Jayanta Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayanta Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayanta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alipore Museum in Kolkata Director, , India |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bengali Mughlai Platter on the Table
Shorn of a strong aristocratic lineage tracing its roots to the Turko-Persian world, Bengal’s Muslim population was created by a wide-ranging conversion of poor peasants. Indo-Persianate cuisine was thus slow to spread here, patronized by the eighteenth-century Nawabi court in Murshidabad, fitfully adopted by Bengal’s predominantly Hindu landed aristocracy in the mid-nineteenth, and spreading among the non-elite only after the move to Calcutta of…
Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India
Journal Article Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956. Get access Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 247. Cloth $105.00. Jayanta Sengupta Jayanta Sengupta Independent scholar, India Email: [email protected] Search for other…
Masking Statues, Unmasking Policies
Journal Article Masking Statues, Unmasking Policies: "Decolonizing" the Victoria Memorial Hall Get access Jayanta Sengupta Jayanta Sengupta Director, Alipore Museum in Kolkata, India Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1275–1283, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad352 Published: 26 September 2023
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Seven contemporary commentators whose experience has been touched by Queen Victoria’s history and its legacy address the question: how should we curate Victoria today
Researching history in cyberspace
The article examines the utility as well as the limitations of various online research repositories for research in South Asian history and then discusses the immense possibilities offered for such research by Taylor and Francis’ South Asia Archive. Digital databases like HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, ArchiveGrid, the British Online Archives, etc. turn up some useful material, but none of them matches up to the description of a real ‘archive,…
At the Margins
In comparison to other linguistic movements in India, Orissa is the single instance of a pan-regional linguistic identity that made a successful negotiation with the colonial state by using constitutional means. Subsequently, like many other linguistic movements that culminated in statehood in postcolonial India, its appeal waxed and waned. It gradually declined in the second half of the twentieth century, as language came to be displaced by issu…
Democracy and its Discontents
This chapter examines the momentous transformation brought about by Orissa’s initiation into electoral democracy, which drastically challenged the older techniques of publicization favoured by a small but educated and politically articulate élite. With the time-tested avenues of bargaining and negotiating with colonial rulers now gone, Oriya nationalism had to translate its ‘elegant exchanges’ in the language of local politics in order to become …
At the Margins
'At the Margins' shows how a movement of regional identity was forged in colonial Orissa in the early 20th century, how it related to the politics of Indian nationalism, and how the politics of postcolonial electoral democracy impacted this movement and the politics of Oriya identity. It breaks new ground by examining the themes of regionalism, language-based ethnicity, center-state relations, and the interrelationships between development and de…
Nation on a Platter
This paper examines themes related to cooking, food, nutrition, and the relationship between dietary practice and health in late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century Bengal, and argues that food and cuisine represented a vibrant site on which a complex rhetorical struggle between colonialism and nationalism was played out. Insofar as they carried symbolic meanings and ‘civilisational attributes’, cooking and eating transcended their fun…
Globalizing Patriotism? Some Lessons from the Cricket World Cup of 2003
Globalizing patriotism? Some lessons from the cricket world cup of 2003
Nation on a Platter
This paper examines themes related to cooking, food, nutrition, and the relationship between dietary practice and health in late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century Bengal, and argues that food and cuisine represented a vibrant site on which a complex rhetorical struggle between colonialism and nationalism was played out. Insofar as they carried symbolic meanings and ‘civilisational attributes’, cooking and eating transcended their fun…
Globalizing patriotism? Some lessons from the cricket world cup of 2003
Globalizing Patriotism? Some Lessons from the Cricket World Cup of 2003
Globalizing patriotism? Some lessons from the cricket world cup of 2003
Nation on a Platter
This paper examines themes related to cooking, food, nutrition, and the relationship between dietary practice and health in late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century Bengal, and argues that food and cuisine represented a vibrant site on which a complex rhetorical struggle between colonialism and nationalism was played out. Insofar as they carried symbolic meanings and ‘civilisational attributes’, cooking and eating transcended their fun…
At the Margins
'At the Margins' shows how a movement of regional identity was forged in colonial Orissa in the early 20th century, how it related to the politics of Indian nationalism, and how the politics of postcolonial electoral democracy impacted this movement and the politics of Oriya identity. It breaks new ground by examining the themes of regionalism, language-based ethnicity, center-state relations, and the interrelationships between development and de…
At the Margins
In comparison to other linguistic movements in India, Orissa is the single instance of a pan-regional linguistic identity that made a successful negotiation with the colonial state by using constitutional means. Subsequently, like many other linguistic movements that culminated in statehood in postcolonial India, its appeal waxed and waned. It gradually declined in the second half of the twentieth century, as language came to be displaced by issu…
Democracy and its Discontents
This chapter examines the momentous transformation brought about by Orissa’s initiation into electoral democracy, which drastically challenged the older techniques of publicization favoured by a small but educated and politically articulate élite. With the time-tested avenues of bargaining and negotiating with colonial rulers now gone, Oriya nationalism had to translate its ‘elegant exchanges’ in the language of local politics in order to become …
Researching history in cyberspace
The article examines the utility as well as the limitations of various online research repositories for research in South Asian history and then discusses the immense possibilities offered for such research by Taylor and Francis’ South Asia Archive. Digital databases like HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, ArchiveGrid, the British Online Archives, etc. turn up some useful material, but none of them matches up to the description of a real ‘archive,…
Forum
Seven contemporary commentators whose experience has been touched by Queen Victoria’s history and its legacy address the question: how should we curate Victoria today
Bengali Mughlai Platter on the Table
Shorn of a strong aristocratic lineage tracing its roots to the Turko-Persian world, Bengal’s Muslim population was created by a wide-ranging conversion of poor peasants. Indo-Persianate cuisine was thus slow to spread here, patronized by the eighteenth-century Nawabi court in Murshidabad, fitfully adopted by Bengal’s predominantly Hindu landed aristocracy in the mid-nineteenth, and spreading among the non-elite only after the move to Calcutta of…
Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India
Journal Article Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956. Get access Pritipuspa Mishra. Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803–1956. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 247. Cloth $105.00. Jayanta Sengupta Jayanta Sengupta Independent scholar, India Email: [email protected] Search for other…
Masking Statues, Unmasking Policies
Journal Article Masking Statues, Unmasking Policies: "Decolonizing" the Victoria Memorial Hall Get access Jayanta Sengupta Jayanta Sengupta Director, Alipore Museum in Kolkata, India Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 1275–1283, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad352 Published: 26 September 2023
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