Talk:Debjani Bhattacharyya

Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zürich. She is Visiting Associate Faculty, South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania, USA Previously, she was an Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Drexel University.

Her research lies at the intersection of legal and environmental history.

• Bhattacharyya D. (2018) Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (Indian edition February 2019; Paperback June 2019).

• [doi:10.1111/hic3.12517 Bhattacharyya D. (2019) “Provincializing the History of Speculation from Colonial India,” History Compass, 17: e12517 (2019).]

• [doi:10.1163/15685209-12341466 Bhattacharyya D. (2018) “Fluid Histories: Swamps, Law and the Company-State in Colonial Bengal,” Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient. 61, no. 5-6 (2018): 1036-73. Special Issue on “Repossessing Property in South Asia: Land, Rights and Law across Modern/Early

Modern Divide.”]

• [doi:10.3197/ge.2018.110203 Bhattacharyya D. (2018) “Discipline and Drain: Settling the Moving Bengal Delta,” Global Environment 11,

(2018): 236-257. Special Issue on “Environment, Disaster and Property.”]

• Bhattacharyya D. (2016) “Hoarding Land: Interwar Housing Speculation and Rent Profiteering in Colonial Calcutta,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36, no. 3 (2016): 465-82.

In press “Politics of Dwelling: Divergent Spaces in Calcutta,” Richardson Dilworth and Timothy Weaver eds. Role of Ideas in Urban Political Development, (University of Pennsylvania Press).

2013 ‘Geography’s Myth: The Many Origins of Calcutta’ in Gyanendra Pandey, ed., Unarchived Histories: The Mad and the Trifling in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (New York: Routledge, 2013), 144-58.

Bhattacharyya D. (2008) ‘Nation-less Bodies and National Identity in Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga Opar Ganga’ in Ansgar Nünning, Birgit Neumann and Bo Petersson, eds., Narrative and Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Critical Analyses (Trier: Wissenschaftler Verlag Trier, 2008), 127-40.

Bhattacharyya D. (2008) ‘Of Shadows and Silences: Militant Nationalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines’ in Klaus Stierstorfer and Annette Kern-Stähler, eds., Literary Encounters of Fundamentalism: A Case Book (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2008), 75-88.

• Bhattacharyya D. (2019) Book Review: Radhika Mongia, Indian Migration and Empire: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State (Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2018) H-Diplo.

• Bhattacharyya D. (2019) Book Review: Renisa Mawani, Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction of the Time of Empire (Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2017) Law and History Review 37, no. 2 (May 2019): 639-41.

• Bhattacharyya D. (2017) Book Review: Amrita Pande, Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014) Enterprise and Society 18, no. 2 (2017): 474-76.

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/10573 Bhattacharyya D. (2015) Book Review: Sandeep Banerjee “Landscaping India: From Colony to Postcolony” (PhD Thesis: Syracuse University, 2013), Dissertation Reviews, February, 2015.

2011 Book Review: Mariam Dossal, Theatre of Conflict, City of Hope: Bombay/Mumbai, 1660 to Present Times (Bombay: Oxford University Press, 2010) Urban Studies 48, no.11 (2011): 2429-31.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

References

• Debjani Bhattacharya page on University of Pennsylvania accessed October 4, 2022
• Debjani Bhattacharya CV accessed October 4, 2022