Dharitri Bhattacharjee

Dharitri Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor at Western Washington University, specializing in South Asian and Indian Ocean World history. Her research intersects high politics, Islamic ideology, decolonization, transnationalism, and contingent history, with a focus on modern South Asia and global connections.

• PhD from University of Texas at Austin (2015)
• Joined WWU in 2019
• Contact: bhattad@wwu.edu

Research Interests include:

• South Asian history and decolonization
• Indian Ocean World as a connective framework
• Gender and comparative history
• Colonial knowledge production (e.g., archives, museums)
• Indigenous identity in oceanic contexts

Her public history projects span a documentary (Limits of History), a podcast series (Grit and Grub), and educational film introductions. Trends in her scholarship emphasize:

• Decolonizing methodologies in archival studies
• Transnational analysis of events like the Komagata Maru incident
• Reassessing regional politics in Bengal (e.g., Fazlul Huq's tenure)
• Contingency in Muslim high political history

Public Scholarship features op-eds in The Wire on topics ranging from Bengal's forgotten figures to decolonial theory. She also reviews works on South Asian diasporas and migration studies.