Dr. Sudipa Topdar
Assistant Professor
History
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Current Courses
104.001History Of South & Southeast Asia
267.001Modern South Asia
Research Interests & Areas
• Education and schooling in colonial India • Colonial childhoods • Children’s literature in colonial India • Nationalism and citizenship • History of the body, gender and masculinity
Ph D South Asian History
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
M Phil Modern Indian History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
MA Modern Indian History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
BA History Honours
Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University
New Delhi
Honor Roll, Barbour Fellowship
University of Michigan
National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (India)
University Grants Commission
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant
American Historical Association
2018
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2014
Pre-tenure Initiative Grant
Illinois State University
2014
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
New Faculty Initiative Grant
Illinois State University
2012
Department of History Research Grant
Illinois State University
2011
Book Review
(Book Review) Sudipa Topdar, Empire, Education and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies ed. by Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2015, pp. 321-323.
Journal Article, Academic Journal
Sudipa Topdar, "Duties of a 'Good Citizen': Colonial School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth Century India," South Asian History and Culture 6 (3) (July 2015): 417-439.
Presentations
Native Children and The Politics of Imperial Schoolbooks in Late Colonial India. BASAS Annual Conference. (2017)
School Textbook Policies and the ‘Seditious’ Student. Annual South Asia Conference. (2015)
The Body as a Political Space: Physical Education and Contestation in Colonial Schools in Bengal. Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. (2014)
‘Ideologies of Colonial School Curriculum, Citizenship and Childhoods in Late Nineteenth Century India’. Childhoods in South Asia: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Australian National University. (2013)
Knowledge and Governance: School Curriculum and the British Empire in late Colonial India’. International Seminar Series. Illinois State University. (2013)
Anxieties of Masculinity: The Nation and the Child’s Body in Bengali Children’s Magazines. 22nd European Conference for South Asian Studies, ISCTE-IUL. (2012)
‘Duties of a “Good Citizen”: Colonial School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth-Century India’. Annual Association of Asian Studies. Annual Association of Asian Studies. (2012)
‘Anxieties of Masculinity: The Nation and the Child’s Body in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Bengali Children’s Magazines’. Second International Conference on Popular Culture and Education. Hong Kong Institute of Education. (2011)
Why the History of Childhood Matters?. Eisenberg Institute. University of Michigan. (2011)
The India-Pakistan Conflict: Genesis and Conflict Resolution’. Spring Arbor University. (2010)
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