Barnita Bagchi Editor & Author

Barnita Bagchi is faculty in Literary Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She was previously a faculty member at Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), India. She is an Executive Committee Member of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE).  Her published books include Pliable Pupils and Suffi cient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778–1814 (2004); Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India (co-edited with A.K. Bagchi and D. Sinha, 2005); and a critical edition and part translation, Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias.