Tanika Sarkar

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Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India based at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right.

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Life and career

Tanikar Sarkar was born to Amal Bhattacharya, professor of English at Presidency College, and Sukumari Bhattacharya, eminent Sanskritist and scholar on early Indian culture. She is married to fellow historian, Sumit Sarkar. [1]

Sarkar earned a B.A. in History from the Presidency College, University of Calcutta in 1972. She also earned a degree in Modern History from the University of Calcutta in 1974. She received her PhD from the University of Delhi in 1981.

She is a professor of history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has also taught at the St. Stephen's College, and the Indraprastha College, Delhi University. She has also taught modern Indian History at the University of Chicago. [2]

Publications

Tanika Sarkar has published the following Monographs:

Recognitions

In 2004, she has received the Rabindra Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, the highest literary award given in West Bengal. It was reported that she intended to return it in protest over the police firing in Nandigram in March 2007. [1] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Nandigram was more shocking than Jallianwala Bagh". The Times of India . Retrieved 21 March 2008.
  2. "Curriculum Vitae: Tanika Sarkar" (PDF). Trinity College Dublin. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  3. "Charting cultural nationalism". The Hindu . 19 August 2001. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  4. Mythily Sivaraman (15 February 2000). "The image of widowhood". The Hindu . Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
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