Tara Chatterjea

Tara Chatterjea (born 1937) is an author and philosopher specializing in Indian philosophy.

Chatterjea studied philosophy at the University of Calcutta, India, and did her D.Phil. under distinguished scholar Professor Jitendra Nath Mohanty. Although her entire teaching career was spent as a part-time lecturer at her alma mater Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta, from where she stood first-class-first in B.A. (Philosophy Honours), she had an active research career and had published many scholarly articles in peer reviewed Indian as well as international journals (including the Journal of Indian Philosophy).

Chatterjea's first book "Knowledge and Freedom in Indian Philosophy" containing a collection of her published articles and some works written for the volume was published by Lexington Books, USA, in 2003. Her second book, a collection of articles on Gita (in Bengali), was published in 2008. She edited with an introduction a collection of essays by J. N. Mohanty on consciousness and interpretation in 2009.

• Knowledge and Freedom in Indian Philosophy, (2003) Lexington Books, ISBN 0739106929
• Essays on Gita (in Bengali) (2008).
• Essays on Consciousness and Interpretation by Jitendra Nath Mohanty, edited with an Introduction by Tara Chatterjea (2009), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-569851-7
• Implications of Kant's Philosophy: Kantadarsaner Tatparyya by Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Jitendra Nath Mohanty and Tara Chatterjea, (2011) Oxford University Press India, ISBN 0198077335
• Lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, by J. N. Mohanty; edited by Tara Chatterjea, Sandhya Basu, and Amita Chatterjee (2014) Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, ISBN 8121512778