Rohini Dasgupta

Biography

My research focuses on the history of medicine, with particular emphasis on public health issues and the epistemic anxieties surrounding them in 19th and 20th-century India. I examine these dynamics within a comparative global framework, exploring how subaltern ideologies and economic disparities intersect in the convergence of traditional and Western medical practices.

Education

M.A., History, Jadavpur University (2024)
B.A., History (Hons.), University of Calcutta (2022)

Field

• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• South Asian History

Selected Publications

Articles

• Dasgupta, Rohini, Ayan Biswas, and Debajit Dutta. “Bridging the Past and Present: Sustainable Water Management Technologies Through the Lens of Hydro-Science in Ancient India.” Journal of Human Values 31, no. 1 (January 2025): Special Issue on Sustainability: An Ancient Indian Approach. https://doi.org/10.1177/09716858241304171.

Book Chapters

• Dasgupta, Rohini. “The Forgotten Deaths: Rethinking Collective Memory and Social Amnesia in the 1918 Spanish Flu.” In Genealogies of Memory: Pandemics, Famines and Industrial Disasters of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming.
• Dasgupta, Rohini. “Reproductive Health in Historical Perspective: Colonial Legality and Age of Consent in British India.” In Discussions and Discourses on Colonial and Post-Colonial India: A Historical Interpretation, 141–47. 2024.

Selected Awards

• 2024 International Research and Training Grant for Incoming Graduate Students, IRIS , UW-Madison.

Professional Affiliations

• American Association for the History of Medicine
• History of Science Society

Courses Taught as TA

• History of Science 201: The Origins of Scientific Thought (with Prof. Florence Hsia)