Teaching at Loreto College, Kolkata since April 2007
Administrative Experience:
Head of Department (2024- )
Admission Committee (2016–2021, 2024– )
Anti-Ragging Committee (2024- )
Career Counselling Cell (March 2024-)
Editor-Loreto College Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024- )
Research and Development Cell (2024- )
Women and Gender Development Cell (2024- )
Research Interests:
Colonial representations of indigenous communities
Colonial knowledge production
19th and early 20th century Bengal
Historical perspectives on Gender
Orientation / Refresher Courses:
2024 – NEP 2020 Orientation and Sensitization Programme under Malviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MM-TTP) of UGC organized by Malviya Mission Teacher Training Centre ( MMTTC), Jadavpur University, February 5–16, 2024.
2023 - Refresher Course in Research Methods and Online Pedagogy conducted by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, University of Burdwan, January 31 – February 13, 2023.
2018 – UGC-Sponsored Interdisciplinary Refresher Course on The U.N. and the Global Perspectives of Human Rights organized by UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, November 1–26, 2018.
2013 - UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course in History on State and Society in Pre-Modern Europe and Asia, organized by UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, February 4–25, 2013.
2010 - UGC-Sponsored Orientation Programme No.83 organized by UGC- Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, March 1–27, 2010.
Presentations:
‘The Cross and the “Savage”: Tribes of Assam as Perceived through the Lens of American Baptist Missionaries’, at the Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8), held in Macao on June 24-27 2013.
Paper titled ‘Viewing the ‘Savage’: Perceptions, Politics and Environment in mid-19th century Assam’ at the Three Day International Seminar on Environment and the Adivasi World organized by the Department of History, Jadavpur University organized under the UGC DSA (Phase-I) Special Assistance Programme of the Department of History, Jadavpur University, February 10-12, 2016.
Paper entitled ‘The Racial Theory of Caste: H.H.Risley and the Census of 1901’ at the Two-Day National Seminar on Caste, Social Formation and Political Mobilization: Modern Bengal in Historical Context organized by School of Social Sciences, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata and sponsored by the Department of Higher Education, Govt. of West Bengal, at NSOU, Salt Lake, Kolkata March 15-16, 2019
Presented paper titled Colonising Caste: The Early Census Operations in India 1872-1901, at the programme organised by Loreto College Research Cell on 5 March 2022
Presented paper titled To Catch A Thief: ‘Criminal Communities and Training of Police Personnel in Colonial India at One-Day UGC-DEB sponsored National Seminar, ‘Indian Democracy and the Rise of the Marginal: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach’ organised by the School of Social Sciences, Netaji Subhas Open University at Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata on 31 March 2023
Presentation on Role of Women Revolutionaries in the Struggle for Freedom in Early 20th Century Bengal as Invited Resource Person/ Speaker at National Seminar on Role of Unsung Heroes, Organisations and Places in the Freedom Movement organized by the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS) — Ministry of Culture, Government of India, as a part of the collaborative project Krantiteertha on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav held at the Heritage School, Kolkata, on 8 September 2023
Publications:
Article titled ‘The Cross and the Flag: The American Baptist Mission and the English East India Company in Assam (1836-1858)’, in Bengal Past and Present Vol. 129, 2014 (ISBN: 0005-8807).
Article titled ‘Viewing the ‘Savage’: Perceptions, Politics and Environment in mid-19th century Assam’, in the book Environment and the Adivasi World edited by Mahua Sarkar, published by Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Alphabet Books, Kolkata, March 2017, ISBN: 978-81-92963-52-5
Article titled ‘James Browne and the Paharias of Rajmahal’ in Bengal Past and Present Vol. 137, 2018 (ISBN: 0005-8807) pp. 28-38.
Article titled ‘Primitive Tribe’ to colonial subject: British colonial views of indigenous communities in the Settlement Reports of Bengal’, in the book Modern Bengal: In Search of Tradition and Discourses of Margins, edited by Chandan Basu & Manoj Kumar Haldar, published by Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, June 2018. ISBN: 978-93-82112-68-6 pp. 108-124
Article titled ‘Race, Caste and Nationhood: Exploring the Census of 1901’, in the book Caste, Social Formation and Political Mobilization: Modern Bengal in Historical Context, edited by Manosanta Biswas, Barnana Guha Thakurta ( Banerjee)and Srabanti Choudhuri, published by Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, April 2020, pp. 180-200. ISBN: 978-93-82112-71-6
Article titled Thieves, Cheats and Robbers: F.C. Daly and the ‘Criminal Tribes’ in Colonial Bengal, in Bengal Past and Present, Vol 138 2019, pp.70-92 (ISBN: 0005-8807)
Article titled ‘Oupnibeshik Rashtro O Banglar Janajati ra: British Adhikarikder Drishtibhongi 1800-1840’, Itikotha, Vol.X No.2, July 2022, pp125-159. ISSN 2320-3447 ITIKOTHA
Article titled An Annalist for the ‘Silent Millions: W.W. Hunter’s Annals of Rural Bengal and the Colonial Construction of Tribal Identity, in NSOU Journal of Social Sciences, Netaji Subhash Open University, Vol. 4 No.1 December 2023, pp. 20-31. ISSN 2581 5512-
Article titled Knowledge, Perception and Control: Representations of “tribes” in Colonial Northeastern India , 1870-1950, in Archiv Orientalni, Vol 92 (2024), Issue 3, pp.393-419. ISSN 0044-8699.
Article titled Suspicion, Surveillance and Stereotypes: “Criminal Tribes’ and the training of Police Personnel in Colonial India, in Drifts from the Dens of Democracy Vol 1, edited by Srabanti Choudhuri and Barnana Guha Thakurta Banerjee, published by Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, January 2025, pp. 256- 273 ISBN: 978-81-968283-9-4
Article titled Reinterpreting Gendered Narratives: Saradindu Bandyopadhyay- A Case Study by Debjani Biswas, Ayona De Dhara and Krishnokoli Hazra, in Loreto College Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.1 Issue 1, May 2025, pp 61-69.
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