Jasodhara Bagchi

Jasodhara Bagchi (born 1937 in Kolkata – 9 January 2015) was a leading Indian feminist professor, author, critic and activist.

[1] Her books include Loved and Unloved – The Girl Child and Trauma and Triumph – Gender and Partition in Eastern India.

[2] Professors Sajni Mukherji and Supriya Chaudhuri, her friends and colleagues at this department, edited for her a distinguished Festschrift in 2002: Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi.

Contributors to this included Bagchi's cherished teachers, friends, former students, and colleagues, such as Peter Dronke, Kitty Scoular Datta, Himani Bannerji, Malini Bhattacharya, Sheila Lahiri Choudhury, Supriya Chaudhuri, Tanika Sarkar, Bhaswati Chakravorty, and Aditi Dasgupta.

Prof. Bagchi remained a regular and active participant in seminars and lectures at the department of English till her death, and was also a member of its Board of Studies for some years after retirement.

[8] She was part of a group of five of emeritus professors that met West Bengal Governor and University Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi to protest the current Vice-Chancellor.