George V. Bobrinskoy Professor, Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College
Rochona Majumdar is the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in the departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College. She is a historian of modern India with a focus on Bengal. Her writings span histories of gender and sexuality, Indian cinema especially art cinema and film music, and modern Indian intellectual history. Majumdar also writes on postcolonial history and theory. She is currently engaged in a long-term project on Abul Mansur Ahmad (1898-1979). Ahmad was a journalist, lawyer, constitutional thinker, and politician whose life spanned the nationalist movements of India, the creation of East Pakistan and Bangladesh. His life offers crucial insights into ideas of political Islam, secularism and Bengali-Muslim identity, and the history of India, East Pakistan, and Bangladesh.