Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar

Reader ,

Department of History,
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
E-mail: chatterjeesutapa@yahoo.co.in

Research:

Ph.D. on “Colonial Agrarian Policy and Socio-Cultural Change in the Sundarbans: 18th to 20th Century” at the Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
Post-doctoral research at the Department of History, South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany from October 2000-September 2002 and Froebenius Institute, Frankfurt and the Institute fur Historische Ethnologie of the Johann Wolfgang Universitat, Frankfurt from January 2001 to March 2002.

Areas of Interest :

Economic History of Bengal, History of Modern Bengali Literature, Medieval Indian History

Major Publications:

Book:

1. The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monster and Mortals (Author), New Delhi: Social Science Press / Orient Blackswan, 2010

Articles:

1. “Daniel Hamilton and Cooperative at Gosaba”, The Calcutta Historical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1 (published in 2009) /li>
2. “Man and the Beast”, in Indian Vistas of Environment, ed. Chittabrata Palit et al, Delhi, 2007.
3. “Bengal”s Southern Frontier; Tilman Henckell in the Sundarbans”: Proceedings of the 17th IAHA conference, Dhaka, November 2004.
4. “Traditional Representation and Modern Perception: The Sundarbans in Folk Literature and Prose Fiction”, The Calcutta Historical Journal, Vol. 21-22 (2001), Calcutta: K P Bagchi & Co.
5. “Anchalik Itihas: Loukik Upadane Havelishahar” (in Bengali), Kaladwani, ed. Prasanta Chattopadhayay, Calcutta, 1996.
6. “Folk Literature in the Sundarbans”, Mind Body and Society: Life and Mentality in Colonial Bengal, ed. Rajat Kanta Ray, Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1995.