As a historian she was trained at JNU, New Delhi and SOAS, London. Her current work is on histories of the ‘political’ in colonial and post-colonial India. Her work seeks to tell the story of how the political emerged as a distinct domain and/or mode of thought, action, and subjectivity in modern times. Banerjee’s earlier work was on the Politics of Time, looking at the emergence of the modern discipline of history in colonial Bengal from an encounter with ‘peoples without history’ (tribes, aborigines, primitives – as they were variously called). Along with other colleagues, she is currently involved in an exploration of the history of concepts in modern Indian languages – a project that brings together questions of theory, literariness, language, and translations around the life of concepts in India. CSDS website