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Born in 1996 as a facilitating group to support the peace movement in West Bengal, the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (now Calcutta Research Group or CRG) is well-known for its dialogues, advocacy work, and research on policy making processes, with a geographic emphasis on the eastern and northeastern parts of India.
The CRG works in five major areas: (1) Forced Migration (refugees, IDPs, militarization of borders, and reduction of border violence); (2) Aspects of Post-colonial Democracy and Governance (autonomy, social justice, developmental policies); (3) Peace and Conflict Resolution; (4) Related areas, including minorities, rights, and globalization; and (5) Gender. Gender dimensions are incorporated into its research in all of these areas. The CRG has partnered with various institutes and university departments, including Guwahati University; Presidency College; Mumbai University; ICSSR (Northeast Regional Centre); the National Commission for Women; Oxford University; and the Brookings Institution. Beside institutions, many civil society activists, policy analysts, and leading legal practitioners of the country are stakeholders of the CRG. The CRG is recognised as a Center of Excellence for its wide-ranging research and training activities on forced migration, democracy, citizenship, justice, gender rights, globalisation and rights, and other related themes.
The CRG also offers internship opportunities for students seeking to engage in original research falling within the CRG’s research areas. Interested students are encouraged to apply.
The CRG’s library catalogue and its archives are accessible online for registered users through this website. Visitors to the site can also access the CRG’s database on forced migration, as well as past issues of the CRG’s various publications. As a non-profit research institute, CRG is committed to publishing its research findings in the public domain and contributing to public debate, by engaging journalists and the media to raise such debates in the public forum.