Sthira Bhattacharya

Sthira Bhattacharya
Cohort Year: 2019
Research Interests: Late 19th-early 20th century Bihar (India); Hindi-Urdu cultural spheres; social history; cultural studies; book history
Education: MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2016. MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018.

Biography

I am interested in exploring how different actors imagined what it meant to lead ‘public’ lives in late 19th-early 20th century eastern India; how and why certain print and oral genres, as well as forms of associational life, gained popularity in this context; and processes of subject-formation and self-fashioning specific to actors’ location within social-linguistic hierarchies.

Research Interests 

Late 19th-early 20th century Bihar (India); Hindi-Urdu cultural spheres; social history; cultural studies; book history

Education

MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2016.

MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018.