Uma Das Gupta

Historian and Tagore biographer Uma Das Gupta was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Oxford. She taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. She was the Director of the United States Educational Foundation for Eastern India. She was a participant of the UNESCO Project titled ‘For A Reconciled Universal: Rabindranath Tagore, Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire’. She was invited to the Delegacy of Oxford University Press for India. She retired as Professor, Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute. Her publications include A Difficult Friendship: Letters of Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore, 1913-1940; Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography; Rabindranath Tagore: My Life in My Words; The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism; Friendships of ‘largeness and freedom’: Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi; A History of Sriniketan; Rabindranath: Ekti Sangkhipto Jiboni, and Rabindranath by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.