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Name Mr. Gautam Chando Roy Designation Associate Professor Department Name HISTORY Office Phone No +91 3222 298-302 / Centrex Extn. 302 Email ID gautamchroy@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax - Mobile No 9433146429 Personal Website Address 3/2 Manjulika A, ECTP Phase IV, Calcutta 700107

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded MA Calcutta University 1987

Career Profile / Teaching Experience Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, History Department, Vidyasagar University, 1995-2008. Associate Professor, History Department, Vidyasagar University since 2008 Lecturer, History Department, Acharya B. N. Seal College, Coochbehar, West Bengal, India, 1993-1995

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest Childhood and Children's Literature Colonial Bengal

Course/ Subject Taught State and Economy in Colonial India Industrial Revolution II Social History of Colonial India Popular Culture in Bengal, 19th and 20th Centuries

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Year Published by Science for Children in a Colonial Context: Bengali Juvenile Magazines, 1883-1923 BJHS Themes 3, pp.43-72. Cambridge Core, Online: 16.4.2018 2018 Cambridge University Press National Publication Title Published in Year Published by Upendrakishore Roychaudhuris Sandesh: an Exploratory Essay on Childrens Literature and the Shaping of Juvenile Mind in Early 20th Century Bengal Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Volume 73. pp. 898-905 2012 Indian History Congress Swadesh: a Land of Ones Own. Themes of Nationality in Childrens Literature of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Bengal A. Samanta, S. T. Nasreen, & A. Dhar (eds): Life and Culture in Bengal. Colonial and Post-colonial Experiences 2011 Progressive Publishers, Kolkata The Pathshala and the School: Experiences of Growing Up in 19th and 20th Century Bengal Rajat Kanta Ray (ed.): Mind, Body and Society 1995 Oxford University Press Other Publication Title Published in Year Published by "Ishwarchandra Vidyasagarer Nitishiksa" Sevak Jana (ed.): Mahajivaner Mahapathik Vidyasagar, pp. 176-203 2021 Kabitika, Medinipur "Vidyasagar o Bangali Balak" Autumn Annual, Volume XLIX, pp. 78-80 2020 Presidency University. Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri, Sandesh Patrika, Upanibesik Bangali Samaj Amitava Chatterjee (ed.): Itihase Janasangskrti 2017 Gaangchil, Kolkata Discipline at Shantiniketan Brahmacharyashram: Rabindranath Tagore, Education, and Colonial Bengali Society Sebak Jana (ed).: Rabindranath Tagore on Economy, Politics and Society -- Contemporary Discourses 2017 Dey Book Concern, Kolkata Books Published

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year Bengali Childrens Literature and Science Education, 1880-1920 Pushpalata Endowment Lecture, 2013-2014, Corpus Research Society, Calcutta Jadavpur University 2014

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser Literary Cultures and History in South Asia 2015 Paper Presenter History Department, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi Contested Sites: the Construction of Childhood 2015 Paper Presenter Indian Institute of Advanced study, Shimla Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine 2014 Paper Presenter Sixth International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Lisbon, Portugal Third International Conference of Bengal Studies 2013 Paper Presenter International Society of Bengal Studies, Calcutta Annual Conference of the Indian History Congress 2012 Paper Presenter Indian History Congress, Mumbai Children and Youth at Risk and Taking Risks 2009 Paper Presenter Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, University of California at Berkeley, USA Life and Culture in Bengal in the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries 2008 Paper Presenter History Department, University of Burdwan Childhoods and Childrens Rights in India 2008 Paper Presenter Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency Issues in Environmental History of India: Pre-colonial and Colonial Times. 2014 Co-ordinator Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi

Awards Award Name Awarded By Year Chandranarayan Medal Presidency College, Calcutta 1987

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