Born as a facilitating group in support of the peace movement in West Bengal, particularly during the Third Joint Conference of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy - an unprecedented public gathering of 400 peace activists of the sub-continent for 4 days in Calcutta in 1996 - the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group is now known as the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). The founders were a group of researchers, trade unionists, feminist thinkers and women’s rights campaigners, academics, journalists, and lawyers. This was to be a forum for policy discussion and analysis on issues of democracy, human rights, peace, and justice. 

        Developing as a forum of mostly young public activists and socially committed researchers, CRG is now well-known for its research, dialogues, and advocacy work. It has  carved out a niche for itself in the scholar-activist world for its policy studies on autonomy, human rights, women’s dignity, issues of forced displacement and migration, peace and conflict resolution, citizenship, borders and border-conflicts, and other themes relevant to democracy.  The emphasis that CRG places on the East and the Northeast in its research and dialogues has now resulted in a strong network of scholars, activists, and institutions in the region.

 

 

 

Our Recent publication/s
Books
  » Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India
      Edited by  Ranabir Samaddar &
                        Suhit K.Sen
» New Subjects and New Governance in India
      Edited by  Ranabir Samaddar &
                        Suhit K.Sen
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Research Papers
Policies and Practices-46
 » A Gigantic Panopticon: Counter-
 Insurgency and Modes of
 Disciplining and Punishment in
 Northeast India
           by Sajal Nag
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Library & Resource Centre

[Books, documents, journals, news, reports, CDs exclusively on forced migration in South Asia ]
 

 

 
Applications are invited for the
 

Tenth Annual Orientation Course on Forced Migration

 

for details...CLICK HERE

to download registration form...CLICK HERE


for information on past courses please visit 
http://www.mcrg.ac.in/winter.htm
 

Applications, addressed to the Course Coordinator, can be sent by e-mail to forcedmigrationdesk@mcrg.ac.in or by post to the following address
 and must reach CRG
not later than April 30, 2012:


Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, GC 45, First Floor, Sector III,
Salt Lake,Kolkata 700 106
, West Bengal, India.
Phone: +91 (33) 2337 0408

 

 

 
The Calcutta Research Group(CRG)

Cordially invites you to the release of the Books
 

Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India

and

New Subjects and New Governance in India
 

To be followed by

 A Discussion on

Reflections on Governance in Post-Colonial Democracy


Venue:
Swabhumi - The Heritage Plaza
Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, 89C Moulana Abul Kalam Azad Sarani,
Formerly Narkeldanga Main Road Opposite Subhas Sarobar,
Kolkata 700 054, Phone 23205487,  23203903,  Fax 23203909


On May 4, Friday, 2012 at 2.30 PM

for Programme details...CLICK HERE

 

Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group
GC-45, First Floor, Sector-III
Salt Lake City, Kolkata-700 106, West Bengal, India
Phone: +91-33-23370408, Fax: +91-33-23371523
Email: mcrg@mcrg.ac.in; Web:
http://www.mcrg.ac.in
 

 
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Call for Papers

Are invited for IASFM 14: ‘Contested Spaces & Cartographic Challenges’

The 14th Conference of the International Association for Studies in Forced Migration (IASFM) will be hosted by Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India, January 6-9, 2013. This is the first time that this conference is being hosted in South Asia.

 

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is 15 June, 2012

 

for details CLICK HERE
 

 

You are cordially invited to attend two presentations


Speakers:


1. Anindita Ghoshal
,
Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati"Changing Mentality of the Bengalee Refugees: The Story of Tripura (1946-1971)"

2. Anwesha Sengupta, Research and Programme Assistant, CRG – “Of Men and Things: Exploring the Administrative Consequences of Partition”  

Date: May 9, 2012 (Wednesday) at 4 PM

Venue: CRG Seminar Room

 

 



Brief news, reports, views
and comments on issues of 
forced displacement

 

 


A Discussion
on
Governmentality
 

for details CLICK HERE
 

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