Sucharita Sen

Sen is a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. Her PhD research looks at the unofficial accounts of British officials and their relatives in India.

Sucharita Sen is currently a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. She graduated from the University of Calcutta with the fourth rank and went on to pursue post-graduation from Presidency University. She received the gold medal for the 2017 postgraduate batch of Presidency University.

Her PhD research looks into the unofficial accounts of the British officials and their relatives in India, to unravel a parallel discourse of social exchange between the rulers and the ruled in colonial India.

She has presented papers in several state and national level conferences. Her publications include 'From Patriarchal Intolerance to In egalitarian Fundamentalism—Appeasement, Paradoxical Secularism and Minority Rights' in Human Development and Women Rights (2017), ‘On the 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India—Rethinking Intolerance in a Diverse Country’ in Interrogating Intolerance edited by I. Banerjee and S. Sen (2017), and ‘Monologue or Dialogue—How Politics Responded to Women’ in the International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (2016).

Her research interests include gender and feminist studies, political and social history, Indian politics and political thought.