Publications

Sengupta, Papia (2023) National Education Policy and Language in education in India: A Critical Assessment in Ajit Mondol, Indrajeet Dutta and Bhanu Pratap Pritam eds. National Education Policy 2020: Policy Reforms and Perspectives. Delhi: Atlantic Publisher.

Sengupta, Papia (2023) National Education Policy and the Language-in-Education Policy in India: A Critical Assessment, in Ajit Modal, Indrajeet Dutta and Bhanu Pratap Pritam eds. National Education Policy 2020: Policy Reforms and Perspectives. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers. ISBN13 9788126935550.

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Satyagraha, Ethical Journalism and communication: Gandhi in the time of fake news in Nutan Kapoor Mahawar and Dhrubajyoti Bhattachrjee (eds.) Gandhi and the World. Indian Council for World Affairs. India: Macmillan Education. ISBN: 978-9354552748

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Review of Anvita Abbi's book Voices from the Lost Horizon: Stories and Songs of the Great Andamanese. The Telegraph. 2nd February. https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/voices-from-the-lost-horizon-stories-and-songs-of-the-great-andamanese-by-anvita-abbi/cid/1853355

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Bangladesh at 50: Women empowerment and the path towards equality. Diplomacy & Beyond Plus. 9th August. https://diplomacybeyond.com/bangladesh-at-50-women-empowerment-and-towards-the-path-to-equality/

Sengupta, Papia (2022). Celebrating multilingual India: Language rights in perspective. The Leaflet. 15th August 2022. Special edition celebrating India's 77th year of independence. https://theleaflet.in/tag/dr-papia-sengupta/

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Language, communication, and the Covid-19 pandemic: Criticality of multilingual education. The International Journal of Multilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.2021918

Sengupta, Papia (2022). Editor for the special edition on 'Thinking through the Body: Fear, Faith, and Fluids.' Cafe Dissensus November.

https://cafedissensus.com/2022/11/13/issue-editors-note-thinking-through-the-body-fear-faith-and-fluids/

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Critical Sites of Inclusion in India's Higher Education. Netherlands: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sengupta, Papia (2022) ‘You are a danger to the society’ in Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh eds. Dangerous Woman. UK: Unbound.

Sengupta, Papia (2022) Mahatma Gandhi's Thoughts on Common Language for India in Ranu Uniyal, Nazneen Khan and Raj Gaurav Verma (eds.) Reading Gandhi: Perspectives in the 21st Century. Delhi: Pentcraft. ISBN 9789382178361

Sengupta, Papia. (2021) Making (ab)sense of women’s agency and belonging in citizenship debates in India: Analyzing the Shaheen Bagh protests as ‘Act(s) of Citizenship’. Social Change. Volume 51(4): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/00490857211040248

Sengupta, Papia. (2021) NEP 2020 and Language-in-education policy in India: A Critical Assessment. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume LVI No. 43: 45-52.

Sengupta, Papia (2021) Whose nationalism? Imposition, interpretation, and interaction-Multiple languages of belonging in plural societies in Ruby Sain (ed) Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Society.Delhi: Mittal Publications. ISBN 9788183249881.

Sengupta, Papia. (2021) Can Ideas be Deleted? Curriculum in Perspective. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume LVI No. 18: 10-12. 

Sengupta, Papia (2021) Review of Peggy Mohan's book Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: the story of India through its languages. The Telegraph. 19th November. https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/review-wanderers-kings-merchants-the-story-of-india-through-its-languages-by-peggy-mohan/cid/1839556

Sengupta, Papia (2020) 'Institutions for Minority Accommodation: A Study of National Commission for Scheduled Castes' in Sudha Pai (ed.) Constitutional and Democratic Institutions in India: A Critical Analysis. India: Orient Blackswan.

Sengupta, Papia. (2020) Open access publication: Academic colonialism or knowledge philanthropy? Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.04.001

Sengupta, Papia (2019) 'Pluri-lingual Education: Step towards Multicultural Citizenry in India and Canada' in Education, Culture and the Nation: Comparative Perspective from India and Canada (eds.) K. Gayathri, B. Hariharan and Suchorita Chattopadhyay. Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-13-6740-3

Sengupta, Papia (2019) Hindi Imposition: Examining Gandhi’s Views on Common Language for India. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 54(44) November.https://www.epw.in/engage/article/hindi-imposition-examining-gandhis-views-on-common-language

Sengupta, Papia (2018) Language as Identity in Colonial India: Politics and Policies. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sengupta, Papia (2017) Justice for Groups: Multiculturalist Critique of Rawls's Theory of Justice in M.P. Dube (ed.) Social Justice: Distributive Principles and Beyond. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. ISBN 9788131606803

Sengupta, Papia (2017) “Impulsive Imposition: Language and politics of majoritarianism in India”, EPW Engage, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 52, No. 52, 30th December. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/impulsive-imposition-language-and-politics-majoritarianism-india

Sengupta, Papia (2016) "Revisiting India’s language-in-education policy: Need for a holistic approach", Indian Journal of Political Science, Volume LXXVII, No. 1, January-March: 39-48.

Sengupta, Papia (2016) "How effective is inclusive innovation without participation?", Geoforum, Volume 75, 12-15. Elsevier, Science Direct.

Sengupta, Papia (2014) “Introduction” Droit et Cultures Vol. 67 (1) with Prof. Probal Dasgupta. https://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/3282

Sengupta, Papia (2014) “Whither Equality and Justice: Rawls Theory of Justice and Violence against Women in India”, Social Action, Volume 64, No.2, 112-122, April-June.

Sengupta, Papia (2014) “Accommodating Linguistic Minority(s) in India: Constitutional-Legal Framework”, Droit et Cultures, Special edition on India, ‘Cultures meet the Law’, also co-editor of the special edition. Volume 67 No.1.

Sengupta, Papia (2013) ‘Equality’ and ‘Multiculturalism’ for the postgraduate course on contemporary political philosophy in Delhi University under the e-pathshala programme, University Grants Commission, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India.

Sengupta, Papia (2009) "Endangered Languages: Some Concerns", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 44, No. 32, 15-17.

Sengupta, Papia (2009) “Linguistic Diversity and Economic Disparity: An Issue for Multiculturalism in India”, Journal on Diversity of Organisations, Communities and Nations, Volume 9(1), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v09i01/39658.

Sengupta, Papia (2008) "Rights", in Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya (eds.) Political Theory: An Introduction, Pearson Longman, Delhi.

Sengupta, Papia (2008) "Linguistic Diversity and Disparate Regional Growth", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 43, No. 33, 8-10.

Sengupta, Papia (under-contract) Linguistic sub-nationalism and Democratization in India: A Comparative Analysis. UK: Palgrave Macmillan