Srirupa Bhattacharya has a B.A. (Hons.) and an M.A. in Sociology from Presidency College, Calcutta University. She has completed her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow (2013-15) and an Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, Netherlands (2021-22). Her research interests include the interfaces between popular Hinduism, market, media and politics in India since liberalisation.
Research Publications
Forthcoming (in press) Tiwale, Sachin and Srirupa Bhattacharya. “Riding on River Rejuvenation: Art of Living and the Stakeholders of Development in Karnataka and Maharashtra.” River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Philippe Cullet and Ruchi Shree (eds.) New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
2023. Bhattacharya, Srirupa. “Doing Seeing: Televised Yoga, Consumption and Religious Nationalism in Neo-liberal India.” Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital. Jacob Copeman and ArkotongLongkumer (eds.). London: UCL Press.
2019. Bhattacharya, Srirupa. “Gurus, Groundwater, Governmentality: Seva in the liberalised era in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 54(32). Bombay: Sameeksha Trust. (SCOPUS Indexed)
2015. ‘Spectres and Shadows of Seva: The Politics of Spiritual Service and Development Efforts in the context of Liberalisation’, Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (12), Calcutta: Scottish Church College. Title of the issue: The Question of Development