All Outputs (5)

Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Bhattacharyaa, A., Cháirez-Garza, J., & Gould, W. (in press). Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2326755

This special section brings together the work of historians, anthropologists and museologists, exploring how anthropological and sociological knowledge has been produced, consumed and reproduced in India. In particular, the special section is interes... Read More about Introduction: Between the Field and the Gallery: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge in South Asia.

Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bhattacharya, A. (2023, June). Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands. Paper presented at The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference 2023: Imagining Environmental Justice in a Po

This paper will read two novels, Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2018), and Glorious Boy (2020) by Aimee Liu, narratives set in the Andaman Islands, on the Bay of Bengal. It discusses how the novels play off the anthropological scientific do... Read More about Anthropology, Time and Ecology in two novels of Andaman Islands.

Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks (2022)
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, A. (2023). Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks. In A. Bhattacharya, R. Hibbitt, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century (31-60). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13

This chapter explores the specific subgenre of the ‘Calcutta Handbooks’, reading their representation of mid-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century Calcutta, the capital of British India till 1911, as an attempt to produce the historical significance... Read More about Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks.

Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces beyond the Centres (2022)
Book
Bhattacharya, A., Hibbitt, R., & Scuriatti, L. (Eds.). (2023). Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces beyond the Centres. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13060-1

Everyday Objects and Conversations: Experiencing ‘Self’ in the Transnational Space of the United Kingdom (2020)
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, A. (2020). Everyday Objects and Conversations: Experiencing ‘Self’ in the Transnational Space of the United Kingdom. In N. Belford, & R. Lahiri-Roy (Eds.), Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian