Jasodhara Bagchi

Jasodhara Bagchi (born – 9 January 2015) was a leading Indian feminist professor, author, critic and activist. She was the founder and director of the School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University. She was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata (then affiliated with the University of Calcutta), Somerville College, Oxford, and New Hall, Cambridge. at Jadavpur University

She began the Bengali Women Writers Reprint Series, which is edited by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University.

In 2014, the organisers of the Kolkata Book Fair called off the release of her book, Parijayee Nari O Manabadhikar (Migrating Women and Human Rights), due to its "controversial" nature, according to her daughter Tista Bagchi.

Bagchi lent her support to the Hok Kolorob movement 2014 Jadavpur University protests ("let there be polyphony" in Bengali) which sought a fair and immediate investigation into the molestation of a female student in the Jadavpur University campus. She also spoke on behalf of the West Bengal Commission of Women in calling for an inquiry into molestation and rapes of females in Dhantala.

She was part of a group of five of emeritus professors that met West Bengal Governor and University Chancellor Keshari Nath Tripathi to protest the current Vice-Chancellor. The Jasodhara Bagchi Memorial Hardship Fund was set up in 2019 with the support of the family of Bagchi at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, to help cases of individual hardship among the students of the Department.

Personal life She was married to the economist, Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal 1970–2000: The Challenges Ahead (edited volume), (2005) Interrogating Motherhood (2016)