Anindita Ghoshal is Associate Professor of History at Diamond Harbour Women’s University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Her area of research includes Partition and Refugee studies with special emphasis on eastern/northeastern India and Bangladesh. She has been awarded many grants/prizes including Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship (2015), an Academic and Foreign Travel Grant from ICHR (Cardiff University, UK, 2013), ‘Gautam Chattopadhyay Memorial Prize’ by the Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad (2013), Research-Writing Fellowship From Calcutta Research Group (2012), UGC Minor Research Project Grant (2010) and an Academic Affiliation from the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka (2009). She has worked as principal investigator, in a research project titled, ‘Experiences and Experiments of Refugeehood: A Study of Camps-Colonies and Spatial Change in Northeast India’, under the aegis of the Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati, Assam (2017-2018). She worked as a co-investigator on a Research Project with Professor Peter Gatrell, titled ‘Reckoning in Refugeedom: Refugee Voices in Modern History, 1919-1975’ as co-investigator, under the aegis of School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the Manchester University, UK, funded by UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2018-2021). In addition to numerous publications in reputed journals and edited books, she has presented her research in seminars, conferences and webinars in India and abroad. Her first monograph Refugee, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India (Routledge global edition, 2021) and her forthcoming title isRevisiting Partition: Contestation, Narratives and Memories (edited volume, Primus 2022).
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