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Dr. Shatarupa Bhattacharya

Journal Publications

  • Dhillon, M., & Bhattacharya, S. (2026). Representations of womanhood and disability in popular Hindi cinema. Indian Journal of Gender Studies. (Forthcoming, June 2026).
  • Dhillon, M., & Bhattacharya, S. (2025). Representations of mothers having children with disability in Hindi cinema: A feminist thematic analysis. Disability & Society, 40(2), 467–489. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2287410
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2016). Conquering land, conquering women: Exploring the co-relation between war and sexuality in early medieval Indian inscriptions. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 6(4), 297–302.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2014). Issues of power and identity: Probing the absence of Mahārājñī: A survey of the Vākāṭaka inscriptions. Indian Historical Review, 41(1), 19–34.
  • Bhattacharya, S.(2011). Dāna, gender and Purāṇa: Notions and perspectives. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 72, 1504–1506.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2007). Perceiving gender through genealogy: A study of the Vākāṭakas. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 68, 127–135.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2005). Implicit and explicit markers of gender identities: A study of the Vākāṭaka inscriptions. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 66, 147–154.

Book Published

  • Bhattacharya, S., Snigdha Singh, Tara Sheemar, Shwetanshu Bhushan and Kumkum Roy (ed.), 2018, Beyond the Women Question. Reconstructing Gender Identities in Early India, Primus Books, Delhi, ISBN No. 978-93-84092-77-1.

Forthcoming Publication

  • Shatarupa Bhattacharya & Megha Dhillon (edited), Navigating Disability in an Ableist World: Intersections and Insights, Primus Books, Delhi.
  • Monograph on The Palas by National Book Trust under the ICHR’s Research Project ‘BHARAT: An Introduction’.

Chapter in Book

  • Bhattacharya, S. (2023). The Bhaumakara queens, identity and epigraphs: Exploring queenship in early medieval Odisha. In U. Chakravarti, N. Dayal, B. Jagannathan, & S. Singh (Eds.), Of thieves, theris, potters and pativratas: Essays in early Indian social history for Kumkum Roy (pp. 345–372). Primus Books. ISBN 978-93-5687-033-8.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2020). Access to political spaces and the Bhauma-Kara queens: Symbols of power and authority in early medieval Odisha. In S. Nayak & S. Malik (Eds.), Reconstruction of Indian history, society and religion (pp. 131–144). N. B. Publications. ISBN 978-93-89234-28-2.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2020). Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultures. In BHIC-102: Social formations and cultural patterns in the ancient world (Unit 3, pp. 50–72). School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University. ISBN 978-93-89668-94-0.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2020). Use of iron and its implications. In BHIC-102: Social formations and cultural patterns in the ancient world (Unit 10, pp. 179–192). School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University. ISBN 978-93-89668-94-0.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2018). Gender, dana and epigraphs: Access to resources in early medieval Central India. In S. Bhattacharya, S. Singh, T. Sheemar, S. Bhushan, & K. Roy (Eds.), Beyond the women question: Reconstructing gender identities in early India (pp. 63–100). Primus Books. ISBN 978-93-84092-77-1.
  • Bhattacharya, S. (2015). Religious traditions: Puranic-Hinduism and Tantricism. In History of India, 750–1200. Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi. ISSN 2349-154X.

Book Review

  • Aruna Pariti, Genealogy, Time, Identity, Historical Consciousness in the Deccan Sixth Century CE –Twelfth Century CE. Delhi: Primus Books, 2015, Indian Historical Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2016, pp. 330-32.

Exhibition Curated

Paper Presented in Seminars/Conferences

  • Presented a paper titled “Queens, Statecraft and Epigraphs: Sifting Identities of Royal Women in Early India” at the 3rd Delhi History Congress, Delhi, 2–4 February 2026.
  • Presented a paper titled “Queens, Identities and Epigraphs: Problematizing Historical Sources in Early Medieval India” at the Research Methodology Workshop organized by the Department of History, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, April 2025.
  • Presented a paper titled “Tangible Bodies and Intangible Fear: The Story of Pañcapāpā, the Woman with Five Disabilities—Connecting Gender, Jātaka and Disability” at the 2nd Delhi History Congress, India International Centre, New Delhi, 11–13 February 2025.
  • Presented a paper titled “The Fearsome Rākṣasa, Fetid Ascetic and a Blind King: Disability and Masculinity in the Mahābhārata” at the Seminar on Reflections on Masculinities in the Mahābhārata, organized under the Dr. Bharat Ram Research Grant Project, 4 May 2024.
  • Presented a paper titled “Disability and Jātaka Stories: Notions of Disability in Early Indian Sources” in the panel Aesthetics of Body at Potpourri, 22 April 2024.
  • Presented a paper titled “Fighting Against All the Odds: A Feminist Analysis of Intersections of Womanhood, Disability and Mental Health in Hindi Cinema” at the Conference on Gendering Rights, Debating Justice: Issues and Concerns, organized by the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (Northern Regional Conference), Miranda House, University of Delhi, 5–6 May 2023.
  • Presented a paper titled “Struggle, Strength and Well-Being: A Feminist Thematic Analysis of Bollywood Representations of Mothers Having Children with Disability” at the Multidimensional Conference Revisiting Wellbeing: Perspectives, Challenges, and the Road Ahead, organized as part of the Centenary Celebrations of the University of Delhi, Gargi College, University of Delhi, 2 February 2023.
  • Presented a paper titled “The Invisible World: Dating and Marriage for Persons with Disability” at the workshop India and Indo-Pacific: Dialogues and Contestations in the 21st Century, organized for the Macquarie University, Australia Study Tour, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, 20–24 November 2023.
  • Presented a paper titled “Adding to the Conundrum: Gender, Epigraphs and the Past” as Resource Person in the online short-term certificate course Indian Culture, Languages and History: An Ancient and Contemporary View, organized by IQAC and the Department of Sanskrit, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, 30 June 2022.
  • Presented a paper titled “The Bhaumakara Queens, Identity and Epigraphs: Exploring Queenship in Early Medieval Odisha” at Of Thieves and Theris, Hunters and Housewives: A Conference in Honour of Kumkum Roy, organized by The History Society in collaboration with IQAC, Miranda House, University of Delhi, 9–10 November 2021.
  • Presented a paper titled “Power of Procreation and the Invisible Womb: Gender and Social Reproduction in Early Purāṇic Traditions” in the panel Interlinkages of Religion, Power and Gender: Exploring Textual Traditions in Early India, organized by the European Academy of Religion, August 2020.
  • Presented a paper titled “Purāṇic Expiation and Emancipation: Vratas for Women in the Matsya Purāṇa” at the conference Women: A Journey Through the Ages, Amity University, Noida, 23–24 January 2019.
  • Presented a paper titled “Within Womb, Without Womb: Some Stories of Birth from the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa” at the conference Writing Gender History, D.A.V. Post Graduate College, Chandigarh, 23 January 2015.
  • Presented a report titled “Gender Perceptions among College Students: A Survey of Lady Shri Ram College” at the Academic Congress, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, March 2014.
  • Presented a paper titled “War, Women and Sexuality: Commemorating Violence in Early Medieval Inscriptions” at the International Seminar organized by the Archive India Institute, New Delhi, November 2013.
  • Presented a paper titled “Alternative Processes of Procreation: A Gendered Enquiry of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa” at the Indian History Congress, December 2013.
  • Presented a paper titled “Formalizing Rituals: Vratas in the Matsya Purāṇa” at the Research Forum, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, 10 March 2011.
  • Presented a paper titled “Gendered Control over Political and Economic Resources: A Study of the Vākāṭaka Inscriptions” at Gender in Research: A Student Seminar, Women’s Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2006.

 Invited Talks/Lectures

  • Chaired the session “Histories of Conflict, Contestations and Co-existence” at the 3rd Delhi History Congress, New Delhi, 2–4 February 2026.
  • Served as Resource Person for a session on “Life Narrative and History” (GE, B.A. (Hons.) and B.A. Multidisciplinary Studies, History Major) at a Three-Day Workshop organized by the Department of History, University of Delhi, 18–20 February 2026.
  • Delivered a talk titled “Approaching Sources: The ‘Ideal’ King in Textual and Inscriptional Sources” at the Research Methodology Workshop organized by the Department of History, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, 6 August 2020.
  • Delivered an invited lecture titled “River as Goddess: Water, Purity and Myth—Sculptural Representations of River Goddesses in Early India” at Divya Prakriti Parva, organized by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, 6–8 March 2019.
  • Delivered an invited talk titled “Gendered Political Spaces in Early Indian History” organized by the Department of History, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, 5 September 2018.

 Member of Editorial Board

  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chronica, a peer-reviewed bilingual Journal of the Department of History, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi.

Honours/Distinctions

  • Received an award for a paper during the 3rd DHC for the paper Tangible Bodies and Intangible Fear: The Story of Pañcapāpa, the woman with five disabilities. Connecting Gender, Jātaka and Disability, the Heather House prize for Innovative Research Methodology at the Second Annual Session of Delhi History Congress, 2025.