Dr. Sudipa Topdar
Associate Professor
Office
SCH Schroeder Hall 333
Office Hours
2:00pm-3:30pm Monday and by appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
HIS 104.001 History Of South & Southeast Asia
HIS 267.001 Modern South Asia
HIS 300.004 Senior Seminar In History
HIS 291.007 Undergraduate Teaching Experience In History
Teaching Interests & Areas
• Colonial and Modern South Asian History • Gandhi and Non-Violence • Colonial Education in India • Culture and British Empire • History of the Body
Research Interests & Areas
• Education and schooling in colonial India • Colonial childhoods • Children’s literature in colonial India • Nationalism and citizenship • History of the body, gender and masculinity
Ph D South Asian History
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
M Phil Modern Indian History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
MA Modern Indian History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
BA History Honours
Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University
New Delhi
Honor Roll, Barbour Fellowship
University of Michigan
National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi (India)
University Grants Commission
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant
American Historical Association
2018
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2014
Pre-tenure Initiative Grant
Illinois State University
2014
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
CAS International Travel Grant
Illinois State University
2013
New Faculty Initiative Grant
Illinois State University
2012
Department of History Research Grant
Illinois State University
2011
NR Bhattacharyya Graduate Fellowship
University of Michigan
2010
Barbour Fellowship
University of Michigan
2009
John H. D. Arms Graduate Student Award
University of Michigan
2007
Rackham International Research Award
University of Michigan
2007
Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship
University of Michigan
2006
International Institute Pre-dissertation Research Awards
University of Michigan
2004
Michigan Fellowship in History
University of Michigan
2004
NR Michigan Fellowship in History
University of Michigan
2004
Mamata Bhattacharyya Graduate Fellowship in History
Department of History University of Michigan
2003
Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Study Grant
Indian Council of Historical Research
2002
Certificate of Merit for overall contribution
History Association and Department, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi
1998
Best Student in History
History Association and Department, Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi
1996
Performances and Exhibits
Duties of a “Good Citizen”: Colonial School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth Century India.
Sudipa Topdar.
Sudipa Topdar.
Knowledge and Governance: Political Socialization of the Indian Child within Colonial Schooling and Nationalist Contestations in India (1870-1925) (in preparation)
Sudipa Topdar.
Sudipa Topdar.
'Towards the Service of Our Country': The Child and the Nation in Bengali Children's Literature 1905-1925.
Sudipa Topdar.
Sudipa Topdar.
Book Review
Book Review: Empire, Education and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies ed. by Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner
Sudipa Topdar.
(2015), 8, 321-323, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Journal Article
Duties of a 'Good Citizen': Colonial School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth Century India
Sudipa Topdar.
South Asian History and Culture, 6 (3), 417-439, (2015)
Presentations
Native Children and The Politics of Imperial Schoolbooks in Late Colonial India
Sudipa Topdar.
BASAS Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, April 20, 2017
School Textbook Policies and the ‘Seditious’ Student
Sudipa Topdar.
Annual South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October, 2015
The Body as a Political Space: Physical Education and Contestation in Colonial Schools in Bengal
Sudipa Topdar.
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Toronto, May, 2014
‘Ideologies of Colonial School Curriculum, Citizenship and Childhoods in Late Nineteenth Century India’
Sudipa Topdar.
Childhoods in South Asia: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Canberra, July, 2013
Knowledge and Governance: School Curriculum and the British Empire in late Colonial India’
Sudipa Topdar.
International Seminar Series, Normal, March, 2013
‘Duties of a “Good Citizen”: Colonial School Textbook Policies in Late Nineteenth-Century India’
Sudipa Topdar.
Annual Association of Asian Studies, Toronto, , 2012
Anxieties of Masculinity: The Nation and the Child’s Body in Bengali Children’s Magazines
Sudipa Topdar.
22nd European Conference for South Asian Studies, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, July, 2012
‘Anxieties of Masculinity: The Nation and the Child’s Body in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Bengali Children’s Magazines’
Sudipa Topdar.
Second International Conference on Popular Culture and Education, Hong Kong, , 2011
Why the History of Childhood Matters?
Sudipa Topdar.
Eisenberg Institute, Michigan, January, 2011
The India-Pakistan Conflict: Genesis and Conflict Resolution’
Sudipa Topdar.
OnlineMarch, 2010
Disciplining the Child’s Body: Physical Culture and Imagining the Nation in Bengal, (1880-1925)
Sudipa Topdar.
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, October, 2009
Nationalist Pedagogies: The Child and Nation Building in Bengali Children’s Magazine (1905-1925)
Sudipa Topdar.
The Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, Online, July, 2009
Towards the service of our country’: Visions of the Nation and Childhood in the Parallel Pedagogy of Nationalist Bengali Children’s Magazines, 1905-1925
Sudipa Topdar.
Child and the Book Conference, Canada, May, 2009
Dissertation to Book Writing Workshop
Sudipa Topdar.
Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison