Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Tuhina Ganguly

Tuhina Ganguly

Assistant Professor

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


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Mental Illnesses and Health, Anthropology of the Mind, Anthropology of the Body, Contemporary Religiosities, Cosmopolitics

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  • Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  • M.Phil in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
  • M.A. in Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India
  • B.Com(H) in Commerce, Sri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi, India

  • 2017-Present, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR

  • 2019 Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant (workshop on ‘Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary’)
  • 2013 Travel Grant, India Studies Research Grant, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand
  • 2013 UC Doctoral Scholarship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2024. “Christian Yoga, New Thought, and ‘the First Hindu American’: The Life and Thought of Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar”. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions (forthcoming)
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. “The Wonder of Darshan: Going Beyond the Local and the National”. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religeuses (forthcoming).
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2022. “The Mother’s Children: The Making of Memory and Intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi”. Contributions to Indian Sociology 56 (2): 156-185
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2018. “Connecting their Selves: The Discourse of Karma, Calling, and Surrendering among Western Spiritual Practitioners in India”. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86 (4): 1014-1045.
  • Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan & Tuhina Ganguly. 2018. “Situating the Tourist Gaze: From Appropriation to Negotiation”. Current Issues in Tourism 21(6): 599-615.
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2016. “The Politics of Location: Being a Native Anthropologist Among Western Interlocutors in India”. Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 13 (2): 210-231
  • Ganguly, Tuhina. 2013. “Conceptualizing Work-Employment in India: A Study of Chakri in Colonial Bengal (19th-20th centuries)”. österreichischen zeitschrift für geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (OZG) 24 (1): 172-97

  • Ganguly, Tuhina and Mike Grimshaw. 2018. “Exotic Tourist, Ethnic Hosts: A Critical Approach to Tourism and Ethnodevelopment”. In Ethnic Tourism and Ethnodevelopment: Inclusion, Empowerment and Self-determination, edited by Ismar Borges de Lima and Victor T. King, 215-231. Routledge: London and New York
  • Malik, Aditya, Chandan Bose and Tuhina Ganguly. 2017. “Varkaris”. In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, edited by Tracy Chapman. New York: Oxford University Press. 24 May 2017.