Speaker Profile
Aparajita Dasgupta
About
Aparajita Dasgupta is a historian of gender and an author of fiction in Bengali. She studied in Presidency College and the University of Calcutta and taught previously in various government colleges in West Bengal and at St Mary’s College, USA, as a Fulbright Visiting Professor. She is currently CEO of West Bengal State Book Board, Kolkata. Her book, For Home, Family, and Country: Women and the Politics of Gender in Bengal, 1870-1947, was published in 2025. Over two decades, her creative writing in Bengali has produced 12 books, including novels, short stories, essays, autobiographical vignettes and children’s stories.
Sessions
Samudrer Daak
KaLaM Hub
With: Rik Sengupta, Agnijit Sen
Aparajita Dasgupta and Rik Sengupta on their co-authored murder mystery. In conversation with Agnijit Sen
Sat, 24 Jan11:20 AM - 12:20 PM
Literature
For Home, Family And Nation
KaLaM Hub
With: Debnita Chakravarti
Aparajita Dasgupta discusses the lives of women in Bengal through a period of social and political flux. In conversation with Debnita Chakravarti
Mon, 26 Jan3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Literature
Books
Road Access, Fertility and Child Health in Rural India
Aparajita Dasgupta, Anahita Karandikar, Devvrat Raghav
2022
View on AmazonUnintended Consequences of Indian Groundwater Preservation Law on Crop Residue Burning
Meghna Agarwala, Shampa Bhattacharjee, Aparajita Dasgupta
2022
View on AmazonCan the Major Public Works Policy Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood?
Aparajita Dasgupta
2013
View on AmazonAre Gender Norms Systematic to Caste Institutions? Examining Preferences Through a Social Experiment in North Indian Villages
Aparajita Dasgupta, Ashokankur Datta
2022
View on AmazonUnderstanding the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Dong Zhou, Aparajita Dasgupta
2017
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