Subhadipa Dutta
St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal State University
0000-0003-4660-0792
About
Subhadipa Dutta is a part-time faculty member in the Department of History at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India. She completed her MA in 2012 and her PhD in 2023. In 2018, she was awarded a contingency study-cum-travel grant by the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. In 2022, she received a conference bursary jointly awarded by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. She has presented research papers at several national and international seminars and conferences. Her research articles have been published in Folklore (Routledge), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Cambridge University Press), South Asian History and Culture (Routledge), and Aitihya - The Heritage (Aitihya Samstha Foundation, Guwahati). She has also contributed book reviews to The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (Johns Hopkins University Press) and the Journal of Sport History (University of Illinois Press). She currently serves as a manuscript reviewer for Sport in Society (Routledge) and Soccer & Society (Routledge).
Employment
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St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata Part-Time Lecturer2026 - Present
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West Bengal State University Guest Teacher2024 - 2026
Education
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West Bengal State University PhD? - 2023
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (5)
- The Measurement of Time and the Management of Sport: A Study of Vernacular Didactic Literature for Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Bengal Save
- The YMCA in Late Colonial India: Modernization, Philanthropy and American Soft Power in South Asia by Harald Fischer-Tiné Save
- The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India Save
- Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial India by Sutapa Dutta Save
- The Genre, Games, and Gender: The Textual Representation of Childhood Play in the Maṅgala-kāvyas of Pre-colonial Bengal Save