Cohort Year: 2024
Research Interests: Literature and urbanity in South Asia, vernacular life writings and travel literature, 19th and 20th century Bengal, colonial mobilities, everyday history, sensory history and history of emotion
Subject Area: Bengali
Education:
M.A., Presidency University, Kolkata, India, 2022.
B.A., Presidency University, Kolkata, India, 2020.
Biography:
While I have been trained in English literature during my early academic years, my present interests lie in the interdisciplinary exploration of vernacular literatures in South Asia. For my doctoral research, I am interested in studying literary representations and institutional transformations of routinised travel between the colonial metropolis and its hinterland (the mofussil), particularly with a regional focus on 19th and 20th century Bengal. Through the literary and historical figures of colonial commuters and travelers, I aim to explore issues of metropolitan perception, emotions, spatial organization, belonging and otherization, and the transforming sense of speed across space.