Barnita Bagchi
Barnita Bagchi is a Bengali-speaking Indian feminist advocate, historian, and literary scholar. She is a faculty member in literary studies at Utrecht University, and was previously at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata at the University of Calcutta. She was educated at Jadavpur University, in Kolkata, St Hilda's College, Oxford, and at the Trinity College, Cambridge.
She is a feminist historian, utopian studies scholar, literary scholar, and researcher of girls' and women's education and writing. She is also well-known also as translator and scholar of Bengali and South Asian feminist Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
She is the daughter of economist Amiya Kumar Bagchi and feminist critic and activist Jasodhara Bagchi.Published works
