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 Prof. Samir
KUMAR
DAS is a professor of Political
Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata and is presently the Research
Coordinator of Calcutta Research Group (CRG). A Postdoctoral Fellow (2005)
of Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program), he is also the
Deputy Coordinator of UGC DRS Programme on ‘Democratic Governance in
Indian States’. He specializes in and writes on issues of ethnicity,
security, migration, rights and justice. His publications include Ethnicity, Nation and Security: Essays on Northeastern India (2004),
Regionalism in Power (1998) and ULFA
– A Political Analysis (1994). He has edited South
Asian Peace Studies II: Peace Accords and Peace Processes (2005) and
co-edited Autonomy: Beyond Kant and
Hermeneutics (2008), Indian
Autonomies: Keywords and Key Texts (2005) and Internal
Displacement in South Asia: Relevance of UN Guiding Principles (2004).
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:09830210265
E-mail address:
samir@mcrg.ac.in
/ mcrg@mcrg.ac.in
Educational
Qualifications:
M.A.,
Ph.D.
Current
Positions:
1. Professor,
Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta.
2. Research
Coordinator, Calcutta Research Group.
3. A Postdoctoral Fellow (2005)
of Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program).
4. Deputy Coordinator of UGC DRS Programme on ‘Democratic Governance in
Indian States’.
Memberships and Institutional Affiliations:
1. Member of the Expert Committee on School of Interdisciplinary and
Trans-Disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU),
New Delhi.
2. Served as a Member of the Editorial Board of The
Calcutta Journal of Political Studies published by the University of
Calcutta, 2000-2002
3. Served as a Member of the Editorial Board of West Bengal
Political Science Review (2003-2007).
4. Life Member of the West Bengal Political Science Association
based in Calcutta, West Bengal
5. Life Member of the North-East India Council for Social Science
Research with its headquarters in Shillong, Meghalaya
6. Life Member of North-East India Social Science Congress (NEISSCONG)
based in Shillong, Meghalaya
7. Life Member of North East India Political Science Association (NEIPSA)
8. Life Member of Council for Political Studies based in Calcutta
9. Member of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Refugee
Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (2002-5).
10. Member of the Post-Graduate Board of Studies in the Department of
South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta since 2002.
11. Member of the Academic Programme Committee of Omeo Kumar Das
Institute of Social Change and Development (Guwahati) of Indian Council
Of Social Science Research (ICSSR) since 2004.
12.
Member of Ph.D. Committee in Political Science, Tripura University.
A Select
List of Publications of:
Books (Authored, Edited & Co-Edited)
1.
Conflict and Peace in India’s Northeast: The Role of Civil Society, Policy Studies 42 (Washington DC:
East-West Center, 2007), authored.
2.
Autonomy: Beyond Kant and Hermeneutics (New Delhi:
Anthem Press, 2007), co-edited.
3.
Edited Peace Processes and Peace Accords, South Asian Peace Studies II (New
Delhi: Sage, 2005).
4.
Indian Autonomies: Keywords and Key Texts (Kolkata: Sampark, 2005), co-edited
5.
Internal Displacement in South Asia:
Relevance of UN’s Guiding Principles (New Delhi: Sage, 2004), co-edited.
6. Edited the Section on ‘Defining Peace
Studies’ in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Peace Studies: An Introduction to
the Concept, Scope, and Themes, South Asian Peace Studies I. (New Delhi:
Sage, 2004), Section Editor’s Introduction, pp. 19-31.
7. Ethnicity Nation and Security: Essays
on Northeastern India (New Delhi:
South Asian, 2003), authored.
8. Regionalism in Assam: The Case of Asom
Gana Parishad 1985-1990 (New Delhi:
Omsons, 1997), authored.
9. ULFA: A Political Analysis* (New Delhi: Ajanta, 1994), authored.
* Rated as ‘NE Top Ten (non-fiction)’ by The Statesman on 13
March 2004.
Research Papers (in English) in Journals and Edited Volumes etc.
1. ‘BIMSTEC or the Big Leap Forward for
India’s Northeast?’ in CNF World
Focus, 337, January 2008, pp.16-21.
2. ‘Democracy Beyond Frontiers: Indian
Democracy in the Age of Globalization’ in Bhupinder Brar, Ashutosh Kumar
& Ronki Ram (eds.), Globalization
and the Politics of Identity (New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2008), pp.
262-283.
3. ‘The Ethnic Core: On Some Limits of
Parliamentary Democracy in Contemporary India’ in Partha Pratim Basu et
al, State, Nation and Democracy:
Alternative Global Futures (New Delhi: Concept, 2007), pp. 11-38.
4. ‘Right to Human Security or Securitizing
Rights? Notes on a Possible Media Strategy for India’s Northeast’ in
Snehasis Sur (ed.), Human Security in
North East India: Role of Media (Kolkata: Centre for Media Research and
Development Studies, 2007), pp. 62-65.
5. ‘The US and Us: Renegotiating Democracies
in the Age of Global Terror’ in Jadavpur
Journal of International Relations, vol. 10, 2005-2006.
6. ‘Whither Democracy in Bangladesh?’ in CNF
World Focus, 328, April 2007, Stalemate in Bangladesh, pp.123-127.
7. ‘Righting Governance or Governing Rights:
Tripura (2000)’ in Dipankar Sinha & Kaberi Chakrabarti (eds.), Democratic
Governance in India: Reflections and Refractions (New Delhi: Kalpaz,
2007), pp. 245-67.
8. ‘Internal Security in India’s Northeast:
Evolving Discourses’ in CNF World
Focus, 323-324, November-December 2006, Annual Number, pp. 3-8.
9. ‘Peace Accords as the Basis of Autonomy in
Contemporary Northeastern India’ in Ashok Kumar Ray & S. K. Agnihotri
(eds.), Terrorism and Peace
Initiatives in North East India (New Delhi: Om Publications, 2006), pp.
143-50.
10.
‘ULFA and the Unresolved Problems of Nationalism in Assam’ in A.
N. S. Ahmed (ed.), National Security
Issues: Northeast India Perspectives (Guwahati: OKD Institute of Social
Change and Development/New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2006), pp.
90-125.
11.
‘Ethnicity and Security in Assam: A Plea for Greater
Indo-Bangladesh Partnership’ in C. Joshua Thomas (ed.), Engagement and Development: India’s Northeast and Neighbouring
Countries (New Delhi: Akansha/Shillong: Indian Council of Social Science
Research, North East regional Centre, 2006), pp. 134-163.
12.
‘Their Right to Migrate, Our Right to Home: Discourses on Migration
and Rights in Contemporary North-Eastern India’ in David R. Syiemlieh,
Anuradha Dutta & Sirnath Baruah (eds.), Challenges of Development in North-East India (New Delhi: Regency/Shillong:
Indian Council of Social Science Research, North East Regional Centre,
2006), pp.33-59.
13.
‘Democracy’s Middle Ground? The King, the SPA and the Maoists in
Nepal’ in CNF World Focus, 317,
May 2006, pp. 17-22.
14.
‘Implicit Communalism: The Case of Contemporary Assam’ in Bimal J
Dev (ed.), Ethnic Issues, Secularism
and Conflict resolution in North-East India (Shillong: North East India
Council for Social Science Research/New Delhi: Concept, 2006).
15.
‘Where Do the Autonomous Institutions Come From?’ in Ranabir
Samaddar (ed.), The Politics of
Autonomy: Indian Experiences (New Delhi: Sage, 2005), pp. 71-92.
16.
‘Politics of Ethnic Groups’ in Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed.), Political
Sociology (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2005), pp. 229-247.
17.
‘Globalisation, Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution: Proposals for a
Paradigm Shift’ in North East India Studies, 1(1), June 2005, pp.
85-92.
18.
‘Civil Society and the Struggle for Self-Determination in
Contemporary North-Eastern India’ in Monirul Hussain (ed.), Coming out
of Violence: Essays on Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution and Peace Process in
North-East India (New Delhi: Regency, 2005), pp. 23-38.
19.
‘The Ethnic Dimension’ in Seminar, Special Issue on
‘Gateway to the East: A Symposium on Northeast India and the Look East
policy’, 550, June 2005, pp. 65-69.
20.
‘Situating the Self: Selfhood and Ethnicity in Contemporary
Northeastern India’ in C. Joshua Thomas (ed.), Polity and Economy: Agenda for Contemporary Northeastern India (New
Delhi: Regency/Shillong: Indian Council of Social Science Research, North
East Regional Centre, 2005), pp. 54-71.
21.
‘Democracy in India’s Northeast: Traditional and Modern – A
Poser’ in Journal of North-E
22.
‘Communities of Modern Times: A Note on the Political Anthropology
of Modern Assam’ in Rajat K. Das & Debashis Basu (eds.), North East
India in Perspective: Biology, Social Formation and Contemporary Problems
(New Delhi: Akansha Pub. House, 2005).
23.
‘Wars, Population Movements and the Formation of States in South
Asia’ in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), South Asian Peace Studies: Vol. 1:
Peace Studies: An Introduction to the Concept, Scope, and Themes (New
Delhi: Sage, 2004).
24.
‘India: Homelessness at Home’ in Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu
Ray Chaudhury & Samir Kumar Das (eds.), Internal Security in South
Asia: Relevance of UN’s Guiding Principles (New Delhi: Sage, 2004),
pp. 113-143. 25.
‘Identity and Frontiers in International Relations Research’ in
Anindyo J Majumdar & Shibashis Chatterjee (eds.), Understanding
Global Politics: Issues and Trends (New Delhi: Lancer’s Books, 2004).
26.
‘History, Heritage and Identity: The Case of Northeastern India’
in Journal of North-East India Council for Social Science Research,
Special Tri-Decennial Number, 13-14 December, 2004, pp. 20-25.
27.
‘Ethnicity and the Rise of Religious Radicalism: The Security
Scenario in Contemporary Northeastern India’ in Satu P. Limaye, Robert
Wirsing & Mohan Malik (eds.), Religious Radicalism and Security in
South Asia (Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, 2004),
pp. 245-271.
28.
‘Ethnic Sub-Territoriality and the Modern State: The Case of
North-Eastern India’ in Kanti Bajpai & Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds.), International
Relations in India: Theorising the Region and Nation (New Delhi: Orient
Longman, 2004), pp. 284-313.
29.
‘Ethnic Insurgency and Population Displacement in Northeastern
India: Implications for Democracy and Citizenship’ in O. P. Mishra (ed.), Forced
Migration in the South Asian Region: Displacement, Human Rights and Conflict
Resolution (Calcutta: Centre for Refugee Studies, Jadavpur University in
collaboration with Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal
Displacement, Washington DC/ New Delhi: Manak, 2004), Pp. 510-7
30.
‘Civil-izing the State: State and Ethnicity in Contemporary
Northeastern India’ in Purushottam Bhattacharya, Tridib Chakraborti &
Shibashis Chatterjee (eds.), Anatomy of Fear: Essays on India’s
Internal Security (New Delhi: Lancer’s, 2004), pp. 208-29.
31.
‘Civility and its Limits’ in Journal of Humanities and Social
Sciences (Scottish Church College, Kolkata), Number 1, January 2004, pp.
181-92.
32.
‘Victim’s Right to Communicate’ in Refugee Watch, No.
20, December 2003, pp. 10-2.
33.
‘Truth, Democracy and the Margins’ in Refugee Watch, 18,
April 2003, pp. 19-21.
34.
‘Terrorism and the Limits of Democracy: The Case of Contemporary
Assam’ in Omprakash Mishra & Sucheta Ghosh (eds.), Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict in South Asian region (New
Delhi: Manak, 2003), pp. 474-87.
35.
‘State Responses to
Refugee Crisis: Relief and Rehabilitation in the East’ in Ranabir Samaddar
(ed.), Refugees and the State: Practices of Asylum and Care in India,
1947-2000 (New Delhi: Sage, 2003), pp. 106-51.
36.
‘Modernity, Self and the Question of Rights: The Case of
Northeastern India’ in Bolin Hazarika (ed.), Human Rights in India:
Socio-Political and Legal Dimensions (Jorhat: J. B. College Human Rights
Study Cell, 2003)
37.
‘Tribes as the Other: A Critique of Political Anthropology of
Northeastern India’ in Journal of
the Anthropological Survey of India, 51 (1), March 2002, pp. 73-82.
38.
‘The Captive Outside: Identity and Insurgency in Assam’ in K. M.
Deka & K. N. Phukan (eds.), Ethnicity
in Assam (Dibrugarh: Centre for North East Studies, Dibrugarh
University, 2002), pp. 69-86.
39.
‘Peace and the Limits of Democracy: Some Reflections on the Naga
Peace Process’ in C. J. Thomas & Gurudas Das (eds.), Dimensions of Development in Nagaland (New Delhi: Regency, 2002),
pp. 156-74.
40.
‘On the Question of Students’ Hegemony: A Study of the Assam
Movement (1979-85)’ in Apurba Kumar Baruah (ed.), Student Power in Northeast India (New Delhi: Regency, 2002), pp.
132-48.
41.
‘National Security in the Age of Globalization: A Study of
State’s Responses to Ethnic Insurgencies in northeastern India’ in
Gurnam Singh (ed.), Ethno-Nationalism
and the Emerging World (Dis)order (New Delhi: Kanishka, 2002), pp.
108-27.
42.
‘In Search of a Community: The Case of Immigrant Muslims of
Contemporary Assam’ in C. Joshua Thomas (ed.), Dimensions of Displaced People in North-East India (New Delhi:
Regency, 2002), pp. 347-63.
43.
‘Extraordinary Partition and its Impact on Ethnic Militant Politics
of Assam’ in Girin Phukon (ed.), Ethnicity
and Polity in South Asia (New Delhi: South Asian, 2002), pp. 208-28.
44.
‘Ethnic Conflicts and Internal Security: A Plea for Reconstructing
Civil Society in Assam’ in Faultlines:
Writings on Conflict and Resolution, Vol. 10, January 2002, pp. 37-58.
45.
‘Democracy as the Mainstream or De-mainstreaming Democracy? A
Review of the Democratic Institutions and Practices in Contemporary
Northeastern India’ in Contemporary India (Journal of the Nehru
Memorial Museum and Library), 1 (4), October-December 2002, pp. 151-75.
46.
‘Community Goes Public: Public Discussions in Modern Bengali
Society’ in Journal of
Anthropological Survey of India, Special Issue on ‘Ethnic Situation in
Eastern India’, 50 (1 & 2), March-June 2001 (published in August
2002), pp. 139-54.
47.
‘Civil Society and the Politics of Peace-Making in Northeastern
India’ in B. Datta Ray (ed.), Agenda
for North East India (New Delhi: Concept, 2002), pp. 135-42.
48.
‘Assam: Insurgency and the Disintegration of Civil Society’ in Faultlines:
Writings on Conflict and Resolution, 13, November 2002, pp. 95-116.
49.
‘Nobody’s Communique: Ethnic Accords in Northeastern India’ in
Ranabir Samaddar & Helmut Reifeld (eds.), Peace As Process: Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution in South Asia
(New Delhi: Manohar, 2001/New Delhi: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2001), pp.
231-52.
50.
‘Modernity, Self and the Question of Rights: The Case of Assam in
the 1990s’ in Rabindra Bharati
Journal of Political Science, 4, 2001, pp. 48-69.
51.
‘India Towards the Twenty First Century: The Ethnic Scenario’ in
Sanjukta Banerji Bhattacharya (ed.), India
at the End of 20th Century: Essays on Politics, Society and
Economy (New Delhi: Lancer’s, 2001), pp. 117-44.
52.
’Identity and the Mockery of Modernity: A Perspective from the
Northeast’ in Journal of North- East
India Council for Social Science Research, 25 (2), October 2001, pp.
24-7.
53.
‘Tribal Politics in Contemporary India’ in R. Chatterji (ed.), Politics
India: State-Society Interface (Delhi: South Asian, 2000), pp. 326-350.
54.
‘Toward Developing an Agendum of Refugee Studies in Northeastern
India’ in Journal of North-East
India Council of Social Science Research, 24(2), October 2000, pp.
21-25.
55.
‘Refugee Crisis: The Responses of the Government of West Bengal’
in Pradip Kumar Bose (ed.), Refugees
of West Bengal: Institutional Practices and Contested Identities
(Calcutta: Calcutta Research Group/United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, New Delhi, 2000), pp. 7-31.
56.
‘Population Displacement in Northeastern India: A Critical
Review’ in Girin Phukon (ed.), Political
Dynamics of North East India (New Delhi: South Asian, 2000), pp.
88-105).
57.
‘Forced Migration in South Asia: A Critical Review’ [with
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury & Tapan K. Bose] in Refugee Survey Quarterly (UNHCR Centre for Documentation and
Research, Geneva and published by Oxford University Press), Special Issue on
Internal Displacement in Asia, 19(2), 2000, pp. `48-57.
58.
‘Modernity, Self and the question of Rights: The Case of
Northeastern India’ in Journal of
North-East India Council of Social Science Research, 23(2), October
1999, Pp. 37-41.
59.
‘Towards an Understanding of the Political Theory of Antonio
Gramsci’ in Bolin Hazarika (ed.), Socio-Economic
and Political Change (Jorhat: Dept. of Pol. Science, J.B. College,
1998), Pp. 23-36.
60.
‘On the Politics of Globalization: Managing Ethnicity in
Northeastern India’ in Gurudas Das & R. Purkayastha (eds.), Globalization,
Ethnicity and Economic Development in Northeastern India, (New Delhi:
Cosmo, 1998).
61.
‘On Institutionalization: A Reconsideration of the Assam Movement
(1983-1985)’ in Journal of Politics
(Dibrugarh) Vol. V, December 1998, Pp. 55-76.
62.
‘National Security and Ethnic Conflicts in India: A View from the
Northeast’ in Arun K. Banerji (ed.), Security
Issues in South Asia: Domestic and External Sources, (Calcutta: Minerva,
1998), Pp. 102-118.
63.
‘National Security & the New Rights Discourse in North-Eastern
India’, in Sanjukta Banerjee Bhattacharya & Rochana Das (eds.), Perspectives
on India’s North-East (Calcutta: Bibhasa, 1998), Pp. 43-64.
64.
‘Ethnic Sub-territoriality and the Modern State: The Case of
Northeastern India’ in Jadavpur
Journal of International Relations, Vol. 4, 1998, pp. 96-120.
65.
‘Ethnic Assertion and the Women’s Question in North-East India’
in Anil K. Jana (ed.), Indian Politics
at the Crossroads, (New Delhi: Commonwealth, 1998), Pp. 172-88.
66.
‘Community Goes to Polls: An Interpretation of the Assam Elections
of 1996’ in Girin Phukon & Adil-ul-Yasin (eds.), Working
of Parliamentary Democracy and Electoral Politics in Northeast India
(New Delhi: South Asian, 1998), Pp. 1-18.
67.
‘Community and Economic Development in Assam: The Experience of the
1980s’ in B. Datta Ray & Prabin Baishya (eds.), Sociological
Constraints to Economic Development in North-Eastern India (New Delhi:
Concept 1998), Pp. 158-67.
68.
‘Authority, Community and the Public in Contemporary India’ in S.
Datta Gupta (ed.), India: Politics and
Society: Today and Tomorrow (Calcutta, K. P. Bagchi, 1998), Pp. 13-26.
69.
‘Ethno-Ecologism: A Reconsideration of the Assam Movement
(1979-1985)’, Journal of Politics (Dibrugarh),
Vol. IV, December 1997, pp. 21-35.
70.
‘Ethnic Insurgencies in North-Eastern India: A Framework for
Analysis’ in B. Pakem (ed.) Insurgency
in North-Eastern India (New
Delhi: Omsons, 1997).
71.
‘Constructing the North-East as a Field: Some Observations’ in Punjab
Journal of Politics, XXI (1&2), 1997, and Pp. 13-33.
72.
‘Analysing the Society in Assam: A Plea for Community’ in Girin
Phukon & N.L.Datta (eds.), Politics
of Identity and Nationbuilding in North-Eastern India (New Delhi: South
Asian, 1997).
73.
‘Tribes as the Other: A Critique of the Political Anthropology of
North-Eastern India’ in Journal of
Politics (Dibrugarh), III,
December 1996.
74.
‘The State and the Middle Class: The Case of Assam (1979-1990)’
in B. Datta Ray & S.P.Agrawal (eds.), Reorganization
of North-East India since 1947 (New Delhi: Concept, 1996).
75.
‘Assam Movement (1979-85): A Historiographical Essay’,
Journal of North-East India Council of Social Science Research, 18(2),
October 1994, pp. 1-11.
76.
‘Immigration and Agricultural Modernisation: The Case of Assam
(1979-83)’, Socialist Perspective,
20 (3&4), December 1992-March 1993, pp. 165-75.
77.
‘Dr. Ambedkar and the Paradox of Nationbuilding in India’, Gandhi
Jyoti, II (1), October 1993, pp. 42-52.
78.
‘Agrarian Question and the Assamese Community: Towards a Political
Framework’ in K. Alam (ed.), Agricultural
Development in North-East India: Constraints and Prospects (New Delhi:
Deep & Deep, 1993), pp. 235-49.
79.
‘State against Nation: Regional Movements in Contemporary India’
in G. Palanithurai & R. Thandavan (eds.) Perspectives on Indian Regionalism (Delhi: Kanishka, 1992), pp.
52-70.
80.
‘On the style of Middle-Class Politics: The Case of Assam
(1979-1983)’, The Calcutta Journal
of Political Studies, X
(1&2), 1991.
81.
‘Authority, Anomaly and Assassinations in India: A Postscript’, Socialist
Perspective, 12(1&2),
June-September 1991.
82.
‘State Against Nation: Regional Movements in Contemporary India’,
Socialist Perspective,
17(4), March 1990.
83.
‘Political Region and Nation in India’, The Calcutta Journal of Political Studies, 7(2), Summer 1988, pp. 32-45.
84.
‘Authority, Anomaly and Assassinations in India’, Socialist
Perspective, 16(3), December
1988, pp. 167-82.
85.
‘Interest Group Politics in India: Proposals for a Paradigmatic
Shift’, Teaching Politics,
II (3&4) 1985, pp. 33-58.
Research Papers in Bengali
1.
‘Ngarik Samaj Banam Nagarik Shakti’ (in
Bengali) [Civil Society Versus Citizens’ Power] in Ekak Matra, 8(4), January 2008, pp. 32-34.
2. ‘Adhunik Bharatiya Rashtrachinta: Paridhi,
Prasangikata O Pathabhed’ [Modern Indian Political Thought: Scope,
Relevance and Differences in Reading’] in Nemai Pramanick (ed.), Adhunik Bharater Samajik O Rajanaitik Bhavna, vol. I (Kolkata:
Chhaya Prakashani, 2006).
3. ‘Bhumika’ [Introduction] to the book
entitled Adhikarer Katha by
Subhendu Dasgupta (Calcutta: New Horizon Book Trust, 2006), pp.5-16.
4. ‘Abhibasan Ebang Aamader Purasamaj’,
[Immigration and Our Civil Society] in Samajbadi
Bhabna, 18 January-17 March 2006.
5. ‘Adhikar, Swadhinata, Samya Ebang Ain’,
[Right, Freedom, Equality and Law] in Dipak Kumar Das (ed.), Rajneetir
Tattwakatha, vol. I (Calcutta: Ekushe, 2005), pp. 192-217.
6. ‘Visvayan, Abhibasan ebang Aamader
Naitikata’, [Globalization, Immigration and Our Morality] in Chaturanga,
64 (2-3), May 2005, pp. 130-137.
7. ‘Nijei nijer ghar bhengechhe bangali’ (in
Bengali) [The Bengalis have broken their homes themselves] in Ekak Matra,
5 (4), January 2005, pp. 15-20.
8. ‘Atmaniyantraner Adhikar Ebang Sushil Samaj’,
[Right to Selff-Determination and Civil Society] in Subhendu Dasgupta (ed.),
Civil Society: Adhikar Nirman (Calcutta: Nandimukh, 2004).
9. ‘Janagoshthir Rajneeti’, [The Politics of
the Ethnic Groups] in Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed.), Rashtra Samaj Rajneeti (Calcutta: Prakashan Ekushe, 2003), pp.
253-72.
10.
‘Goshthir Adhunikata: Prsanga Bharatbarsha’, [Modernity of the
Groups: The Indian Context’ in Sujit Sen (ed.), Jatpat O Jati: Bharatiya Prekshapat (Calcutta: Nabapatra, 2003), pp.
577-90.
11.
‘Ganatantrik Samrajyabad Banam Aganatantrikatar Adhikar’,
[‘Imperialism of Democracy versus Rights against Democracy’] in Anustup,
XXXVII (3-4), Iraq Issue, 2003.
12.
‘Foucault, Kshamata Ebang Bharatbarsha’, (Foucault, Power and
India) in The Calcutta Journal of
Political Studies, I (1 & 2), April-March 2002, pp. 81-104,
[reprint].
13.
‘Ei Aami Nei Aami’, (This self is not the self) in Ekak
Matra, 3 (2), September-October, 2002, pp. 4-6.
14.
‘Atmaniyantraner Adhikar Ebang Susheel Samaj’, (Right to
Self-determination and Civil Society) in Nandimukh,
November 2002, Special Number on ‘Civil Society and the Construction of
Rights’, pp. 5-17.
15.
‘Sampratik Asom: Prasanga Samyukta Mukti Bahini (ULFA)’,
(Contemporary Assam: The Case of the United Liberation Front of Asom) in Samaj
Sameeksha, Calcutta, 11(1-2), 2001, pp. 32-46.
16.
‘B R Ambedkar: Dalitmukti O Rashtragathan’, (B R Ambedkar:
Emancipation of the Dalits and State-building) in Satyabrata Chakraborty
(ed.), Bharatbarsha: Rashtrabhavna
(Calcutta: Prakashan Ekushe, 2001), pp. 313-29.
17.
‘Adhikarer Natun Diganta: Prasanga Uttar-Purba Bharatbarsha’,
(The New Horizons of Rights: The Northeast Indian Context) in
Subhendu Dasgupta (ed.), Prasanga
Manabadhikar (Calcutta: Peoples’ Book Society, 2000).
18.
‘Deshbhager Itihas: Ekti Pratyuttar’, (The History of Partition:
A Rejoinder) in Bitarkika, New
Series, 2(1), July 1999, Pp. 289-293.
19.
‘Sampradayikatar Dawai Naki Munider Matibhram?’, (The Panacea of
Communal Riots or the Errors of the Eminent?) in Subhashree Vol. 37, 1998, Pp. 20-41.
20.
‘Foucault, Kshamata O Bharatbarsha’, (Foucault, Power and India),
Kathapat, January 1998, Pp. 13-43.
21.
‘Deshbhager Itihas: Sampradayikata, Jati Ebang Nari’, (‘The
History of Partition: Communalism, Nation and Women’), Bitarkika, 1(1), January 1998, Pp. 46-57.
22.
‘College-r Itihas: Shiksha, Sahashiksha Ebang Abakshay’, (The
History of Presidency college: Education, Co-education and Erosion) in Bitarkika,
1(2), October 1998, Pp. 65-79.
23.
‘Bichchhinnatar Katha: Sampratik Asom’, (‘A Tale of Separation:
Contemporary Assam’), Nandan,
December 1997, pp. 37-41.
24.
‘Bangalir Samajjibane Adda’, (Public Discussions in the Social
Life of the Bengalis), Parichaya,
November 1997-January 1998, Pp. 24-49.
25.
‘Bichchhinnatar Katha: Uttar Purba Bharatbarsha’, (On Separation:
The North-Eastern India), Nandan,
6(3)/32(3), March 1996.
26.
‘Moulabad Banam Moulabad: Ekti Pratyuttar’, (Fundamentalism Versus Fundamentalism: A Rejoinder), Parichaya,
63 (6-7), pp. 116-37, January-February 1994.
27.
‘Sirajdaulah-ke Niye Myth Ebang Adhunik Bharatbarshe
Sampradayikatar Dhara’, (Myths Concerning Sirajdaulah and the Streams Of
Communalism in Modern India) in Abdus Wahab Mahmud (ed.), Itihas Anusandhan-8 (Calcutta: Paschimbanga Itihas Sansad, 1993), Aa
40 – Aa 47.
28.
‘Sampradayikata Banam Sweekarokti’, (Communalism Versus
Confessionalism), Pratikshan,
April 1993, pp. 11-17.
29.
‘Moulabad Banam Moulabad’, (Fundamentalism versus
Fundamentalism), Parichaya,
Autumn Number, August-October 1993, pp. 65-103.
30.
‘Jatirashtrer Sankat Ebang Sri Lanka’, (The Crisis of the
Nation–state and Sri Lanka), Yubamanas,
November 1993, pp. 26-31.
31.
‘Janagoshthir Manastattwa: Prasanga Bharatbarsha’, (The
Psychology of Ethnic Groups: The Indian Context) in Sujit Sen (ed.),
Sampradayikata: Samasya O Uttaran (Calcutta: Pustak Bipani, 1991).
Published Project Reports, Research Notes,
Occasional Papers, Mimeographs, Textbook Contributions etc.
1.
The Draft National Rehabilitation Policy: A Critique, Policies and Practices 16 (Kolkata: Calcutta Research Group,
2007), coauthored.
2. ‘Governing the Minorities?’ in Samir
Kumar Das, Paula Banerjee & Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Towards a New Consideration: Justice for the Minorities, Policies
and Practices 14: Report on Social Justice II (Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group, 2007).
3. ‘The Cold War Era’ in Contemporary World Politics, Textbook in Political Science for Class
XII (New Delhi: NCERT, 2007).
4. Dialogues on Justice: A Report by Calcutta Research Group (Kolkata: Calcutta Research Group, 2007), co-edited.
5. Peace Accords as the Basis of Autonomy, Policies and Practices 3 (Kolkata: Calcutta
Research Group, January 2005).
6. Fourth Civil Society Dialogue on
Conflict, Autonomy and Peace: A Report (Kolkata: Calcutta
Research Group, 2005) [with Dolly Kikon].
7.
‘Violating Rights or Righting Violations?
Notes on a Critique of Democratic Governance in Contemporary India’,
Papers on democratic Governance 1, UGC-DRS (Phase I) Programme, Department
of Political Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 2005, pp. 5-24.
8. Edited Three Case Studies: Media Coverage
on Forced Displacement in Contemporary India (Kolkata: Calcutta Research
Group, 2004).
9. Edited (with Deepti Mahajan) Report on the
Creative Writers’ Workshop on Forced Displacement of Population (Kolkata:
Calcutta Research Group, 2004).
10.
‘The Indian Scenario on Internal displacement’ in People on
the Move: How Governments Manage Moving Populations, Policies and
Practices 1 (Kolkata: Calcutta Research Group, October 2004).
11.
Civil Society Dialogue on Human Rights
and Peace in the Northeast, CRG Paper Series
1 (Kolkata: Calcutta Research Group, 2001) [co-edited with Paula Banerjee].
12.
‘Research Notes: State and Ethnicity: A Study of the Assam
Movement’ in The West Bengal
Political Science Review, Inaugural Number, 1998.
13.
‘Constructing the North-East as a Field: Some Observations’,
Occasional Paper No. 1, DSA Phase-II (Calcutta: Univ. of Calcutta, 1996).
14.
‘State, Ethnicity and the Assam Movement: A Minimalist
Framework’, Occasional Paper No. 1, (Calcutta: DSA Programme, Dept. of
Political Science, University of Calcutta, 1992).
‘The Tragedy of a ‘Tragedy’: Political Theory at the Crossroads’,
The Calcutta Journal of Political
Studies, IX (1&2), 1990.
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