Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India. Professor Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right. She is also one of the pioneers of the approach to viewing the Partition of India in 1947 into the two independent nation-states of India and Pakistan as a result of right-wing Hindu rather than right-wing Islamist politics.

Education

Tanika Sarkar has a first class degree in B.A in History, from the Presidency College

Presidency College, Kolkata

Presidency University, Kolkata, formerly Hindu College and Presidency College, is a unitary, state aided university, located in Kolkata, West Bengal. and one of the premier institutes of learning of liberal arts and sciences in India. In 2002 it was ranked number one by the weekly news magazine...

, University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta

The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...

, 1972. She has a first class degree in Modern History from the University of Calcutta, 1974 . She received her PhD Degree from the University of Delhi

University of Delhi

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 in 1981.

Career

She is presently Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University, also known as JNU, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. It is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with approximately 5,500 students and a faculty strength of around 550.-History:...

, New Delhi

New Delhi

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She has also taught at the St. Stephen's College

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

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, and the Indraprastha College, Delhi University. She has also taught modern Indian History at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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Publications

Professor Tanika Sarkar has published following Monographs; Bengal 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987; A World to Win: A Modern Autobiography, ; Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Religion, Community, Cultural Nationalism, . She has also co-authored, along with Basu et al., Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of Hintutva, ; co-edited, with Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia is an Indian feminist and historian. She is the Director and Co-founder of Kali for Women, India's first feminist publishing house....

, Women and the Hindu Right,.

Family

Born to Amal Bhattacharya, legendary professor of English at Presidency College, and Sukumari Bhattacharya, eminent Sanskritist and scholar on early Indian culture, she is married to fellow historian, Sumit Sarkar

Sumit Sarkar

-Background:He belongs to one of Bengal's most enlightened and progressive Brahmo families. His father was Professor Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, a Head of Department of History at Presidency College, Calcutta and the founder Head of Department of the Department of History, []...

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Also refer

• http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1815/18150930.htm
• http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1809/18090880.htm
• "Delhi Historians Group's Publication "Communalization of Education: The History Textbooks Controversy", A report in 2002, New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, India