Introduction
Barnita Bagchi (born 12 June 1973) is a Bengali-speaking Indian feminist advocate, historian, and literary scholar. She is a faculty member in literary studies at Utrecht University, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata at the University of Calcutta. She was educated at Jadavpur University, in Kolkata, St Hilda's College, Oxford, and at the Trinity College, Cambridge.
She is a feminist historian, utopian studies scholar, scholar of girls' and women's education and writing in colonial Bengal. She is also well-known also as translator and scholar of Bengali and South Asian feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Bagchi's academic work is at the interface of gender, education, and human developmsity, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata at the University of Calcutta.
She is the daughter of economist Amiya Kumar Bagchi and feminist critic and activist Jasodhara Bagchi.
Published works
- 'Girls' Education in Murshidabad: Tales from the Field,' 2003
- 'Engendering ICT and Social Capital', 2005
- 'Multiculturalism Alive in India', article, 2003
- 'Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain' article, 2003
- '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
- 'The Heroines of Dignified Struggle', review article, 2006
- Translation, Santosh Kumar Ghose's short story 'Hoina', 2002
- 'Instruction a Torment?: Jane Austen’s Early Writing and Conflicting Versions of Female Education in Romantic-Era ‘Conservative’ British Women’s Novels’, 2005
- Review of 'Storylines', 2003
- '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