Professor, Department of Sociology
PH:+91 (0)33 24146058 +91 (0)33 24572555
Fax:
Web Address:

Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2003 Goldsmiths College, University of London M.Phil. 1993 Jawaharlal Neheru University M.A. 1991 Jawaharlal Neheru University

MA courses on Contemporary Social Theory, Environment and Society, Organizations, Professions and Occupations M.Phil course on Indian Society

Research interests include the sociology/social anthropology of environment and development in South Asia with particular focus on coastal India and deltaic borderlands; competing perspectives on development and resource use; governance state-making and discourses of civil society in Indian context

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Haunting Tiger, Hugging Ancestors: Constructions of Adivasi Personhood in the Sundarbans Perspectives in Indian Development New Series 4, Occasional Paper Series. Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Teen Murti 2013 - In Aila-struck Sundarbans Economic and Political Weekly 2011 46(40)-21-24 Rethinking Community: In the Discipline and Within Development Practices Maitrayee Chaudhuri (ed.) Sociology in India: Intellectual and Institutional Practices, New Delhi: Rawat Publications. 2010 - On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Embankment, People and Social Justice in the Sundarbans Pradip K. Bose and Samir K. Das (eds.) Social Justice and Enlightenment: West Bengal, New Delhi: Sage 2009 - Cyclone Aila and the Sundarbans: An Enquiry into the Disaster and Politics of Aid and Relief Policies and Practices series No.26, Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group 2009 - More

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role Living with Disasters: It looks at dynamics of development in the Indian Sundarbans Cambridge University Press 2016 Social Movements in India - (ed.) Delhi: Pearson 2012