Debjani Bhattacharyya

Debjani Bhattacharyya is an associate professor of history at Drexel University and the author of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018) which received the 2019 Honorable Mention for the Best Book in Non-North American Urban History. Her writings have appeared in Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and Economic and Political Weekly.

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Almanac of A Tide Country

Debjani Bhattacharyya | November 10, 2020

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Debjani Bhattacharyya

Almanac of A Tide Country

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

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