Madhumita Sengupta | IIT Gandhinagar

Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute For the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, June - July 2016.
Awarded “Short-Term Residential Post-Doctoral Fellowship” for a period of 15 months (during January 6, 2010 to March 31, 2011) by the Ford Foundation, India, at the Centre For Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC).
Awarded Foreign Travel and Maintenance Grant of the Indian Council of Historical Research for consultation of records at the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, London, in August 2006.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, (April 2014 to present)
Assistant Professor, Rani Birla Girls College, Kolkata (Dec 2002 - April 2014)
Ford Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre For Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC)- Calcutta, (Jan 2010 - March 2011)
Full-Time Substitute Lecturer, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata (Jan 2001 - Nov 2001)
Guest Lecturer, Rabindra Bharati University, (Sep 2004 - Jan 2005)
Guest Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Calcutta, (2002 - 2004)

Selected Recent Publications

Madhumita Sengupta, Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India, Routledge, 2016.
https://www.routledge.com/Becoming-Assamese-Colonialism-and-New-Subjectivities-in-Northeast-India/Sengupta/p/book/9781138676077
Madhumita Sengupta, 'Kamrupi, Then and Now: Reflections on Language, Nationalism and Boundaries' in Rita Kothari ed. A Multilingual Nation : Translation in the Indian Context. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016 (Forthcoming).
Madhumita Sengupta, ‘Christian Missionaries and the Conversion of Language in Nineteenth-century Assam’, Proceedings of the 22ndHimalayan Languages Symposium (HLS22), IIT Guwahati, 2016. (Forthcoming).
Madhumita Sengupta, 'Beyond Language: Envisioning Alternative Nationalities in Nineteenth-century Assam', in Blending Region and Nation: Essays in Honour of Prof Amalendu Guha, (eds.) Sajal Nag and Ishrat Alam, Primus, New Delhi, 2016 (forthcoming).
Of Alienations: State, Temples and the Elite in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth -century Assam, Occasional Paper 186, Centre For Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2014.

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