Rosinka Chaudhuri

Fellow in Cultural Studies

D. Phil (Oxford University, UK)

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township,
Kolkata - 700 094, India
 
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Email: rosinka@cssscal.org

Research Interests:   

Literature and Literary History in Nineteenth Century Bengal; Postcolonial Theory


Courses Taught:      
Cultures of Postcoloniality
 

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

  • Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the Orientalist Project (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002). 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • ‘Cutlets or Fish Curry?: Debating Indian Authenticity in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal’, Modern Asian Studies 40, 2 (2006), pp. 257-272.

  • ‘Why Does Literature Matter?’, Economic and Political Weekly, March 11-17, 2006, pp. 893-97. 'Of Bards and Bad Press’, Book Review, Vol. XXX, Number 3, March 2006.

  • ‘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.   

  • 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).

  • 'Historicality in Literature: Subalternist Misrepresentations’, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 42, October 16, 2004.

  • ‘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).

  • ‘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) 

  • The Flute, Gerontion, and Subalternist Misreadings of Tagore’, in Social Text 78 (Duke University Press), Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 2004.

  • ‘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) ‘The Dutt Family Album and Toru Dutt’, in An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, ed. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra  (Permanent Black: Delhi, 2003).

  • 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:

Last Updated On: 26/12/2006

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