Introduction: : Revisiting the Intellectual History of Women Thinkers: A Critical Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal

Sanchayita  Paul Chakraborty; Dhritiman Chakraborty

doi:10.35684/JLCI.2024.11101

Authors

Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty Assistant Professor in English & Director Kailashbasini Centre for Women’s Studies Dr. Meghnad Saha College https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4603-7429
Dhritiman Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Joint-Director Abid Ali Khan Center for Digital Archive and Translation of Cultures Gour College University of Gour Bangal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4351-2298

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35684/JLCI.2024.11101

Keywords:

Colonial Bengal, Feminism, Intellectual History

Abstract

This special issue of Sanglap intends to revive the lost voices of women thinkers from “the clutches of academic amnesia” (Chakrabarti ii) and to reorient the focus on the intellectual contribution of women in colonial Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Critical discussions on the cultural and intellectual life in colonial Bengal often bypassed the intellectual investment of women who were trailblazers. This guest-edited issue of Sanglap explores the reasons behind this politics of marginalisation through different articles focusing on some of the remarkable women of colonial Bengal who intervened in the thought-scape with their lives and works.

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Author Biographies

Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty, Assistant Professor in English & Director Kailashbasini Centre for Women’s Studies Dr. Meghnad Saha College

Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty is now working as an Assistant Professor in English and as the Director of the Kailashbasini Centre for Women’s Studies in Dr. Meghnad Saha College. She has been awarded with PhD from Bankura University in India for her doctoral research entitled Hindu Brahminic Patriarchy in Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period. Her research interests include women’s studies, decolonial studies, gendered intellectual history and translation studies. She has contributed articles and book chapters in journals like Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik published by De Gruyter, Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Australian National University), Global Media Journal (University of Calcutta), Cafe Dissensus and Feminist Review, etc. She is also working as a translator in various literary projects. She has published books, articles and translations in Bengali from reputed publishers. She has also worked as a reviewer for Springer and for other reputed journals. She received travel grants to present her research at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany in 2015 and at American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2018. Her research has been accepted for presentation at the ECSAS Conference at the University of Warsaw, Poland, SOAS, the University of London and the University of Dublin. She has co-edited the book In Search of Creative Commons (Springer, 2025).

Dhritiman Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Joint-Director Abid Ali Khan Center for Digital Archive and Translation of Cultures Gour College University of Gour Bangal

Dhritiman Chakraborty, works in the field of social movement studies, postcolonial political and intellectual traditions of political thinking in South Asia. His seminal publications include chapters on Marx and Postcolonial Theory, and Antagonistic Politics from Aakar, Left Populism in India from Sage, Mahatma Gandhi’s Asketic Politics from Routledge, and Postcolonial Foucault from Oxford. He was part of an invited book discussion panel on Decolonising Theory by Aditya Nigam for an international journal in 2022. His articles and book reviews have been published in journals such as ZAA, EPW, Social History, Textual Practice, Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary South Asia, among others. His forthcoming works include a jointly edited book titled, In Search of Creative Common: Crisis, Catastrophe and Responsive Literature from Springer in December 2024. He also teaches Literature and Cultural Studies as Assistant Professor in Gour College, University of Gour Banga, India.