Dr. Papia Sengupta is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She was awarded the Distinguished Teacher award by former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in 2009 for her contribution to students’ mentorship. Dr Sengupta was fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2016) and Brown University, USA (2015). Her research interests include politics of language, diversity studies, minority rights and decolonization of knowledge, gender and multiculturalism. She has been awarded fellowships from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Fellowship, Swiss International Development Agency fellowship, Switzerland and the International Institute of Social History fellowship. Her monograph titled Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics, was published in 2018. In 2020 the International Association for Applied Linguistics, Netherlands honored her with the Solidarity Award. Dr. Sengupta’s research articles have been published in reputed national and international journals such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Action, Geoforum and The International Journal on Diversity