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 Prof. Sabyasachi BASU RAY CHAUDHURY , member, CRG is Professor, Department of Political Science and
Director, Centre for Nepal Studies at the Rabindra Bharati University,
Kolkata. His areas of interest include South Asian studies, in particular,
politics of globalisation, democracy, development, displacement, human
rights and justice in South Asia. He is among the few experts on the Andaman
and Nicobar Islands that India has. He is a regular contributor to academic
journals, periodicals, dailies, news channels and portals. His recent
publications include: Indian
Autonomies: Key Words and Key Texts, (co-edited with Ranabir Samaddar
and Samir Kumar Das), Sampark, Kolkata, 2005, and Internal
Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of UN’s Guiding Principles,
(co-edited with Paula Banerjee and Samir Kumar Das), Sage Publications, New
Delhi, 2005.
1.
Office and Corresponding Address - Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group (Calcutta Research Group), GC 45 (First Floor.), Sector III,
Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India (Ph: 91-33-23370408 / fax:
033-23371523
Mobile:09830229434
E-mail address:
sabyasachi@mcrg.ac.in
/ mcrg@mcrg.ac.in
Educational
Qualifications:
M.A. (International
Relations), Ph.D. (Political Science)
Current Positions:
1. Professor,
Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University.
2. Director, Centre
for Nepal Studies, Rabindra Bharati University.
3. Secretary, Calcutta
Research Group.
4. Leading Commentator
on Public Policies and Election Analyst.
Areas of
special Interest:
South Asian studies, in particular,
politics of globalisation, democracy, development, displacement, human
rights and justice in the region.
Recent
Publications:
Books
1.
Indian
Autonomies: Key Words and Key Texts,
(co-edited with Samir Kumar Das and Ranabir Samaddar), Sampark, Kolkata,
2005
2. Internal
Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of UN’s Guiding Principles, (co-edited with Paula Banerjee and Samir Kumar Das), Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2005.
Articles
1.
“Autonomy’s International Legal
Career” in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), The
Politics of Autonomy: Indian Experiences, Sage, New Delhi, 2005, pp.
114-138.
2. “Human Rights and International
Relations Theory”, in Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds.), International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home, Orient
Longman, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 351-366.
3.
“Burma: Escape to Ordeal”, in Paula
Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das (eds.), Internal
Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of UN’s Guiding Principles,
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2005, pp. 213-236.
4. “Citizenship, Exclusion and Forced
Migration in South Asia”, in Omprakash Misra (ed.), Forced Migration in the South Asian Region: Displacement, Human Rights
and Conflict Resolution, Centre for Refugee Studies, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal
Displacement, Washington, D.C. and Manak Publications, New Delhi, 2004, pp.
224-235.
5. “Indian Foreign Policy: Changing
Tracks” in New Approach, Special
Issue on Indian Podium for the Next Generation, Vol. XII, Nos. 3 and 4,
2004, pp. 30-42.
6. “Uprooted Twice: Refugees from the
Chittagong Hill Tracts” in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India, 1947-2000,
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 249-280.
7. “Khamaotar Binyas Pratirodher Khamti”
(Pattern of Power, Deficiency of Resistance) (in Bengali) in Sharodiyo
Baromas, Vol. XXV, 2003, pp. 189-194.
8. “Marginalisation of the Hill People
in the CHT” in Omprakash Misra and Anindyo J. Majumder (eds.), The
Elsewhere People, Lancer, New Delhi,2003
Fellowships
1.
Participant in the First International
Course on the Law of Internal Displacement held from September 13-17, 2005
at Sanremo, Italy and organised by the Representative of the UN
Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons,
Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights, The Brookings
Institution-Universitat Bern and the International Institute of Humanitarian
Law.
2.
Visiting Residential Fellow of the
South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Kathmandu during August 20 - September 3,
1999.
3. Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar (339th
Session) on Human Rights: An International Legal Perspective held during
August 3 -10, 1996.
Other Information
1.
Member, Calcutta Research Group
2. Member, West Bengal Political Science
Association
3. Member, Indian Institute of Public
Administration
4.
Member of the Textbook Development
Committee in Political Science established by the NCERT, Government of India
for Class IX and XII students.
5.
Political analyst for leading news
channels and portals
6.
Regularly contributes to Ananda
Bazar Patrika
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