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Department of HISTORY - Faculty profile :


Name : Dr.Tania Chakravarty
Email : taniachakravarty@gmail.com
Contact Number : 9830368285
Department: HISTORY

Dr. Tania Chakravarty is an Assistant Professor at Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur, Kolkata. She has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at VIT-AP School of Social Sciences and Humanities (VISH), VIT-AP University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. She completed her B.A., M.A. and M.Phil from Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She completed her PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her areas of expertise include Social History of Modern India, Environmental History of Modern India, Urban History of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century India and History of Constitutional Reforms in Early Twentieth Century India.

• 2014 - 2020: PhD in History at Dept. of History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
• 2010 - 2012: M.Phil in History at Dept. of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• 2008 - 2010: M.A. in History at Dept. of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• 2005 - 2008: B.A (Honours) in History at Dept. of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Urban History of Interwar Calcutta, Social History of Modern India, Constitutional History of Modern India (particularly Pre-Independence), History of Urban Governance, Environmental History of Modern India

• 2022 - 2023: Co-PI, RGems Project, VIT-AP University. Project title: Impact of Tourism Development in the coastal environment of Mandarmani, West Bengal.
• 2014 - 2020: Completed PhD Research, SOAS, University of London. Research Title: Planning, Space and Politics: Economy and Citizenship in Inter-war Calcutta.
• 2010-2012: . Completed M. Phil Research, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Research title: Native Agency and the Neighbourhood in the Making of a Colonial City: Calcutta in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.

• October 2021 - October 2023: Programme Chair, B.A.-M.A in Public Services, VIT-AP School of Social Sciences and Humanities (VISH), VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India

• November 2023 – present: Assistant Professor, Vivekananda College, Kolkata (Affiliated to University of Calcutta)
• October 2021 - October 2023: Programme Chair, B.A.-M.A in Public Services, VISH, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
• July 2021 – October 2023: Assistant Professor (Grade1), VISH, VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
• September 2016 – September 2018: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, SOAS, University of London.
• 2013-2014: Guest Lecturer, Department of History, Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, Affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
• 2011-2013: Guest Lecturer (under the Remedial Teaching Program of University Grants Commission, Government of India, Department of History, Basanti Devi College, Affiliated to Calcutta University.

N.A.

National Association of Geographers, India (NAGI)

• Nation, City and Citizens: the Biopolitics of Municipal Governance in Interwar Calcutta, in South Asia History Seminar, SOAS, May 5, 2015
• Migration, Citizenship and the subjects of the Indian States: Enfranchising the Marwaris of Interwar Calcutta, in South Asia History Seminar, SOAS, May 9, 2017
• Pushing the boundaries of urban: Revisiting the operations of Calcutta Improvement Trust in early 20th Century Calcutta, in Eighth Annual Symposium of the Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS), BEYOND THE NATION? The Transnational and its Limits, Leiden University, (October 21st and 22nd, 2017)
• Serving the poor is like serving God himself: Chittaranjan Das and the Calcutta Corporation in the Interwar Years, in Cambridge Political History Workshop, Requiem for the Political: Rethinking politico-intellectual history in Twentieth Century India, (17th-18th June 2021)
• Coastal Tourism and Sustainability: A Case Study of East Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, in Sustainabilty, Economics, Innovation, Globalisation and Organisational Psychology (SEIGOP) Conference, James Cook University, Singapore, (1st-3rd March 2023).
• SDG 13 and Climate Change in India, in 45th Indian Geography Congress, International Conference on Environment, Development and Sustainability: The Exigency of Geography for a Resilient Future, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India (14th-16th December, 2023)

Publications
1) Book Chapter: Tania Chakravarty, Agrarian Land Use Pattern in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, in Pradip Basu (ed.), Colonial Modernity: Indian Perspectives, (Kolkata, Setu Prakashani, 2011)
2) Article: Tania Chakravarty, Victorian Domesticity, Colonial Practice: Memsahibs in Colonial India, in Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Number 11, Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, August 2014)
3) Article: Tania Chakravarty, Revisiting the Calcutta Improvement Trust in early 20th century Calcutta, in IIAS, The Newsletter 84 (Leiden, Autumn 2019)
4) Book Chapter: Priyanka Ghosh and Tania Chakravarty, Coastal Tourism and Sustainability: A Case Study of East Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, in Eijdenberg, Mukherjee, Wood (ed). Innovation-Driven Business and Sustainability in the Tropics (Springer Singapore, August 2023).
5) Book Chapter: Tania Chakravarty and Priyanka Ghosh, SDG 13 and Climate Change in India, in Venkatesh Dutta and Priyanka Ghosh (eds) Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India, (Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50132-6_13
6) Book Chapter: Priyanka Ghosh and Tania Chakravarty, Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Way Forward, in Ventakesh Dutta and Priyanka Ghosh (eds) Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India, (Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50132-6_17

Edited Journal
• Guest Editor, Special Publication on Climate Change and Environmental Issues, Geographical Review of India, Vol 85, No. 2, June 2023

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Aparajita Bhattacharyya
Associate Professor
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Dr.Tania Chakravarty
Assistant Professor
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Sampa Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
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Shreya Roy
SACT
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Shyamali Sarkar
Assistant Professor
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