Anwesha Sengupta

Anwesha Sengupta

Anwesha Sengupta teaches history at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Her areas of interest are public history, decolonization, popular movements, migration and refugee studies. She was the principal coordinator of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung South Asia project ‘Revisiting the craft of history writing for children’ and co-edited nine illustrated history books with Dr Debarati Bagchi.

Articles by Anwesha Sengupta

An illustration depicting partition migration from the book

Social science

Writing histories for children: the case of the Partition of India

By Anwesha Sengupta | February 6, 2026