Sagnik Bhattacharya
Sagnik Bhattacharya studied History with a focus on Modern History at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Presidency University, Kolkata (India).
His doctoral project explores the development of indigenous (adivasi) rights discourses at its interface with state and international platforms in India between the 1930s and 1990s. Looking at the development of this discourse as a process of negotiation between subaltern activists and national and global interests and capital, mediated by middle class politicians, this project hypothesizes a deep awareness even among subaltern actors of the interests of the dialectical ‘other’ in articulating indigeneity as a strategic essentialism.
Title of PhD Project
How the Subalterns Speak – Indigeneity and a Global History of the Adivasi in Eastern India (1930s – 1990s)
Research Foci
Modern South Asia, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Indigeneity, Subaltern Studies
