| Tapati Guha-Thakurta | |
| Birth Place: | Calcutta, India |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Occupation: | Cultural historian, academic |
| Known For: | Art history, visual studies, cultural history of India |
| Spouse: | Hari Vasudevan (d. 2020) |
| Relatives: | Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (brother)[1] |
| Education: | Presidency College, Kolkata University of Oxford |
| Notable Works: | Monuments, Objects, Histories: Art in Colonial and Post–Colonial India Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal |
Tapati Guha-Thakurta (born 27 September 1957) is an Indian historian who has written about the cultural history and art of India. She is a director and professor in history at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and was previously a professor at Presidency College, Kolkata. Her extensive research work on Kolkata's Durga Puja led to its inclusion in UNESCOs Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Guha-Thakurta was born in Calcutta and obtained a bachelor's and a master's degree in history from the Presidency College and Calcutta University. She finished her DPhil. at the University of Oxford.[2] Guha-Thakurta was married to historian Hari Vasudevan, who died in May 2020 after contracting the Covid-19 virus.[3]
In 1995, she was awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge.[4] In 2011, she was a visiting fellow at the Yale Center for British Art.[5] In 2018, she was a visiting professor at Brown University.[6] She has written exhibition monographs and curated many art exhibitions.[7] In 2019, she was assigned by the Indian Ministry of Culture to prepare a dossier proposing the inclusion of Durga Puja in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.[8]