Monograph

Forthcoming

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

Research Articles

Published

  1. Sarkar, Pritha. "The Onus of Ejaculation During Non-Consensual Unprotected Sex Under the Indian Penal Code.” Feminist Theory. (2025)
  2. Sarkar, Pritha. Chattopadhyay, Sayan. "Re-reading the Role of Violence in the Naxalbari Movement (1965-1975) through The Naxalites: An Interaction between History and Literature” Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies. (University of Heidelberg). (2025)
  3. 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). (2024)
  4. 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). (2023) https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2023.2286082
  5. 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). (2023) https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X231157631
  6. 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 (Bridgewater State University). (2023) https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol25/iss7/15/
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. Sarkar, Pritha. Das, Debojyoti. "Gender Politics in Hijra Community as Revealed through Me Hijra, Me Laxmi and The Truth About Me." Museindia 84. (2019)
  11. 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

  1. 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). Scopus

Communicated and Revisions

  1. Sarkar, Pritha. “Indifference as a Tool of Resistance in Personal is Political: Reading the Lives of Dalit Sex-Workers through Hansda’s Short Stories” in Journal of International Women’s Studies (Bridgewater State University). Scopus
  2. Sarkar, Pritha. “Marital Rape and Indian Society: Legal, Social, and Cultural Aspects of Violence” in Violence Against Women (Sage). Scopus
  3. Sarkar, Pritha. “Brahminical Patriarchy in Modern Marital Rituals of Bengal: The Farce of New Sindoor-Daan” in Economic and Political Weekly. Scopus
  4. Sarkar, Pritha. “The Development of Debhadramahila as a Modern Version of Bhadramahila” in The International Journal of South Asian Studies (Japanese Association for South Asian Studies).
  5. Sarkar, Pritha. "The Dynamics of Consent in Penetration: Reading Legal, Cultural and Internalised Patriarchy through Noshtoneer 1" in Journal of Gender-Based Violence (Bristol University Press). Scopus
  6. Sarkar, Pritha. "The Marital Rape Culture in the Indian Penal Code: The Institutionalisation of Marital Rape" in Feminist Theory (Sage). Scopus

Book Chapters

Published

  1. Dey, Sayan. Sarkar, Pritha. "Eating with the Others: Politicizing the Kitchen in India." in Palates of Pleasure by Routledge India. (2025)
  2. 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).

Miscellaneous

Published

  1. Pritha Sarkar. "Institutional Paternalism, Utopian Patriarchy, Victim Shaming, and Victim Guilt: The Unaddressed Rape Culture." GroundXero. Link
  2. Pritha Sarkar. "The Hue of Rape and Women’s Safety: The Middle-Class’s Take on White-Collared Attack" GroundXero. Link