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Dr. DEBJANI DAS
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Assistant Professor
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HISTORY
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+91 3222 298-300 / Centrex Extn. 300
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debjani@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in
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9830672700
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Dept of History, Vidyasagar University, 721102
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| Assistant Professor, Department of History, Vidyasagar University since 30 April 2012 |
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| Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century |
| History of Medicine in India |
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| Gender History |
| History of Psychiatry; History of Mental Health |
| History of Pharmacy in India |
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| History of Medicine in Colonial India (M.A History Department) |
| Socio Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India (M.A History Department) |
| Women in Colonial India (M.A History Department) |
| An Introduction to Women’s History (M.Phil & PhD History Department) |
| Tribal History in Colonial India: A Historiographical Survey (M.Phil. & PhD History) |
| Research Methodology in History (M.Phil & PhD History Department) |
| Feminism: Theories and Debates (Women's Center) |
| Women in Indian History (Women's Center) |
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| International Publication |
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| Gender and Insanity: Situating Asylums in Nineteenth Century Bengal | Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India, Mark Harrison and Biswamoy Pati eds. | 2018 | Oxon: Routledge | |
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| Contributed two Chapters in the District Gazetteer of Purba Medinipur on ‘History’ and ‘Medical and Public Health Services’ | District Gazetteer of Purba Medinipur (Forthcoming) | 2019 | Government of West Bengal | |
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| Bhumika | Medinipur: Nana Chokhe edited Ajay Kumar Mandal | 2015 | Kabitika, Page Nos. 11-17, January 2015 | |
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| Book review: Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century: An Archival Exploration | Journal of History, Volume III | 2015 | Department of History, Vidyasagar University | |
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| Is Insanity a Female Malady? Lunatic Women in the Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century | Social Scientist, Volume 39, Numbers 5-6, pp 23 - 47, May - June | 2011 | Social Scientist | |
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| Title of the Book | Published by | Published on | Role | Details |
| Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century India | New Delhi: Oxford University Press | 2015 | Author |
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| ‘Methods in Asylum History and History of Mental Hospitals in 19th Century Bengal’ | Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences, Bangalore | NIMHANS, BANGALORE | 2016 |
| Book discussion on Houses of Madness: Insanity and Asylums of Bengal in Nineteenth Century India | Wellcome Trust Documentation Centre on History of Medicine in collaboration with the Department of History, Calcutta University | DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY | 2016 |
| ‘Space, Architecture and ‘Cure’: Military Hospitals in Nineteenth Century India’ | Department of History, Jadavpur University | DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY | 2014 |
| ‘Moral Treatment and Architecture: Asylums of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century’ | Welcome Trust Documentation Centre on History of Medicine in collaboration with the Department of History, Calcutta University | DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY | 2014 |
| ‘Within a Boundary of Their Own: The Lunatic Hospitals of Calcutta in the Nineteenth Century’ | Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India on Archaeology of Greater Calcutta | NANDAN, KOLKATA | 2014 |
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| Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop | Date | Role | Held at and Organiser |
| “Labour of the ‘Insane’: Therapy or Affliction?” | 2014 | PAPER PRESENTER | AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HISTORY OF MEDICINE, CHICAGO |
| ‘From Moral Treatment to Psychological Therapies: Psychotherapeutics from the York Retreat to the Present Day’ | 2013 | PAPER PRESENTER | Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, University College London, London |
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| Issues in Environmental History in India: Pre colonial and Colonial Times | 2014 | Joint Co ordinator | ICHR |
| State, Society, and, Economy in Pre colonial and Colonial India | 2013 | Joint Co ordinator | State University Network, Kolkata and UGC Unassigned Grant |
| Historicising the Peripheries: Ethnicity, Science, Gender, and Environment | 2013 | Joint Co ordinator | UGC Unassigned Grant |
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| Award Name | Awarded By | Date |
| Fulbright Nehru Award | Fulbright | 2017 |
| Charles Wallace India Trust Award | Charles Wallace India Trust | 2010 |
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