Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 27 September 1957) is an Indian historian who has written about the cultural history and art of India.
Her extensive research work on Kolkata's Durga Puja led to its inclusion in UNESCOs Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
[2] Guha-Thakurta was married to historian Hari Vasudevan, who died in May 2020 after contracting the Covid-19 virus.
[3] In 1995, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
[7] In 2019, she was assigned by the Indian Ministry of Culture to prepare a dossier proposing the inclusion of Durga Puja in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.