Talk:Nupur Dasgupta

By Rutvi Dattani

Nupur Dasgupta is Professor in the Department of History at Jadavpur University, as of November 2022. According to her university profile, her research interests are Indian history, history of science and technology, women in early society, folk culture.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India, or the Indian Government in the context of BJP Government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

1. Mukherjee, T. & Dasgupta, Nupur. Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-Modern South Asia Edited by Tilottama Mukherjee and Nupur Dasgupta. 2023. 10.4324/9781003095651.
2. Dasgupta, Nupur. Looking at the archaeological evidence from Taxila as an early historic zone of urban settlements. Journal of The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, Vol. LXII. No. 4 CTP 2020 (1)
3. Dasgupta, Nupur. History of Diseases and Medicine in India and Beyond Journal of The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, Vol. LXII. No. 4 CTP 2020 , 2020
4. Dasgupta, Nupur. Social History of Women in Ancient India, Emergent Methodological and Historiographical Issues In History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to c. 1200 CE), Vol. 2, 2018
5. Dasgupta, Nupur. Gardens in Ancient India: Concepts, Practices and Imaginations. Puravritta- Journal of Directorate of Archeology and Muuseums. 2016. vol 1, 133 pp
6. Dasgupta, Nupur. Of Pleasure, Power and Piety: Uses and Perceptions of Gardens and Managed Floral Spaces in Early India. Journal of South Asian Studies. 2016. Vol 4, No 3.
7. Dasgupta, Nupur. Minor Metal Crafts in Bengal_Tradition and Changes from the Medieval Times to the Present Proceedings of Indian National Science Academy, 2015
8. Dasgupta, Nupur. Mustiyog and the Chest of medicine: Popular Remedies and Medical Products in 19th century Bengal. 2015.
9. Dasgupta, Nupur. Environs and Cults: Tracing the Roots of the Social-Psychological Paradigm of Folk Existence in Deltaic Lower Bengal. Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology. June 2014, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 147-161
10. Dasgupta, Nupur. Revisiting Early India, Essays in Honour of D.C. Sircar, Kolkata, 2013
11. Dasgupta, Nupur. Rhapsody of knowledge: The Impact of Western Science and the Rediscovery of Indian Medicinal Plants. 2011.
12. Dasgupta, Nupur. Fine-tuning Regional History. Economic and Political Weekly. 2009. 44. 29-31. 10.2307/25663653.
13. Dasgupta, Nupur. Urbanisation in India: Past and Present , 2009
14. Dasgupta, Nupur. Geometry, Architecture and the Bridge Between Early and Post Gupta Structural Engineering. Journal of the Asiatic Society, 2005
15. Dasgupta, Nupur. “Exploring an emergent discourse on body and health in some early Indian treatises: Historical contextuality of Textual evidence”. 2005