Deepashree Dutta

Deepashree Dutta has done her PhD (2024) from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her PhD titled ‘Zamindar-Rajas of Rahr Bengal: A Study on Politics, Socio-economic and Literary Culture from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries’ focusses on the political and literary culture of the little kingdom of Mallabhum (Bishnupur) in Early Modern Bengal . For her MPhil, from CHS, JNU, she had worked on the activities and literary works of the Portuguese missionaries in Early Modern Bengal. She is the recipient of the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022. Her latest publication include “Conversion and Translation: Life and Work of Dom Antonio do Rosario”, in Tilottama Mukherjee and Nupur Dasgupta (eds.) Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia (London: Routledge, 2023): 148-170. Her wider research interest lies in regional histories and comparative literary and textual studies.