Nabaparna Ghosh

Nabaparna Ghosh is a historian of modern South Asia. Her teaching and research interests focus on the multiple meanings of urban modernity, empire and colonialism, colonial and postcolonial cities, caste and urban space, and histories of environmental transformations.

Professor Ghosh's book, A Hygienic City-Nation: Space, Community, and Everyday Life in colonial Calcutta( Cambridge University Press, 2020) goes beyond town plans and maps to explore how caste and kinship ties configured urban space in South Asia, crafting areas of self-government within colonial town plans. Professor Ghosh is currently working on her second book, which explores the history of water in South Asia and how caste segregates the knowledge of water. With dwindling groundwater resources in India, the book is a timely effort to understand the socio-cultural dynamics that influence water management.