Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India based at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Sarkar's work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right.
Tanikar Sarkar was born to Amal Bhattacharya, professor of English at Presidency College, and Sukumari Bhattacharya, eminent Sanskritist and scholar on early Indian culture.
[2] Tanika Sarkar has published the following Monographs: In 2004, she has received the Rabindra Puraskar from the Bangla Academy, the highest literary award given in West Bengal.
It was reported that she intended to return it in protest over the police firing in Nandigram in March 2007.