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Research Interests:
Poetry,
Criticism,
Literary History,
Nineteenth Century Bengal, Postcolonial
Theory
Courses Taught: Cultures of
Postcoloniality, Introduction to modern social thought
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
EDITED VOLUMES:
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Derozio,
Poet of India: The Definitive Edition
(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008)
ARTICLES IN BOOKS:
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‘History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen’s Palashir Yuddha [Battle
of Palashi] (1875) and the Question of Truth’ in History in the
Vernacular ed. R. Aquil and Partha Chatterjee (New Delhi: Permanent
Black, 2008).
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‘Modernity at Home: The Nationalization of the Indian Drawing Room,
1830-1930’ in Malashri Lal & Sukrita P. Kumar ed.
Interpreting Homes: South Asian Literature
(New
Delhi: Pearson Education, 2007).
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‘The
Dutt Family Album and Toru
Dutt’, in An Illustrated History of
Indian Literature in English, ed. Arvind
Krishna Mehrotra (Permanent Black: Delhi,
2003).
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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‘The
Politics of Poetry: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representations in
Nabinchandra Sen’s Palashir Yuddha’, Studies in History, Volume
XXIV, Number 1, January - June 2008, pp. 1-27.
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‘History in
Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen’s Palashir Yuddha and the Question of Truth’
in The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 66, Number 4, November 2007,
pp. 817-919.
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‘Cutlets
or Fish Curry?:
Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal’, Modern
Asian Studies 40, 2 (2006), pp. 257-272.
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‘History
in Poetry:
Nabinchandra
Sen’s
Palashir
Yuddha
[Battle of
Palashi]
(1875) and the Question of Truth’, Occasional Paper No 1, 2005, The Centre
of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.
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Hemchandra’s
Bharat
Sangeet
(1870) and the politics of poetry: A pre-history of Hindu nationalism in
Bengal?’,
The Indian Economic and Social History Review
(Sage Publications), 42, 2 (2005).
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'Historicality
in Literature:
Subalternist
Misrepresentations’, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIX,
No. 42, October 16, 2004.
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‘An Ideology of
Indianness:
The Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes in the Poems of Henry
Derozio’,
in Studies in History (Sage Publications), 20, 2,
n.s.
(2004).
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‘The
Critic and the Poet: Debating Indian Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century
Bengal’, in Krishna
Sen
ed. Revisiting the
Raj,
A Selection of Papers presented at UGC Conferences (Calcutta, 2004)
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‘The Flute,
Gerontion,
and
Subalternist
Misreadings
of
Tagore’,
in Social Text 78 (Duke University Press), Vol. 22, No. 1,
Spring
2004.
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‘The
Poetry of
Derozio
and the Muslim Other’, in Indian Writing
In
English: Proceedings of the First
Harendralal
Basak
Lecture and Seminar
(Department of English, Presidency College,
Kolkata,
2003).
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‘Young
India: A Bengal Eclogue; Meat-eating, Race and Reform in a Colonial
Poem’, in Interventions (Routledge),
Vol. 2: No. 3, 2000.
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES:
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‘Madhusudan
Datta and the Marxist Understanding of the “Real Renaissance” in
Bengal’
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‘Reading Bharatchandra: Literary Language and the Figuration of
Modernity in Bengal’
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‘Fanon and the Idea of the Colonial Intellectual’
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