Short Bio
Dr. Mimasha Pandit is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Mankar College, West Bengal, India. She completed her Undergraduate studies from Presidency College, Kolkata, and her Postgraduate studies from Calcutta University. She received her PhD from Calcutta University in 2016. Her main area of research is- the history of culture, ideas and its performance in the wider sphere of public in colonial and postcolonial Asia. Her PhD dissertation has been published by OUP in 2019, Performing Nationhood: The Emotional Roots of Swadeshi Nationhood in Bengal, 1905–1912. She has co-edited a volume with Dr Sarvani Gooptu on Performance and the Culture of Nationalism published by Routledge (2023). Recently she is engaged in researching the performance of the everyday politics of identity by the people of India, and its association with violence. She has contributed chapters to various edited volumes since 2023 dealing with Sloganeering/Performing collective identity by the Kar Sevaks during the Ramjanmabhumi Movement and the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India in 1992, and on the ritualistic and religious symbolism of Majoritarian Populism in India (due to be published in a volume edited by Anindya Shekhar Purakayastha from Routledge in 2026). She has also been working on the digital public sphere since 2024 when she began looking into the Hindutva Pop songs circulating in YouTube. She published an article on YouTube ‘Patriotism Pop’ in Cultural Arts Research and Development journal (Performing the “Roots” and “Routes” of Cultural Identity: A Study of YouTube ‘Patriotism Pop’ in India | Cultural Arts Research and Development) in 2025 and has recently also worked on a comparative gender representation in K-Pop (Korean Pop) and H-Pop (Hindutva Pop) in the digital sphere (due to be published in a volume Multifaceted Asianism edited by her and to be published in 2027 by Routledge).