Research Articles

Published

(2024) Sarkar, Pritha. " The Role of Violence and Its Backlash in the Naxalbari Movement (1965-1975): Re-reading History and Inquilaab: A Play in Three Acts (1971).” Cultural Logic (Hosted by the University of British Columbia).

(2023) Sarkar, Pritha. "Disentangling the Relationship between the Middle Class and Peasantry in the Naxalbari Movement through The Lives of Others (2014)." Cogent Arts and Humanities (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2286082

(2023) Sarkar, Pritha. Chattopadhyay, Sayan. “Caste Identity of Contemporary Naxalites: Reading the Battles of the Naxals against the Caste Hierarchy through a Close Reading of A Naxal Story (2008).” Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage Publications). https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X231157631

(2023) Sarkar, Pritha. "A Gendered Historical Discourse of the Naxalbari Movement: Locating the Middle-Class Women in the Movement through the Lowland." Journal of International Women’s Studies 25.7 (2023) (Bridgewater State University). https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol25/iss7/15/

(2023) Sarkar, Pritha. “Violence, Naxalbari Movement (1965–1975), and its Representation in Indian English Literature: A Re-reading of History through The Lives of Others (2014).” Indialogs 10 (2023): 28-43.

(2021) Sarkar, Pritha. "Patriarchy, 20th Century Bengal and the Naxalbari Movement (1965-1975): Tracing the Roots through Lives of Others." Journal of International Women's Studies 22.9 (2021): 160-173.

(2021) Sarkar, Pritha. "Locating Women in the Naxalbari Movement: A Story of Resistance and Fabrication of the Individual Female Identity." Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 13.2 (2021). doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.28

(2019) Sarkar, Pritha. Das, Debojyoti. "Gender Politics in Hijra Community as Revealed through Me Hijra, Me Laxmi and The Truth About Me." Museindia 84 (2019).

(2018) Sarkar,Pritha. "Dissent against Marriage as a Heteronormative Institution." Pratidhwani the Echo -- A Peer-Reviewed International Journal of Humanities & Social Science 6.3 (2018): 246-252.

Forthcoming

Sarkar, Pritha. Chattopadhyay, Sayan. "Re-reading the Role of Violence in the Naxalbari Movement (19965--1975) through The Naxalites (1979): An interaction between History and Literature." in Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies (University of Heidelberg).

Sarkar, Pritha. "Class Tussle in the Naxalbari Movement (1965-1975): Re-reading the History through Inquilaab: A Play in Three Acts." IUP Journal of English Studies. (2025)

Communicated

Sarkar, Pritha. "Seeking Alternative Solidarity: Re-reading the Naxalbari Movement through Footprints of Footsoldiers (2015)." in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (NZASIA).

Sarkar, Pritha. “Where do the Sex-Workers Stand? Reading the Sex-Workers Lives through Dalit Feminism” in Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage).

Monograph

Forthcoming

Pritha Sarkar. "Association of the Middle Class in the Naxalbari Movement of Bengal (1965-75) in Indian English Literature." Stree-Samya.

Book Chapters

Published

Sarkar, Pritha. “Assertion of Women’s Agency by Subverting the Heteronormativity in Bollywood Films: Locating Fire in Opposition to Ek Ladki ko Dekha to Aisa Laga” Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema: Queer Visuals Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. (2023).

Forthcoming

Dey, Sayan. Sarkar, Pritha. "Eating with the Others: Politicizing the Kitchen in India." in Palates of Pleasure by Routledge India.

Conferences and Workshops

February 2025 Violence, Trauma and Resistance: Marital Rape in India in IACLAS 2025.

January 2025 #Metoo as a Tool of Resistance and Unity in the South Asian Literary Association 2025.

December 2024 Invited lecture titled Conceptual Geography of Gender in the University of Burdwan.

September 2024 Invited lecture titled Institutionalisation of Patriarchy in Private and Public by Rashtrobigyaan Chorchakendro (available on YouTube and Facebook), September 06/24.

September 2024 Attended a five-day Faculty Development Programme titled “Integrating NEP 2020 into Higher Education: Strategies for Faculty Development and Curriculum Innovation” organised by Hindustan College of Arts and Science.

March 2024 Invited lecture titled Feminism in Everyday Life: Cultural Feminism in India in Siliguri Mahila Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, March 03/24.

Jan 2024 Presented paper titled Class Tussle in the Naxalbari Movement (1965-1975): History and Inquilaab: A Play in Three Acts in the MLA Convention, January 4-7.

Jan 2024 Presented paper in the MLA convention, January 4-7.

May 2022 Presented paper in the symposium organized by Jadavpur University and Loughborough University titled ‘Emerging Studies of Social Change and Development in Indian Universities: Cultural Production, Representation and Dissent’ held in Jadavpur University.

April 2022 Presented paper in the workshop cum conference held by Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

March, 2022 Presented paper in the 53rd NEMLA (North Eastern Modern Language Association) conference.

Nov 2020 Presented paper at the Rupkatha International Open Conference (RIOC).