Madhumita Sengupta
Assistant Professor
Humanities
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
India
Biography
Madhumita Sengupta, PhD (University of Calcutta) is Assistant Professor (History). Her Research Interests include British rule in Assam, Colonial practices and policies in India, Linguistic identities, Middle class responses to colonial rule.
Research Interest
"British Rule in Assam ,Colonial Practices and Policies in India, Linguistic Identities, Middle Class Responses to Colonial Rule"
Publications
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Madhumita Sengupta, ‘Christian Missionaries and the Conversion of Language in Nineteenth-century Assam’, Proceedings of the 22ndHimalayan Languages Symposium (HLS22), IIT Guwahati, 2016. (Forthcoming).
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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).
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Madhumita Sengupta, Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India, Routledge, 2016.
