Tapati Guha-Thakurta

Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 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.

Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Born1957
Calcutta, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationCultural historian, academic
Known forArt history, visual studies, cultural history of India
Spouse(s)Hari Vasudevan (d. 2020)
RelativesParanjoy Guha Thakurta (brother)
Academic background
EducationPresidency College, Kolkata
University of Oxford
Academic work
Notable worksMonuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post–Colonial India
Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal

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.[1] Guha-Thakurta was married to historian Hari Vasudevan, who died in May 2020 after contracting the Covid-19 virus.[2]

Career

In 1995, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge.[3] In 2011, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art.[4] In 2018, she was a visiting professor at Brown University.[5] She has written exhibition monographs and curated many art exhibitions.[6] 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.[7]

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
  1. "Tapati Guha-Thakurta | University of Chicago Global". global.uchicago.edu.
  2. "Coronavirus: Historian Hari Vasudevan no more". www.telegraphindia.com.
  3. Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (August 5, 2004). Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231503518 – via Google Books.
  4. Guha-Thakurta, Tapati (March 1, 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.
  5. "Tapati Guha-Thakurta | Cogut Institute for the Humanities | Brown University". www.brown.edu.
  6. "FROM KALIGHAT TO THE NEW WOMAN". www.telegraphindia.com.
  7. Singh, Shiv Sahay (January 12, 2019). "I-T notices to Durga Pujas even as festival seeks UNESCO status" – via www.thehindu.com.
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