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Prof. Sabyasachi BASU RAY CHAUDHURY , the secretary of 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   

 

Lectures, Papers, and Interviews 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Paula Banerjee       Samir Kumar Das