Fellow
Prathama Banerjee did her postgraduate studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University and her doctoral thesis from School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Her work was on changing conceptions of time in colonial modernity. The study was a simultaneous exploration of the rise of history and credit rationality on the one hand and of the constitution of some peoples as 'tribes', on the other. By staging encounters between adivasi-s and the modern middle classes, the work sought to understand how temporality itself came to be reconceptualised, leading to unprecedented notions of politics and practices. This work was published as Politics of Time: 'primitives and history-writing in a colonial society in 2006.
Prathama is currently working on a history of the idea of the political in 20th century Bengal. This is partly an intellectual history, partly a history of practices that produced the political as distinct domain, act and subjectivity.
Prathama is also involved in collaborative projects on rethinking disciplinary formations and knowledge politics in post-1947 India. She has also taught in Delhi University and Delhi University colleges earlier.
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