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Dr. Ranabir SAMADDAR,
a founder of the CRG and its journal, Refugee Watch, was earlier a
professor of South Asia Studies, and then was the founder-Director of the
Peace Studies Programme at the South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Kathmandu.
Known for his critical studies on contemporary issues of justice, human
rights, and popular democracy in the context of post-colonial nationalism,
trans-border migration, community history, and technological restructuring
in South Asia, he has served on various commissions and study groups on
issues such as partitions, critical dictionary on globalisation, patterns of
forced displacement and the institutional practices of refugee care and
protection in India, rights of the minorities and forms of autonomy,
technological modernization, and occupational health and safety. He has
recently completed a three-volume study of Indian nationalism, the final one
titled as, A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997 (2001).
Besides being the editor of three well-known volumes on issues of identity
and rights in contemporary politics, Refugees and the State (2003),
Space, Territory, and the State (2002), and Reflections on
Partition in the East (1997), he is also the editor-in-chief of the
South Asian Peace Studies Series. His current work is on theory and
practices of dialogue, a question critical to the politics of justice and
reconciliation.
Email:
ranabir@mcrg.ac.in
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details of his publications, lectures, interviews and some of the courses
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