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Papia Sengupta profile on academia.edu

Papia Sengupta (PhD JNU, Delhi) completed her PhD in Political Theory and Indian Politics from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she now teaches. Her interests are in language diversity and rights, decolonization, institutional-mechanisms, democratic and human rights, language-in-education and policies of multiculturalism and gender issues.

Her first monograph titled Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics was published in 2018.  Her next book is called Critical Sites of Inclusion in Higher Education in India. Papia has published in national and international journals including Economic and Political Weekly, Geoforum, International Journal on Diversity, Social Action and Droit et Cultures.  

In 2016, she was selected as fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh and held fellowships at Brown University (2015), Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, 2013, Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship 2007. She participated in international collaborative research projects funded by ICSSR-NIHSS and the British Academy.

She held visiting professor positions at Rhodes University in South Africa 2018 and at University of Edinburgh in 2016. In 2009, she was awarded the Distinguished Teacher of Delhi University Award for mentoring students. For her work on language-in-education and diversity, she was awarded the Global Solidarity award by International Association for Applied Linguistics, The Netherlands.