CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Ranjana Saha is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Manipal Centre for Humanities.
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Historical Figures and Ideas | BA Sem II |
| Approaches to History | MA Sem I |
| Medicine, Health and Society in Colonial India | MA Sem III |
| Narratives of the Indian Nation | BA Sem VI |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | History | University of Delhi, Delhi | 2019 |
| MPhil | History | University of Delhi, Delhi | 2012 |
| MA | History | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi | 2007 |
| BA Hons | History | Lancaster University, Lancaster U.K. | 2004 |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali | Postdoctoral Fellow | Research Fellow with intermittent teaching and evaluation duties | 1 May, 2018 – 30 April, 2020. |
| Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi | Research Assistant for Dr. Awadhendra Sharan | Research Assistant | February-March (2 months), 2018 |
| CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), Delhi. | PhD Fellowship | 2016 – 2017 | |
| ICHR (Indian Council of Historical Research), New Delhi. | Junior Research Fellowship / JRF | 2013 – 2015 | |
| Department of History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada | Teaching Assistant | Teaching Assistant | 2009-10 and 2011-12 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, Global History, Gender Studies, Medical Anthropology, and Cultural Studies (with a particular focus on medical literature about motherhood and breastfeeding in colonial Calcutta).
Book Review of Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians Narratives from India and Beyond (New Delhi: Springer, 2021)
2022 Ranjana Saha
in Contemporary South Asia vol 30, issue 1, 2022, pp. 125-126.
Motherhood on display: The child welfare exhibition in colonial Calcutta, 1920
2021 Ranjana Saha
The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 249–277
Review of Indrani Sen, Gendered Transactions The white woman in colonial India
2019 Ranjana Saha
South Asia Research Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 238-241.
Review of Ambalika Guha, Colonial Modernities Midwifery in Bengal, C. 1860-1947 (New York: Routledge, 2018)
2018 Ranjana Saha
The Book Review Vol. XLIII, No. 4, pp. 9-10
Milk, Mothering and Meanings: Infant Feeding in colonial Bengal
2017 Ranjana Saha
Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 60, pp. 97–110.
Milk, “Race” and Nation: Medical Advice on Breastfeeding in Colonial Bengal
2017 Ranjana Saha
South Asia Research, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 147-165.
Review of Charu Gupta, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism (New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2012)
2014 Ranjana Saha
Social Scientist, Vol. 42, No. 3-4, pp. 108-111.
Infant Feeding: Child Marriage and “Immature Maternity” in Colonial Bengal, 1890s-1920s
2014 Ranjana Saha
Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 75, Platinum Jubilee, pp. 708-715 (Awarded the Professor Partha Sarthi Gupta Prize and Professor J. C. Jha Memorial Prize).
Children in the Mind: Paginated Childhoods and Pedagogics of Play
2011 Ranjana Saha
Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLVI, no. 48, pp. 53-60.