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indian History at the Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 1820-1932 (2011) and has co-edited Subjects, Citizens, and Law: Colonial and Postcolonial India (with Gunnel Gunnel Cederlöf 2017), Narratives from the Margins: Aspects of Adivasi History in India (with Raj Sekhar Basu, 2012) and Narratives of the Excluded: Caste Issues in Colonial India (with Raj Sekhar Basu, 2008.

Education

PhD (Calcutta University) 2007

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Agrarian and environmental history, adivasis and the politics of indigeneity, and the social history of colonial India.

Books

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