| Tapati Guha-Thakurta | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1957-09-27) 27 September 1957 (age 67) Calcutta, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Cultural historian, academic |
| Known for | Art history, visual studies, cultural history of India |
| Spouse | Hari Vasudevan (d. 2020) |
| Relatives | Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (brother) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Presidency College, Kolkata University of Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Monuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post–Colonial India Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal |
Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 27 September 1957) is an Indian historian who has written about the cultural history and art of India. She is a director and professor in history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and was previously a professor at Presidency College, Kolkata. Her extensive research work on Kolkata's Durga Puja led to its inclusion in UNESCOs Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Biography
Guha-Thakurta was born in Calcutta and obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree in history from the Presidency College and Calcutta University. She finished her DPhil. at the University of Oxford. Guha-Thakurta was married to historian Hari Vasudevan, who died in May 2020 after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
Career
In 1995, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge. In 2011, she was a visiting fellow at the Yale Center for British Art. In 2018, she was a visiting professor at Brown University. She has written exhibition monographs and curated many art exhibitions. In 2019, she was assigned by the Indian Ministry of Culture to prepare a dossier proposing the inclusion of Durga Puja in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Books
- Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (2007). The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850–1920. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521052733.
- Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (2004). Monuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post–Colonial India. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231129985.
- Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (2015). In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata. Primus Books. ISBN 978-9384082468.
References
- "Dangerous untruth: Vasudevan's wife; Shock at misinformation about cause". Telegraph India. 10 June 2020.
- "Tapati Guha-Thakurta | University of Chicago Global". global.uchicago.edu.
- "Coronavirus: Historian Hari Vasudevan no more". www.telegraphindia.com.
- Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (5 August 2004). Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231503518 – via Google Books.
- Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (1 March 2013). "The Production and Reproduction of a Monument: The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa". South Asian Studies. 29 (1): 77–109. doi:10.1080/02666030.2013.772801. S2CID 154610286.
- "Tapati Guha-Thakurta | Cogut Institute for the Humanities | Brown University". www.brown.edu.
- "FROM KALIGHAT TO THE NEW WOMAN". www.telegraphindia.com.
- Singh, Shiv Sahay (12 January 2019). "I-T notices to Durga Pujas even as festival seeks UNESCO status". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
External links
- Centre for Studies in Social Sciences – profile
- Brown University – profile
- University of Chicago – profile
- Indian art historians
- Academic staff of Presidency University, Kolkata
- Indian curators
- 1957 births
- Bengali Hindus
- Bengali historians
- 20th-century Bengalis
- 21st-century Bengalis
- 20th-century Indian historians
- 21st-century Indian historians
- Indian women historians
- Indian scholars
- Indian women scholars
- Living people
- Indian art writers
- Scholars from West Bengal
- Indian academics
- Cultural historians
- Historians of Indian art