Bipasha Mahanta
Thematic Research Area
Regional Research Area
Education
Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2025-
M.A., Ambedkar University Delhi, 2024
B.A. (Hons.), Miranda House, University of Delhi, 2022
Research
Bipasha’s research interests lie at the intersection between history, linguistics, and literature in the contexts of colonial and post-colonial Assam. Her research engages with the metanarratives surrounding print, language, orality, narrative public, nationalism, region, and identity. She is particularly interested in examining the coexistence of print culture and oral traditions in colonial Assam and how it influenced the subjectivity of the Assamese identity. Her broad intellectual interests span across the cultural histories of Northeast India and South Asia.
Graduate Supervision
Dr. Anne Murphy