Saswati Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saswati Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saswati |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6324-6230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery
In August 2021, Mahasweta Devi’s iconic short story “Draupadi” (1978), which brings alive the long tradition of adivasi/tribal resistance against systemic oppression and its brutal reprisal, was deleted from the English Honours syllabus of Delhi University on the grounds of “hurt” sentiments. Why would a story of tribal resistance ruffle postcolonial sentiments? Triggered by this excision, our essay attends to the context of “Draupadi” – the Naxa…
Ṣaṣṭhī
Cultural memory and living practice of Bengal representṢaṣṭhī as the patron deity of childbirth and children’s welfare. But she is marginalized in the elite public domain despite the sanctity of motherhood within patriarchy. A search for Ṣaṣṭhī, through the regional Upa-purāṇas, maṅgalakābya s, proverbs, popular verses, and brathakathā s reveals several Ṣaṣṭhīs: a goddess of the groves, a group of rain goddesses, a group of foster mothers, an old…
Mutating Goddesses
Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gend…
Of Famines and Females
Laksmi Bratakathas in Bengal are religious narratives of the eponymous Hindu goddess who presides over prosperity symbolized through an abundance of rice. The reciting of these Laksmi Bratakathas is a sacral duty of the women of the Bhadralok, which remains a popular practice even today. The period of rise and proliferation of these specific narratives, from the eighteenth century onwards, coincides with catastrophic famines with which imperialis…
Romila Thapar, Sakuntala
Romila Thapar, Sakuntala: Texts, Reading, Histories. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xii + 271 pp. $29. ISBN: 978-0-231-15655-4 (paperback)
Between Academy and Street
The prisonhouse of Orientalism
Attending an Orientation Course
Attending an Orientation Course
The prisonhouse of Orientalism
Between Academy and Street
Romila Thapar, Sakuntala
Romila Thapar, Sakuntala: Texts, Reading, Histories. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xii + 271 pp. $29. ISBN: 978-0-231-15655-4 (paperback)
Of Famines and Females
Laksmi Bratakathas in Bengal are religious narratives of the eponymous Hindu goddess who presides over prosperity symbolized through an abundance of rice. The reciting of these Laksmi Bratakathas is a sacral duty of the women of the Bhadralok, which remains a popular practice even today. The period of rise and proliferation of these specific narratives, from the eighteenth century onwards, coincides with catastrophic famines with which imperialis…
Mutating Goddesses
Mutating Goddesses' traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi - from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism, and especially its laukika archive as opposed to the sastrik deriving from Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the Brahman, to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities and the knotted correlation of gend…
Ṣaṣṭhī
Cultural memory and living practice of Bengal representṢaṣṭhī as the patron deity of childbirth and children’s welfare. But she is marginalized in the elite public domain despite the sanctity of motherhood within patriarchy. A search for Ṣaṣṭhī, through the regional Upa-purāṇas, maṅgalakābya s, proverbs, popular verses, and brathakathā s reveals several Ṣaṣṭhīs: a goddess of the groves, a group of rain goddesses, a group of foster mothers, an old…
Constructing and Consuming the Periphery
In August 2021, Mahasweta Devi’s iconic short story “Draupadi” (1978), which brings alive the long tradition of adivasi/tribal resistance against systemic oppression and its brutal reprisal, was deleted from the English Honours syllabus of Delhi University on the grounds of “hurt” sentiments. Why would a story of tribal resistance ruffle postcolonial sentiments? Triggered by this excision, our essay attends to the context of “Draupadi” – the Naxa…
History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · BENGAL (3 works) · Literature (3 works)