Teaching
Academic Programmes
5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)
Courses
Mar 2025
Nov 2024
Jul 2024
Nov 2023
July 2023
Mar 2023
Nov 2022
Jul 2022
Nov 2021
Jul 2021
Mar 2021
Education
B.A. (History), Jadavpur University – 2008
M.A. (Comparative Literature), Jadavpur University – 2010
M.Phil. (Social Science), Centre for Studies in Social Sciences – 2012
PhD (History), University of Toronto – 2020
Profile
Trained in literary studies and history, Dr Anwesha Ghosh’s research offers an interdisciplinary outlook towards understanding the processes of colonial urban formation. Aside from teaching, she is also currently developing her doctoral dissertation into academic publications.
Research Interests
Colonialism
Capitalism
Governance
Law
Infrastructure
Urban Studies
Publications
1. “The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities”. Comparative Studies in Society and History
2. Book Review: Kalyani Ramnath, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962. National Law School Journal.
3. Book Review: Douglas Haynes, Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism. Business History Review, 97(4): 919-922.
4. Book review: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta. Social Change 53(2): 289–291.
5. “The Indiscipline of the Streets”. Society and Space: Book Review 5 June
6. Doing Urban History in the Global South. Antipode Online 13 March