Basudhita Basu (Ph.D)

Present Position: Assistant Professor

Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies

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Education:

  • Ph.D Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • M.Phil University of Calcutta
  • M.A in History from Jadavpur University
  • B.A in History from Jadavpur University

Research Key Areas:

  • History of Modern Bengal
  • History of Sports
  • Socio-Cultural History of Modern India
  • Gender studies
  • History of Health and Medicine

Experience:

  • Assistant Professor (History), Amity School of Law, Amity University, Jharkhand, 2022 – 2024 (January)
  • Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar Bicentenary Research Fellow, Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2020-2022
  • Guest Lecturer in the PG section of Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (under West Bengal State University), New Barrackpore, 2022-2023
  • Researcher in Swaraj Express news channel, I.T.O, New Delhi, 2019
  • Assistant Teacher in the Higher Secondary section of Carmel School, Budge Budge, April- August 2016
  • Guest Lecturer, Sivanath Sastri College, Kolkata, 2014-2015
  • Guest lecturer, Victoria Institution College, Kolkata, 2013- 2014

Research Publication (s):

  • Basudhita Basu, ’Subarna Baniks Of Calcutta’, C.L.I.O, Kolkata, 2012
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Olympics and Global Capitalism’, Itihas Prabanda Mala, Dhaka, 2012
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Dance in need and dance in deed’ in Chittabrata Palit and Jenia Mukherjee (edited) History and Beyond Trends and Trajectories, Delhi: Kunal Books, 2014
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Gendering sports in Colonial Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 2nd September, Vol. LII NO 35, 32-36, 2017
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Sports Education in Colonial Bengal: A Double-Edged Sword?’ South Asia Research, 38 (No. 3), 2018
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Implanting the Games Ethic in Bengal: The Colonial Context’, Indian Historical Review, 46(2), 263-277, 2019
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Health Is Wealth: Diffusion of Physical Education in Bengal’ in Suvankar Dey (edited) Health has a History: Revisiting Bengal, 207-223, Kolkata: K.P. Bagchi and Company, 2021
  • Basudhita Basu, ‘Retrieving the Role and Contribution of Women in State Formation’ a Book review in Economic and Political History, Vol LVII No 25, 34, 2022

Award/ Academic Recognition/ Major Professional Activity:

  • Terry Tod Award for the best paper titled ‘Physical Exercise as Preventative Medicine: Looking Back at Colonial Bengal (circa 1860-1947)’ from the H. J. Lutcher Stark Centre for Physical Culture and Sports, University of Texas, 2023
  • Foreign Travel Grant from Indian Council for Historical Research for the Project “Nation Against the Empire: Forging Bengal’s Self-hood through Physical Culture Movement”, 2022
  • Travel Grant from the British Society of the History of Science, 2022
  • Awarded ECR Grant from British Society for Sports History, 2022
  • “Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar Bicentenary Fellowship” for the topic ‘Reconsidering the Reformer: Contribution of Vidyasagar towards Medicine and Health in Ninteenth Century Bengal’ from Asiatic Society Kolkata, 2020-2023
  • Travel grant (Wellcome Trust) from University of Strathclyde to present “Striving towards a Healthy Nation: The Rise of Health Consciousness in Colonial Bengal” in the History Unlimited Seminar, 2016
  • Travel grant from Jadavpur University to present a paper titled “Mudras and Ballet Shoes: Influence of the West on Indian Dance” at the Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities 2013, Osaka (Japan), 2013