Faculty Profile - University

Educational Qualification

Degree Name	Institute	Year of passing/awarded
Ph.D.	Jawaharlal Nehru University	2002
M.PHIL	Jawaharlal Nehru University	1989
M.A.	Jadavpur University	1985

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis

Title of the Ph. D. Thesis
“Making of Early Colonial Bengal: Agrarian Economy, Institutions and Agency C. 1750-1800.” 2002,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. (Unpublished). Supervisor: Prof. Rajat Datta, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU.

Career Profile / Teaching Experience

Description of Experience
Joined Goa University, Panaji, Goa, as Lecturer in the Department of History on 8th July 1991. On lien from the post for one year since 21st October 2003 (A.N.). Taught at Raidighi College till 01.04.2004

Specialization/Research Area

Type (Specialization / Research Area / Areas of Interest)	Detailed Description
Field of Specialization	Social and Economic History of Early Modern India.
Research Area/ Areas of Interest	The agrarian society of India with focus on eighteenth century; Indo-Portuguese History; water history

Course/ Subject Taught

Course Name
State Formation in Ancient India
Early Modern Indian State and Economy.
Regional History of South-West Bengal.
Historical Method and Historiography
History courses Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, 2016-17 and 2017-18

Publications in Journal / Magazines / Newspaper

Title	Publication Type	Published in	Published on	Publisher's Name	Details
Rivers, inundations and grain scarcity in early colonial Bengal	International	A Cultural History of Famine: Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain. Edited by Ayesha Mukherjee	Jan, 2019	Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
From Surveys to Management: The Early Colonial States Intervention in Water Resources of Bengal.	Other	Indian Historical Review, No. 2, December 2017, pp. 225-269	Jan, 2017	SAGE publications	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Eighteenth Century Biographies and Histories: Review Essay	National	Journal of History, ISSN 2321-0834 vol. V 2016-17, pp. 128-131	Jan, 2017	Department of History, Vidyasagar University	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
“Luso-Indians in British India: Home, Exile and Nationality”	National	Hispanic Horizon, Journal of the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.No. 32 Year 2015.	Jan, 2015	Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Book Review: Rila Mukherjee (ed.), Vanguards of Globalization: Port-Cities from the Classical to the Modern.	Other	Indian Historical Review, 42(1) 1–3 © 2015	Jan, 2015	SAGE Publications	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Continuities in Bengal’s Contact with the Portuguese and its Legacy: A Community’s Future Entangled with the Past (chapter title)	International	Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia 1511-2011 Vol.I, The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies and Engagements, edited by Laura Jarnagin	Jan, 2012	Institute of South-East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Continuities in Bengal’s Contact with the Portuguese and its Legacy: A Community’s Future Entangled with the Past (chapter title)	International	Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia 1511-2011 Vol.I, The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies and Engagements, edited by Laura Jarnagin	Jan, 2012	Institute of South-East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Worthies And The Worth Of Their Land: Revenue Farmers And The Company’s State In Early Colonial Bengal (chapter title)	National	Rethinking a Millennium: India from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Centuries Delhi, Rajat Datta Ed.	Jan, 2012	Aakar Publications Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Internal Trade Revenue and Markets in Pre-colonial Bengal (chapter title)	National	History, Economy and Culture in Eastern India, edited by Basanta Kumar Mallik,	Jan, 2012	Bhuvaneswar	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Terms of Reference and Teaching of Indian History (chapter title)	National	Educational Institutions in Goa, S.K.Mhamai (ed.)	Jan, 2012	Directorate of Archives, Panaji, Goa.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Purbabharater Mahasagariya Anchale Portugueseder Samudrik Karjokalap (1515-1526)	Other	Ajo Anveshon, October issue	Jan, 2007	Ajo Anveshon.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Evolution of an Early Colonial Policy towards inland commerce and market in late 18th century Bengal	International	The Economic History Society,New Researchers’ Papers, Annual Conference 2004	Jan, 2004	The Economic History Society Royal Holloway College University of London.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Asian states and Mercantilism in the Indian Ocean Economy: Bengal Nizamat and the English Company in Eighteenth century (chapter title)	National	The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European Bridgeheads: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. K.S.Mathew, P. Malekandathil and T. Jamal Mohammad, (ed.)	Jan, 2001	Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon & Goa.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Instruments of Control and Enforcement of Law under the Early Colonial Regime in Bengal (1765-1793)	National	Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata.	Jan, 2000	Indian History Congress, New Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
Structure of Internal Trade and Political Authority in Mid-Eighteenth Century Bengal (chapter title)	National	Society, Culture and Polity in eastern India, S.C.Padhy and S.K.Panda (ed.).	Jan, 1999	Berhampur University, Orissa.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The Portuguese Maritime Strategies and Options in Eastern Indian Ocean Region (1515-1526)	National	Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Madras.	Jan, 1996	Indian History Congress, New Delhi	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:
The Portuguese in Bengal: Their Trade and Settlements in the Sixteenth Century”.	National	Journal of History, vol. XV, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.	Jan, 1995	Jadavpur University, Calcutta.	Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link:

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence

Scholar Name	Thesis Title	Name of the Co Supervisor	Status	Date
Achintya Mandal	Politics and Governance of Bengal: 1935-47		Awarded	Jan, 2016
Tapan Hazra	Leadership and Masses: Strategies and Mobilization in the Left Wing political movement in Midnapore from 1930 to 1964		Awarded	Jan, 2015
Shrubabati Chakrabarty	Changing Face of the Women in Colonial Bengal: Krishnabhabini Das and Sarala Debi Chaudhurani - Foremothers of Indian Feminism	Dr. Sarvani Gooptu	Awarded	Jan, 2015
Prasenjit Ghosh	Social and Ecological Aspects of the Jharkhand Movement c. 1930-2001		Awarded	Jan, 2015
Malika Basu	Science, Colonialism and Pharmaceutical Industries: Case Stuides of Three Pharmaceutical Industries in Kolkata (1855-1947)		Awarded	Jan, 2014
Partha Pratim Roy	Flood Prevention and Embankments during the Colonial Period in South-West Bengal: Role of the State and Society.		Awarded	Jan, 2014
ABINASH SENGUPTA	Swadeshi Andolan o Samakalin Bangla Sahitya(1900-1911)		Awarded	Jan, 2012
Mita Biswas	Uponibeshik Banglar Muslim Samaj O tar Ogrogoti 1800 saal - 1947 saal		Ongoing

Research Project

Worked as	Funding Agency	Amount in Rs.	Duration	Period	Status
Principal Investigator	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Stuides.	100000	4 years	2006-2010	Complete

Invited Lectures

Title	Organized By	Venue	Date
River Ganga and the Science of Hydrology	Department of History, Benares Hindu University (BHU), 12th January 2019	Department of History, Benares Hindu University	Jan, 2019

Membership of Learned Society

Title/Name of the Society
Life Member, Indian History Congress.

Association with Professional Bodies

Type of Professional Activity	Period
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Research in Philosophy and History, SCHOLINK INC, USA, ISSN 2576-2451 (Print) ISSN 2576-2435 (Online,	2018 to 2018

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended

Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Date	Role	Held at and Organiser
Narrating Local History: Community, Caste and Tribe in Odisha	Jan, 2019	Keynote Speaker	PG Department of History, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. 25th January 2019
International Seminar: Environment, Religion & Culture: research Methods and Perspectives on Precolonial South Asia	Jan, 2019	Chair: Academic Session V, Environment and Material Culture	UGC DSA - 1 SAP, Department of History, Jadavpur University, 5th-6th February 2019
River Ganga and the Science of Hydrology	Jan, 2019	Special Lecture	Department of History, Benares Hindu University (BHU), 12th January 2019
International Symposium of Indian and Indonesian scholars on “Thinking Social Sciences”.	Jan, 2016	Presented paper on “Benedict Anderson and Social Science Thought”	Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla on 11-12 July 2016.
"Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain"	Jan, 2015	Presented a paper on “Rivers, inundations, and grain scarcity in early colonial Bengal”	Co-organised by the Smith School of Enterprises and Environment, University of Oxford and the University of Exeter,3-4th September 2015.
"Configuring Early Modern South Asia: An International Conference"	Jan, 2015	Presented a paper on Early Colonial Experience in Management of Waters: Bengal 1760-1800	Co-organized by Trinity College, Dublin, The University of Dublin & Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 12-13 November, 2015.
COMMODITIES AND CULTURE, 1851-1914: LEVERHULME TRUST INTERNATIONAL NETWORK WORKSHOP: ‘Commodities and Affect’,	Jan, 2011	Paper on ‘The Cultures of Swadeshi’	LEVERHULME TRUST and Department of English, Jadavpur University, H L Roy Memorial Auditorium, Jadavpur University, January 12, 2011
International Conference on Portuguese History	Jan, 2010	Presented paper on “Portuguese in Bengal in the early modern period”.	Institute of South-East Asian Stuides, NUS, Singapore & Malacca, 28-30 September 2010
1st World Congress on Environmental History	Jan, 2007	Floods, local economy and the state in Bengal c. 1770-1820	WCEH, Copenhagen, Denmark & Malmo, Sweden, 4th to 8th August, 2009.
5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference, Past and Futures of Water	Jan, 2007	Management of Water Channels: Some Reflections on Colonial Projects and their Objectives	International Water History Association. Held at Tampere, Finland, 13-17 June 2007
Annual meeting of the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies	Jan, 2006	Paper presented “European Participation in the Making of a Plural World: Portuguese and the Eurasians in Early Modern Bengal”.	Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, U.S.A.28-30th September 2006
International Seminar on History of Waters in South Asia : Climata, Ecology, Deforestation, Agriculture, Politics and the Management of Nature	Jan, 2006	presented paper on "Water channel management and the role of colonial administrators"	K.P. Basu Memorial Hall, Department of History, Jadavpur University, in collaboration with MAKAIAS, Kolkata, March 3-4, 2006
’Rethinking a Millennium: India from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Centuries’	Jan, 2004	Paper presented “Worthies and the worth of Their Land: Revenue Farmers And The Company’s State In Early Colonial Bengal”.	Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2-4 February 2004, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
International Seminar on Globalization and Development	Jan, 2002	Participant and Discussant	TERI and Goa University, Cidade de Goa, Dona Paula, Goa, 6th to 8th December, 2002
International Conference on Maritime History, with special reference to the Portuguese (1500-1900).	Jan, 2001	Paper presented “The Portuguese in Bengal: 17th and 18th Centuries	Goa University, 24-28th April 2001

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised

Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop	Date	Role in the Event	Funding Agency
Tribes of South-West Bengal: Polity, Economy and Society.	Jan, 2011	Principal Project Investigator, MAKAIAS.	MAKAIAS and UGC Un-assigned grant through Vidyasagar University
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.	Jan, 2009	Convener & Head of the Department.	Special UGC financial assistance for the celebration of birth anniversary of Maulana Azad.
Revolt of 1857: Regional Aspects	Jan, 2007	Convener & Head of the Department.	Indian Council Of Historical Research & UGC Un-assigned grant through Vidyasagar University.
New Directions in the Study of Indian History	Jan, 2005	Convener & Head of the Department.	UGC Un-assigned grant through Vidyasagar University

Prof. Ujjayan Bhattacharya