CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Neha Chatterji is Assistant Professor of History at Manipal Centre for Humanities. She is also a PhD Guide.
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Understanding the Past | BA Semester I |
| Caste, Religion and Society | BA Semester II |
| History and the Idea of the Collective | BA Semester VI |
| Empire and Nation in India | BA Semester V |
| Politics of Identity | MA Semester I |
| Ideas towards World History | BA Semester IV |
| Writing the Past | MA Semester II |
| The Making of the Modern World | MA Semester III |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | History | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | 2018 |
| MPhil | History | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | 2013 |
| MA | History | Jadavpur University, Kolkata | 2010 |
| BA | History | Jadavpur University, Kolkata | 2008 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
Social History of Modern India (with emphasis on articulations between politics, religion, spirituality and caste).
Area of Expertise
Specifically: Caste studies and Dalit studies in Bengal: the lesser-known worlds of subordinate-caste affirmations in twentieth and twenty-first century Bengal. Broadly: Social history of modern India; caste and religion; caste and politics; spiritual cults and politics, political subjectivities; caste and gender; caste, social-protest and the search for histories; vernacular histories; the question of archives and historical representation, etc.
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
Neha Chatterji is a SYLFF Fellow.
Subaltern Caste Concepts of the "Political", Bengal 1900-1930
2023 Neha Chatterji
in Karen Lauwers, Sami Suodenjoki, and Marnix Beyen (eds.), Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Between Loyalty and Resistance, New York and London: Routledge, pp. 217-229.
Caste Protest in Lower Bengal: One Hundred Years of Dalit Dissent and its Solitude
2022 Neha Chatterji
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (eds.), Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion and Resistance, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, in association with Ashoka University. pp. 259-290
Perspectives on Caste: The Nineteenth Century Bengali Literati
2018 Neha Chatterji
Sahapedia (https://www.sahapedia.org/)
From Faith to Ideology: Spiritual Inspirations of Political Subjects, Bengal, 1900-1910
2018 Neha Chatterji
Bengal Past and Present, Vol-137, 2018, pp. 82-94
Between Caste and Gender
2016 Neha Chatterji
(review of Gender and Caste Hierarchy in Colonial Bengal: Inter-caste Interventions of Ideal Womanhood by Deboshruti Roychowdhury), The Book Review, Vol. XL, No. 7, 2016, pp. 36-37.
A Historian’s Experiments with Truth
2016 Neha Chatterji
(review of The Calling of History: Jadunath Sarkar and his Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty), The Book Review, Vol. XL, No. 2, 2016, pp. 15-16.
‘Sekaler Nigarh O Ekaler Pratisruti: ‘Ganadevata’y Ganachetanar Nirmiti’ (‘The Shackles of Old and the Promise of New: The Construction of Popular Consciousness in the novel Ganadevata’)
2015 Neha Chatterji
Ebong Prantik, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2015, pp. 50-68.