Sagnik Kar
Research Fellow
Email:
sagnik.kar(at)zmo.de
Research project:
Timely Histories: Time and Delay: Gendered Temporalities in Bengal in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Regional focus:
South Asia, especially India
Positions
Since 2021
Doctoral research fellow in the ERC project ‘Timely Histories: A Social History
of Time in South Asia’.
Education
Since 2021
Doctoral candidate at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2018 - 2020
M.Phil. in Development Studies (Specialization in History), Institute of
Development Studies Kolkata (University of Calcutta), Kolkata.
M.Phil. thesis title - The Making of an ‘Ideal’ Woman: West Bengal, 1947-1957
Thesis supervisor – Dr. Anwesha Sengupta
2015 - 2017
M.A. in History, Department of History, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
2012 - 2015
B.A. in History, Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata.
Publications
Articles
- 2018, ‘The Spirit of Tolerance in Indian Democracy: A Critical Appraisal’, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Number 15, pp. 105-117.
Book Reviews
- 2019, Ambalika Guha, ‘Colonial Modernities: Midwifery in Bengal, c. 1860 – 1947’, Socialist Perspective, Volume 45, No. 1-2, pp. 87-91.
Conference Organisation
Member of the Organizing Committee for the National Seminar on ‘Reading Sources and Writing History’ organized by the Department of History, University of Hyderabad from 10 to 12 April, 2017.
Awards
Received Andhra Bank Medal for obtaining first class first rank at the M.A. level
Languages
- Bengali: Mother Tongue
- English: Fluent
- Hindi: fluent
- French: A1
- Telugu: Basic