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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 1995 Jadavpur M.A. 1981 Jadavpur

Name Of The Institution Position Held Period Scottish Church College Lecturer October 1982 to 1.12.1983 Nabagram Hiralal Paul College Lecturer in History December 1983 to 19.1.1984 Jadavpur University Reader in History 28/11/95 to 27/11/2003 Jadavpur University Lecturer (Senior scale) in History 28/11/90 to 27/11/95 Jadavpur University Professor of History 28/11/2003 to 17/08/2009 More

European Socialist Movements/ Russian and Soviet Studies/ Radical Politics in India/ Social History of Science and Technology/ Gender Studies

Previously: M.Phil -- History: European Revolutions (optional); Historiography (compulsory) M.A.History -- Western Political Thought, The Industrial Revolutions, Impact of the Industrial Revolutions, Social History of Science and Technology (Special paper), European History-- 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Special Paper), Historiography B.A. History(Honours) -- Classical Greece; Ancient Civilisations: Greece and Rome; Modern Europe I Currently: Ph.D coursework, M.Phil. -- Literature and Language M.A. Comparative Literature: Approaches to Comparative Literature ; Dramatic Mode II ; Literary Transactions I ; Contemporary Approaches to Literature ; Event B.A. (Hons) Comparative Literature. Modern Bangla Literature in Translation I;Modern Bangla Literature in Translation II; Journey through Indian and Western Thought M. Phil-- Women's Studies.

Impact of Socialist Realism on Indian Literature. Literary Historiography. Marxism and Culture History of Science and Technology

Teaching experience: 32 years including 30 years at Jadavpur University w.e.f. January 2014

Title of the paper Conference Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Communist Autobiographies and Minority Discourses: Leon Trotsky and Alexandra Kollontai International Seminar on Minority Discourses Across Cultures 2014 Discoursing Minority: In-text and Co-Text, Ed /Anisur Rahman, , Supriya Agarwal, Bhumika Sharma- ‘Bijnaner Itihas Charcha, Marxbadi Itihas Darshan O Boris Hessen’ Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad 22nd conference 2007 Sectional Presidential Address -- Countries Other Than India Itihas Anusandhan 21- ‘Trotskyism in China: The Formative Years’ Indian History Congress 2004 Session 2006 - ‘The Stages of Globalisation and Prospects for Resistance’ India in a Globalised World 2005 - Rus biplabe Srenir Bastabata : Ekti Uttar Adhunik Dabir Biruddhe’ (The Reality of Class in the Russian Revolution: Against a Post-modernist claim) Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad 14th Confernce 1998 Itihas Anusandhan 13- More

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name ‘Colonial Rule, The Struggle Against the Bengal Partition, and national Education’ West Bengal, Special Issue on the Anti-Partition Struggle 2005 August 2005- ‘The German Reunification and the Left’ Kunal Chattopadhyay and Rila Mukherjee, eds., A Hegemony Achieved? The Identity of Europe in the Second Millennium A.D. 2005 - ‘India e Cachemira’ Pela refundacao da IV Internacional 1999 Outubro & Novembro- Women in Attic Drama: Sexual Politics in the Athenian Democracy J.U. Journal of History 1997-98 vol. XVI- The Communist Party of Germany, the Comintern and Hitler’s Rise to Power History: Journal of the Department of History, Burdwan University 1997 1- More

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role Leon Trotsky-- History of the Russian Revolution Aakar Books 2014 Leon Trotsky: Writings in Exile Pluto Press 2012 Rus Biplab 1905 (Edited translation of L. Trotsky -- Itogii i Perspektivi) Radical 2010 The Marxism of Leon Trotsky Progressive Publishers 2006 First Author Christopher Hill Smarane: Samaj Rupantar O Matadarsha--Nimnabarger Aloke Itihas Charcha Paschim Banga itihas Samsad 2005 More

Awarded By Award Name Year Jadavpur University Satish Chandra De Medal for 1981 1982 Jadavpur University P. K. Banerjee Best Graduate for 1979 1980

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Jayanta Sthanapati IMPACT OF THE SECOND WORLD WARON STUDIES OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE:1939-1973 Complete 2013 Shatarupa Sengupta Media Representation of the Naxalite Movement: 1967-1972 Complete 2012 Amrita Bagchi The Decline of Public Healthcare in Calcutta 1975-2007 Complete 2011 Sankar Das The Tebhaga Movement in the 24 Parganas Complete 2009 Panchali Majumdar The Communist International and Early Indian Communism – 1921-1928 Complete 2007 More

Name Of The Scholar Thesis Name Co-Superviser Year Tanaya Saha Partition through the Eyes of Women Across Borders 2013 S Satish Kumar Ghosts of Past, Present, Future (?): Towards A Historiography of Comparative Literature in India 2013 Krishnendu Giri Yudhottor Gana Andolangulir Itihascharcha (Historiography of the Post-war Upsurge [in India 1945-47]) 2008 Sheli Datta Sachetana: Ekti Swashashito Nari Sangathaner Du Dasaker Itihas (Sachetana: Two Decades in the History of an Autonomous Women’s Organisation) 2008 Sipra Singha Roy Shater Dashaker Communist Chhatra Andolan (Communist Students’ Movement in the 1960s [in West Bengal] 2008 More

Project Title Worked As Funding Agency Amount Duration Period Status White Collar Workers and the Proletarian Identity Principal Investigator Pravat Kar Endowment 1,20,000 2 years 1999 to 2001 Complete

Title Organised By Venue Year Social origins of Greek Tragedy Winter School, UGC-ASC JU and Department of Comparative Literature Jadavpur University 2014 The State and Class Struggles in Greece Dept. of History, Calcutta right t Calcutta University 2014 Challenges and Tasks before the Left Department of Political Science Calcutta University 2013 Refresher Course in History, Jadavpur University Department of History Jadavpur University 2013 Historiography of the Russian Revolution xxx. Refersher Course in History, Calcutta University, 2012 Calcutta University 2012 More

Title International Comparative Literature Association Comparative Literature Association of India

Program Name Organised By Venue Year Type Of Participation Palaver XII CSALC, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2014 Organiser, panelist Historical Materialism Delhi Conference HM Organising Group JNU 2013 Presented a paper XXth Conference ICLA International Comparative Literature Association University of Paris sorbonne 2013 presented paper, chaired sessions International Seminar on Social Systems, Science and Environment: Experience of different countries. lii. Department of History and DRS History, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2013 Presented a paper International Autumn Translation Workshop CAS, Comparative Literature, JU, CENTIL, JU, University of East Anglia, University of Western Sydney Jadavpur University 2013 Organiser More

Program Name Session Title Organised By Venue Year International Conference: Gender and Sexuality—The Indian Self and its Forgotten Doubles: Reading Rabindranath Department of English and Other Modern European languages, Visva Bharati Visva Bharati 2013 International Comparative Literature Association XXth Congress INTERMEDIA TRANSPOSITIONS AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ICLA University of Paris 2013 International Comparative Literature Association XXth Congress CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES, AND LIMITS OF COMPARAISON ICLA University of Paris 2013 Back To Top