Dr Anwesha Sengupta

Anwesha Sengupta is an Assistant Professor of history at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), India. She has done her PhD from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Her thesis explored the ways in which the decision to partition British India (1947) was implemented on ground and how it shaped the making of the early postcolonial India and Pakistan. Her focus was on West Bengal and East Pakistan between 1947 and 1952. After submitting her thesis, she has been researching on some of the popular political movements that took place in West Bengal during 1950s and 1960s. Here her focus is primarily on Calcutta (Kolkata) and she is trying to understand how the urban infrastructure shaped these movements. Anwesha is also working on her book manuscript based on her doctoral dissertation. Anwesha has published in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Economic and Political Weekly and in several edited volumes.