- Global History
- Labour History
- Intellectual History
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- History of Labour in the Global South with particular emphasis on trade unionism in South and Southeast Asia.
- Intellectual History of Revolutionary epistemologies in the Global South. Redefining Decolonial studies through methodological interventions in researching marginal narratives of decolonization.
- Economic History of South Asia with a focus on Modern and Early Modern period.
- Trans-continentalism and Indian Ocean World.
- History of Colonial Surveillance in South Asia.
- 2022 – Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow – CWIT and the British Council
- 2022-Asian Graduate Student Fellow- The Asia Research Institute (ARI) of National University of Singapore (NUS)
- 2024 Dr.(Mrs) Sheelaraj Memorial Medal for the Best PhD in History in the Convocation of the University of Hyderabad
- Indian History Congress
- Royal Historical Society
- British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS)
- History of Concepts Group
Journal Articles
- Sen, Manaswini. ‘(Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade UnionMovement of Late Colonial Bengal; and Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947)’‘Thinking the World through Gender: Indian and South Asian Women Philosophers and Thinkers’, Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Brill.
- Manaswini Sen, “Mapping the Changing Notions of Inequality Among the Trade Union Leaders of Colonial Bengal (1920–1947)”, Global Intellectual History, Special Issue on Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World, June 2022, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2022.2062416
- “Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Anticolonialism, Transcontinental Activism, and the Spread of Decolonial Communism in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-1947),” Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, Duke Press (Forthcoming in 2025)
Book Chapters
- Sen, Manaswini. “The ‘Unholy’ Trinity: Syndicate of the Colonial State, Capitalists, and the Police; Repression and Corporate Policing of Working- Class Movement in late colonial Bengal (1930-1947)” in Exploring Power and Authority in Indian History across the Ages. Vijaya Ramadas Mandala (ed.). Springer (forthcoming, March 2025)
- “The October Revolution, Comintern Politics and the Genesis of Communism in Bengal (1917- 1929)” in Dr. Rahul Kumar Mohanta (ed.), Exploring Multifaceted Aspects of History and Beyond, Akshita Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2020, pp.150-171. ISBN 978- 81-946186-4-5.
Publications in Other Mediums
- Manufacturing “Internationalism From Below": Saumyendranath Tagore on Fascism and Ultra Nationalism. The Journal of History of Ideas, the JHI Blog, University of Pennsylvania. https://jhiblog.org/2022/06/15/manufacturing- internationalism-from- below-saumyendranath-tagore-on-fascism-and-ultra-
- Blast from past: A roko motive in common. The Telegraph, India, (published: 6.6. 2024), https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/blast-from- past-a-roko-motive-in- common/cid/2027351
- The structures of capitalism do not automatically help a democracy’: Political activist Tariq Ali An interview with Tariq Ali, the ‘street fighting man’, about stalled revolutions, the Emergency, challenges of independent publishing, and cancel culture. Scroll.in (published 23. 3.25) https://scroll.in/article/1080445/the-structures-of-capitalism-do-not-automatically-help-a-democracy-political-activist-tariq-ali
- E-mail id: manaswini.s@srmap.edu.in