Faculty Profile - University

Educational Qualification

Degree Name	Institute	Year of passing/awarded
PhD	University of Calcutta	2005
M.A.	University of Calcutta	1983
B.A.	Presidency College, University of Calcutta	1981

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis
The Concepts of Nationalism & Internationalism: Tagore and Gandhi

Career Profile / Teaching Experience

Description of Experience
Professor, Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University since 27 November 2015
Associate Professor of Political Science, Sree Chaitanya College, Habra 2nd December 1985-26 November 2o15
Part-Time Faculty, Department of Political Science, University of Kalyani 1987-2006

Specialization/Research Area

Type (Specialization / Research Area / Areas of Interest)	Detailed Description
Field of Specialization	History of Socialist Thought; Indian Political Thought
Research Area/ Areas of Interest	Popular Movements, Sustainable Rights, Forced Migration & Displacement, Media Studies & Cultural Politics

Course/ Subject Taught

Course Name
Indian Political Thought & Movement
Socialist Thought
Sustainable Rights & Movements
Political Theory
Indian Political Thought
Migration and Internal Displacement
Reading Politics
Advanced Political Theory

Publications in Journal / Magazines / Newspaper

Title	Publication Type	Published in	Published on	Publisher's Name	Details
Mobilising the Migrants - The Role of the UCRC in the Indian State of West Bengal - A Critical Assessment	National	Vidyasagar University Journal of History Vol 6 [2017-2018] ISSN: 2321-0834	Jan, 2019	Department of History, Vidyasagar University	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"The Defining Moments of Left-Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966"	International	In Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), From Popular Movement to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade	Jan, 2018	Routldedge,UK & USA(Global Edition)ISBN:978-0-367-13466-2 Social Science Press, Delhi (South Asia Edition)ISBN: 978-93-83166-29-9	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Gandhijir Jatiyatabad Athaba Atmaniyantraner Shrinkhala" (On Nationalism of Gandhi or Disciplining of the Self")	Other	Parichaya ISSN 2321-936X July-October 2018	Jan, 2018	Editor: Biswabandhu Bhattacharya Parichaya, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Bam-Janapriya Andoloner Ek Nirnayak Muhurta: 1959 o 166 er Khadya Andolan" (On Food Movement & Left Politics in West Bengal: 1959 & 1966)	Other	Anil Acharaya (ed), Anushtup, Vol: L, No. 4 Prak Sharadiya (Pre-Autumn)) ISSN: 0974-2697	Jan, 2017	Anushtup, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Sourin Bhattacharyer Manan-Bishwer Koyek Jhalak (Review article on Collected Works of Sourin Bhattacharya)	Other	Parichay (ISSN 2321 936X)	Jan, 2017	Editorial Board, Parichay Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Rabindranath Tagore: Axiology and Nationalism"	National	Sebak Jana (ed), Tagore on Economy, Society and Politics (ISBN: 13- 978-81-9832214-1-9)	Jan, 2017	Dey Book Concern, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"The Idea of a University"	National	Manojit Mandal (ed), Higher Education, Universities and Excellence: The Bengal Narrative (ISBN:978-93-83660-39-1	Jan, 2017	Jadavpur University, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"The Defining Moments of Left-Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966"	National	Policies and Practices, Vol 81, Dec 16. ISSN 2348 0297	Jan, 2016	Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Ashoke Sen: Smriti o Rabindranath" (Ashoke Sen: Memory and Tagore)	Other	Alochona Chakra, Vol 41, Editor: Chiranjib Sur ISSN 2231-3990	Jan, 2016	Alochona Chakra, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Rabindracharchay Notun Alo" (A Review Article on Abhra Ghosh, Focus Onyo Dike Sore Gelei Bhalo)	Other	Baha, Vol 9 Editor Sanjib Mukhopadhyay ISSN 2350-0832	Jan, 2016	Binapani Welfare and Educational Trust, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal – 1959 Revisited’	International	in Samir Kumar Das (ed) Understanding Democracy and Violence in India, OUP, New Delh (ISBN 978-0-19-945183-8)	Jan, 2015	OUP, New Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Mikhail Bakhtin: Upanyaser Samasya’ (on Bakhtin’s theory of the Novel)	Other	Sucharita Ghosh (ed), Samalochana Sahitya: Sahittya Samalochana, Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2014. (ISBN 978-81-90433-84-6)	Jan, 2014	University of Calcutta	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Bangiya Buddhijibi Samparke Je Du-Char Katha Ami Shikhe Phelechhi’ (on Bengali Intellectuals: Past & Present) in Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Intellectuals), Kolkata, 2013	Other	Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Intellectuals), Kolkata, 2013	Jan, 2013	Anustup, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Adim Sangraher Katha’ (on Primitive Accumulation)	Other	Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2012	Jan, 2012	Baromas, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
“The ‘Other’ in the ‘Self’: The IDPs in India"	International	Reassessing Internal Displacement in South Asia (E-journal: http://www.southasianrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IDP-Report-India.pdf	Jan, 2012	South Asians for Human Rights, Colombo	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal – 1959 Revisited’	International	Policies and Practices, Kolkata, 2012, No 56 (ISSN 2348 0297)	Jan, 2012	Calcutta Research Group	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Right to Information in a Hunger Regime’ in Sibaji Pratim Basu and Geetisha Dasgupta (ed), Politics in Hunger-Regime: Essays on the Right to Food in West Bengal, Frontpage, Kolkata & London, 2011. (ISBN 978-93-810430-1-1)	International	Sibaji Pratim Basu and Geetisha Dasgupta (ed), Politics in Hunger-Regime: Essays on the Right to Food in West Bengal, Frontpage, Kolkata & London (ISBN 978-93-810430-1-1)	Jan, 2011	Frontpage, Kolkata and London	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Globalisation and Right to Information’	International	Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ishita Dey (ed.), Sustainability of Rights after Globalisation, Sage, New Delhi, (ISBN 978-81-321-0640-1) (HB)	Jan, 2011	Sage, New Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Tagore’s Notion of the ‘Orient’: A Space Beyond Nationalism"	National	Debnarayan Modak and Manan Kumar Mandal (ed), Parashmanir Pradip Tomar, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata (ISBN 978-81-910832-3-1)	Jan, 2011	Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Shasiter Ganatantra" (on the Democracy of the Governed) in Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2011	Other	Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2011	Jan, 2011	Baromas, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Prachya-Pratichyaer Bhinnata o Rabindranather Visva-bhabana’	Other	Minakshi Singha (ed), Rabindra Drishtite Samaj o Samakal, Nababharati Prakkashan, Kolkata, 2011. (ISBN 978-81-907808-9-6)	Jan, 2011	Nababharati Prakkashan, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Globalisation and Right to Information: The Indian Scenario’	National	Policies and Practices, Kolkata, June 2010, No. 35 (ISSN 2348 0297)	Jan, 2010	Calcutta Research Group	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Experiencing Civil Society in West Bengal’ in	National	Amartya Mukhopadhyay (ed), Civil Society and Global Governance: Indian Experience	Jan, 2009	Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Mukhomukhi: Giorgio Agamben’ (an article based on interview with Giorgio Agamben)	Other	Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochona Chakra, Kolkata, January 2009	Jan, 2009	Alochana Chakra, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Chhinnamul Rajnitir Utsa Sandhane" (on the Politics of the Bengali Refugees)	Other	Semanti Ghosh (ed.), Deshbhag: Smriti ar Stabdhata (Partition: Memory and Silence), Gungchil, Kolkata, 2008. (ISBN 978-81-89834-47-0)	Jan, 2008	Gungchil, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
2. ‘Swikaraktir Andhar–Alo: Golap Keno Kalo’ (A literary review of a Bengali Novel – Golap Keno Kalo [Why the Rose is Black], by Budhhadev Basu),	Other	Budhhadev Basu Shatabarsha Samiti edited/compiled Centenary Volume on Budhhadev Basu , Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata, 2008. (ISBN 978-81-295-08-0861-4)	Jan, 2008	Budhhadev Basu Shatabarsha Samiti	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Nari o Kshamatayan’ (on Women’s Empowerment)	Other	Rajshri Basu and Basabi Chakraborty (ed.), Prasanga Manabividya (on Women’s Study), Urvi Prakashan, Kolkata, 2008	Jan, 2008	Urvi Prakashan, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
“Ashanta Nepal: Prajatantrer ‘Prachanda’ Pathe” (on the recent Maoist politics in Nepal)	Other	Nalini Kumar Chakraborty, (ed), Kalpratima, Kolkata, May-July, 2007	Jan, 2007	Kalpratima, Kolkta	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Dabli Hater Banke" (on the politics and destitution of tea-gardens in North Bengal)	Other	Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October 2006.	Jan, 2006	Baromas, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
"Bidhannagar/Vishwanagar" (on changing faces of urbanization in Bidhanagar/Salt Lake)	Other	Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October 2005	Jan, 2005	Baromas, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Rajnitir Path, Pather Rajniti’ (On Reading Politics & Politics of Reading)	Other	Dipak Kumar Das (ed), Rajnitir Tattwakataha, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2005	Jan, 2005	kushe, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘State: In Europe and In the Third World’	International	Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed), Political Sociology, Macmillan, New Delhi, (ISBN 1403-92845-2)	Jan, 2005	Macmillan, New Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Book-review article	National	Dr. Saumendra N Bera (ed), Calcutta University Journal of Media and Communication	Jan, 2003	University of Calcutta	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Habermas: Asampurna Swapnapuraner Golpo’ (on Jurgen Habermas’ concept of Modernity)	Other	Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochana Chakra , July 2003	Jan, 2003	Alochana chakra, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Iraq Juddha in Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Iraq Issue), Kolkata, 2003	Other	Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Iraq Issue), Kolkata, 2003	Jan, 2003	Anustup, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Rashtra: Europe o Tritiya Vishwe’, in Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Rashtra, Samaj, Rajniti, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2002	Other	Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Rashtra, Samaj, Rajniti, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2002	Jan, 2002	Ekushe, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Mahatma Gandhi: Moula Prashna – Moulik Bhavana’ (Mahatma Gandhi: Basic Issues, Basic Ideas)	Other	Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Bharatbarsha Rashtrabhavana, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2001	Jan, 2001	Ekushe, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Krishna: Raja toirir Raja’ (on politics of Krishna)	Other	Shuvankar Mukhopadhyay (ed), Krishnacharit, M.C. Sarkar, Kolkata, 2001	Jan, 2001	M.C. Sarkar, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Personal Man in the "world": The Politics of Tagore’s Aesthetics	National	Tarun Kumar Banerjee and Debesh Roychowdhury (ed), Colonial India: Ideas and Movements Kolkata	Jan, 2001	Progressive, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Atma o Shasan’ (on Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘Governmentality’)	Other	Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochona Chakra, Kolkata, August 1998	Jan, 1998	Alochana Chakra, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Artha-Anarther (Uttar) Adhunik Dhanda o Bakhtin’ (on Bakhtin and Postmodernism)	Other	Arun Bandyopadhyay (ed) Ebong Eisomoy, Kolkata, March-May 1996	Jan, 1996	Ebong Eisamay, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
‘Jati, Jatiyata o Jatiyatabad’, (on Nationalism as a process of abstraction)	International	Benoy Ghosh (ed), Yogosutra, Kolkata, July 1995.	Jan, 1995	Yogasutra, Kolkata	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Book-review article	National	Buddhadeva Bhattacharyya (ed), Society & Change, Vol IX, No.3 (ISSN: 0970-5279)	Jan, 1993	Society & Change	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The East-West Question and Tagore	Other	Tarapada Roy (ed), West Bengal, (Tagore Number), Calcutta	Jan, 1992	Government of West Bengal	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Book Published

Title of the Book	Published by	Published on	Role	Details
Bharatiya Rajnitir Pramukh Dikguli (in Bengali) [The Prime Aspects of Indian Politics] ISBN 978-81-247-0780-7 ISBN	Paschimbanga Rajya Pustak Parshad (West Bengal State Book Board)	Jan, 2019	Editor	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Vidyasagar Rachanasamagra Vol 1, Part 1	Vidyasagar University, Midnapore	Jan, 2016	Member, Editorial Board	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Forced Migration and Media Mirrors	Frontpage, Kolkata & London (ISBN 978-93-81043-13-4)	Jan, 2014	Sole Editor	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Politics in Hunger-Regime: Essays on the Right to Food in West Bengal	Frontpage, Kolkata & London (978-93-810430-1-1)	Jan, 2011	First Editor	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The Poet and the Mahatma: Engagement with Nationalism and Internationalism	Progressive Publishers, Kolkata(ISBN 978-81-8064-160-2)	Jan, 2009	Sole Author	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The Fleeing People of South Asia: Selections from Refugee Watch	Anthem Press, New Delhi & London (ISBN 13: 978-81-905835-7-2)	Jan, 2009	Sole Editor	Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Uchchamadhyamik Rashtrajijnasa (A Textbook for HS Classes in Bengali)	Nababharati Prakashani, Kolkata [5th Edition])	Jan, 2009	Sole Author	Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence

Scholar Name	Thesis Title	Name of the Co Supervisor	Status
Santi Sarkar	Hunger and Politics in West Bengal (2000-2010) In the Light of Right to Food	Sole	Ongoing
Radha Mondal	The Social and Political Discourses of Bankimchandra - Impact on Indian Politics		Ongoing
Milan Acharjya	Environmental Activism in India - Contributions of Post-Gandhians (Select Case-Studies)		Ongoing

Invited Lectures

Title	Organized By	Venue	Date
Mahatma Gandhi - Main Contours of Thought	Department of Political Science, Egra College	Egra College, Purba Medinipur	Jan, 2019
Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy - Then and Now	GPO, Kolkata	GPO, Kolkata	Jan, 2019
‘Mobilising the Migrants: The Role of the UCRC in the Indian State of West Bengal in 1950s & 1960s’ at Conference on ‘Critical Migration Studies’, Nov. 28 and Dec. 02, 2016	University of Oldenburg	Oldenburg, Germany	Jan, 2016
“Gender and Feminism”	Women’s Study Centre, VU on 6 January 2016	Vidyasagar University, Midnapore	Jan, 2016
Panel Discussion on “Gender and Society” on 18 January 2016,	Women’s Study Centre, VU	VU, Midnapore	Jan, 2016
“The Indian State and Its Fragments: The Making and Unmaking of an Un-Federal Federation” at UGC sponsored State Level Seminar, on 14 January 2016	Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya	Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, Purvba Medinipur, West Bengal	Jan, 2016
“Politics of Inclusion: A Self-ish Appropriation of the “Other”? at a State Level Seminar at Rabindra Bharati University, on “Politics of Inclusion and Response”, on 8 February 2016	Deparrtment of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata	RBU, Kolkata	Jan, 2016
“Politics of Social Exclusion” in UGC Sponsored Special Lecture Programme, at Garbeta College, on 22 March, 2016	Garbeta College	Garbeta College, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal	Jan, 2016
"Problems in Research in Political Science" at Research Week Phase V on 12 May 2016	Rabindra Bharati University	RBU, Kolkata	Jan, 2016
"Election and Media: Challenges and Opportunities", 19 March 2014	Dept of Mass Communication and Videography, RBU	RBU, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
"Modernism and Postmodernism in Society and Literature", 8 March, 2014	Department of Bengali, University of Calcutta	CU, College Street Campus, Kolkta	Jan, 2014
“Mikhail Bakhtin and Problems of Bengali Novels”, 8 March, 2014	Department of Bengali, University of Calcutta	CU, College Street Campus, Kolkta	Jan, 2014
Aurobindo’s Concept of Freedom	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Swami Vivekananda: His Concept of Socialism and His Idea of Social and Moral Regeneration	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	E	Jan, 2014
Vivekananda: Concepts of Nationalism, Internationalism and Government	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Vivekananda: Idea of Freedom	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Tilak: Concept of Swaraj	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Tilak’s Concept of Nationalism	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Dayanand Saraswati: Idea of Social Reforms and Vedic Swaraj	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
Dayananda Saraswati: Political Ideas	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2014
"Civil Society and Media",22 February 2013	Dept of Sociology, RBU	RBU, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
"Tagore and Gandhi",7 March, 2013	Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta,	CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Mahatma Gandhi: Basic Premises of Political Thought	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Gandhi’s Concepts of Non-violence and Satyagraha	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Mahatma Gandhi: Theory of the State	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Gandhi’s Social and Political Ideal: Sarvodaya	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Gandhi’s Theory of Trusteeship	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Aurobindo’s Concept of Political Philosophy	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
Aurobindo’s Concept of Nationalism	EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC	EMMRC, Kolkata	Jan, 2013
“Relevance of Tagore in Contemporary Time”, 23 February 2011	NEEV Foundation, Kolkata	Indumati Sabhagriha, Jadavpur University	Jan, 2011
“Social as Political the Riddle of Tagore’s Thought”, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, 11 November, 2010	Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta	CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata	Jan, 2010
‘Beyond Hind Swaraj: The Riddle of Gandhi’s Notions of Nation and Swaraj’, November, 2009	Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta	CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata	Jan, 2009
Panel Discussion on "Election in Bangladesh", 8 March 2008	Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta	CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata	Jan, 2008
“Centenary of Satyagraha” , 9 August 2007	Mahishadal Raj College, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal	Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal	Jan, 2007
"Influence of Latin American Literature and Politics’, on 8 July 2006	Centre for Latin American Studies, Kolkata	Kolkata	Jan, 2006
Self and the Government: Foucault’s Theory Revisited’ at a seminar at Haringhata Mahavidyalay on 13 April 2005	Department of Political Science, Haringhata Mahavidyalay, Nadia, West Bengal	Haringhata Mahavidyalay, Nadia, West Bengal	Jan, 2005
"Indian Politics" at a seminar organised by Dept. of Political Science Sivanath Sastri College, on 3 May 2005	Dept. of Political Science Sivanath Sastri College	Sivanath Sastri College, Kolkata	Jan, 2005

Membership of Learned Society

Title/Name of the Society
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
West Bengal Political Science Association
Association for Studies in Society and Social Change
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK)

Association with Professional Bodies

Type of Professional Activity	Period
Secretary, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata	2015 to 2016
Treasurer, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata	2010 to 2015
Life Member, West Bengal Political Science Association	2006 to 2016
Secretary, Association for Studies in Society and Social Change	1985 to 1998

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended

Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Date	Role	Held at and Organiser
National Seminar on Gandhi - The Person and His Philosophy, 1-2 March 2019	Jan, 2019	Invited Speaker	Indian Psychoanalytical Society, Kolkata
International Seminar on Social Movements and Development Issues in India	Jan, 2019	Invited Speaker	Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal
International Seminar on Refugees and the State	Jan, 2018	Chaired a session on Internal Displacement in India	Department of Political science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University, 26 & 27 February 2018
international Workshop on Popular Movements in West Bengal and Bihar	Jan, 2018	Presented Paper on The Defining Moments of Left-Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966	At West Bengal State Univesity, Barasat, organised by Calcutta REsearch Group in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 22 June 2018
National Seminar on Indian Political Thought - The Derivative and Its Critique	Jan, 2017	Paper Presenter on Rabindranath Tagore - Axiology of Nationalism	Department of Political science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore on 1 & 2 March 2017
National Conference on Human Rights - Discourses and Practices	Jan, 2017	Convenor of the Conference and Chaired a Session on Human Rights - Legal Regime and Beyond	Organised by Vidyasagar University, Midnapore on 28 & 29 March 2017
International Conference on ‘Critical Migration Studies"	Jan, 2016	Invited Speaker	Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
International Consultative Workshop on “Popular Movements in Bengal and Bihar” on 28 February 2016	Jan, 2016	Chaired the Sessions on a) “The Evolution and Progress of Marxian Cultural Debates” and b) “ The Creative Accent on the Naxalite Uprising – Drama, Film, Prose and Poetry”	Kolkata, CRG & RLS
International Consultative Workshop on “Popular Movements in Bengal and Bihar”, on 28 February 2016	Jan, 2016	Paper Presenter on “Food Movement in West Bengal”	Kolkata: CRG & RLS
National Seminar on “Issues in Contemporary Political Thought: Justice, Ecology and Identity”	Jan, 2016	Chaired a session on “Identity Politics”	Organised by Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, VU, 16 & 17 March 2016
International Seminar on "Social Stratification and Political Transformation: Rethinking Indian Democracy"	Jan, 2016	Plenary Speaker on Identity and Governability	Bankura University, West Bengal ,Organised by Dept of Political ScienceFunded by ICSSR
International Research Workshop on Interrogating Forced Migration,16-21 March, 2015	Jan, 2015	Chaired a Special Lecture on ‘Reviewing Forced Migration Studies in Last Twenty Years’ by Prof. Pradip Kumar Bose	Kolkata: CRG & MAKAIAS
Conference on ‘Ecosystem for Life: A Bangladesh-India Initiative’, 14-16 September 2014	Jan, 2014	Paper Presenter on River-Tales: A Literary-Cultural Glossary of Bengal	Kathmandu: IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources)
International Conference on ‘Women in South Asia’	Jan, 2014	Paper Presenter on ‘Tagore, Gender and Issues of Justice’	Decatur - Millikin University, Decatur, IL, United States
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Swami Vivekananda: Relevance of His Thoughts in the Present Era’, 3 September, 2013	Jan, 2013	Paper Presenter on ‘Swami Vivekananda’s Nationalism’	Rampurhat College, Birbhum, West Bengal
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on "Questioning Identity: Response of the State and Community in Contemporary India", 24 August, 2013	Jan, 2013	Chaired a session on "Identity Politics in Contemporary India"	Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, 24 Pgs(North), West Bengal
14th Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (6-9 January 2013)	Jan, 2013	Chaired a session on ‘Refugee, Border, Borderland: Reflections and Representations’	IASFM jointly with CRG
14th Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (6-9 January 2013)	Jan, 2013	Paper Presenter on ‘Transitional Justice: Justice in Transition’, on 9 January, 2013	IASFM jointly with CRG
Fifth Critical Studies Conference on ‘Accumulation under Post-Colonial Capitalism’, at Kolkata, 21-23 August 2014	Jan, 2013	Chaired a session on ‘Post Colonial Resistance’	CRG & RLS (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Bhakti Movement in India’,17 & 18 January 2012	Jan, 2012	Paper Presenter on ‘Influence of Bhakti Cult on Gandhi’s Politics’	Baruipur College, WB: Organised by Baruipur College in collaboration with R.K Mission Residential College, Narendrapur
UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Idea of a Nation’,23 & 24 March 2012	Jan, 2012	Paper Presentation on ‘Aurobindo, Nation and Beyond’	Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University
National Conference on ‘Internal Displacement in India: Issues and Perspectives’, July 17, 2012	Jan, 2012	Paper Presenter on ‘Displacement in India’s Northeast and Kashmir’	South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), at India International Centre, New Delhi
UGC Sponsored State level Seminar on ‘An Unholy Nexus -Corruption and Developing Countries’, 27 March, 2012	Jan, 2012	Paper Presenter on “Corruption, Politics and Development in the Third World”	Netaji Satabarshikki Mahavidyalaya, Ashoknagar, 24 Pgs (N), West Bengal
National Seminar on ‘Tagore’s Socio-Political Visions’,21 February 2011	Jan, 2011	Paper Presenter on ‘Tagore’s Nationalism’	Jadavpur University, Kolkata:Dept. of International Relations & School of Women’s Studies
UGC State level Sponsored Seminar on "Political Economy of Industrialisation in West Bengal – Recent Trends",23 March, 2011	Jan, 2011	Paper Presenter on ‘Recent Land Movements and Industrialisation in West Bengal’	Dhruba Chand Halder College, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Social and Political Thought of Tagore: Context and Relevance”, 22 March, 2011	Jan, 2011	Paper Presentation, titled "Tagore, Aesthetics and Politics"	Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Human Rights Education’, 5 November 2009	Jan, 2009	Paper Presenter on ‘Rights and Human Rights: An Issue of Justice	Sreegopal Banrejee College, Hoogly, West Bengal: Departments of History and Political Science
UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Socio-Politico-Economic Conditions of Agricultural Labourer’ March 23, 2009	Jan, 2009	Chaired a session on "Politics of Agricultural Labourer"	Sree Chaitanya College, Habra: Department of Anthropology
WBPSA Sponsored Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Centre-State Relations in India’, 20 March, 2009	Jan, 2009	Paper Presenter on “Effects of Coalition in Centre-State Relations”	Department of Political Science, Presidency College, Kolkata
Third Critical Studies Conference [International Conference] on ‘Empire, States and Migration’, September 12, 2009	Jan, 2009	Discussant on ‘Migration and Issues of Justice’	Kolkata - organised by Calcutta Research Group
UGC Sponsored State level Seminar on "Contemporary India: Issues and Challenges", March 14, 2008	Jan, 2008	Paper Presenter on Two Breaks in Indian Politics	Khudiram Bose Central College, Kolkata
UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on ‘Unemployment – Tends and Tendencies in Contemporary Indian Society’, 25 March, 2008	Jan, 2008	Paper Presenter on Unemployment and Indian Politics	Hiralal Mazumdar Memorial College For Women, Kolkata
UGC Sponsored State level Seminar on ‘New Social Movement and Increasing Peoples’ Participation’, April 11, 2008	Jan, 2008	Paper Presentation on "IDPs and Indian Politics"	Sivanath Sastri College, Kolkata,
Ministry of H.E., Govt. of WB & ICSSR Sponsored State level Seminar on ‘India: After Independence’, 20 September, 2006	Jan, 2006	Paper Presenter on ‘Main Currents of Indian Politics’	Mahishadal Raj College, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal
State Level Seminar on "Tagore and Politics: Then and Now", 25 May 2005	Jan, 2005	Paper Presenter on ‘Politics of Tagore’s Aesthetics’	Organised by West Bengal Political Science Association, at Kolkata
UGC sponsored State level Seminar on ‘Knowledge, Culture and Information in 21st Century’,10 & 11 December, 2004	Jan, 2004	Paper Presenter on ‘Politics of Knowledge’	Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharyya College, Howrah, West Bengal
State level seminar on "Contemporary Political Theory: Postmodernism and Feminism",March 22, 2002	Jan, 2002	Commentator	Dept. of Political Science, University of Calcutta
UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘Globalisation: Economics, Political, Social Aspects’	Jan, 2002	Paper Presenter on ‘Globalisation, Culture and Politics’	At Barasat, West Bengal:Barasat Govt. College, 11 and 12 December 2002
UGC sponsored State Level Seminar on ‘Orientalism – Truth, Art & Politics”,16 & 17 March, 2001	Jan, 2001	Paper Presenter on ‘The East-West Question and Tagore’	Sree Chaitanya College, Habra, WB: Dept. of Philosophy
First West Bengal Social Science Congress, 23-25 February, 2000	Jan, 2000	Paper Presenter on “Globalisation and the Politics of Culture”	Jadavpur University, Kolkata:organised by Jadavpur University & Indian Academy of Social Sciences

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised

Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Date	Role in the Event	Funding Agency
National Conference on Human Rights - Discourses and Practices, 28&29 March 2017 Organised by VU	Jan, 2017	Convenor	UGC & NHRC
“Identity Politics” at a National Seminar on “Issues in Contemporary Political Thought: Justice, Ecology and Identity” organised by Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, VU, 16 & 17 March 2016	Jan, 2016	Joint Covenor	UGC
Media Workshop on Forced Migration	Jan, 2012	Convenor	British Deputy High Commission, Kolkata
Fifty Years of August Movement	Jan, 1992	Convenor	UGC & ASSSC

Awards

Award Name	Awarded by	Date
Shiksha Ratna	Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of W.B.	Jan, 2018

Prof. Sibaji Pratim Basu