Dr Amrita Sen
Dr Amrita Sen
Member, MEMOs

Amrita Sen is Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UGC-HRDC, University of Calcutta, and affiliated member of the Department of English. She is co-editor of Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge 2020), and has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies on “Alternative Histories of the East India Company” (2017). Her research focuses on the early activities of the East India Company, early modern drama, and Shakespeare adaptations. She has also published essays and book chapters on East India Company women, Bollywood Shakespeares, and early modern ethnography. Her current project looks at representations of the East Indies on the English stage.


Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur: Glimpses of early Europeans in Indian art
Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur: Glimpses of early Europeans in Indian art
The appearance of European figures in various temple sites in Bengal are a testament to how their arrival altered the social fabric of these communities.
1 November 2021
The Tales of the Hooghly – Saptagram
The Tales of the Hooghly – Saptagram
The stretch of the river that Fitch describes is now often referred to as ‘Europe on the Ganges’
15 March 2021