Swapna M. Banerjee

Assistant Professor
Department of History

University of Florida
PO BOX 117320
GAINESVILLE FLORIDA 32611

Tel:352-392-7187 (office)
Fax:352-392-6927 (fax)

Swapna M. Banerjee completed her Ph.D. from Temple University, Philadelphia in 1998. She received her Bachelors and Masters in History from Presidency College and the University of Calcutta in India. She is the author of the book Men, Women, and Domestic Workers: Articulating Middle Class Identity in Colonial Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2004). She has articles and reviews published in the Journal of Social History, Gender and History, and the Journal of Asian Studies. Her research focuses on the history of domesticity and family history with particular reference to subordinate social groups such as women, domestics, and children in colonial Bengal. She is currently working on a project on children and childhood in colonial Bengal.

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Men, Women, and Domestic Workers: Articulating Middle Class Identity in Colonial Bengal

Teaching Spring 2005

ASH3381: Women in S. Asian History

The syllabus is available for download here.

HIS6061: Historiographies: Graduate Seminar

The syllabus is available for download here.

Handouts

Previously Taught Courses

History Maps:

British India
- India in Warren Hasting
- India in 1857
- Dalhousie's Administration
- India in 1947
- India from 1919-1947

Medieval India
- Eve of Babur's Invasion
- Mughal Empire at the end of the 17th Century

Ancient India
- Gupta Empire
- Ashokan Empire
- Harappa Civilization

Images	Documents
Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Biography
Vedanta.org Image Gallery
Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
Dayanand Saraswati
Warren Hastings	Information
The Trio Missionaries
Fort William, Calcutta	Painting of Fort William
Presidency College	Educational Institutes at Calcutta
Sati, 2
Thomas B. Macaulay's "Minute on Indian Education"	http://www.geocities.com/bororissa/mac.html
The Rebellion of 1857	Information
Queen Victoria & Her Proclamation	Proclamations
Victoria Memorial Hall
Prepartition Map of India
Gandhi, 2
IMAGE INDIA: Image List	http://members.tripod.com/~IMAGE_INDIA/images.html
Ramabai (1858-1922)	Sati: Regulation XVII AD 1829 of the Bengal code (4 December 1929)
Swarnakumari Debi	Bengal government to the court of directors on sati (4 December 1829)
Sarala Debi	The petition of the Hindus against abolition of the sati (19 December 1829)
Jawaharlal Nehru, 2
Satyajit Ray, 2
Rajiv Gandhi