Books (single-authored)
Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures: Film and History in the Postcolony.
New York: Columbia University Press; New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Winner, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Award for Best Writing on Cinema, 2023.
Long-listed for the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award, 2022.
Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, 2022.
Reviewed in
Modernism/Modernity 30, no. 1 (2023) (web)
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 62, no. 3 (2023) (web)
Journal of Religion and Film 27, no. 1, article 55 (2023) (web)
South Asian History and Culture 13, no. 2 (2022) (web)
Film Quarterly 75, no. 4 (2022) (web)
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2022) (web)
Critical Collective (December 2021) (web)
Writing Postcolonial History.
London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2010.
Reviewed in
Journal of Contemporary History 47, no. 2 (2012): 469–70.
Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2009; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Shortlisted by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (Social Science shortlist), 2011.
Reviewed in
Women’s History Review 22, no. 5 (2013): 841–860.
Feminist Formations 24, no. 2 (2012): 211–217.
Contributions to Indian Sociology 45, no. 2 (2011).
“The Lure of the Archive: New Perspectives from South Asia,” Feminist Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 93–110.
Asian Studies Review 35, no. 1 (March 2011): 128–129.
Social History 35, no. 4 (November 2010): 474–476.
Indian Historical Review 37, no. 2 (2010): 321–325.
American Historical Review 115, no. 4 (October 2010): 1135–36.
Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 3 (2010): 941–942.
South Asian History and Culture 1, no. 3 (2010): 450–453.
H-Asia (July 2010), www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25828
The Telegraph, Nov 6, 2009, www.telegraphindia.com/1091106/jsp/opinion/story_11703106.jsp
Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali), Nov 14, 2009.
Garavi (in Gujarati), Nov 20, 2009.
South Asian Review 30, no. 2 (October–November 2009): 241–243.
Feminist Review (August 9, 2009), feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/08/marriage-and-modernity-family-values-in.html.
Books (edited volumes)
Rochona Majumdar, Sukanya Sarbadhikary, and Upal Chakrabarti, eds. Enlightenment in the Colony: A Global History of Hindoo College. Book manuscript in preparation for Cambridge University Press.
Helge Jordheim, Margrit Pernau, Rochona Majumdar, et al., eds. Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in Asia and Europe, 1870–1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar, and Andrew Sartori, eds. From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Reviewed in:
The Historian 72, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 194–196.
The Indian Economic and Social History Review 46, no. 1 (2009): 141–144.
Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 7 (2008): 35–38.
The English Historical Review 123, no. 5 (2008): 1605–1606.