VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY
Faculty Information System
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Prof. Sibaji Pratim Basu
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Professor, On Lien
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
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+91 3222 298-230 / Centrex Extn. 230
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sibajipratim@gmail.com
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Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore 721102
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| History of Socialist Thought; Indian Political Thought |
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| Popular Movements, Sustainable Rights, Forced Migration & Displacement, Media Studies & Cultural Politics |
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| Indian Political Thought |
| Migration and Internal Displacement |
| Reading Politics |
| Advanced Political Theory |
| Indian Political Thought & Movement |
| Socialist Thought |
| Sustainable Rights & Movements |
| Political Theory |
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| International Publication |
| Title | Published in | Year | Published by |
| "The Defining Moments of Left-Popular Politics in West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966" | In Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), From Popular Movement to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade | 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 |
| ‘The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal – 1959 Revisited’ | in Samir Kumar Das (ed) Understanding Democracy and Violence in India, OUP, New Delh (ISBN 978-0-19-945183-8) | 2015 | OUP, New Delhi |
| ‘The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: West Bengal – 1959 Revisited’ | Policies and Practices, Kolkata, 2012, No 56 (ISSN 2348 0297) | 2012 | Calcutta Research Group |
| “The ‘Other’ in the ‘Self’: The IDPs in India" | Reassessing Internal Displacement in South Asia (E-journal: http://www.southasianrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IDP-Report-India.pdf | 2012 | South Asians for Human Rights, Colombo |
| ‘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) | 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) | 2011 | Frontpage, Kolkata and London |
| ‘Globalisation and Right to Information’ | Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ishita Dey (ed.), Sustainability of Rights after Globalisation, Sage, New Delhi, (ISBN 978-81-321-0640-1) (HB) | 2011 | Sage, New Delhi |
| ‘State: In Europe and In the Third World’ | Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed), Political Sociology, Macmillan, New Delhi, (ISBN 1403-92845-2) | 2005 | Macmillan, New Delhi |
| ‘Jati, Jatiyata o Jatiyatabad’, (on Nationalism as a process of abstraction) | Benoy Ghosh (ed), Yogosutra, Kolkata, July 1995. | 1995 | Yogasutra, Kolkata |
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National Publication
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| Title | Published in | Year | Published by |
| Mobilising the Migrants - The Role of the UCRC in the Indian State of West Bengal - A Critical Assessment | Vidyasagar University Journal of History Vol 6 [2017-2018] ISSN: 2321-0834 | 2019 | Department of History, Vidyasagar University |
| "The Idea of a University" | Manojit Mandal (ed), Higher Education, Universities and Excellence: The Bengal Narrative (ISBN:978-93-83660-39-1 | 2017 | Jadavpur University, Kolkata |
| "Rabindranath Tagore: Axiology and Nationalism" | Sebak Jana (ed), Tagore on Economy, Society and Politics (ISBN: 13- 978-81-9832214-1-9) | 2017 | Dey Book Concern, Kolkata |
| "The Defining Moments of Left-Popular Politics in
West Bengal: The Food Movements of 1959 & 1966" | Policies and Practices, Vol 81, Dec 16. ISSN 2348 0297 | 2016 | Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
| "Tagore’s Notion of the ‘Orient’: A Space Beyond Nationalism" | Debnarayan Modak and Manan Kumar Mandal (ed), Parashmanir Pradip Tomar, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata (ISBN 978-81-910832-3-1) | 2011 | Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata |
| ‘Globalisation and Right to Information: The Indian Scenario’ | Policies and Practices, Kolkata, June 2010, No. 35 (ISSN 2348 0297) | 2010 | Calcutta Research Group |
| ‘Experiencing Civil Society in West Bengal’ in | Amartya Mukhopadhyay (ed), Civil Society and Global Governance: Indian Experience | 2009 | Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta |
| Book-review article | Dr. Saumendra N Bera (ed), Calcutta University Journal of Media and Communication | 2003 | University of Calcutta |
| Personal Man in the "world": The Politics of Tagore’s Aesthetics | Tarun Kumar Banerjee and Debesh Roychowdhury (ed), Colonial India: Ideas and Movements Kolkata | 2001 | Progressive, Kolkata |
| Book-review article | Buddhadeva Bhattacharyya (ed), Society & Change, Vol IX, No.3 (ISSN: 0970-5279) | 1993 | Society & Change |
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Other Publication
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| "Gandhijir Jatiyatabad Athaba Atmaniyantraner Shrinkhala" (On Nationalism of Gandhi or Disciplining of the Self") | Parichaya ISSN 2321-936X
July-October 2018 | 2018 | Editor: Biswabandhu Bhattacharya
Parichaya, Kolkata |
| "Bam-Janapriya Andoloner Ek Nirnayak Muhurta: 1959 o 166 er Khadya Andolan" (On Food Movement & Left Politics in West Bengal: 1959 & 1966) | Anil Acharaya (ed), Anushtup, Vol: L, No. 4 Prak Sharadiya (Pre-Autumn)) ISSN: 0974-2697 | 2017 | Anushtup, Kolkata |
| Sourin Bhattacharyer Manan-Bishwer Koyek Jhalak (Review article on Collected Works of Sourin Bhattacharya) | Parichay (ISSN 2321 936X) | 2017 | Editorial Board, Parichay Kolkata |
| "Ashoke Sen: Smriti o Rabindranath" (Ashoke Sen: Memory and Tagore) | Alochona Chakra, Vol 41, Editor: Chiranjib Sur
ISSN 2231-3990 | 2016 | Alochona Chakra, Kolkata |
| "Rabindracharchay Notun Alo"
(A Review Article on Abhra Ghosh, Focus Onyo Dike Sore Gelei Bhalo) | Baha, Vol 9
Editor Sanjib Mukhopadhyay
ISSN 2350-0832 | 2016 | Binapani Welfare and Educational Trust, Kolkata |
| ‘Mikhail Bakhtin: Upanyaser Samasya’ (on Bakhtin’s theory of the Novel) | Sucharita Ghosh (ed), Samalochana Sahitya: Sahittya Samalochana, Academic Staff College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2014. (ISBN 978-81-90433-84-6) | 2014 | University of Calcutta |
| ‘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 | Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Intellectuals), Kolkata, 2013 | 2013 | Anustup, Kolkata |
| ‘Adim Sangraher Katha’ (on Primitive Accumulation) | Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2012 | 2012 | Baromas, Kolkata |
| ‘Prachya-Pratichyaer Bhinnata o Rabindranather Visva-bhabana’ | Minakshi Singha (ed), Rabindra Drishtite Samaj o Samakal, Nababharati Prakkashan, Kolkata, 2011. (ISBN 978-81-907808-9-6) | 2011 | Nababharati Prakkashan, Kolkata |
| "Shasiter Ganatantra" (on the Democracy of the Governed) in Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2011 | Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October, 2011 | 2011 | Baromas, Kolkata |
| ‘Mukhomukhi: Giorgio Agamben’ (an article based on interview with Giorgio Agamben) | Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochona Chakra, Kolkata, January 2009 | 2009 | Alochana Chakra, Kolkata |
| "Chhinnamul Rajnitir Utsa Sandhane" (on the Politics of the Bengali Refugees) | Semanti Ghosh (ed.), Deshbhag: Smriti ar Stabdhata (Partition: Memory and Silence), Gungchil, Kolkata, 2008. (ISBN 978-81-89834-47-0) | 2008 | Gungchil, Kolkata |
| 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), | Budhhadev Basu Shatabarsha Samiti edited/compiled Centenary Volume on Budhhadev Basu , Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata, 2008. (ISBN 978-81-295-08-0861-4) | 2008 | Budhhadev Basu Shatabarsha Samiti |
| ‘Nari o Kshamatayan’ (on Women’s Empowerment) | Rajshri Basu and Basabi Chakraborty (ed.), Prasanga Manabividya (on Women’s Study), Urvi Prakashan, Kolkata, 2008 | 2008 | Urvi Prakashan, Kolkata |
| “Ashanta Nepal: Prajatantrer ‘Prachanda’ Pathe” (on the recent Maoist politics in Nepal) | Nalini Kumar Chakraborty, (ed), Kalpratima, Kolkata, May-July, 2007 | 2007 | Kalpratima, Kolkta |
| "Dabli Hater Banke" (on the politics and destitution of tea-gardens in North Bengal) | Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October 2006. | 2006 | Baromas, Kolkata |
| "Bidhannagar/Vishwanagar" (on changing faces of urbanization in Bidhanagar/Salt Lake) | Ashok Sen (ed), Baromas, Kolkata, October 2005 | 2005 | Baromas, Kolkata |
| ‘Rajnitir Path, Pather Rajniti’ (On Reading Politics & Politics of Reading) | Dipak Kumar Das (ed), Rajnitir Tattwakataha, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2005 | 2005 | kushe, Kolkata |
| Iraq Juddha in Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Iraq Issue), Kolkata, 2003 | Anil Acharya (ed) Anustup (Special Number on Iraq Issue), Kolkata, 2003 | 2003 | Anustup, Kolkata |
| ‘Habermas: Asampurna Swapnapuraner Golpo’ (on Jurgen Habermas’ concept of Modernity) | Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochana Chakra , July 2003 | 2003 | Alochana chakra, Kolkata |
| ‘Rashtra: Europe o Tritiya Vishwe’, in Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Rashtra, Samaj, Rajniti, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2002 | Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Rashtra, Samaj, Rajniti, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2002 | 2002 | Ekushe, Kolkata |
| ‘Mahatma Gandhi: Moula Prashna – Moulik Bhavana’ (Mahatma Gandhi: Basic Issues, Basic Ideas) | Satyabrata Roychodhury (ed), Bharatbarsha Rashtrabhavana, Ekushe, Kolkata, 2001 | 2001 | Ekushe, Kolkata |
| ‘Krishna: Raja toirir Raja’ (on politics of Krishna) | Shuvankar Mukhopadhyay (ed), Krishnacharit, M.C. Sarkar, Kolkata, 2001 | 2001 | M.C. Sarkar, Kolkata |
| ‘Atma o Shasan’ (on Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘Governmentality’) | Chiranjit Sur (ed), Alochona Chakra, Kolkata, August 1998 | 1998 | Alochana Chakra, Kolkata |
| ‘Artha-Anarther (Uttar) Adhunik Dhanda o Bakhtin’ (on Bakhtin and Postmodernism) | Arun Bandyopadhyay (ed) Ebong Eisomoy, Kolkata, March-May 1996 | 1996 | Ebong Eisamay, Kolkata |
| The East-West Question and Tagore | Tarapada Roy (ed), West Bengal, (Tagore Number), Calcutta | 1992 | Government of West Bengal |
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Books Published
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| Title of the Book | Published by | Year | Role |
| 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) | 2019 | Editor |
| Vidyasagar Rachanasamagra Vol 1, Part 1 | Vidyasagar University, Midnapore | 2016 | Member, Editorial Board |
| Forced Migration and Media Mirrors | Frontpage, Kolkata & London (ISBN 978-93-81043-13-4) | 2014 | Sole Editor |
| Politics in Hunger-Regime: Essays on the Right to Food in West Bengal | Frontpage, Kolkata & London (978-93-810430-1-1) | 2011 | First Editor |
| The Poet and the Mahatma: Engagement with Nationalism and Internationalism | Progressive Publishers, Kolkata(ISBN 978-81-8064-160-2) | 2009 | Sole Author |
| The Fleeing People of South Asia: Selections from Refugee Watch | Anthem Press, New Delhi & London (ISBN 13: 978-81-905835-7-2) | 2009 | Sole Editor |
| Uchchamadhyamik Rashtrajijnasa (A Textbook for HS Classes in Bengali) | Nababharati Prakashani, Kolkata [5th Edition]) | 2009 | Sole Author |
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Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis
| Scholar Name | Thesis Title | Co Supervisor | Status | Complete in Year |
| 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 | |
| Santi Sarkar | Hunger and Politics in West Bengal (2000-2010) In the Light of Right to Food | Sole | Ongoing | |
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| Mahatma Gandhi - Main Contours of Thought | Department of Political Science, Egra College | Egra College, Purba Medinipur | 2019 |
| Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy - Then and Now | GPO, Kolkata | GPO, Kolkata | 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 | 2016 |
| “Gender and Feminism” | Women’s Study Centre, VU on 6 January 2016 | Vidyasagar University, Midnapore | 2016 |
| Panel Discussion on “Gender and Society” on 18 January 2016, | Women’s Study Centre, VU | VU, Midnapore | 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 | 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 | 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 | 2016 |
| "Problems in Research in Political Science" at Research Week Phase V on 12 May 2016 | Rabindra Bharati University | RBU, Kolkata | 2016 |
| Aurobindo’s Concept of Freedom | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Swami Vivekananda: His Concept of Socialism and His Idea of Social and Moral Regeneration | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | E | 2014 |
| Vivekananda: Concepts of Nationalism, Internationalism and Government | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Vivekananda: Idea of Freedom | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Tilak: Concept of Swaraj | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Tilak’s Concept of Nationalism | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Dayanand Saraswati: Idea of Social Reforms and Vedic Swaraj | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| Dayananda Saraswati: Political Ideas | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2014 |
| "Election and Media: Challenges and Opportunities", 19 March 2014 | Dept of Mass Communication and Videography, RBU | RBU, Kolkata | 2014 |
| "Modernism and Postmodernism in Society and Literature", 8 March, 2014 | Department of Bengali, University of Calcutta | CU, College Street Campus, Kolkta | 2014 |
| “Mikhail Bakhtin and Problems of Bengali Novels”, 8 March, 2014 | Department of Bengali, University of Calcutta | CU, College Street Campus, Kolkta | 2014 |
| Mahatma Gandhi: Basic Premises of Political Thought | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Gandhi’s Concepts of Non-violence and Satyagraha | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Mahatma Gandhi: Theory of the State | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Gandhi’s Social and Political Ideal: Sarvodaya | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Gandhi’s Theory of Trusteeship | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Aurobindo’s Concept of Political Philosophy | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| Aurobindo’s Concept of Nationalism | EMMRC, Kolkata for Vyas TV, UGC | EMMRC, Kolkata | 2013 |
| "Civil Society and Media",22 February 2013 | Dept of Sociology, RBU | RBU, Kolkata | 2013 |
| "Tagore and Gandhi",7 March, 2013 | Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, | CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata | 2013 |
| “Relevance of Tagore in Contemporary Time”, 23 February 2011 | NEEV Foundation, Kolkata | Indumati Sabhagriha, Jadavpur University | 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 | 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 | 2009 |
| Panel Discussion on "Election in Bangladesh", 8 March 2008 | Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta | CU, Alipore Campus, Kolkata | 2008 |
| “Centenary of Satyagraha” , 9 August 2007 | Mahishadal Raj College, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal | Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal | 2007 |
| "Influence of Latin American Literature and Politics’, on 8 July 2006 | Centre for Latin American Studies, Kolkata | Kolkata | 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 | 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 | 2005 |
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| Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group |
| West Bengal Political Science Association |
| Association for Studies in Society and Social Change |
| Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) |
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| Type of Professional Activity | Period |
| Secretary, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata | 2015 to 2016 |
| Treasurer, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata | 2010 to 2015 |
| Secretary, Association for Studies in Society and Social Change | 1985 to 1998 |
| Life Member, West Bengal Political Science Association | 2006 to 2016 |
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| Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop | Year | Role | Held at and Organiser |
| National Seminar on Gandhi - The Person and His Philosophy, 1-2 March 2019 | 2019 | Invited Speaker | Indian Psychoanalytical Society, Kolkata |
| International Seminar on Social Movements and Development Issues in India | 2019 | Invited Speaker | Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal |
| International Seminar on Refugees and the State | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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" | 2016 | Invited Speaker | Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany |
| International Seminar on "Social Stratification and Political Transformation: Rethinking Indian Democracy" | 2016 | Plenary Speaker on Identity and Governability | Bankura University, West Bengal ,Organised by Dept of Political ScienceFunded by ICSSR |
| International Consultative Workshop on “Popular Movements in Bengal and Bihar” on 28 February 2016 | 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 | 2016 | Paper Presenter on “Food Movement in West Bengal” | Kolkata: CRG & RLS |
| National Seminar on “Issues in Contemporary Political Thought: Justice, Ecology and Identity” | 2016 | Chaired a session on “Identity Politics” | Organised by Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, VU, 16 & 17 March 2016 |
| International Research Workshop on Interrogating Forced Migration,16-21 March, 2015 | 2015 | Chaired a Special Lecture on ‘Reviewing Forced Migration Studies in Last Twenty Years’ by Prof. Pradip Kumar Bose | Kolkata: CRG & MAKAIAS |
| International Conference on ‘Women in South Asia’ | 2014 | Paper Presenter on ‘Tagore, Gender and Issues of Justice’ | Decatur - Millikin University, Decatur, IL, United States |
| Conference on ‘Ecosystem for Life: A Bangladesh-India Initiative’, 14-16 September 2014 | 2014 | Paper Presenter on River-Tales: A Literary-Cultural Glossary of Bengal | Kathmandu: IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources) |
| 14th Conference of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (6-9 January 2013) | 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) | 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 | 2013 | Chaired a session on ‘Post Colonial Resistance’ | CRG & RLS (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) |
| UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Swami Vivekananda: Relevance of His Thoughts in the Present Era’, 3 September, 2013 | 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 | 2013 | Chaired a session on "Identity Politics in Contemporary India" | Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, 24 Pgs(North), West Bengal |
| UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Bhakti Movement in India’,17 & 18 January 2012 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 2012 | Paper Presenter on “Corruption, Politics and Development in the Third World” | Netaji Satabarshikki Mahavidyalaya, Ashoknagar, 24 Pgs (N), West Bengal |
| UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Social and Political Thought of Tagore: Context and Relevance”, 22 March, 2011 | 2011 | Paper Presentation, titled "Tagore, Aesthetics and Politics" | Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal |
| UGC State level Sponsored Seminar on "Political Economy of Industrialisation in West Bengal – Recent Trends",23 March, 2011 | 2011 | Paper Presenter on ‘Recent Land Movements and Industrialisation in West Bengal’ | Dhruba Chand Halder College, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal |
| National Seminar on ‘Tagore’s Socio-Political Visions’,21 February 2011 | 2011 | Paper Presenter on ‘Tagore’s Nationalism’ | Jadavpur University, Kolkata:Dept. of International Relations & School of Women’s Studies |
| WBPSA Sponsored Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Centre-State Relations in India’, 20 March, 2009 | 2009 | Paper Presenter on “Effects of Coalition in Centre-State Relations” | Department of Political Science, Presidency College, Kolkata |
| UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Socio-Politico-Economic Conditions of Agricultural Labourer’ March 23, 2009 | 2009 | Chaired a session on "Politics of Agricultural Labourer" | Sree Chaitanya College, Habra: Department of Anthropology |
| UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Human Rights Education’, 5 November 2009 | 2009 | Paper Presenter on ‘Rights and Human Rights: An Issue of Justice | Sreegopal Banrejee College, Hoogly, West Bengal: Departments of History and Political Science |
| Third Critical Studies Conference [International Conference] on ‘Empire, States and Migration’, September 12, 2009 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 2004 | Paper Presenter on ‘Politics of Knowledge’ | Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharyya College, Howrah, West Bengal |
| UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘Globalisation: Economics, Political, Social Aspects’ | 2002 | Paper Presenter on ‘Globalisation, Culture and Politics’ | At Barasat, West Bengal:Barasat Govt. College, 11 and 12 December 2002 |
| State level seminar on "Contemporary Political Theory: Postmodernism and Feminism",March 22, 2002 | 2002 | Commentator | Dept. of Political Science, University of Calcutta |
| UGC sponsored State Level Seminar on ‘Orientalism – Truth, Art & Politics”,16 & 17 March, 2001 | 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 | 2000 | Paper Presenter on “Globalisation and the Politics of Culture” | Jadavpur University, Kolkata:organised by Jadavpur University & Indian Academy of Social Sciences |
| Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop | Year | Role in the Event | Funding Agency |
| National Conference on Human Rights - Discourses and Practices, 28&29 March 2017 Organised by VU | 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 | 2016 | Joint Covenor | UGC |
| Media Workshop on Forced Migration | 2012 | Convenor | British Deputy High Commission, Kolkata |
| Fifty Years of August Movement | 1992 | Convenor | UGC & ASSSC |
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| Award Name | Awarded By | Year |
| Shiksha Ratna | Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of W.B. | 2018 |
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