Background
She was born in 1937 in Kolkata and educated at Presidency College, Kolkata which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, Somerville College, Oxford, and New Hall, Cambridge.
She was born in 1937 in Kolkata and educated at Presidency College, Kolkata which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, Somerville College, Oxford, and New Hall, Cambridge.
University of Calcutta. Presidency University, Kolkata.
The larger part of her working life was spent at Jadavpur University, where she was a professor of English. She initiated and spearheaded the pioneering Bengali Women Writers Reprint Series edited by the School of Women"s Studies, Jadavpur University, which continues to bring out new editions of writers such as Jyotirmoyee Devi. She was also Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women until April 2008.
She was part of the five-member team of emeritus professors that met West Bengal Governor and University Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi and demanded that a more “able” Vice-Chancellor be appointed.
Bagchi died on the morning of 9 January 2015, aged 77.
(Survey conducted in West Bengal; includes case studies.)
Her focus areas of research include women"s studies, women"s writings, 19th century English and Bengali literature, the reception of Positivism in Bengal, motherhood and the Partition of India.