Journal Articles

• Sen, Manaswini. ‘(Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade UnionMovement of Late Colonial Bengal; and Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947)’‘Thinking the World through Gender: Indian and South Asian Women Philosophers and Thinkers’, Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Brill.
• Manaswini Sen, “Mapping the Changing Notions of Inequality Among the Trade Union Leaders of Colonial Bengal (1920–1947)”, Global Intellectual History, Special Issue on Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World, June 2022, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2022.2062416
• “Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Anticolonialism, Transcontinental Activism, and the Spread of Decolonial Communism in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-1947),” Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, Duke Press (Forthcoming in 2025)

Invited Lectures

• Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Transcontinental Ties, Spread of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in Working-Class Movement of Bengal at Unearthing the South Asia Collections Seminar, Two Centuries of Indian Print: The British Library, London, UK on September 21, 2022.
• The Red Contagion: The Specter of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in the Labour Movement of Bengal (1930-1947), as a part of lecture series titled: „Print as Resistance Proscription as Control (A Cultural History of Banned Hindi- Urdu Print in Colonial North India, C. 1850-1947), Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, March 2, 2023.
• (Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class Struggle: a Gendered Intellectual History of Trade Unionism in Late Colonial Bengal at Tracing Modes of Gendered Thinking: Ideation and Philosophy from the Global South Asia (with Special Reference to India) at Benaras Hindu University, India, December 5, 2024.
• Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Transcontinental Anticolonialism, and Evolution of Communism in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1906-1934) in “New Researches In Indian History: Way Forward” at University of Hyderabad, 4 September 2025.

Book Chapters

• Sen, Manaswini. “The ‘Unholy’ Trinity: Syndicate of the Colonial State, Capitalists, and the Police; Repression and Corporate Policing of Working- Class Movement in late colonial Bengal (1930-1947)” in Exploring Power and Authority in Indian History across the Ages. Vijaya Ramadas Mandala (ed.). Springer (forthcoming, March 2025)
• “The October Revolution, Comintern Politics and the Genesis of Communism in Bengal (1917- 1929)” in Dr. Rahul Kumar Mohanta (ed.), Exploring Multifaceted Aspects of History and Beyond, Akshita Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2020, pp.150-171. ISBN 978- 81-946186-4-5.

Publications in Other Mediums

• Manufacturing “Internationalism From Below": Saumyendranath Tagore on Fascism and Ultra Nationalism. The Journal of History of Ideas, the JHI Blog, University of Pennsylvania. https://jhiblog.org/2022/06/15/manufacturing- internationalism-from- below-saumyendranath-tagore-on-fascism-and-ultra-
• Blast from past: A roko motive in common. The Telegraph, India, (published: 6.6. 2024), https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/blast-from- past-a-roko-motive-in- common/cid/2027351
• The structures of capitalism do not automatically help a democracy’: Political activist Tariq Ali An interview with Tariq Ali, the ‘street fighting man’, about stalled revolutions, the Emergency, challenges of independent publishing, and cancel culture. Scroll.in (published 23. 3.25) https://scroll.in/article/1080445/the-structures-of-capitalism-do-not-automatically-help-a-democracy-political-activist-tariq-ali

Paper Presented in International Conferences

• The Red Contagion: The Specter of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in the Labour Movement of Bengal (1930-1947) at SAGSC: South Asia Graduate Student Conference, The Annual Student Conference at University of Chicago, March 5, 2021.
• Tracing An Alternative Narrative of Anti-Colonialism: Intellectual History and Trade Union Leadership in late Colonial Bengal (1920-47) at DARC Workshop (Decolonising Archives, Rethinking Canons) at University of Cambridge, 26th-28th March 2021.
• Mapping the Notion of Inequality among The Trade Union Leaders in the Labour Movement in Colonial Bengal (1920-47) at Towards a Global Intellectual History of an Unequal World, 1945- Today at Aarhus University, 10th-11th June 2021.
• Mapping Alternative Narratives of Decolonization: Saumyendrnath Tagore and His Views on Fascism in 9th Annual Dean Hopper Conference Authority and Legitimacy: Understanding Sociability and Politics Globally at Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, November12, 2021.
• Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Transcontinental Ties, Spread of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in Working-Class Movements of Bengal at The Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International and Global History (Con-IH), on April 1, 2022.
• The Most Potent Tool of Agitprop? Pamphleting, Working-Class Mobilization, and Intellectual History from Below: A Case Study of Trade Unionism in Late colonial Bengal (1920-47) at Ideas in/about Interaction, A Graduate Student Symposium, The Journal of History of Ideas, the JHI Blog, University of Pennsylvania, on May 6, 2022.
• Communism, Anti-Colonialism, and Forging of a Greater Southeast Asian Identity: Tracing Transnationalism in the Revolutionary Terrorism and Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-47) at 17th Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, on July 19, 2022.
• A Remolded Vanguard? (Re) inventing Humanitarianism within the Discourse of Class Struggle: Mapping the Changing Trajectory of Trade Union Leadership in Late Colonial Bengal at The Annual Conference on South Asia, Centre for South Asia, UW- Madison, on October 21, 2022.
• The Indian Ocean and an Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation: Transcontinental Ties, Spread of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in Working- Class Movement of Bengal. Edinburgh Centre for Global History Graduate Workshop,University of Edinburgh, on November 2, 2022.
• Mapping an Alternative Narrative of Decolonization: Saumyendrnath Tagore and his Crusade Against Fascism, London School of Economics International History Seminar, London School of Economics, November 16, 2022.
• Communism, Anti-Colonialism, and Forging of a Greater Southeast Asian Identity: Tracing Transnationalism in the Revolutionary Terrorism and Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-47), NTU Postgraduate History Workshop 2022-2023, NTU, Singapore, February 28, 2023.
• The Indian Ocean and an Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation: Transcontinental Ties and Spread of Communism in the Working-Class Movement of Bengal (1920– 1947)', Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop, University of Cambridge, March 3, 2023.
• Red Star Over the Indian Ocean: Transcontinental Ties, Spread of Communism and Imperial Surveillance in Working-Class Movement of Bengal, IV Student Conference, Circulating Histories: Forms and Limits of Exchange from Ancient Times to the Contemporary Age, University of Pavia, June 5, 2023.
• A Remoulded Vanguard? (Re) inventing Humanitarianism within the Dis 6course of Class Struggle: Mapping an Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation by Tracing the Changing Trajectory of Trade Union Leadership in Late Colonial Bengal, From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire and Beyond, University of Auckland, New Zealand, August, 15-16, 2023.
• “Communism, Anti-Colonialism, and Forging of a Greater Southeast Asian Identity: Tracing Transnationalism in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920- 1947)” South West Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS), University of Houston November 3 – 4, 2023
• The Specter of Communism: Legal and Print Surveillance in the Working Class Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920-47), 36th Annual Graduate History Association Forum, UNC Charlotte, USA, February 16th and 17th, 2024.
• ‘(Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal; and Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947), International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH), March 6, 2024.
• ‘(Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal; and Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947,) 5thELHN CONFERENCE, EUROPEAN LABOUR HISTORY NETWORK ECONOMICUM, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, SWEEDEN, 11- 13 JUNE,2024.
• Anticolonialism, Transcontinental Activism, and the Spread of Decolonial Communism in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal (1920- 1947), British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, King’s College, London, September 9- 10, 2024.
• Charting an Alternative Narrative of Inequality: (Re)Interpreting Muzaffar Ahmad and Saumyendranath Tagore’s Discourses on Socio-economic Impact of Colonialism (1920- 1947), Annual Indian Society of History of Economic Thought (ISHET) Conference, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, October 28- 29, 2024.
• Hartal! Hartal! Hartal! Striking in the 1940s and the evolving Language of protest in Late colonial Bengal, The Annual Conference on South Asia, Centre for South Asia, UW- Madison, USA, October 30 – November 2, 2024.Reconstructing an Alternative Narrative of Anti-Colonialism