Subhasree Ghosh

Biography

Subhasree Ghosh received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India in Modern History. Subsequently she was engaged as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. She is now engaged as an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the undergraduate level at the University of Calcutta.

Publications include:

‘The Refugees and the Government: A Saga of Self-Rehabilitation in West Bengal’ in Daniel Coleman, Erin Goheen Glanville, Wafaa

Hasan, and Agnes Kramer-Hamstra ed. Countering Displacements: Creativity and Agency (University of Alberta Press, Canada 2012), ISBN 978-0-88864-592-0, pp. 152-176;

‘Population Movement in West Bengal: A Case-Study of Nadia District, 1947-1951’ South Asia Research, July 2014, 34 (2), ISSN 0262-7280, pp. 113-132

‘In Search of ‘Home’: Dandakaranya and the East Bengali Migrants, 1957-1977 in Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle 7/2017, pp. 95-122

Ed. The 1947 Partition in the East: Trends and Trajectories (Routledge, 2022)

“Refugees and Politics: Leftist Agitation in Nadia (1947-1957)” in Anindita Ghoshal ed. Revisiting Partition: Contestation, Narratives and Memories (Primus, 2022)