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<strong>ANNUAL</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong>2010–2011CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata 700 0941


CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA<strong>ANNUAL</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong> 2010-2011CONTENTSPages 1 – 51. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 12. Board of Governors ........................................................................................................................... 33. Faculty Members ................................................................................................................................ 44. Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Staff .......................................................................................................................... 5Pages 6 – 155. Completed Research Projects.......................................................................................................... 66. On-go<strong>in</strong>g Research Projects........................................................................................................... 13Pages 16 – 447. Academic Activities of Faculty Members .................................................................................. 16Pages 45 – 558. Teach<strong>in</strong>g Programmes of Faculty Members .............................................................................. 459. Publications of Faculty Members................................................................................................. 49Pages 56 – 6410. Academic Events .............................................................................................................................. 56Pages 65 – 7011. Archive & Library ............................................................................................................................ 6512. The Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Historical Research ........................................... 68Page 71 – 7113. Other Activities ................................................................................................................................ 71Pages 72 – 7714. Students’ Enrollment....................................................................................................................... 72Pages 79 – 14715. Statement of Accounts .................................................................................................................... 792


1... IntroductionThe <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> is nationally and <strong>in</strong>ternationally recognized asa premier research <strong>in</strong>stitution under the ICSSR. Its academic standards reflected <strong>in</strong> the research itsupports, and the teach<strong>in</strong>g programmes it conducts have earned <strong>for</strong> it a significant reputation and<strong>in</strong>ternational accreditation. In keep<strong>in</strong>g with its profile and commitment to academic research, the<strong>Centre</strong> has expanded and consolidated its research and teach<strong>in</strong>g programmes dur<strong>in</strong>g the year2010-11. The M.Phil. Programme <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> and the Doctoral Progaramme, both <strong>for</strong>mallyaffiliated with Jadavpur University, and the Research Methods <strong>in</strong> Quantitative Economics,recognized by <strong>Calcutta</strong> University, have cont<strong>in</strong>ued to function robustly and to grow <strong>in</strong> popularityamong aspir<strong>in</strong>g doctoral students. This is reflected <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>g number of applications <strong>for</strong>the programmes.The end of the year after a long wait f<strong>in</strong>ally saw the implementation of the recommendations ofthe sixth pay commission, the delay <strong>in</strong> which has affected adversely the function<strong>in</strong>g of the <strong>Centre</strong>over the past two years. A Committee has been set up to look <strong>in</strong>to the proper implementation ofthe salary recommendations. It is hoped that the necessary funds <strong>for</strong> support<strong>in</strong>g all sanctionedpositions are <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> order to enable the cont<strong>in</strong>uation and augmentation of the variousresearch activities of the <strong>in</strong>stitute.The year saw changes <strong>in</strong> and additions to the <strong>Centre</strong>'s faculty. It lost a valuable colleague <strong>in</strong> thesad and untimely demise of Dr. Anjan Ghosh, Fellow <strong>in</strong> Political Science on 10 June 2010. ProfessorJanaki Nair and Dr. Raziudd<strong>in</strong> Aquil gave up their lien on the positions they had held <strong>in</strong> the<strong>Centre</strong>. Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian jo<strong>in</strong>ed the <strong>Centre</strong> as Professor of History <strong>in</strong> July 2010,Dr. Indraneel Dasgupta as Professor of Economics <strong>in</strong> November 2010, Dr. Prachi Deshpande asFellow <strong>in</strong> History <strong>in</strong> October 2010, Dr. Somnath Ghosal as Fellow <strong>in</strong> Geography <strong>in</strong> October 2010,while Dr. Bodhisattva Kar (Fellow <strong>in</strong> History), Dr. Anirban Das (Fellow <strong>in</strong> Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>), Dr.Priya Sangameswaran (Fellow <strong>in</strong> Development <strong>Studies</strong>) and Dr. Saibal Kar (Fellow <strong>in</strong> Economics)were reappo<strong>in</strong>ted <strong>in</strong> September 2010, January, February and March 2011 respectively.The year also saw the <strong>for</strong>malization of the Committee <strong>for</strong> Gender Sensitisation aga<strong>in</strong>st SexualHarassment (COGSASH) <strong>in</strong> the workplace with Dr. Priya Sangameswaran as its convenor. Thesett<strong>in</strong>g up of the committee was accompanied with the <strong>for</strong>mulation of a policy document, <strong>in</strong> thedraft<strong>in</strong>g of which a great deal of time and attention was given by Dr. Priya Sangameswaran, Dr.Anirban Das and Dr. Manabi Majumdar.The <strong>Centre</strong>'s activities fall under two broad categories, namely research and teach<strong>in</strong>g that <strong>in</strong> turnare also l<strong>in</strong>ked to several projects that the <strong>Centre</strong> has undertaken or has been <strong>in</strong>vited to coord<strong>in</strong>ate.Many of these projects have augmented the vital role of the CSSSC as a critical <strong>in</strong>terface betweenacademic research and public policy. Both collectively as well as <strong>in</strong>dividually, the achievements of1INTRODUCTION


the faculty have cont<strong>in</strong>ued to establish the research profile of the <strong>Centre</strong> and to augment itsresources housed <strong>in</strong> the archive and the library and to support its publications programme.Additionally, the <strong>Centre</strong> has successfully organized a number of sem<strong>in</strong>ars and workshops and hasrun a regular sem<strong>in</strong>ar series that <strong>in</strong>cludes presentations of both faculty members as well as visit<strong>in</strong>gacademics.2INTRODUCTION


2... Board of GovernorsProf. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Chairman [Till August 31, 2011]Prof. Amitava BoseProf. Sugata MarjitProf. Ashis BandyopadyayProf. Suranjan DasProf. Indraneel DasguptaProf. Jyotsna JalanProf. Arjun DevProf. Nanda Dulal PariaProf. Asis RayDr. Ranjit S<strong>in</strong>haProf. Lakshmi SubramanianMr. Ashoke ChaudhuriChairmanVice-Chairman and Director<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>Former Vice-Chancellor University of <strong>Calcutta</strong>Vice-Chancellor University of <strong>Calcutta</strong>Professor of Economics<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>Professor of Economics<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>Former Professor, National Council of Educational Researchand Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (NCERT)Former Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar UniversityFormer Vice-Chancellor University of KalyaniMember Secretary ICSSRProfessor of History<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>Registrar (CSSSC)(Secretary to Board of Governors)3BOARD OF GOVERNORS


3... Faculty MembersSugata MarjitSibaji BandyopadhyayDwaipayan BhattacharyyaRos<strong>in</strong>ka ChaudhuriAnirban DasPranab Kumar DasIndraneel DasguptaPrachi DeshpandeSomnath GhosalTapati Guha-ThakurtaJyotsna JalanBodhisattva KarSaibal KarManabi MajumdarIndrajit MallickManas RayPriya SangameshwaranLakshmi SubramanianDirector, Professor, Economics,RBI Endowment FundProfessor, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>Fellow, Political ScienceFellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>Fellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>Fellow, EconomicsProfessor, EconomicsFellow, HistoryFellow, GeographyProfessor, HistoryProfessor, EconomicsFellow, HistoryFellow, EconomicsFellow, Political ScienceFellow, EconomicsFellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>Fellow, Development <strong>Studies</strong>Professor, History4FACULTY MEMBERS


4... Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative StaffDr. Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay [Registrar till February 28, 2010]Ashoke Chaudhuri (Registrar)GENERAL ADMINISTRATIONAnjushree BhattacharyaSambhu Nath NagShikha ChakrabortyBiswa Nath NagSoma KarmakarDilip SahaRaj Kumar MahatoDebdulal BanikSomnath MitraSajal Kumar DasSajal BhattacharjeeAshim PatraSubrata JanaACCOUNTSArab<strong>in</strong>da Bose (Accountant)Debo Prasad MitraSurajit BoseAsis SarkarMaitreyi GhoshLIBRARYSiddhartha Shankar Ray (Librarian)Soumitra ChatterjeeJayati NayakTapan ChandraSanchita BhattacharyaAsutosh ChakrabortyAnil Kr. MondalRam Krishna DuttaAnupam ChattopadhyayChandan ChakrabortyP<strong>in</strong>tu SarkarARCHIVESAbhijit Bhattacharya (Documentation Officer)Kamalika Mukherjee5ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF


5... Completed Research ProjectsThe <strong>Centre</strong> has undertaken several academic research and tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g projects. It has undertakenseveral important survey based projects as well as tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g workshops <strong>in</strong>tended to enhanceresearch capabilities among young students at the pre-doctoral, doctoral and post doctoral levels.The <strong>in</strong>terdiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary character of the <strong>Centre</strong> and its faculty has meant that its <strong>in</strong>terventions havebeen recognized as crucial <strong>in</strong> develop<strong>in</strong>g resources and facilitat<strong>in</strong>g research.Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT) Project on 'Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> New <strong>Social</strong> ScienceResearch Methods'Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay coord<strong>in</strong>ated the three-year project 'Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> New <strong>Social</strong>Science Research Methods'. The project offered support to doctoral, post doctoral and pre doctoralscholars by grant<strong>in</strong>g scholarships / fellowships and by organiz<strong>in</strong>g workshops. The duration of theproject was from December 2007 to November 2010.It supported ten students <strong>for</strong> the first two years and fourteen <strong>in</strong> the third year at the pre doctorallevels as they completed their Research Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Programme under the <strong>Centre</strong> and six postdoctoral fellows whose work came to a successful completion by November 2010. The postdoctoral fellows made full length presentations <strong>in</strong> the workshops that were organized as part ofthis project. Subsequently they have submitted f<strong>in</strong>al versions of these papers, which the <strong>Centre</strong>proposes to publish under its Occasional Papers Series. (For details of NRTT workshops seesection on workshops and sem<strong>in</strong>ars). Madhuban Mitra was the first Research Officer of theproject; after she left <strong>in</strong> late 2008, the responsibility was given to Ranjana Dasgupta.Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) Research Project on Primary EducationProfessor Jyotsna Jalan coord<strong>in</strong>ated the three-year 'Research Project on Primary Education'.Duration of the project was from October 2007 to September 2010. The research studied the qualityand reach of primary education <strong>in</strong> six districts of rural West Bengal - Birbhum, Bankura,Murshidabad, Coochbehar, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas (and a pilot study <strong>in</strong> Dumka,Jharkhand). On the basis of student per<strong>for</strong>mance <strong>in</strong> achievement tests <strong>in</strong> language and numeracy(designed by the researchers), the study quantified the average academic competence of Class IVstudents. In addition, student attendance rates were estimated by tak<strong>in</strong>g a head count of thestudents present on the day the achievement tests were adm<strong>in</strong>istered. Student achievement testsand student attendance rates were also correlated to different characteristics relat<strong>in</strong>g to thestudents, households, schools, and district school adm<strong>in</strong>istration.6COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


The research demonstrated that learn<strong>in</strong>g achievements <strong>in</strong> numeracy and language skills were verylow among Class IV students. Average student attendance rates were about 50 percent. Researchalso identified the unevenness of school<strong>in</strong>g access and achievements across districts.The f<strong>in</strong>al report was publicly released by Professor Abhirup Sarkar of Indian Statistical Institute,<strong>Calcutta</strong> <strong>in</strong> a public sem<strong>in</strong>ar held at the CSSSC campus on 22nd November. Professor Jyotsna Jalanpresented a summary of the results from the report and Ms. Jharna Panda (Research Associateunder the project) narrated experiences from the field survey. The event generated a livelydiscussion and its depth of coverage was appreciated. The event was covered by the local media,English and Bengali. Subsequently, the report has been dissem<strong>in</strong>ated <strong>in</strong> the sampled districts and<strong>in</strong> academic universities <strong>in</strong> Kolkata and <strong>in</strong> Birbhum. The research report can be downloaded from:http://www.cssscal.org/pdf Education%20Report%20CD.pdf.The f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs of the report have been dissem<strong>in</strong>ated <strong>in</strong> some of the districts like Murshidabad, South24 Parganas and Birbhum.Professor Jyotsna Jalan was <strong>in</strong> charge of the project see<strong>in</strong>g it through till its completion. Theproject supported 2 Research Assistants and 6 Data entry personnel.Project on 'Embedd<strong>in</strong>g Poor People's Voices <strong>in</strong> Local Governance'Dr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya coord<strong>in</strong>ated the project 'Embedd<strong>in</strong>g Poor People's Voices <strong>in</strong> LocalGovernance'. The project was organized <strong>in</strong> collaboration with the University of Sheffield, UnitedK<strong>in</strong>gdom and with the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Development <strong>Studies</strong>, Kerala. It's duration was from 2007 to2010. The project was pr<strong>in</strong>cipally concerned with evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the extent to which <strong>in</strong>itiatives to makelocal governance more participatory, to enhance poor people's opportunities <strong>for</strong> politicalempowerment. Look<strong>in</strong>g at West Bengal and Kerala, states that have been <strong>in</strong>ternationallyrecognized <strong>for</strong> their <strong>in</strong>novation <strong>in</strong> decentralized governance, the project exam<strong>in</strong>ed poor people'suse of the <strong>for</strong>mal opportunities they had <strong>for</strong> participation with<strong>in</strong> the local state. This '<strong>in</strong>vitedparticipation' was exam<strong>in</strong>ed with<strong>in</strong> the context of the social relations reproduc<strong>in</strong>g poverty andmarg<strong>in</strong>alization, and <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mal structures of authority and power, both of which reshapegovernance re<strong>for</strong>ms away from their <strong>in</strong>tended practice.The project through a grounded comparative study provided wider lessons about theopportunities and limitations <strong>for</strong> build<strong>in</strong>g poor people's political empowerment and substantivecitizenship through programmes of governance re<strong>for</strong>m. Theoretically, it provided a deeperunderstand<strong>in</strong>g of the <strong>in</strong>teractions between poverty, participation and decentralization whileempirically, its rich data base that it was able to generate is expected to contribute to local usercommunities by highlight<strong>in</strong>g areas where the poor have had opportunities <strong>for</strong> further<strong>in</strong>g theirpolitical empowerment and to contribute to policy development through <strong>in</strong>teraction with (anddissem<strong>in</strong>ation to) a wider policy community.The project supported a series of workshops <strong>in</strong> Kolkata, Trivandrum and Sheffield, thedeliberations of which were shared with policy makers and which are also be<strong>in</strong>g considered <strong>for</strong>7COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


publication. Of these, one has already been accepted <strong>for</strong> publication by the Journal ofDevelopment <strong>Studies</strong>, while others are <strong>in</strong> the pipel<strong>in</strong>e and <strong>in</strong> the process of be<strong>in</strong>g refereed.The Ford Foundation ProjectProfessor Tapati Guha-Thakurta coord<strong>in</strong>ated the Ford Foundation Project. Duration of the projectwas from 2008 to 2011. The project enabled the <strong>Centre</strong> to run a wide range of academic and archivesupport activities, details of which follow.1. Internship ProgrammeUnder this programme, Mr. Romit Chowdhury of <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Media and Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>, TataInstitute of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> and Mr. Sukanta Kishore Badu of Department of Ancient IndianHistory, Culture and Archaeology, Utkal University successfully completed the technical<strong>in</strong>ternship programme <strong>for</strong> the third year of the Ford Foundation Project. They were attached tothe CSSSC's archive <strong>for</strong> one month, dur<strong>in</strong>g June 2010. The <strong>in</strong>terns have submitted their f<strong>in</strong>al reporton completion of their <strong>in</strong>ternship and have highly appreciated the curriculum designed by theCSSSC.Ms. Swati Chatterjee from the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> was selected <strong>for</strong> thesix-month doctoral <strong>in</strong>ternship <strong>for</strong> the year 2010. Dur<strong>in</strong>g her fellowship period from May 2010 toOctober 2010 she worked on a paper titled Dress<strong>in</strong>g Room Of Modernity? Notes on the Politics ofAttire <strong>in</strong> Late N<strong>in</strong>eteenth Century <strong>Calcutta</strong>, under the guidance of Dr. Bodhisattva Kar and presentedit at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar at the CSSSC on November 29, 2010. She also submitted the paper to CSSSC at theend of her <strong>in</strong>ternship.2. Postdoctoral fellowshipsDr. Mollica Dastider jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Ford Foundation Project, as full-time post-doctoral fellow <strong>in</strong> July2008. She worked on the Gorkha l<strong>in</strong>guistic and cultural identity of the Nepali diaspora <strong>in</strong> NorthBengal and Sikkim. As part of her research work, she had made field trips to Sikkim, Kalimpongand Siliguri <strong>in</strong> North Bengal. The fieldwork helped her to collect a range of important material onthe Kirati language and script, on the basis of which she presented a paper titled From Major toM<strong>in</strong>or: The Contested Category of Nepali Language Community <strong>in</strong> the East Himalayas at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar at theCSSSC on November 29, 2010.Dr. Sujith Parayil jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Ford Foundation Project, as full-time post-doctoral fellow <strong>in</strong> August2008. He resigned from the fellowship programme on July 2009 to take up a full time position atthe <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Media & Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>, TISS, Mumbai. He was work<strong>in</strong>g on the photography andcultural history of the north-eastern regions, with special emphasis on the pr<strong>in</strong>cely states ofManipur and Tripura. His documentation and study focused on four genres of photographs -anthropological, missionary, family photographs and studio photographs. Under the archivedocumentation grant, Abhijit Bhattacharya and Dr. Parayil made a field trip to Agartala <strong>in</strong>December 2008 to document the work of Mr. Rob<strong>in</strong> Sengupta, a well known press photographerand digitally retrieved about 400 photographs of North-Eastern prov<strong>in</strong>ces, taken from the 1960'sto 1980's and of Bangladesh's Revolutionary War.8COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


Dr. Parayil has also f<strong>in</strong>ished the video record<strong>in</strong>g part of production of a documentary film basedon the research material available at the CSSSC archive. The basic <strong>in</strong>tention of this documentaryfilm is to dissem<strong>in</strong>ate the idea of the archival materials available at the <strong>Centre</strong> to a wider public.Dr. Parayil's work on this project will be complete over the summer of 2011.It was decided by the CSSSC, after due consultations with Dr. Rav<strong>in</strong>a Aggarwal, that it would bebest to utilize the two years of salary funds, left available by the resignation of Dr. Sujith Parayil,to appo<strong>in</strong>t two Post-doctoral Fellows <strong>for</strong> one year tenures, to keep with<strong>in</strong> the time frame of theproject period.After Dr. Parayil's resignation, CSSSC advertised <strong>for</strong> two new posts of Post-doctoral fellows <strong>in</strong> theEconomic and Political Weekly, Vol.XLIV, dated July 18, 2009, and conducted a day of job-talks <strong>for</strong>short-listed candidates on November 27, 2009. Two candidates, Dr. Madhumita Sengupta and Dr.Sraman Mukherjee were selected as post-doc fellows <strong>for</strong> the last year of the fellowship period.Dr. Sraman Mukherjee jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Ford Foundation Project, as full-time post-doctoral fellow <strong>in</strong>December 2009. He worked on the subject – Heritage, Histories, Identities: Archaeology,Monuments and Tourism <strong>in</strong> the Configuration of Bihar, Orissa and Bengal. As part of his researchwork, he had made field trips to Benares and Sarnath <strong>in</strong> North India. On the basis of which hepresented a paper titled Relics, Ru<strong>in</strong>s & Temple Build<strong>in</strong>g: Construct<strong>in</strong>g the Mulagandha Kuti Vihara atSarnath at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar at the CSSSC on November 29, 2010.Dr. Madhumita Sengupta jo<strong>in</strong>ed the Ford Foundation Project, as full-time post-doctoral fellow <strong>in</strong>January 2010. She worked on the subject --- Kamakhya and the Colonial Milieu <strong>in</strong> N<strong>in</strong>eteenthCentury Assam. As part of her research work, she had made field trips to Assam <strong>in</strong> North Bengal.On the basis of which she presented a paper titled Of Alienations: The state and temples <strong>in</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenthand early twentieth century Assam at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar at the CSSSC on November 29, 2010.3. Archive Support StaffCSSSC recruited two research assistants to work as Archive Assistants with the <strong>in</strong>itiation of theFord Foundation project at the CSSSC <strong>in</strong> February 2008. For the three years of project period, Ms.Swaguna Datta, Ms. Soma Mondal, Ms. Rajlaxmi Ghosh and Ms. Priyanka Chatterjee served asarchive support staff <strong>in</strong> different phases and conducted various aspects of the on-runn<strong>in</strong>gactivities of documentation, digitization, catalogu<strong>in</strong>g at the CSSSC's archives. One person wasappo<strong>in</strong>ted as project officer <strong>for</strong> three years of the project period to run the workshop andpublication programmes at the CSSSC. Dr. Madhuban Mitra and Ms. Ranjana Dasgupta worked <strong>in</strong>the said position consecutively.4. Archival Documentation ProgrammeUnder the plans of visual documentation, the photograph<strong>in</strong>g of pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> the Nandan Museum,Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati was completed dur<strong>in</strong>g May, 2009. Under the plans <strong>for</strong> textualdocumentation, digitization of an early collection of the bil<strong>in</strong>gual edition of the Amrita BazarPatrika of the late 19th century is near<strong>in</strong>g completion. Digitization of a microfiche collection ofCensus of India volumes from 1871-1951 was completed dur<strong>in</strong>g year 2009. In the course of last9COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


year, the CSSSC's archive also acquired a rare collection of Bengali little magaz<strong>in</strong>es from a privatehold<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> College Street. The CSSSC also conducted digital documentation of the career-longpa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs, sketches and murals of the veteran artist, Shanu Lahiri, dur<strong>in</strong>g April 2010.Initially there was a plan of digitiz<strong>in</strong>g three journal series of the early 20th century -Sant<strong>in</strong>iketanPatrika, Visva Bharati Patrika and Visva Bharati Quarterly - from the collection of Rab<strong>in</strong>draBhavan Library, Visva Bharati University. But the process got stalled because Visva BharatiUniversity had entered its own agreements with the M<strong>in</strong>istry of Culture, Government of India todigitize the journal collections at Rab<strong>in</strong>dra Bhavan, and did not give clearance <strong>for</strong> the CSSSC toundertake its planned work of these three journal series.Currently, CSSSC has acquired permission from the Director, National Library, Kolkata, todigitally document a selection of photographs from the photographic albums on <strong>Calcutta</strong> from theAshutosh Collection and of archaeological monuments from photographic collections of the firmsBourne and Shepherd and Johnston and Hoffman, preserved at the National Library. TheAshutosh Collection also conta<strong>in</strong>s the entire set of the 19th century journal, The <strong>Calcutta</strong> Review,which would be an important series <strong>for</strong> CSSSC's digital archive. Prof. Tapati Guha-Thakurta isoversee<strong>in</strong>g the progress of the textual and visual documentation projects.5. Archive Publication SeriesDr. Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri is supervis<strong>in</strong>g the Archive Publication series under this project. S<strong>in</strong>ce thepublication of three titles <strong>in</strong> the year 2009, two new publications namely Parallel Lives: Chart<strong>in</strong>g theHistory of Popular Pr<strong>in</strong>ts of the Bengal and Bombay Presidencies by Kamalika Mukherjee and Modernityat Home: A Genealogy of the Indian Draw<strong>in</strong>g Room by Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri have come out. Two morenamely Relics, Ru<strong>in</strong>s & Temple Build<strong>in</strong>g: Construct<strong>in</strong>g the Mulagandha Kuti Vihara at Sarnath bySraman Mukherjee, and a f<strong>in</strong>al occasional paper of the series on the early music programmes ofAll India Radio, <strong>Calcutta</strong> by Indira Biswas are <strong>in</strong> the f<strong>in</strong>al stages of edit<strong>in</strong>g.6. Purchase of eastern language books and journals <strong>for</strong> the Jadunath Bhavan LibraryDr. Keya Dasgupta <strong>in</strong> consultation with the Librarian and Prof. Gautam Bhadra supervised thepurchase of Eastern language books, specialized bibliographic works and journals <strong>for</strong> theJadunath Bhavan Library, <strong>for</strong> which there was an earmarked annual fund of Rs 1,00,000 <strong>in</strong> the FordFoundation Project. A part of this fund is also be<strong>in</strong>g utilized <strong>for</strong> buy<strong>in</strong>g some specialized art andphotography books <strong>for</strong> the CSSSC's visual archive. Under this head, some work of classification,catalogu<strong>in</strong>g and <strong>in</strong>dex<strong>in</strong>g of material is also be<strong>in</strong>g conducted.7. Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> WorkshopThe Ford Foundation Project supported the 16th Annual Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop of the CSSSCthat was held from January 23 to 28 2011, at Jaipur, Rajasthan. The overall theme <strong>for</strong> this year'sworkshop was 'Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism', and the themes <strong>for</strong> the five days were - (i) TheIdea of Cosmopolitanism, (ii) From Empires to nations, (iii) Re-Th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Empire, (iv) Travels andterritories, (v) The City and Cosmopolitanism. Dr. Manas Ray coord<strong>in</strong>ated the workshop.10COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


The total number of participants <strong>in</strong> this year's CSW was 25, out of which there were 8 <strong>in</strong>ternationaland 17 national participants. These participants were mostly doctoral or post-doctoral students(below the age of 35), and their ongo<strong>in</strong>g or just completed works focus on one or more of thethemes listed above.The resource persons <strong>in</strong>cluded six faculty members and eight external faculty persons. These wereUdaya Kumar (Delhi University), Prathama Bannerjee (CSDS, Delhi University), Rahul Gov<strong>in</strong>d(Delhi University), Sanjay Srivastava (IEG, Delhi University), Janaki Nair (J.N.U. Delhi), RaviSundaram (CSDS, Delhi University), Saumyabrata Chowdhury (Institute of Advanced <strong>Studies</strong>,Shimla) and Rajarshi Dasgupta (J.N.U, Delhi). The <strong>Centre</strong>'s faculty <strong>in</strong>cluded Tapati GuhaThakurta, Partha Chatterji, Manas Ray, Lakshmi Subramanian, Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri andAnirban Das.The daily proceed<strong>in</strong>gs of the workshop were divided <strong>in</strong>to two parts. In the morn<strong>in</strong>g session,resource persons made presentations on pre-selected read<strong>in</strong>gs, which were followed by adiscussion. The afternoon session was <strong>for</strong> participants' presentations and discussants' comments.As every year, the Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop provided the young researchers with anopportunity to <strong>in</strong>teract with each other and share their work with senior scholars from the field.8. Archival ExhibitionAn exhibition of photographic and pr<strong>in</strong>t material collected at the archive of CSSSC, titled,‘Envision<strong>in</strong>g the City: <strong>Calcutta</strong> <strong>in</strong> the Visual Archives of the CSSSC’ is be<strong>in</strong>g planned and workedon <strong>in</strong> full detail. The exhibition will be held from July 8 to 25, 2011 at the Seagull Arts and MediaResource <strong>Centre</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>.Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund ProgrammeThe Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund at the CSSSC, supported by the Tata <strong>Social</strong> Welfare Trust<strong>for</strong>mally came to an end <strong>in</strong> September 2011. It was a two-year project that <strong>for</strong>mally commencedfrom April 2008, with actual funds be<strong>in</strong>g disbursed <strong>in</strong> September 2008. The object of the fund wasto support young scholars by the award of short-term fellowships. The scholars who were selected<strong>for</strong> this were attached to certa<strong>in</strong> specified faculty members <strong>in</strong> the CSSSC. The project alsosupported annual workshops. The theme of the workshop <strong>for</strong> 2011 was 'Communities at theMarg<strong>in</strong>s: Practices and Livelihood'. Of the ten paper-presenters, three were the exist<strong>in</strong>g PapiyaGhosh Memorial Fellowship-holders. All the papers were commented upon by discussants,compris<strong>in</strong>g the CSSSC faculty and scholars from other <strong>in</strong>stitutions of the country. Prof. ShahidAm<strong>in</strong> delivered the keynote address titled ‘The Marg<strong>in</strong>al Jotter: The Curious Case of Ram GharibChaube’ and Prof. Partha Chatterjee made the conclud<strong>in</strong>g remarks on the theme of Communitiesat the Marg<strong>in</strong>s.11COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


South-South Exchange Programme <strong>for</strong> Research on the History of Development(SEPHIS) Resource <strong>Centre</strong>The <strong>Centre</strong> cont<strong>in</strong>ued to function as the Sephis resource centre <strong>for</strong> the Asian region. Its activitieswere coord<strong>in</strong>ated by the late Dr. Anjan Ghosh and then subsequently looked after by ProfessorLakshmi Subramanian. As part of its commitment, Sephis supported the follow<strong>in</strong>g activities:Publication of a research papers by Marisol de la Cadena entitled 'Cultures of Race andHybridity <strong>in</strong> Lat<strong>in</strong> America'. This now <strong>for</strong>ms part of the Occasional Papers Series of the CSSSC.Support extended to eight <strong>in</strong>ternational students from the south to participate <strong>in</strong> the Cultural<strong>Studies</strong> Workshop that the <strong>Centre</strong> conducted <strong>in</strong> Jaipur <strong>in</strong> January 2011.National Tea Research Foundation ProjectThis three-year project, coord<strong>in</strong>ated by Dr. Saibal Kar was <strong>in</strong>tended to evaluate the viability of thetea <strong>in</strong>dustry <strong>in</strong> India and to <strong>for</strong>ecast future trends. It was also meant to look at the conditions ofland and labour <strong>in</strong> tea gardens <strong>in</strong> Northern and Southern India. The project was able to supporttwo research assistants and one faculty member. The f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gs have <strong>for</strong>med the basis of a reportsubmitted to the Tea Board whose response is awaited.Endangered Archive Project (EAP188)The pilot research project titled "Rescu<strong>in</strong>g text: retrieval and documentation of pr<strong>in</strong>ted books andperiodicals published prior to 1950 from public <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> Eastern India" is aim<strong>in</strong>g atsystematic documentation of pr<strong>in</strong>ted literature published prior to 1950 and from public <strong>in</strong>stitutionlibraries lack<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>frastructure <strong>for</strong> conservation. This pilot project started from November 2008.The project identified 28,000 unique titles available <strong>in</strong> public <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> remote areas andplann<strong>in</strong>g to digitise a selection from the identified titles. Abhijit Bhattacharya is work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> theproject as Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator with a four-member team.12COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS


6... On-go<strong>in</strong>g Research ProjectsCSSSC partnership with the UNICEF-<strong>Social</strong> Exclusion CellThe Cell was established to pursue the larger goal of identify<strong>in</strong>g the condition of socially excludedcommunities <strong>in</strong> the districts of West Bengal and suggest <strong>in</strong>terventions <strong>for</strong> improv<strong>in</strong>g the situationof socially excluded communities, especially children and women <strong>in</strong> the state. Its specificobjectives were to collate and access <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation through research related to aspects of socialexclusion <strong>in</strong> order to facilitate policy decisions and their implementation. The Cell ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s anextensive data base generated by empirical research as well a secondary bibliography. It hopes tocont<strong>in</strong>ue to function as a vital <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation hub that is constantly updated and that helps susta<strong>in</strong>the network of th<strong>in</strong>kers, activists and policy makers. The <strong>Centre</strong>'s participation <strong>in</strong> the activities ofthe cell reflects its commitment to act as the much needed <strong>in</strong>terface between research and policy.The activities supported by the cell are periodic conferences and workshops. The Cell has alsoenabled the support of two research assistants. The project is coord<strong>in</strong>ated by Dr. Saibal Kar, whoassumed this responsibility after the untimely demise of Dr. Anjan Ghosh.Evaluation of government <strong>in</strong>terventions <strong>in</strong> M<strong>in</strong>ority Concentrated Districts (MCD)This is a one-year research project funded by the M<strong>in</strong>istry of M<strong>in</strong>ority affairs. The objective of theproject is to use modern impact evaluation techniques to estimate the impacts of provid<strong>in</strong>gscholarships under different schemes to students from m<strong>in</strong>ority communities. The researchproject will also evaluate the multi-sectoral development programme implemented by theGovernment of India <strong>in</strong> the identified MCDs. A primary survey will be implemented <strong>in</strong> 4 districtsof West Bengal, one district each <strong>in</strong> Jharkhand and Orissa. Professors Sugata Marjit and JyotsnaJalan are <strong>in</strong> charge of this project.Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Endowment ProjectThe RBI endowment at the <strong>Centre</strong> has cont<strong>in</strong>ued to thrive through various research projects underthe scheme, primarily on <strong>in</strong>dustrial economics, the focus of the RBI chair. It has supported theresearch of the RBI Professor and the current Director of the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>in</strong> terms of research assistance<strong>for</strong> his various national and <strong>in</strong>ternational publications, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g his recent book on the In<strong>for</strong>malLabor market, published from the Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press. Cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g research projects <strong>in</strong>cludeIndia's Monetary Policy and Inflation, Government F<strong>in</strong>ance, Corporate Governance and ForeignInvestment and Wage Distribution. India Macroeconomics Annual is also supported by theendowment. The RBI has decided to enhance the endowment from 1.5 to 4 crores to accommodatethe <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> salaries under 6 CPC and <strong>in</strong> research fund<strong>in</strong>g requirements <strong>for</strong> the Chair.13ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS


<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g and Research <strong>in</strong> Public F<strong>in</strong>ance and Policy (CTRPFP)CTRPFP, with<strong>in</strong> the <strong>Centre</strong>, is be<strong>in</strong>g set up with an endowment of Rs. 14 crores from the UnionM<strong>in</strong>istry of F<strong>in</strong>ance <strong>for</strong> undertak<strong>in</strong>g research on national and regional policies related to publicf<strong>in</strong>ance. CTRPFP will be fully operational by 2012. The grant is one of the most generousendowments provided by the f<strong>in</strong>ance m<strong>in</strong>istry <strong>for</strong> research <strong>in</strong> post <strong>in</strong>dependent India. CTRPFPwill hire new faculty members and would be of great help to the research <strong>in</strong>frastructure ofthe <strong>Centre</strong>.South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes (SANEI)SANEI, housed at Bangladesh Institute of Development <strong>Studies</strong>, Dacca. Dr. Saibal Kar iscoord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g the project at CSSSC. This one-year project aims at <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g the 'relationshipbetween climate change and food security <strong>in</strong> India'. The project supports fund<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> one researchassistant and <strong>for</strong> database development.Endangered Archive Programme (EAP 262)This is a funded project that serves to augment the archival hold<strong>in</strong>gs at CSSSC and which arealready recognized as one of the most impressive data bases that exists <strong>for</strong> researchers <strong>in</strong> India. Itaims to digitally retrieve and store two lead<strong>in</strong>g newspapers, Jugantara Patrika (<strong>Calcutta</strong>, Bengali,daily: 1937-1980) and Amrita Bazar Patrika (Jessore / <strong>Calcutta</strong>, bi-l<strong>in</strong>gual / English, bi-weekly /daily: 1872-1890; 1892-1905; 1911; 1919). This is a rare collection as most issues of these newspapersare neither available nor usable <strong>in</strong> any other archive <strong>in</strong> India.The project <strong>in</strong>tends to eventually provide unrestricted open access to the documents. AbhijitBhattacharya is the Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator of the project and the project is funded by the ARCADIAthrough Endangered Archive Programme of the British Library.Endangered Archive Programme (EAP 341)This is a major project <strong>in</strong>tended to retrieve and document pr<strong>in</strong>ted books and periodicals frompublic <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> eastern India published prior to 1950. The previous EAP pilot project createda database of 26,579 books <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>or archives and libraries located <strong>in</strong> districts without any<strong>in</strong>frastructure. Under the present project, 5000 books identified as unique and endangered havebeen selected <strong>for</strong> digitization. The project team will capture images of books follow<strong>in</strong>g the EAPguidel<strong>in</strong>es <strong>for</strong> digitization. On completion of the project the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong><strong>Calcutta</strong> (CSSSC) will provide access both from its read<strong>in</strong>g room and onl<strong>in</strong>e through CSSSC -University of Heidelberg cooperation. Copies will be given to the British Library.Abhijit Bhattacharya is the Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator of the project, which is funded by the ARCADIAthrough Endangered Archive Programme of the British Library.14ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS


Collaborative projects with outside agencies: Archive and AccessThis is aimed at <strong>for</strong>m<strong>in</strong>g a consortium of libraries and archives and tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g workshops towardssett<strong>in</strong>g up digital catalogues and shared resources <strong>in</strong> India by Rochelle P<strong>in</strong>to (<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the Studyof Culture and Society, Bangalore), Aparna Balachandran (<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the Study of Culture andSociety, Bangalore) and Abhijit Bhattacharya (<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>) andthe project is be<strong>in</strong>g supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust and housed at the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Studies</strong>of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore.This project connects archives, libraries and private collections of texts <strong>in</strong> India through onl<strong>in</strong>ecatalogue shar<strong>in</strong>g and helps to serve a community of local scholars who would otherwise f<strong>in</strong>d itdifficult to access resources.SEPHIS supported project on Remember<strong>in</strong>g Native Place: An Archive of Memoriesand Memorabilia of People Migrated Both Sides of Border Follow<strong>in</strong>gPartition of India, 1947The project is aim<strong>in</strong>g at see<strong>in</strong>g the partition of India beyond trauma and violence and focused oncollect<strong>in</strong>g memories of displaced people due to partition of India on both sides of eastern border.The project is housed at the Department of History, Jadavpur University and Dr. SudeshnaBanerjee of Jadavpur University is the Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Investigator of the project and AbhijitBhattacharya of CSSSC is the Co-<strong>in</strong>vestigator of the project.15ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS


7... Academic Activities of Faculty MembersIndividual Research and Academic activities of the FacultyMuch of the vitality of the <strong>Centre</strong>'s academic life is supported and susta<strong>in</strong>ed by the research of its<strong>in</strong>dividual faculty members. This has been a dist<strong>in</strong>guish<strong>in</strong>g feature of the <strong>Centre</strong>'s academic lifes<strong>in</strong>ce its <strong>in</strong>ception and has been <strong>in</strong>strumental <strong>in</strong> its exceptional <strong>in</strong>puts to the various discipl<strong>in</strong>es itrepresents. The <strong>Centre</strong> runs a regular faculty series sem<strong>in</strong>ar and read<strong>in</strong>g group that facilitate<strong>in</strong>tellectual exchange among faculty members. It encourages faculty members to collaborate withother <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> India and abroad and to teach and undertake research supervision <strong>in</strong> otheruniversities as well. Additionally, the faculty assumes important adm<strong>in</strong>istrative responsibilitiesconnection with academic programmes and research activities <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Centre</strong>.The follow<strong>in</strong>g section details the current research and teach<strong>in</strong>g activities as well as the current<strong>in</strong>dividual research projects and adm<strong>in</strong>istrative responsibilities undertaken by the faculty.Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (Professor, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12Books <strong>in</strong> ProgressPrepar<strong>in</strong>g manuscripts <strong>for</strong> six books:1. Reader [An anthology of English essays], New Delhi: Worldview Publications. The book is <strong>in</strong>press and is likely to be published <strong>in</strong> August 2011.2. Moderniz<strong>in</strong>g the Mah"bh"rata and the GÇt": A Study <strong>in</strong> Reception (tentative title) The book willconta<strong>in</strong> three essays. The titles are:See<strong>in</strong>g and Say<strong>in</strong>g: A Reflection on the Mode of War-reportage <strong>in</strong> the Mah"bh"rataTranslat<strong>in</strong>g GÇt" 2.47 Or Invent<strong>in</strong>g the National MottoA Critique of NonviolenceOrient Blackswan may publish the book.3. L<strong>in</strong>eages of Post Colonial Modernity <strong>in</strong> Bengal (tentative title)The book will be an anthology of n<strong>in</strong>e essays of about 300 pages <strong>in</strong> English. Broadly deal<strong>in</strong>gwith the question of 'modernity' the book will <strong>in</strong>clude essays on BankimchandraChattopadhyay, Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Thakur, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatakand writers engaged <strong>in</strong> the production of 'popular' literature. All the essays are written. Butthey need to be revised. Also an 'Afterword' has to be added. I hope to submit the f<strong>in</strong>al-copyby 2012. Tulika Books, New Delhi, will publish the 'Reader'. Formalities regard<strong>in</strong>g contracthave been completed.16ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


4. The Colonial Chronotope (tentative title)The book will be an anthology of three essays of about 250 pages <strong>in</strong> English. The essays arealready written and published. Some revisions may be considered be<strong>for</strong>e submitt<strong>in</strong>g themanuscript to the publisher. They essays <strong>for</strong>m<strong>in</strong>g the anthology are:'East' Meet<strong>in</strong>g 'West': A Note on the Colonial ChronotopeMacaulay and Rammohun: 'Free Market' and PedagogyProduc<strong>in</strong>g and Re-produc<strong>in</strong>g the New Woman: A note on the prefix 're'<strong>Social</strong> Science Press, Delhi, will publish the book. Formalities regard<strong>in</strong>g contract have beencompleted.5. Atho Biplab (tentative title)A book <strong>in</strong> Bangla of about 200 pages on the semantic mutations of the words 'revolution' and'biplab'. This is a part of a Key-note Address that was delivered at the sem<strong>in</strong>ar on'Technologies of Revolution' organized by Barasat Government College on March 4, 2010.The Book should be ready by early 2012. Gangchil, Kolkata, will publish the book. Formalitiesregard<strong>in</strong>g contract have been completed.6. Bharate MahabharateA book of about 500 pages on modern trans<strong>for</strong>mations of concepts vital to the narrative ofthe Mah"bh"rata and the metaphysics of the GÇt" . Anustup, Kolkata, will br<strong>in</strong>g out the book.Edited Volumes‘Mah"bh"rata Today: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics’; be<strong>in</strong>g jo<strong>in</strong>tly edited with Prof. Ar<strong>in</strong>damChakrabarty, Department of Philosophy, Hawaii University, USA; to be published by IndianInstitute of Advanced Study, Shimla.Visit<strong>in</strong>g Appo<strong>in</strong>tments1. Visit<strong>in</strong>g Fellow, Department of Philosophy, <strong>Calcutta</strong> University Invitation to deliver a seriesof eleven lectures on Sigmund Freud Title of the series: 'Sigmund Freud - A Climate ofOp<strong>in</strong>ion' The first four of the eleven lectures were delivered on 14, 17, 23, 28 March 2011. Therema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g seven will be delivered <strong>in</strong> April 2011.2. Jo<strong>in</strong>t Coord<strong>in</strong>ator, 'Spr<strong>in</strong>g School' on 'Mah"bh"rata Today', Indian Institute of AdvancedStudy, Shimla.Dates: 14-28 April 2010.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Delivered 'Birendra Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture 2010', September 3, 2010.2. 3rd SRTT-SWS Residential Workshop 2010 on Women's <strong>Studies</strong> and Systems of Knowledge:Contexts and Problems, organized by School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University.17ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Spoke on: 'Indian Philosophical Systems and the Woman Question' (25 May 2010); 'Science<strong>Studies</strong>' (May 23, 2010); 'Sexuality <strong>Studies</strong>' (May 24, 2010).3. Workshop titled ‘Mah"bh"rata Today’, organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study,Shimla.Spoke on: 'The modern reckon<strong>in</strong>g of Sanjaya's "Eye Div<strong>in</strong>e" <strong>in</strong> the Mah"bh"rata, April 24, 2010.4. Refresher Course organized by Department of Political Science, <strong>Calcutta</strong> University.Spoke on: 'The Battle between the Br"hmana and the Srama?', December 3, 2010.5. Refresher Course organized by Department of Bengali, <strong>Calcutta</strong> University.Spoke on: 'Bi-nirman or Deconstruction', January 2011.6. Refresher Course on 'Women <strong>in</strong> Politics: Family, Community and State', organized by Schoolof Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University.Spoke on: 'Sexuality and State', February 25, 2011.7. A Special Talk titled 'The modern <strong>for</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g and <strong>for</strong>gett<strong>in</strong>g of the past', Department of English,Loreto College, Kolkata, August 2010.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> 2010-11 (CSSSC)1. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.2. Cultures of Postcoloniality.3. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.4. The Field of Visual Culture.5. The Subject and the Body: A Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Approach.6. Read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Philosophy: Texts, Concepts, Contexts.Others1. On 'Roopkatha or the Fairy Tale', Post-graduate class, Department of English, PresidencyUniversity, Kolkata, February 24, 2011.2. On 'The playful dismantl<strong>in</strong>g of Power <strong>in</strong> Satyajit Ray's Goopi Ga<strong>in</strong> Bagha Ba<strong>in</strong>', Post-graduateclass, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata, March 21, 2011.Research SupervisionPh.D.1. Sudev Pratim Basu, Visvabharati (has been awarded degree <strong>in</strong> 2010)Title of Thesis: 'Tam<strong>in</strong>g India: British Hunt<strong>in</strong>g Narratives and the Politics of WhiteDom<strong>in</strong>ance, 1808-1947'.18ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Jadavpur University2. Runa Das Chaudhuri - (has submitted her thesis)Title of Thesis: 'The Interplay of the 'uncanny' and the 'everyday': Towards a sociology of'ghost stories' written <strong>for</strong> children <strong>in</strong> Bangla between 1940 and 1980'.3. Paromita Brahmachari(Tentative) Title of Thesis: 'Representation of the Urban World <strong>in</strong> Contemporary H<strong>in</strong>diC<strong>in</strong>ema'.4. Saswata Bhattacharya(Tentative) Title of Thesis: 'Permanent Settlement Act and Bengali Theatre'.CSSSC and Jadavpur University5. Anirban BhattacharjeeTitle of Thesis: 'Philosophical Discourse of Housework <strong>in</strong> Bengal: Geneology, History andPractices.6. Agniv GhoshSubject of Thesis: 20th Century Bengal's reception of Freudian Psychoanalysis.M.Phil. 2009-111. Zaid Al BasetTitle of Dissertation: 'Truth and other Lies: Tell<strong>in</strong>g Queer Stories'.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Responsibilities1. Coord<strong>in</strong>ator: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> Programme.2. Coord<strong>in</strong>ator: Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust (NRTT) Project on 'Tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> New <strong>Social</strong> ScienceResearch Methods'.3. Coord<strong>in</strong>ator: CSSSC-NRTT Workshop on The Public and the Private-Lives, Institutions andPractices, 28 October to 3 November 2010.Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya (Fellow, Political Science)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12Completed the project on 'Embedd<strong>in</strong>g Poor People's Voices <strong>in</strong> Local Governance', withUniversity of Sheffield, United K<strong>in</strong>gdom and <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Development <strong>Studies</strong>, Kerala.Submitted a paper on "<strong>Social</strong> Policy <strong>in</strong> India <strong>in</strong> the last two decades: A survey of relevantresearch" commissioned by the Indian Council of <strong>Social</strong> Science Research, New Delhi, <strong>in</strong>February 2011. This paper is currently be<strong>in</strong>g commented on, will be ready <strong>for</strong> publicationlater this year.19ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Work<strong>in</strong>g on three papers:1. On poor people's engagement with the govern<strong>in</strong>g of resources at the village level <strong>in</strong>different <strong>for</strong>ms of political and partisan set up based on research conducted <strong>in</strong>West Bengal.2. On <strong>in</strong>terrogat<strong>in</strong>g the character of social policy <strong>in</strong>terventions by the Indian state <strong>in</strong> thecontext of its neo-liberal political and economic orientation.3. On the recent political changes <strong>in</strong> West Bengal.Provisionally plann<strong>in</strong>g to work with some colleagues at CSSSC on "Political clientelism andgovernment accountability <strong>in</strong> West Bengal".Visit<strong>in</strong>g Appo<strong>in</strong>tments1. Adjunct Professor, School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, UnitedStates. January to June 2011.Public Lectures, Workshops and Conferences1. 6 April 2010: "Paradoxes of India's Democracy", School of Politics and Economics, ClaremontGraduate University, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia.2. 11 April, 2010: "Debates on Democracy and Development <strong>in</strong> India", South Asian <strong>Studies</strong>Conference, Los Angeles, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia.3. 25 April 2010: "Voic<strong>in</strong>g Poverty, Voic<strong>in</strong>g Discontent: Reports from two West Bengal villages<strong>in</strong> the times of political change", Department of Town and Regional Plann<strong>in</strong>g, University ofSheffield, Sheffield.4. 30 April 2010: "Understand<strong>in</strong>g Local Roots of India's Democracy", Maxwell School ofSyracuse University, Syracuse.5. 22 0ctober 2010: "Report of the Project on 'Embedd<strong>in</strong>g Poor People's Voices <strong>in</strong> LocalGovernance'", School of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.6. 13 February 2011: "Research Survey on <strong>Social</strong> Policy: Education and Work", ICSSR ResearchSurvey and Explorations <strong>in</strong> Political Science, International <strong>Centre</strong>, Goa.7. 29 March 2011: "Govern<strong>in</strong>g the Poor: <strong>Social</strong> Policies <strong>in</strong> India's Economic Trans<strong>for</strong>mation",British Academy Conference on Poverty <strong>in</strong> South Asia, Department of InternationalDevelopment, Queen Elizabeth House, Ox<strong>for</strong>d.8. 22 February, 2011: "Politics of Decentralization and the Left: Kerala and West BengalCompared", Strengthen<strong>in</strong>g Rural Decentralisation <strong>in</strong> West Bengal: Initiatives andChallenges, <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> (<strong>in</strong> association with DFID, UK andDepartment of Panchayat and Rural Development, GoWB).20ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC 2010-111. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.2. Reth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Political Theory.Other Teach<strong>in</strong>gSchool of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, U.S.A, January-June 2011;Taught an <strong>in</strong>terdiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary module on Debates on Democracy and Development <strong>in</strong> India.Research SupervisionPh.D.1. Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (submitted <strong>in</strong> 2010)Title of thesis: 'Negotiat<strong>in</strong>g In<strong>for</strong>mality: Chang<strong>in</strong>g Faces of Footpaths, Kolkata, 1975-2005'.M.Phil. 2009-111. Shubhankar GhoshTitle of Dissertation: 'Political mak<strong>in</strong>g of the Muslim self <strong>in</strong> Post Colonial West Bengal'.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesCoord<strong>in</strong>ator, Doctoral Programme, CSSSC.Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri (Fellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT AND PLANS FOR 2011-12Completed and submitted two book manuscripts <strong>for</strong> publication this year:1. History <strong>in</strong> Poetry: Episodes from the Mak<strong>in</strong>g of a Modern Literary Culture <strong>in</strong> Bengal,1831-1881, has been submitted to Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press <strong>in</strong> India and Routledge UK <strong>in</strong>the UK.2. Freedom and Beef-Steaks: Colonial <strong>Calcutta</strong> Culture has been submitted to Orient Black Swan.Start<strong>in</strong>g to work on translat<strong>in</strong>g the Ch<strong>in</strong>napatrabali by Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Tagore <strong>for</strong> Pengu<strong>in</strong>Modern Classics. A Contract is <strong>in</strong> place.Work<strong>in</strong>g on the edit<strong>in</strong>g o dhadeva Bose's English Writ<strong>in</strong>gs.Work<strong>in</strong>g on three <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g publications:1. 'Three Poets <strong>in</strong> Search of History, <strong>Calcutta</strong> 1752-1859' <strong>in</strong> Michael Dodson and BrianHatcher ed. Trans-Colonial Modernities (<strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g, Routledge, UK).2. Poet of the Present: The Material Object <strong>in</strong> the World of Iswar Gupta' <strong>in</strong> Tapati Guha-Thakurta ed. New Cultural Histories (<strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g, Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press).21ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


3. 'Translation and the Intra-national Diaspora <strong>in</strong> Literary Modernity: <strong>Calcutta</strong>, 1858-73'<strong>in</strong> special issue <strong>for</strong> Colonialism and Translation <strong>in</strong> South Asia, to be published byPostcolonial <strong>Studies</strong>.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Attended a workshop on "Postcolonial Translation: South Asia and Beyond" on May 27-28,2010 at Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).2. Presented a paper, 'History, Teleology and the Present: Poetry <strong>in</strong> Bengal c1752-1859', at the<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> South Asian <strong>Studies</strong>, University of Cambridge, on 31 May 2010.3. Presented a paper, 'Three Poets <strong>in</strong> Search of History, <strong>Calcutta</strong> 1825-1858,' at the South AsiaHistory Sem<strong>in</strong>ar, Summer Term 2010, at SOAS, London, on 1 June 2010.4. Participated <strong>in</strong> a workshop on 'Intellectual histories of historical teleology <strong>in</strong> the lateEnlightenment and its aftermath' at the F<strong>in</strong>nish Institute, Berl<strong>in</strong>, 11-12 June 2010.5. UGC Sponsored One Day National Sem<strong>in</strong>ar on Cross Cultural Perspectives: Indian Writ<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> English organised by the Postgraduate Department of English, Maulana Azad College,and Indo British Scholars' Association, 25 September, 2010.6. National Sem<strong>in</strong>ar on 'The Indian National Congress and the Struggle <strong>for</strong> Independence'organised by Victoria Memorial, Kolkata & the Department of History, Loreto College,Kolkata, 30 September, 2010.7. Participated as speaker and discussant at the Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop of the CSSSC on'Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism' <strong>in</strong> Jaipur <strong>in</strong> January 2011.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSCCoord<strong>in</strong>ator of two courses:1. Cultures of Postcoloniality.2. Introduction to Modern <strong>Social</strong> Thought.Research SupervisionPh.D.CSSSC and Jadavpur University1. Madhumita SahaTitle of thesis: Shakespeare <strong>in</strong> N<strong>in</strong>eteenth-Century Bengal.M.Phil. 2009-111. Dam<strong>in</strong>ee BasuTitle of dissertation: Chadak Lives: Prohibition of Rites and Per<strong>for</strong>mance of Pa<strong>in</strong> as Penance<strong>in</strong> the Colonial Past and Present day Bengal.22ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesConvener of the Sem<strong>in</strong>ar Sub-Committee at CSSSC.Member of the Archive Sub-Committee, Jadunath Bhavan Resource <strong>Centre</strong> Museum Sub-Committee and Ford Foundation Programme Steer<strong>in</strong>g Committee at the <strong>Centre</strong>.Anirban Das (Fellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>)ONGOING RESEARCH AND PLANS FOR 2011-12Book project on Deconstruction and Translation.Co-author<strong>in</strong>g a book on Third World Fem<strong>in</strong>isms.Project on the relationship between epistemology and ethics as illustrated <strong>in</strong> debates aroundabortion.Develop the follow<strong>in</strong>g essays on "Embodied Knowledges: An Intimate Critique of PositionalObjectivity and Standpo<strong>in</strong>t", "Unh<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g the State and the Nation: (Im)Possibilities" and"Embody<strong>in</strong>g the Call to Revolution: Writ<strong>in</strong>g Memories of the Naxal movement". The latter isa modified version of one of my earlier essays that deals with how the body of therevolutionary constitutes and <strong>in</strong>terrupts memories of revolutionary movements. This essayis to appear <strong>in</strong> an anthology on Philosophy and Literature edited by Sukalpa Bhattacharya,to be published by the Sage Publishers.Work<strong>in</strong>g on three <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g publications:1. "Aestheticiz<strong>in</strong>g Law <strong>in</strong>to Justice: The Fetus <strong>in</strong> a Divided Planet" <strong>in</strong> Other Spheres of Justiceed., Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, Ranabir Samaddar, Temple University Press.2. "The Inventory of the Subject: An Inquiry <strong>in</strong>to the Ontology of Power" <strong>in</strong> a collection ofessays edited by Professor Gautam Biswas.3. A different version of "Sexual Difference <strong>in</strong> Literary Historiography: Writ<strong>in</strong>g the Nation<strong>in</strong> "My Life"" was submitted to Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial <strong>Studies</strong>."Of Sleep and Violence: Read<strong>in</strong>g Sauptikaparva <strong>in</strong> Times of Terror" <strong>for</strong> a volume of essays onThe Mahabharata Today edited by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Ar<strong>in</strong>dam Chakrabarty, to bepublished by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Acted as resource person and presented a paper on 'Of Sleep and Violence: Read<strong>in</strong>gSauptikaparva <strong>in</strong> Times of Terror' <strong>in</strong> the Spr<strong>in</strong>g School on Mahabharata Today at the Institute ofAdvanced Study, Shimla from 14th April to 28th April 2010.2. Delivered a lecture on philosophy of science and had <strong>in</strong>teractions with the students andfaculty at the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Contemporary <strong>Studies</strong>, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from10th May 2010 to 14th May 2010.23ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


3. Delivered a lecture on 'Justice and the Question of Abortion' at the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong>Culture and Society, Bangalore on 11th May 2010.4. Delivered four lectures <strong>in</strong> a residential workshop on Systems of Knowledge and Women's<strong>Studies</strong>: Contexts and Problems organized by the School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, JadavpurUniversity from 19th to 26th May 2010.5. Acted as Resource person <strong>in</strong> the conference on The Biopolitics of Development: Life, Welfare, andUnruly Populations organized by the <strong>Calcutta</strong> Research Group, University of Lapland, andThe F<strong>in</strong>nish Academy from 9th to 10th September <strong>in</strong> Kolkata.6. Delivered a special lecture on "Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and Sociology" at the department of Sociology, WestBengal State University, <strong>in</strong> September.7. Delivered an <strong>in</strong>vited lecture on Notes on Ideology and the Ontology of Power atthe School of Philosophy at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi onNovember 25.8. Delivered four lectures on "Fem<strong>in</strong>ism <strong>in</strong> Qualitative Research Methods" at the workshop onQualitative Research Methods <strong>in</strong> Psychology organized by the Department of Psychology,University Colleges of Science, Technology and Agriculture, <strong>Calcutta</strong> University on 6th and7th December 2010.9. Delivered a lecture <strong>in</strong> the UGC-Sponsored Refresher course <strong>for</strong> college and universityteachers <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> conducted by the Academic Staff College, University of<strong>Calcutta</strong> on 4th January.10. Acted as a resource person and chaired a session at the Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop on Empire,Nation, Cosmopolitanism organized by CSSSC at Jaipur from 23rd to 28th January 2011.11. Presented a paper <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>ternational conference on Postfem<strong>in</strong>ist Postmortems: Gender,Sexualities and Multiple Modernities organized by the Department of English, Delhi Universityat New Delhi from 14th February 2011 to 16th February 2011.12. Delivered a lecture <strong>in</strong> the UGC-Sponsored Refresher course <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>for</strong> collegeand university teachers conducted by the School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur Universityon 22nd February 2011.13. Spoke <strong>in</strong> a panel entitled Interdiscipl<strong>in</strong>arity and Research <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> organized by theSchool of Women's <strong>Studies</strong> on 23rd February at Jadavpur University.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC 2010-111. The Subject and the Body: A Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Approach (Coord<strong>in</strong>ator).2. Read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Philosophy: Texts, Concepts, Contexts.3. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.24ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


4. Vocabularies of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.5. Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation.Visit<strong>in</strong>g Positions1. Cont<strong>in</strong>ued teach<strong>in</strong>g a compulsory core course <strong>in</strong> the "Development of Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Thought" <strong>in</strong>the M Phil <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> at the School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University.2. Taught <strong>in</strong> course on "Research Methodology" <strong>in</strong> the M Phil <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> at the Schoolof Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University.3. Cont<strong>in</strong>ued teach<strong>in</strong>g a course on "Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Thought" <strong>in</strong> the M Phil <strong>in</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> at theWomen's <strong>Studies</strong> Resource <strong>Centre</strong>, University of <strong>Calcutta</strong>.4. Visit<strong>in</strong>g Faculty at the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Contemporary <strong>Studies</strong>, Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore from 8th May to 14th May 2010.Research SupervisionPh.D.Jadavpur University1. Hardik Brata Biswas (He is a recipient of the SRTT Fellowship <strong>in</strong> PhD <strong>for</strong> Women's <strong>Studies</strong> atthe School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University. He is also a recipient of the SEPHISFellowship <strong>in</strong> the History of Sexualities and Modernities <strong>in</strong> the Global South, 2008-2009).Title of thesis: Spatializ<strong>in</strong>g the Visual: Re-locat<strong>in</strong>g Women's Photographs <strong>in</strong> Bengal,1880s-1970s.CSSSC and Jadavpur University2. Susmita GhoshTitle of thesis: Styliz<strong>in</strong>g Mascul<strong>in</strong>ity Anew: An Analysis of New H<strong>in</strong>di C<strong>in</strong>ema.3. Sourav KarguptaTitle of thesis: Of Folk Hero<strong>in</strong>es and the New Woman: Deconstructive Read<strong>in</strong>g of Pa<strong>in</strong> andSubjectivity.4. Samrat SenguptaTitle of thesis: Per<strong>for</strong>m<strong>in</strong>g Revolution: Ethics of Post Colonial Resistance <strong>in</strong> Bengal Narrative.5. Partha Sarathi MondalTitle of thesis: Body, Subjectivity and Mental Distress.M.Phil. 2009-111. Sayantan Saharay (CSSSC)Title of dissertation: Abortion <strong>in</strong> India: Laws, Debates and Sex Selection.25ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


2. Saayan Chattopadhyay (WSJU)Title of dissertation: Imag<strong>in</strong>g the Mascul<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> Post-<strong>in</strong>dependence Bengali Film (1947-1957).3. Debol<strong>in</strong>a Ghosh (WSJU)Title of dissertation: Perceptions of Gender Relations <strong>in</strong> the Literature of Angst.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesMember of COGSASH.Member of Library Sub-Committee and Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> Museum.Pranab Kumar Das (Fellow, Economics)ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-121. Work<strong>in</strong>g on the study on <strong>in</strong>ternational capital flow and the exchange rate dynamics <strong>in</strong> amulti period framework. On the basis of prelim<strong>in</strong>ary results, the model structure has beenre<strong>for</strong>mulated and it is expected to be completed by the end of the year.2. Work<strong>in</strong>g on the empirical part of the theoretical work begun last year on a study onfundamental and bubbles <strong>for</strong> the Indian stock market, to be specific <strong>for</strong> 30 sensex companies.3. Cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g work on the Evolution of the F<strong>in</strong>ancial System Architecture <strong>in</strong> South and SouthEast Asia.4. Evolution of the F<strong>in</strong>ancial System Architecture <strong>in</strong> South and South East Asia.5. Plann<strong>in</strong>g a jo<strong>in</strong>t study with Prasad Bhattacharya of Deak<strong>in</strong> University on monetary policy <strong>in</strong>a regime switch<strong>in</strong>g Markov model <strong>for</strong> the Indian economy.6. Work jo<strong>in</strong>tly started with Sugata Marjit, on food policy, monetary policy and <strong>in</strong>flation <strong>in</strong>India. Plans are be<strong>in</strong>g considered to estimate an econometric model by the end of the year.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Organized a conference on Strengthen<strong>in</strong>g Rural Decentralization <strong>in</strong> West Bengal: Initiativesand Challenges <strong>in</strong> Feb. 2011 <strong>in</strong> association with DFID, Govt. of UK and Panchayat and RuralDevelopment Department, Govt. of West Bengal. Paper presented <strong>in</strong> the conference.2. Participated <strong>in</strong> sem<strong>in</strong>ar and conferences held at CSSSC, Economics Department, JadavpurUniversity and Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: RMQE, 2010-11, CSSSC1. Coord<strong>in</strong>ated and taught parts of two courses, viz. Macroeconomics andTime Series.26ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Othersa. Taught a course <strong>in</strong> F<strong>in</strong>ancial Economics <strong>for</strong> M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> Development <strong>Studies</strong> at Institute ofDevelopment <strong>Studies</strong>, Kolkata.Research SupervisionPh.D.Jadavpur University1. Mr. Sadhan Kumar ChattopadhyayTitle of thesis: Bank lend<strong>in</strong>g to agriculture <strong>in</strong> pre- and post-re<strong>for</strong>m periods.2. Ms. Purba RoychaudhuryTitle of thesis: Service sector growth <strong>in</strong> India.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesConvenor, Computer Sub-committee, CSSSC.Indraneel Dasgupta (Professor, Economics)ON-GOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12An <strong>in</strong>vestigation of the economic rationale <strong>for</strong> the simultaneous use of banks and Rotat<strong>in</strong>gSav<strong>in</strong>gs and Credit Associations as sav<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong>struments by households. This project, carriedout <strong>in</strong> collaboration with A. Kedir (Leicester) and R. Disney (Nott<strong>in</strong>gham), develops atheoretical explanation, which is tested with data from household surveys <strong>in</strong> Ethiopia.An economic analysis of proposals <strong>for</strong> regulation of NGO activities <strong>in</strong> develop<strong>in</strong>g countries.This project is be<strong>in</strong>g carried out <strong>in</strong> collaboration with T. Owens (Nott<strong>in</strong>gham) and R. Burger(Stellenbosch, SA). The objective of the exercise is to develop a general theoretical frameworkthat enables one to th<strong>in</strong>k through the trade-offs <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> such regulatory <strong>in</strong>terventions.This theoretical framework will be subsequently applied to survey data from Uganda togenerate concrete policy proposals.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC Microeconomic Theory, modules 1, 2 and 3.M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> 2010-11 (CSSSC)Module Coord<strong>in</strong>ator, Theories of Development.Prachi Deshpande (Fellow, History)CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12"Script<strong>in</strong>g the Cultural History of Language: Modi <strong>in</strong> the Colonial Archive," is part of herlarger book project on the cultural history of scripts, <strong>in</strong> particular the early modern Modi27ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


script of western India. It is scheduled to appear <strong>in</strong> the CSSSC conference volume of the NewCultural Histories of India, edited by Partha Chatterjee, Tapati Guha-Thakurta andBodhisattva Kar.Work<strong>in</strong>g on a scholarly, annotated English translation of Vishnubhat Godse's Marathitravelogue of the mid-n<strong>in</strong>eteenth century, Maza Pravaas.Somnath Ghosal (Fellow, Geography)CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANS FOR 2011-12Convert<strong>in</strong>g parts of the doctoral thesis <strong>in</strong>to publications.Cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g with the project on urban <strong>for</strong>estry, human health and social welfare. The projectwill exam<strong>in</strong>e the role of green covers <strong>for</strong> a healthy social life <strong>in</strong> Indian metros.New project on colonial <strong>for</strong>est governance.Project proposal submitted <strong>for</strong> the cont<strong>in</strong>uation of partnership with the UNICEF socialInclusion cell. This is a two-year project and will be jo<strong>in</strong>tly conducted with Dr. Saibal Karand Professor Sugata Marjit.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesConvener of Publication Sub-committee.Member of Library Sub-committee.Tapati Guha-Thakurta (Professor, History)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12F<strong>in</strong>ish<strong>in</strong>g up the book project on The Aesthetics of a Public Festival: Durga Puja <strong>in</strong>Contemporary <strong>Calcutta</strong>.Beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g a new project on the history of public statuary <strong>in</strong> the city of <strong>Calcutta</strong>,<strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong> particular, the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial statues <strong>in</strong> thecity. A paper on this theme, "The Dead Object of Public Statuary: The SculpturalIconographies of Colonial and Postcolonial <strong>Calcutta</strong>" was presented at an <strong>in</strong>ternationalconference on "Commodities and Culture" organized by Jadavpur University <strong>in</strong> January2011, and a more developed version of the same was presented at a conference on "IndianPopular Visual Culture and its Discontents" at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU at theend of March, 2011.Curat<strong>in</strong>g along with a research team at the CSSSC (consist<strong>in</strong>g of Dr. Keya Dasgupta, Dr.Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri, Prof. Partha Chatterjee, and the archival staff), an archival exhibitionon the city of <strong>Calcutta</strong>, as a f<strong>in</strong>al activity under the Ford Foundation project, "A CulturalHistory Archive on Eastern India", which has just come to a close. The exhibition, titled, The28ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


City <strong>in</strong> the Archive: <strong>Calcutta</strong>'s Visual Histories, will be held over three weeks at the SeagullArts and Media Resource, <strong>Centre</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong>, dur<strong>in</strong>g July 2011. There will be an accompany<strong>in</strong>gcatalogue that will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.Edit<strong>in</strong>g and writ<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong>troduction along with Professor Partha Chatterjee and Dr.Bodhisattva Kar to the volume of essays that is com<strong>in</strong>g out of the "New Cultural Histories ofIndia" conference, organized at the CSSSC <strong>in</strong> January 2010. There are 14 essays <strong>in</strong> thevolume, and it is be<strong>in</strong>g published by Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, New Delh. This book will bethe third <strong>in</strong> a CSSSC history conference volume series, of which the earlier two are ParthaChatterjee and Anjan Ghosh, ed., History and the Present (New Delhi: Permanent Black:2001) and Partha Chatterjee and Razuiudd<strong>in</strong> Aquil, ed., History <strong>in</strong> the Vernacular (NewDelhi: Permanent Black: 2008).Plann<strong>in</strong>g a paper on "<strong>Calcutta</strong>'s Zoffanys,", trac<strong>in</strong>g the afterlives of the works by this late18th century European artist <strong>in</strong> India, <strong>in</strong> two colonial architectural locations <strong>in</strong> the city, St.John's Church and Victoria Memorial Hall. This is to be delivered a special <strong>in</strong>vited lecture atthe Yale Center <strong>for</strong> British Art <strong>in</strong> November 2011 <strong>in</strong> connection with an exhibition they willbe host<strong>in</strong>g on Zoffany and British art <strong>in</strong> India <strong>in</strong> the Fall semester of 2011.The theme of the collect<strong>in</strong>g of Indian art works overseas will be developed <strong>in</strong> due course,connect<strong>in</strong>g two <strong>in</strong>stances of colonial and postcolonial travels and museum acquisitions oftraditional Indian sculpture, <strong>for</strong> a plenary lecture to be given at the annual conference of theAssociation of <strong>Social</strong> Anthropologists, UK, to be held at JNU, New Delhi, <strong>in</strong> March 2012,where the year's theme is "Art and Aesthetics <strong>in</strong> a Globalis<strong>in</strong>g Age".Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Delivered the keynote lecture at a conference on "Afterlives of Monuments", organized byTransnational <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Research on Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts,London, on April 29, 2010.2. Presented a talk on the issues of art, obscenity and censorship, center<strong>in</strong>g around theH<strong>in</strong>dutva attacks on M.F. Husa<strong>in</strong>, <strong>for</strong> the History Association, at Lady Shiram College, NewDelhi, on August 17, 2010.3. Participated as a resource person at the 16th annual Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop of the CSSSC,on the theme "Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism", held at Jaipur, from January 23-28, 2011.4. Chaired and moderated a session at the conference, "The Global Sixties and itsCultural Afterlives", organized by the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi, onMarch 4-5, 2011.5. Presented a paper at the conference, "Indian Popular Visual Culture and its Discontents",organized by the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Indian Visual Culture (CIVIC) and School of Arts and Aesthetics,JNU, New Delhi, on March 25-26, 2011.29ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSCTaught sections of the first two courses <strong>in</strong> the first semester, July - December 2010, andcoord<strong>in</strong>ated and taught half the third course <strong>in</strong> the second semester, January - May 2011:1. Problems of Historical Writ<strong>in</strong>g and Method.2. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.3. The Field of Visual Culture.Research SupervisionPh.D.<strong>Calcutta</strong> University1. Kamalika MukherjeeTitle of thesis: Allegories of Womanhood: Gender <strong>in</strong> the Popular Visual Culture of LateN<strong>in</strong>eteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal.Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi2. Suryanand<strong>in</strong>i S<strong>in</strong>haTitle of thesis: The Intercepted Photograph: Interactions of pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g and digital media withstudio photography <strong>in</strong> India.CSSSC and Jadavpur University3. Kallol RayTitle of thesis: Catastrophes, Textualities, and Subjectivities: The Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs of Rab<strong>in</strong>dranathTagore and the Narratives of Modernism.4. Paroma MaitiTitle of thesis: Art and object Assemblages <strong>in</strong> Colonial India.5. Prithwiraj BiswasTitle of thesis: Explor<strong>in</strong>g the unconventional: Advertisements as sources of History <strong>in</strong>colonial Bengal.M.Phil. (2009-2011)1. Moumita SenTitle of dissertation: 'Enfram<strong>in</strong>g Kumortuli: A study <strong>in</strong> Space, Practices and Images'.2. Kausthubh DasTitle of dissertation: 'Khandagiri Udayagiri: The many Histories of a Site'.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative ResponsibilitiesConvenor, Archive Sub-Committee.Convenor, Steer<strong>in</strong>g and Sub-Committee, JSRC Museum Project.30ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Jyotsna Jalan (Professor, Economics)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12Evaluation of scholarship schemes <strong>for</strong> m<strong>in</strong>ority communities as implemented by theM<strong>in</strong>istry of M<strong>in</strong>ority Affairs, Government of India.Evaluation of multi-sectoral development programs <strong>for</strong> m<strong>in</strong>ority concentrated districts asimplemented by the M<strong>in</strong>istry of M<strong>in</strong>ority Affairs, Government of India.Analyz<strong>in</strong>g with<strong>in</strong> caste and tribe <strong>in</strong>equalities <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>tergenerational educational mobility (withR<strong>in</strong>ku Murgai, The World Bank and Arijit Sen, IIMC).Writ<strong>in</strong>g academic papers from the SRTT project on quality of education <strong>in</strong> rural west Bengaland Jharkhand.Public lectures, Workshops and Conferences1. Public release of "Low Mean High Variance: Quality of Primary Education <strong>in</strong> Rural Bengal"at CSSSC on 22nd November, 2010.2. Dissem<strong>in</strong>ation of education research report <strong>in</strong> the districts of Birbhum, Murshidabad, &South 24 Parganas (December 2010-January 2011).3. Invited Lecture on "Status of Education <strong>in</strong> West Bengal and Its Relationship to HumanDevelopment Issues" at Rab<strong>in</strong>dra Bharti University, March 2011.4. Invited Lecture on "Contemporary Development Issues <strong>in</strong> West Bengal" at Visvabharati,March 2011.5. Invited lecture on the "Why and What of Impact Evaluation" <strong>for</strong> professional economists (i.e.students, faculty, etc.) at Jadavpur University, March 2011.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: RMQE, CSSSC, 2010-111. Probability and Statistics (Module 1).2. Cross-section Econometrics (Module II).3. Computational Economics (Module II).Other Teach<strong>in</strong>gInvited Lecture on Dynamic Panel Data Econometrics to post-graduate students <strong>in</strong> Economics <strong>in</strong>Presidency University, Kolkata (February 2011).Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative responsibilitiesCourse coord<strong>in</strong>ator, RMQE.31ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Bodhisattva Kar (Fellow, History)ONGOING RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANS FOR 2011-12Work<strong>in</strong>g on a project tentatively called "Fantastic Histories of the Naga Hills."Work<strong>in</strong>g on the follow<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g publications:1. Can the Postcolonial Beg<strong>in</strong>?: Deprov<strong>in</strong>cializ<strong>in</strong>g Assam', <strong>in</strong> Saurabh Dube and IshitaBanerjee-Dube (eds.), Modern Makeovers: The Ox<strong>for</strong>d Handbook of Modernity <strong>in</strong> SouthAsia (New Delhi: Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press).2. 'Labour of Division: Savages, Slaves and Settlers <strong>in</strong> the North-Eastern Frontier of BritishIndia', <strong>in</strong> Alessandro Stanziani (ed.), Labour Constra<strong>in</strong>ts <strong>in</strong> Asia and Europe: 17th throughEarly 20th Centuries (Leiden: Brill)3. 'Welsh's Fallacy: Reread<strong>in</strong>g the Eighteenth-Century Ahom Crisis', <strong>in</strong> Subhas RanjanChakravorty (ed.), The Eighteenth Century <strong>in</strong> Comparative Perspectives (<strong>Calcutta</strong>: TheAsiatic Society).4. 'Seven Sisters', <strong>in</strong> Gita Dharampal-Frick, Rachel Dwyer, Monika KirloskarSte<strong>in</strong>bachand Jahnavi Phalkey (eds.), Key Words <strong>in</strong> Modern Indian <strong>Studies</strong> (Delhi: Ox<strong>for</strong>dUniversity Press).5. 'Heads <strong>in</strong> the Naga Hills', <strong>in</strong> Partha Chatterjee, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and BodhisattvaKar (eds.), History and the Materiality of Culture.6. 'The Birth of the Ryot: Reth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g the Agrarian <strong>in</strong> British Assam', <strong>in</strong> Neeladri Bhattacharyaand Joy Pachau (eds.), Writ<strong>in</strong>g the North-east: New Perspectives.Visit<strong>in</strong>g Appo<strong>in</strong>tments1. Invited as a Short-Term Academic Visitor to the Department of South Asian Languages andCivilizations, University of Chicago (January - February 2011).2. Awarded the Hermès Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Fondation Maison des <strong>Sciences</strong> del'homme, Paris (March-June 2011).Public Lectures, Workshops, Sem<strong>in</strong>ars/Conferences1. February 2011: Presented a paper on "Heads <strong>in</strong> the Naga Hills" <strong>in</strong> the South Asia Sem<strong>in</strong>arseries at the University of Chicago.2. December 2011: Participated <strong>in</strong> the panel discussion at the UGC-sponsored National LevelSem<strong>in</strong>ar on Historicity of the Text and Textuality of History, organized by and at the NetajiNagar College, <strong>Calcutta</strong>.3. December 2010: Presented a paper on "Language Stocks and Jo<strong>in</strong>t Stocks" <strong>in</strong> theZukunftsphilologie W<strong>in</strong>ter School on Textual Practices beyond Europe 1500-1900, organized bythe Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations of the American University <strong>in</strong> Cairo andthe Forum Transregionale Studien, Berl<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> Cairo.32ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


4. September 2010: Presented a paper on "Visitations: Gods <strong>in</strong> the Age of Interpretable Dreams",<strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>ternational workshop on Lim<strong>in</strong>al Deities of South Asia, organized by and at theDepartment of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.5. September 2010: Participated as a discussant <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>ternational symposium on TheBiopolitics of Development: Life, Welfare, and Unruly Populations, organized by and at theMahanirban <strong>Calcutta</strong> Research Group, <strong>Calcutta</strong>.6. September 2010: Presented a paper on :Slaves to Ethnicity: A Note on the Economies ofIdentity <strong>in</strong> the North-Eastern Frontier of British India", <strong>in</strong> the national sem<strong>in</strong>ar on ArunachalPradesh: Issues of Modernity and Tradition, organized by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Instituteof Asian <strong>Studies</strong>, Kolkata and Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar at Itanagar.7. April-May 2010: Presented a paper on "Defamiliariz<strong>in</strong>g the Medical: Three Propositions", <strong>in</strong>the <strong>in</strong>ternational conference on Locat<strong>in</strong>g the Medical <strong>in</strong> Histories of N<strong>in</strong>eteenth and Twentieth-Century South Asia, organized by and at the Wellcome <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the History of Medic<strong>in</strong>e atthe University College of London.8. April 2010: Presented a paper on "A Two-Tim<strong>in</strong>g Nation?: Notes on the Spatial Archive of theMahabharatam," <strong>in</strong> the Spr<strong>in</strong>g School on The Mahabharata Today, organized by and at theIndian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, 2010-111. Cultures of Postcoloniality.2. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> (Coord<strong>in</strong>ator).3. Problems of Historical Writ<strong>in</strong>g and Method.4. Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation.5. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.Other Teach<strong>in</strong>gA segment <strong>in</strong> the graduate sem<strong>in</strong>ar on "History and Memory" at the Department of South AsianLanguages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.Research SupervisionPh.D.Delhi University1. Debarati Bagchi (ICSSSR PhD Fellowship, Delhi University)Title of thesis: Many Spaces of Sylhet: Mak<strong>in</strong>g of a Regional Identity, 1870s - 1940s.33ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Jadavpur University2. Iman Mitra (ICSSSR PhD Fellowship, Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: From Political Economy to Neoclassical Economics - Some Aspects of theHistorical Evolution of the Economic Discipl<strong>in</strong>e.3. Shubhasree Bhattacharya (SYLFF PhD fellowship, Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: Work Songs <strong>in</strong> Contemporary <strong>Calcutta</strong>.4. Swati Chatterjee (ICSSR PhD Fellowship, Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: Regimes of Prohibitions <strong>in</strong> N<strong>in</strong>eteenth-Century <strong>Calcutta</strong>.CSSSC and Jadavpur University5. Ankur Tamuli Phukan (Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: Bihu: The Mak<strong>in</strong>g of a National Festival <strong>in</strong> Colonial Assam.M.Phil. (2009-2011)1. Priyankar DeyTitle of dissertation: The Bhadraloks and the Mach<strong>in</strong>es: Cultures of Subjectivity <strong>in</strong> LateColonial Bengal.2. Sanjna MukhopadhyayTitle of dissertation: Time Off: Holidays, Leaves and Questions of Work <strong>in</strong> Colonial Bengal.Saibal Kar (Fellow, Economics)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-12In<strong>for</strong>mal Sector and Corruption: An empirical Investigation <strong>for</strong> India (with Nabamita Duttaand Sanjukta Roy).Emigration, Wage Inequality and Vanish<strong>in</strong>g Sectors.Smuggl<strong>in</strong>g and Traffick<strong>in</strong>g of illegal immigrants - A theoretical Analysis.Unemployment Benefit and Nascent Entrepreneurship.Recession, Terms of Trade and Immigrants.Visit<strong>in</strong>g Appo<strong>in</strong>tmentsAmsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, April-June 2010.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars/Conferences1. Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam.2. Institute <strong>for</strong> the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn Conference on Irregular Migration.3. ISS-Erasmus University, The Hague.34ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


4. ETH, Basel, Switzerland - Urbanization and <strong>Calcutta</strong>.5. WIEGO Conference on In<strong>for</strong>mality: Cape Town, South Africa.6. Economics Department, Jadavpur University - Development Economics Conference.7. UNICEF - <strong>Social</strong> Exclusion.8. Organized two International conferences, June 2010 and December 2010: Advances <strong>in</strong>Economic Theory I and II.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> sciences, 2010-111. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.RMQE, CSSSC1. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.Other Teach<strong>in</strong>g1. Labor Economics (M.Sc. <strong>in</strong> Economics), <strong>Calcutta</strong> University.2. Trade and Development, Rab<strong>in</strong>dra Bharati University.Research SupervisionPh.D.Delhi University1. Chaitali S<strong>in</strong>ha (Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: Choice of Human Capital and Public Policy.CSSSC and Jadavpur University2. Meghna Datta, (Jadavpur University)Title of thesis: FDI, Outsourc<strong>in</strong>g and Production Organization.M.Phil.1. Jayanti GhoshTitle of dissertation: Female Labor Supply <strong>in</strong> India, completed.Other Achievements and ActivitiesAwards/Membership1. Canada-Asia Pacific Award by Department of Foreign Trade and International Affairs,Government of Canada.2. Sumitomo Foundation Award (jo<strong>in</strong>tly with Sugata Marjit).35ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Editorial ResponsibilitiesAssistant Editor, India Macroeconomics Annual (SAGE, India) Referee <strong>for</strong>:1. Economic Inquiry.2. Review of Development Economics.3. Economic Modell<strong>in</strong>g.4. International Migration.5. Bullet<strong>in</strong> of Economic Research.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Responsibilities Coord<strong>in</strong>ator, UNICEF-India project on <strong>Social</strong> Exclusion <strong>in</strong> West Bengal.Coord<strong>in</strong>ator, Tea Board of India (NTRF) Projects on An Economic Analysis of Tea Productionand Conditions of Land and Labor <strong>in</strong> the Tea Gardens <strong>in</strong> India.Manabi Majumdar (Fellow, Political Science)CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANSPolitics of human development plann<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> West Bengal.The practice of supplementary private tutor<strong>in</strong>g and its social, economic and educationalconsequences.Public health and social justice.Analysis of political changes <strong>in</strong> contemporary Bengal(<strong>in</strong> collaboration with Dr.DwaipayanBhattacharya, CSSSC and Dr.Rajarshi Dasgupta, J.N.U. draw<strong>in</strong>g on a village study conducteda few years ago and follow<strong>in</strong>g that up with a revisit to the villages to take stick of morerecent changes <strong>in</strong> these locales).Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Participated <strong>in</strong> a conference on Democracy and Development organised by the <strong>Calcutta</strong>Research Group , May 15 2010.2. Participated as Resource Person on Politics of Space: Women and the land movement <strong>in</strong> aworkshop organised by the school of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>, Jadavpur University and the SRTT<strong>in</strong> May 2010. The workshop was on Women, Development and Democracy and Knowledgesystems.3. Presented a paper with Jos Mooij and Kumar Rana titled 'From Access to Success: social,economic and educational impact of Private Tutor<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> an Indian state', at the XIV WorldCongress of Comparative Education Societies: Border<strong>in</strong>g, Reborder<strong>in</strong>g and New possibilities<strong>in</strong> Education and Society, Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.36ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


4. Participated <strong>in</strong> a workshop on Quality, Markets and Education organized by the TataInstitute of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, Mumbai 17-18 December 2010.5. Presented a paper on Politics of Human Development: the case of West Bengal at a sem<strong>in</strong>arorganised by the Madras Institute of Development <strong>Studies</strong> on the Indian economy <strong>in</strong>Transition: Prospects, issues and Concerns., 10-11 February 2011.6. Short presentation on equity <strong>in</strong> education at the Kolkata Group Workshop on Equity <strong>in</strong> Indiaorganized by Pratichi Trust India, Harvard's Global Equality Initiative and UNICEF India18-19 February 2011, Kolkata.7. Gave a talk on Women's Visibility and Invisibility <strong>in</strong> contemporary Indian politics <strong>in</strong> a UGCsponsored sem<strong>in</strong>ar on Visibility Invisibility: an enquiry <strong>in</strong>to the conditions of women <strong>in</strong>India organized by Maulana Aazad College, February 2011.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC1. Theories of Development.2. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>.3. Reth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Political Theory.Research SupervisionPh.D.CSSSC and Jadavpur University1. Ms. Sreemoyi GhoshTitle of thesis: Organized In<strong>for</strong>mality The case of Industrial <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mal women workers <strong>in</strong>Durgapur.2. Ms. Sayantani SurTitle of thesis: Domesticity and Gender Politics of Contraception 1930-37.M.Phil.1. Nazneen IslamTitle of thesis: Intransient borders? Identities, Cultural <strong>for</strong>mations and the Sikh - Punjabicommunity <strong>in</strong> Kolkata.Other ActivitiesJo<strong>in</strong>ed the Pratichi Institute as Director wef March 2011 on a part time basis.Indrajit Mallick (Fellow, Economics)CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANS FOR 2011-12Started a book project on F<strong>in</strong>ancial Systems Dynamics and Prudential regulation.37ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Started research on jurisprudence.Completed the paper on 'The <strong>Social</strong>ly Optimal Policy Instruments of the Supreme Court – AGame theoretical analysis' with Dr. Saibal Kar and Somosree Roy.Public lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars Presented a paper on 'The Contours of Contract Law' at CSSSC on March 8, 2011.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSCF<strong>in</strong>ancial Systems - History, Theory and Policy (Semester I).Sugata Marjit (Director, Professor, Economics)CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANS FOR 2011-12To work on various implications of International Trade between countries separated by timezones <strong>in</strong> collaboration with Professor Toru Kikuchi of Kobe University.Work on Re<strong>for</strong>m and extortion and Capital Mobility and Wage Distribution is <strong>in</strong> progress.Work on concern <strong>for</strong> social status and its impact on measures of poverty and sav<strong>in</strong>gbehaviour of the poor cont<strong>in</strong>ues, a draft of which will be presented <strong>in</strong> a conference onBehavioural Economics at the WIDER <strong>in</strong> Hels<strong>in</strong>ki <strong>in</strong> September 2011.Work<strong>in</strong>g on a paper on Indian Macroeconomic Policy <strong>in</strong> the post re<strong>for</strong>m era with PranabKumar Das <strong>for</strong> an <strong>in</strong>vited lecture at the Australian National University. We are also work<strong>in</strong>gon a model of Inflation with the backdrop of the Indian experience. These are RBIendowment related work.Work<strong>in</strong>g towards a paper on Globalisation, Technology and Music organized around lecturesdelivered on the subject. Edit<strong>in</strong>g the India Macroeconomics Annual Journal that Sage has proposedto make <strong>in</strong>to a full fledged bi annual journal. The new version will carry a revised title.Initiat<strong>in</strong>g the process of edit<strong>in</strong>g and publish<strong>in</strong>g and economics journal <strong>in</strong> Bengali called'Arthabishleshan', This is be<strong>in</strong>g partly sponsored by the RBI endowment.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Delivered talks on <strong>in</strong>vitation at the Universities of New South Wales, Sydney andQueensland, Australia.2. University of Jadavpur.3. Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.4. Panth Institute, Allahabad.38ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


5. Invited to lecture at the International Conference organized by the Union M<strong>in</strong>istry ofF<strong>in</strong>ance, Government of India.6. Beij<strong>in</strong>g Chapter of International Economics and F<strong>in</strong>ance Society, University of Michigan.7. Delivered talks at Cornell University.8. Participated <strong>in</strong> a Conference on In<strong>for</strong>mal economy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.9. Lionel Mckenzie Memorial Conference at the University of Kyoto.10. Delivered the First Dhiresh Bhattachrya Memorial Lecture of BangiyaArthaniti Parishad.11. Key Note Speech at the UGC sponsored Conference, Dept. of History, ViswabharatiUniversity, Sant<strong>in</strong>iketan.Manas Ray (Fellow, Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANS FOR 2011-2012Book projects1. Postcolonial Journeys: <strong>in</strong>denture, diaspora and displacement.2. The car<strong>in</strong>g, term<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g State: essays on biopolitics.Forthcom<strong>in</strong>g publications1. Aga<strong>in</strong>st Negation: Suicide, Self-consciousness and Jibanananda Das' poem, 'One Day EightYears Ago'.2. Biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben (an essay <strong>for</strong> a compendium on contemporary socialthought).3. Installation as History Writ<strong>in</strong>g: Vivan Sunderam on Bengal Modernity (<strong>for</strong> a collection ofessays on Vivan Sunderam, edited by Tapati Guha-Thakurta).4. Pastoral Power, Liberalism and War: On Foucault's Biopolitics.5. Rajnoitik Khamata Proshange (<strong>for</strong> the <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g collection of Kamal Kumar MajumderMemorial Lectures).Translation1. "Uttam Kumar Salon" (Translation from Bengali <strong>in</strong>to English).Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC 2010-11 Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation (Coord<strong>in</strong>ator and Instructor).39ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. Delivered a lecture <strong>in</strong> the conference on "The Biopolitics of Development:Life, Welfare and Unruly Populations" organized by the <strong>Calcutta</strong> Research Group, Universityof Lapland, and the F<strong>in</strong>nish Academy, 9-10 September, 2010, Kolkata.2. Spoke <strong>in</strong> the morn<strong>in</strong>g section and commented on papers at the 16th Cultural<strong>Studies</strong> Workshop on Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism organized by CSSSC at Jaipur, 23 - 28January, 2011.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Responsibilities Cont<strong>in</strong>ued to coord<strong>in</strong>ated the 16th Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop held at Jaipur <strong>in</strong> January, 2011.Convened a committee to consider the question of compensation of faculty-time <strong>for</strong> projects;subsequently, submitted a detailed report to the Director, CSSSC.Priya Sangameshwaran (Fellow, Development <strong>Studies</strong>)ON-GOING RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PLANS FOR 2011-12The <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation collected <strong>in</strong> previous years as part of the research project on the re<strong>for</strong>ms <strong>in</strong>the water sector <strong>in</strong> Maharashtra was analyzed and is be<strong>in</strong>g written up <strong>in</strong> the <strong>for</strong>m of a bookmanuscript titled, '(Re)<strong>for</strong>m<strong>in</strong>g Development through Water Re<strong>for</strong>ms'. A brief (and f<strong>in</strong>al)round of field work was also done <strong>in</strong> October 2010.Engagement with new research has been ma<strong>in</strong>ly at the level of prelim<strong>in</strong>ary read<strong>in</strong>g. Twobroad areas of research are be<strong>in</strong>g planned.1. The first research area would deal with the mean<strong>in</strong>g of ownership <strong>in</strong> the context of aresource which is itself transient (<strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong>stance, char lands) and how the conflict<strong>in</strong>g claimsof two different groups (natives and migrants) on this resource are related to the'behavioral characteristics' associated with each group.2. The second research area would analyze the implications of changes <strong>in</strong> urban land policy(e.g., regulations regard<strong>in</strong>g redevelopment) and land use (e.g., the closure of <strong>in</strong>dustries,the fill<strong>in</strong>g up of water bodies) along with chang<strong>in</strong>g discourses of property, ownership(e.g., the emphasis on own<strong>in</strong>g a house of one's own) and 'the environment' on socioeconomicrights <strong>in</strong> the context of Indian cities.Public Lectures, Workshops and Sem<strong>in</strong>ar/Conferences1. ''Apolitical' Village Committees and 'Supported' State Withdrawal: TheGrey Spaces of Decentralization <strong>in</strong> Rural Maharashtra'. Paper presented at National Sem<strong>in</strong>aron 'Community, Institutions and Participation <strong>in</strong> Natural Resource Governance' at Department ofSociology, University of Hyderabad, March 3-4, 2011.40ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


2. National Workshop on 'Water Conflicts <strong>in</strong> the North East: Issues, Cases and Way Forward'organized by Forum <strong>for</strong> Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts <strong>in</strong> India and Aaranyak, Guwahatiheld at Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati on 10-11 December 2010.3. Speaker <strong>in</strong> the session on 'Claim<strong>in</strong>g the Commons' <strong>in</strong> the CSSSC-NRTT Annual Workshop<strong>for</strong> Beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g Doctoral, Advanced Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Scholars on 'The Public and thePrivate - Lives, Institutions and Practices', October 28-November 3, 2010. Also discussant <strong>for</strong>Saikat Maitra's paper 'Labor<strong>in</strong>g to Create Magic: Read<strong>in</strong>g the New Worker <strong>in</strong> the Emerg<strong>in</strong>gRetail Industries of Kolkata'.4. International Conference on Interdiscipl<strong>in</strong>arity <strong>in</strong> Water Education: Challenges, Perspectivesand Policy Implications <strong>for</strong> South Asia organized by South Asia Consortium <strong>for</strong>Interdiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary Water Resources <strong>Studies</strong> (SaciWATERS), October 3-6 at Kathmandu, Nepal.Lead Rapporteur <strong>for</strong> the theme 'Gaps <strong>in</strong> Water Research <strong>in</strong> South Asia: Emerg<strong>in</strong>g and NewIssues and Challenges'.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Assignments: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC1. Envision<strong>in</strong>g the City (Semester I, 5 lectures) also co-conducted one walk <strong>in</strong> the city as part ofthe 'Envision<strong>in</strong>g the City' course.2. Research methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> (Semester I, 3 lectures).3. Theories of Development (Semester II, 4 lectures).Others1. Two lectures on History of Development Ideas on March 9, 2011 <strong>in</strong> the Certificate Course titled'Perspectives on Environment and Development: Concepts and Debates' organized by theAshoka Trust <strong>for</strong> Research <strong>in</strong> Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru.Research Supervision (M.Phil.)1. Darshana SreedharTitle of thesis: Theoriz<strong>in</strong>g Lesbian Desire: Dissident Voices <strong>in</strong> Twentieth Century Kerala.Other ActivitiesReview of Karen Bakker's book titled 'Privatiz<strong>in</strong>g Water: Governance Failure and the World'sUrban Water' <strong>for</strong> Orient Blackswan <strong>in</strong> 2010. External reviewer of one article <strong>for</strong> Geo<strong>for</strong>um <strong>in</strong> 2010.External reviewer of one article <strong>for</strong> the ISEC (Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>Social</strong> and Economic Change)Work<strong>in</strong>g Paper Series <strong>in</strong> 2010.Part of a Thematic Subgroup on 'Water Entitlements and Allocations <strong>for</strong> Livelihoods andEnvironment' of the Forum <strong>for</strong> Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts <strong>in</strong> India. The group hasrecently put together a report on the right to water, which is meant to be used as an advocacytool aimed at policy-makers as well as a resource <strong>for</strong> civil society organizations.41ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Responsibilities Was a member of the Work<strong>in</strong>g Committee on Gender Sensitization aga<strong>in</strong>stSexual Harassment till October 2010 and subsequently became a member(and chairperson) of the first Committee on Gender Sensitization aga<strong>in</strong>st Sexual Harassment.Part of two academic committees (the MPhil sub-committee and the PhD committee) as wellas the Campus and Computer sub-committees.Lakshmi Subramanian (Professor, History)ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PLANSBeg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g a book project on Piracy and Border Mak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the western Indian littoral betweenthe late eighteenth and mid n<strong>in</strong>eteenth century. The project <strong>in</strong>tends to look at the ways <strong>in</strong>which regimes of legality and piracy were configured from the late eighteenth century <strong>in</strong>what was an archetypal maritime littoral region. It also attempts to review the dynamics ofimperial border mak<strong>in</strong>g and local politics and to recover the voices of more obscure sectionsof maritime society who have been consigned to the marg<strong>in</strong>s by both colonial descriptionsand constructions of piracy as well as by the more terrestrial bias of historical analysis. Itdraws on exist<strong>in</strong>g literature on law and legality <strong>in</strong> British India, on piracy and contrabandtrade <strong>in</strong> the western littoral that accommodated multiple jurisdictions and facilitatedcontraband trade operations across English, Portuguese and local spheres of <strong>in</strong>fluence toaddress the bias that characterizes the understand<strong>in</strong>g of the British Empire <strong>in</strong> India as apredom<strong>in</strong>antly territorial enterprise.Cont<strong>in</strong>u<strong>in</strong>g with research on the politics of trans-nationalism <strong>in</strong> the Indian Ocean throughthe lens of Indian editors and their journals <strong>in</strong> the twentieth century.This project draws largely on the private papers of Banarsidas Chaturvedi (NationalArchives, Delhi) and on the Vishal Bharat (the H<strong>in</strong>di journal that he edited and that isavailable <strong>in</strong> the Jamia Millia Islamia Archives, also <strong>in</strong> New Delhi) and on the newspapers/journal that P.S.Iyer and G.Natesan edited from Madras and Durban respectively. The projectwishes to understand and theorise the nature of overseas experience of the n<strong>in</strong>eteenthcentury of Indian capital and labour, community <strong>for</strong>mation and cultural practices and theways <strong>in</strong> which publicists like G. Natesan, Banarsidas Chaturvedi and Bhavani Dayal chose torepresent these experiences. How and why did the concern with the overseas Indian becomea matter of popular <strong>in</strong>terest appeal<strong>in</strong>g to a wide section of readership and how did thesegenerate debates on broader questions of citizenship, agency and rights, cultural practicesthat side stepped the national and spoke directly with the trans-national are some of thequestions that the research <strong>in</strong>tends to address.Work<strong>in</strong>g on a book commissioned by Pengu<strong>in</strong> India. This is a study of three merchant/entrepreneurs of colonial India (Tarwady Arjunji Nathji, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy andPremchand Raychand and is provisionally entitled Bus<strong>in</strong>ess <strong>in</strong> the time of Transition).42ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Public Lectures, Workshops and Conferences1. Invited keynote speaker <strong>for</strong> the conference on 'Salty geographies: Suballtern maritimenetworks, spaces and practices' organized by the University of Glasgow 7-8 October 2010.2. Invited speaker <strong>for</strong> a one day Conference on South Indian Music organised by the SouthernMethodist University, Dallas, U.S.A, on 9 October 2010.3. Directed and coord<strong>in</strong>ated along with Professor Engseng Ho, Duke University anInternational workshop on Inter-Asian connections organised by the <strong>Social</strong> Science ResearchCouncil, New York and Asia Research <strong>in</strong>stitute, National University of S<strong>in</strong>gapore (7-10December 2010). The panel was titled Old Histories, New geographies: ContrapuntalMobilities of Trade and State across Asia and was selected through a competitive process.4. Invited speaker at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar organized by Venkateshwara College, Delhi University and theSangeet Natak Akademi on 'A Note <strong>in</strong> time: Music as <strong>Social</strong> text', January 12-14, 2011.5. Acted as a resource person and chaired a session at the Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshopon Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism organized by CSSSC at Jaipur from 23rd to 28thJanuary 2011.6. Invited speaker at a sem<strong>in</strong>ar on 'Empires and Networks Maritime Asian Experiences N<strong>in</strong>thto N<strong>in</strong>eteenth centuries' organised by the Institute of south East Asian studies, NationalUniversity of S<strong>in</strong>gapore 21-22 February 2011.Teach<strong>in</strong>g Responsibilities: M.Phil. <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, CSSSC1. Problems of Historical method and writ<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Semester I (6 lectures).Others1. Taught, on <strong>in</strong>vitation, a module on the Indian Ocean (M.Phil class) Institute <strong>for</strong> <strong>for</strong>eignpolicy studies, <strong>Calcutta</strong> University, September-October 2010.2. Taught at the Refresher Course organized by the Department of History 3 February and 15February 2011.Student SupervisionPh.D. at CSSSC1. Mrunal PatnekarTitle of thesis: H<strong>in</strong>du-Muslim riots <strong>in</strong> Bombay between 1920 and 1948.M.Phil. at CSSSC (2009-2011)1. Sagnik AtarthiTitle of dissertation: Writ<strong>in</strong>g Music <strong>in</strong>to Bengal's Musical Publics.43ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Outside SupervisionPh.D.1. Ms. Susmita Mukherjee (<strong>Calcutta</strong> University)Title of thesis: Women and the Medical profession <strong>in</strong> Colonial Bengal.2. Naresh Kumar (Jamia Millia Islamia)Title of thesis: Music Beyond Musicology Record<strong>in</strong>g Industry and H<strong>in</strong>dustani Classicalmusic <strong>in</strong> twentieth century India.M.Phil.1. Sangbetta Chakraborty (<strong>Calcutta</strong> University)Title of dissertation: Somali Piracy: Onshore anti Piracy actions.Other Academic activities1. Worked as Bhasha reader <strong>for</strong> a project on Indian theatre traditions organized by the Instituteof Economic growth. A detailed report on the translation of Tamil material was submitted tothe coord<strong>in</strong>ator of the project.2. Reviewed a book manuscript <strong>for</strong> Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.3. Sett<strong>in</strong>g up research networks with Dr.Dave Featherstone, University of Glasgow andDr.Nand<strong>in</strong>i Chatterjee, University of Plymouth around the themes of Salty Geographies andCommunities <strong>in</strong> law: self, sociality and the legal process <strong>in</strong> the British Empire'.4. Sett<strong>in</strong>g up a research network on Indian Ocean World with McGill University, Canada.Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Responsibilities1. Coord<strong>in</strong>ator Sephis Resource <strong>Centre</strong>.2. Coord<strong>in</strong>ator, Campus Committee, CSSSC.3. Member, COGSASH.44ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF FACULTY MEMBERS


8... Teach<strong>in</strong>g Programmes of Faculty MembersThe <strong>Centre</strong> runs a two-year M.Phil programme <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> that enjoys <strong>for</strong>mal affiliationwith Jadavpur University, Kolkata. It is one of its k<strong>in</strong>d <strong>in</strong> the country as it is an <strong>in</strong>terdiscipl<strong>in</strong>aryprogramme that engages with the problems of methodology and writ<strong>in</strong>g of the social sciences.The programme is mostly taught by faculty members and Honorary Professors of CSSSC.Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is its coord<strong>in</strong>ator. The programme admits a class strength ofmaximum 25, (general and reserved) which is selected on the basis of a written test and an<strong>in</strong>terview conducted on the basis of the proposal submitted by the applicant.The M.Phil. programme has two parts: one-year teach<strong>in</strong>g-course (semesters I and II) and one-yearresearch-work <strong>for</strong> the writ<strong>in</strong>g of dissertation (semester III and IV). Students are required to studyeight modules (two compulsory and six optional) and sit <strong>for</strong> M.Phil. Qualify<strong>in</strong>g Exam<strong>in</strong>ation. Onlyafter a candidate clears the Qualify<strong>in</strong>g Exam<strong>in</strong>ation s/he is allowed to pursue with dissertation.Dur<strong>in</strong>g Semester III and IV students are required to make three presentations <strong>in</strong> the presence offaculty members.List of Modules taught by faculty-membersM.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> 2010-12Sl.No.FacultyModule1. Anirban Das i. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>iii. Read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Philosophy: Texts, Concepts, Contextsiv. The Subject and the Body: A Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Approachv. Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation2. Bodhisattva Kar i. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>iii. Problems of Historical Writ<strong>in</strong>g and Methodiv. Cultures of Postcolonialityv. Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation3. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya i. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Reth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Political Theory45TEACHING PROGRAMMES


List of Modules taught by faculty-membersM.Phil. <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> 2010-12Sl.No.FacultyModule4. Indrajit Mallick i. F<strong>in</strong>ancial systems: History, Theory and Policy5. Indraneel Dasgupta i. Theories of Developmen6. Keya Dasgupta i. Envision<strong>in</strong>g the City7. Lakshmi Subramanian i. Problems of Historical Writ<strong>in</strong>g and Method8. Manabi Majumdar i. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Reth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Political Theoryiii. Theories of Development9. Manas Ray i. Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation10. Priya Sangameswaran i. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Envision<strong>in</strong>g the Cityiii. Theories of Development11. Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri i. Cultures of Postcolonialityii. Introduction to Modern <strong>Social</strong> Thought12. Saibal Kar i. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>13. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay i. Vocabulary of the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Fem<strong>in</strong>ism and the <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>iii. Cultures of Postcolonialityiv. Read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Philosophy: Texts, Concepts, Contextsv. The Subject and the Body: A Fem<strong>in</strong>ist Approachvi. The Field of Visual Culturevii. Interrogatory Political Economy14. Sugata Marjit i. Theories of Development15. Tapati Guha-Thakurta i. Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>ii. Problems of Historical Writ<strong>in</strong>g and Methodiii. The Field of Visual Culture46TEACHING PROGRAMMES


List of Modules taught by Honorary ProfessorsSl.No.FacultyModule1. Partha Chatterjee i. Introduction to Modern <strong>Social</strong> Thought2. Pradip Kumar Bose i. Read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Philosophy: Texts, Concepts, Contextsii. The Subject and the Body: A Fem<strong>in</strong>ist ApproachResearch Methods <strong>in</strong> Quantitative EconomicsThe RMQE programme is meant <strong>for</strong> research students <strong>in</strong> the early stages of their doctoral research<strong>in</strong> Economics. The objective of this course is to tra<strong>in</strong> potential doctoral students <strong>in</strong> economicstowards <strong>for</strong>mulat<strong>in</strong>g theoretical and empirical models, and analyz<strong>in</strong>g data us<strong>in</strong>g quantitativemethods. The course has received <strong>for</strong>mal recognition from the University of <strong>Calcutta</strong> towardsfulfillment of the six-month coursework requirement as mandated by the UGC.Applicants have to be prepared to undertake full-time course work <strong>for</strong> six months and must havehad prior tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> mathematics (at least as a m<strong>in</strong>or/pass subject) at the undergraduate level.The program gives special consideration to students from the Eastern Region of India. Studentsfrom this region are encouraged to apply, and everyth<strong>in</strong>g else be<strong>in</strong>g equal, such students are givenpreferences over others. In general, preference is given to students who are already registeredPh.D. students and <strong>in</strong> the early stages (first/second year) of their Ph.D. enrollment.The program is divided <strong>in</strong>to three modules. Module I runs from 1st November, 2010 to 10thDecember, 2010; Module II from 20th December, 2010 to 16th February, 2011; and Module III from22nd February, 2011 to 30th April, 2011. The course content of each module is described below.Participants need to take all courses <strong>in</strong> all modules.Participants are evaluated on the basis of a comprehensive written exam <strong>in</strong> each of the three broadareas of Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics at the end of the second and thirdmodules. In addition there are <strong>in</strong>ternal assessments <strong>in</strong> different courses. A mentor from with<strong>in</strong> thefaculty is assigned to every student On successful completion of all three modules of the course,students are awarded a completion certificate by the <strong>Centre</strong>.Each course is taught by faculty members of the <strong>Centre</strong> and em<strong>in</strong>ent faculty members from otherlocal <strong>in</strong>stitutes or universities as well as from academic <strong>in</strong>stitutes outside Kolkata. External facultymembers <strong>in</strong>clude faculty members from Delhi School of Economics, Durham University (UK),Jadavpur University, Indian Statistical Institute, Indian Institute of Management <strong>Calcutta</strong>, LondonSchool of Economics, University of <strong>Calcutta</strong> and other reputed universities and <strong>in</strong>stitutes fromIndia and abroad.The Doctoral ProgrammeThe doctoral programme <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Centre</strong> is affiliated to Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Theprogramme is coord<strong>in</strong>ated by Dr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya. It admits of UGC-JRF and ICSSR47TEACHING PROGRAMMES


fellows besides offer<strong>in</strong>g non stipendiary admission to students who go through a selectionprocedure <strong>in</strong> con<strong>for</strong>mity with UGC-stipulations. Students admitted to the programme arerequired to make regular presentations <strong>in</strong> the presence of faculty members.Library/Comput<strong>in</strong>g and related facilities <strong>for</strong> studentsTHE LIBRARYThe library of the <strong>Centre</strong> rema<strong>in</strong>s open to all students <strong>in</strong> the Doctoral, M.Phil and RMQEprogrammes on all work<strong>in</strong>g days of the <strong>Centre</strong> from 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Each student issubjected to the general rules and procedures of readership <strong>in</strong> the library. Participants have to paya refundable library deposit fee of Rs. 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).COMPUTING FACILITIESRMQE students get access to a computer lab with the requisite comput<strong>in</strong>g software like STATAand E-VIEWS. In addition, students of M.Phil., RMQE and the Ph.D. programme enjoy access tosubscribed electronic databases of CSSSC.Three rooms are designated <strong>for</strong> the students of the M.Phil. and RMQE programmes.48TEACHING PROGRAMMES


9... Publications of Faculty MembersSibaji BandyopadhyayBooks (Authored)a. Prsanga: Jibanananda ['On Jibanananda'], Kolkata: Gangchil, January 2011.b. Bangla Translation of Girish Karnad's English play The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Kolkata: DishaSahitya, July 2010.Book Chapters (Bangla)c. 'Introduction' to Natak Samgraha: Badal Sarkar ['Complete Plays by Badal Sarkar'], (Volume 2),Kolkata: Mitra O Ghosh Publishers, September 2010.d. 'Biplabkatha' ['On Revolution'], Biplaber Prajukti, eds. Sumanta Mukhopadhyay and Nand<strong>in</strong>iJana, Kolkata: Barasat Government College, March 2011.e. 'Banglar L<strong>in</strong>gaprakriti O Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath' ['Bangla Grammatical Gender and Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath'],Bakpati Biswamona: Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath, ed. Sudhir Chakraborty, Kolkata: 'Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Tagore<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong>', Institute of Development <strong>Studies</strong> Kolkata [IDSK], (to be released on 22Sraban 1418 (August 8, 2011)].Other Languagesf. 'Remémorer, remembrer: Section 1: Ritwik Ghatak, Kalidasa et Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Tagore; Section2: Un citoyen parmi tant d'autres' (French translation of 'Ritwik Ghataker Nagarik' [<strong>in</strong>cluded<strong>in</strong> Sibaji Bandyopadhyay's anthology Alibabar Guptabhandar], Le c<strong>in</strong>éma épique de Ritwik Ghatak('The epic c<strong>in</strong>ema of Ritwik Ghatak'), ed. Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Paris: ÉditionsL'Arachnéen, March 2011.g. 'See<strong>in</strong>g and Say<strong>in</strong>g: A Reflection on the Mode and Mechanism of Report<strong>in</strong>g War <strong>in</strong> theMah"bh"rata', Mah"bh"rata Today: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics, eds. Ar<strong>in</strong>dam Chakrabarti andSibaji Bandyopadhyay, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, (<strong>in</strong> press).h. 'A Memorandum on Amnesia', Vivan Sundaram's Victoria Memorial Installation, ed. TapatiGuha-Thakurta, New Delhi: Tulika Books, (<strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g).Peer Reviewed Publications'Translat<strong>in</strong>g GÇt" 2.47 or Invent<strong>in</strong>g the National Motto', <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> Humanities and <strong>Social</strong><strong>Sciences</strong> (SHSS), Volume XVI, Number 1 & 2, Editor: Manas Ray, Shimla: Indian Institute ofAdvanced Study, March 2011.49PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


'A Critique of Non-violence', Sem<strong>in</strong>ar, No. 607 (special number on the Mah"bh"rata), ed.Rakesh Pande, New Delhi, April 2011.Other Publicationsi. 'Mah"bh"rata: Ekti Ascharya Muhurta' ['Mah"bh"rata: A Strange Moment'], Anustup, ed. AnilAcharya, Kolkata, October 2010.j. 'Sudhir Baul Katha' ['On the politics of decod<strong>in</strong>g the esoteric language of Baul songs'], BanglaJournal, ed. Iqbal Karim Hasnu, Ontario, Canada, December 2010.Dwaipayan BhattacharyyaBook Chapter"Party-society, its Consolidation and Crisis: Understand<strong>in</strong>g Political Change <strong>in</strong> West Bengal", <strong>in</strong>Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair (ed.), Theoriz<strong>in</strong>g the Present: Essays <strong>for</strong>Partha Chatterjee (New Delhi: Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press), 2011, 226-250.Ros<strong>in</strong>ka ChaudhuriBooks (Edited)– Co-edited with Elleke Boehmer, The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader (Routledge, UK andIndia), September 2010.Occasional Paper– Modernity at Home: A Genealogy of the Indian Draw<strong>in</strong>g Room (CSSSC Archive PublicationSeries 04), February 2011.Peer-Reviewed Publications– 'The Politics of Nam<strong>in</strong>g: Derozio <strong>in</strong> Two Formative Moments of Literary andPolitical Discourse, <strong>Calcutta</strong>, 1825-31' has been published <strong>in</strong> Modern Asian <strong>Studies</strong><strong>in</strong> Volume 44 part 4 (2010).– 'Letter-Fragments', translations from Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Tagore's Chh<strong>in</strong>napatrabali <strong>in</strong> TheEssential Tagore (Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 82-96.Other Publications– 'Two Tongues', Review of Kalpana Bardhan ed. The Ox<strong>for</strong>d India Anthology of Bengali LiteratureVolume 1, 1861-1941, Volume 2, 1941-1991 (Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, 2010) <strong>in</strong> The TimesLiterary Supplement, April 1, 2011.– Review of Politics, Society and Colonialism: An Alternative Understand<strong>in</strong>g of Tagore's Responsesby Amartya Mukhopadhyay <strong>in</strong> The Book Review, September 2010.50PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Anirban DasBooks (Authored)Toward a Politics of the (Im) Possible: The Body <strong>in</strong> Third World Fem<strong>in</strong>isms (November 2010), AnthemPress, United K<strong>in</strong>gdom.Peer Reviewed Publications"Choice, life and the (m)other: towards ethics <strong>in</strong>/of abortion" (2010) <strong>in</strong> Human Rights andEthics: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Obligations ed., Shashi Motilal, Anthem Press, anacademic impr<strong>in</strong>t of Wimbledon Publish<strong>in</strong>g Company."The History of <strong>Calcutta</strong> Medical College" (co-authored by Samita Sen) (2010) <strong>in</strong> Science andModern India: An Institutional History c. 1784-1947, ed., Uma Dasgupta, PHISPC (Project ofHistory of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Vol XV, Part 4) series, Pearson.Other Publications"Pick<strong>in</strong>g Bra<strong>in</strong>s" [A Review of The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turn<strong>in</strong>g Kuru Scientists <strong>in</strong>toWhitemen, by Warwick Anderson, The Johns Hopk<strong>in</strong>s University Press, Baltimore, 2008] <strong>in</strong>Global South 6(3), July 2010.Pranab Kumar DasPeer Reviewed PublicationsF<strong>in</strong>ancial development and growth <strong>in</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a and India - Some speculations, (jo<strong>in</strong>tly withBasudeb Guha-Khasnabis), Work<strong>in</strong>g Paper No. 53, Programa de Asia Pacifico, Centro Argent<strong>in</strong>ode Estudios Internacionales, Argent<strong>in</strong>a (2010).Other PublicationsFirm <strong>in</strong>vestment and credit constra<strong>in</strong>ts <strong>in</strong> India, 1997-2007: A stochastic frontier approach(jo<strong>in</strong>tly with Sumon Bhaumik and Subal Kumbhakar), Work<strong>in</strong>g Paper No. 1010, WilliamDavidson Institute, University of Michigan, USA.Indraneel DasguptaPeer Reviewed Publications"Repayment vs. Investment Conditions and Exclusivity <strong>in</strong> Lend<strong>in</strong>g Contracts", with S. Bougheasand O. Morrissey, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 167 (2, 2011): 247-265."Does Philanthropy Reduce Inequality?" with R. Kanbur, Journal of Economic Inequality 9 (1,2011): 1-21."Revealed Preference with Stochastic Demand Correspondence", with P.K. Pattanaik, The B.E.Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions 10 (1, 2010): Article 35.51PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Somnath GhosalPeer Reviewed Journal Publicationsa. Ghosal, S. (2011). Importance of Non-Timber Forest Products <strong>in</strong> native household economy.Journal of Geography and Regional Plann<strong>in</strong>g, Vol. 4 (3), p. 159-168.b. Ghosal, S., L<strong>in</strong>, N. and Cross, I. (2010). The role of Open Source Software <strong>for</strong> handl<strong>in</strong>gINSPIRE-compliant data. Geo<strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>matics (CMedia B.V., Netherlands), Vol 13 (8), p. 16-22.Other PublicationsGhosal, S. (2011). Community Based Approach: Why, When and to What Extent? Proceed<strong>in</strong>gs of theNational Sem<strong>in</strong>ar on 'Community, Institutions and Participation <strong>in</strong> Natural Resource Governance',Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India. The paper will be published as a book chapter<strong>in</strong> an edited volume.Tapati Guha-ThakurtaBooks (Jo<strong>in</strong>tly Edited)"Locat<strong>in</strong>g Gandhi <strong>in</strong> Indian Art History: Nandalal Bose and Ramk<strong>in</strong>kar Baij", <strong>in</strong> Anjan Ghosh,Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair, ed., Theoris<strong>in</strong>g the Present: Essays <strong>for</strong> Partha Chatterjee(New Delhi: OUP, 2011).Peer Reviewed publications1. "Fault-l<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> a National Edifice: On the Rights and Offences of Contemporary Indian Art",<strong>in</strong> Sumathi Ramaswamy, ed., Barefoot Across the Nation: M.F Husa<strong>in</strong> and the Idea of India(Routledge, UK, 2010).2. "The Blurr<strong>in</strong>g of Dist<strong>in</strong>ctions: The Artwork and the Religious Icon <strong>in</strong> Contemporary India",<strong>in</strong> Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri and Elleke Boehmer, ed., The Indian Postcolonial (Routledge, UK, 2010).3. "The Many Lives of the Sanchi Stupa", <strong>in</strong> Sudeshna Guha, ed., The Marshall Albums:Archaeology and Photography <strong>in</strong> Colonial India (New Delhi: Alkazi Collection of Photography,2010).4. "Production et reproduction d'un monumnent: le stupa de Sanchi dans l'Inde coloniale",translated from English <strong>in</strong>to French by Aurelien Berra, <strong>in</strong> Annales: Historie, <strong>Sciences</strong> <strong>Social</strong>es,Year 65, No. 6, November-December 2010.Jyotsna JalanMonographs (authored)"Low Mean High Variance: Quality of Primary Education <strong>in</strong> Rural Bengal" (with Jharna Panda).52PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Saibal KarPeer Reviewed Journal PublicationsWage Subsidy and Welfare <strong>in</strong> Develop<strong>in</strong>g Countries (with Hamid Beladi), <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g, Economicsand Politics (Wiley-Blackwell), 2011.Recession <strong>in</strong> the Skilled Sector and Implications <strong>for</strong> In<strong>for</strong>mal Wage (with S. Marjit and S. Chaudhuri),<strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g, Research <strong>in</strong> Economics (Elsevier), 2011.Book Review: Revisit<strong>in</strong>g the In<strong>for</strong>mal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach, By SarbajitChaudhuri and Ujja<strong>in</strong>i Mukhopadhyay, NY, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London: Spr<strong>in</strong>ger, 2010,New Zealand Economic Papers, Volume 44, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 289-293.Peer Reviewed Books/Monographs: Authored/EditedThe Outsiders: Economic Re<strong>for</strong>m and In<strong>for</strong>mal Labour <strong>in</strong> a Develop<strong>in</strong>g Economy (Book, with SugataMarjit) New Delhi, London: Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, 2011.Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)The Multi Fibre Arrangement and South Asia, (with Mausumi Kar) <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g, S. MansoobMurshed et al. (eds.) South-South Globalisation Challenges and Opportunities <strong>for</strong>Development: UK: Routledge, 2011.Migrant remittances <strong>in</strong> the state of Kerala, India, <strong>in</strong> A. Stoler et al. (Eds.) <strong>Studies</strong> on Trade andPoverty Reduction <strong>for</strong> the Asia-Pacific Region, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press andWTO: Geneva, 2010.Other PublicationsIn<strong>for</strong>mal Sector and Corruption: An empirical Investigation <strong>for</strong> India (with Nabamita Dutta andSanjukta Roy) IZA Discussion Paper # 5579. Top ten downloads list SSRN (March-June, 2011).Emigration, Wage Inequality and Vanish<strong>in</strong>g Sectors (with Sugata Marjit), available as GEPResearch Paper 09/20, Leverhume <strong>Centre</strong>, University of Nott<strong>in</strong>gham, UK.Asymmetric In<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>in</strong> the Labour Market, Contract Menu and Self-Employment (withBibhas Saha), IZA Discussion Paper # 5508 (Feb '11).Manabi MajumdarPeer Reviewed Publications'Politicians, Civil Servants, or Professionals? Voices on their work and worth', ContemporaryEducation Dialogue. 8,1, 2011.Indrajit MallickPeer Reviewed Publications'On the existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium<strong>in</strong> Two Person Discrete Games', EconomicsLetters, May 2011.53PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Manas RayBooks/Monographs: Authored/EditedEdited, <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> Humanities and <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> (the journal of Indian Institute of AdvancedStudy, Shimla) (comb<strong>in</strong>ed issue: 2009), published 2011, 300 pages.Peer Reviewed Publications"Between Determ<strong>in</strong>ation and Responsiveness: A Third Space <strong>in</strong> Foucault?", <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong>Humanities and <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, Comb<strong>in</strong>ed Issue 2009, published 2011, pp. 269-280.Other Publications (this may <strong>in</strong>clude reviews, newspaper articles and any non-peerreviewed articles) "Foucault's Law" (review), Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol 6, number 3, 2010,pp. 465-469."To the Land of Silica" (translated), Indian Literature (the journal of Sahitya Akademi, Delhi),August-September issue, 2010, pp. 62-83.Priya SangameswaranBook ChaptersExtend<strong>in</strong>g the Security Discourse to the Environment and Water, <strong>in</strong> Paradigms of Security <strong>in</strong>Asia edited by Arpita Basu Roy, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2011, pp. 61-73.Chapter titled "Scale, Diverse Economies, and Ethnographies of the State" <strong>for</strong>thcom<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>Water Resources Policies <strong>in</strong> South Asia: Analyz<strong>in</strong>g Regional and Country Experiences edited byAnjal Prakash, Sreoshi S<strong>in</strong>gh, S. Janakarajan, Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Dibya RatnaKansakar.Peer Reviewed PublicationsInterdiscipl<strong>in</strong>arity <strong>in</strong> Water Research, Education and Activism <strong>in</strong> South Asia: The Way Ahead(jo<strong>in</strong>tly with Vishal Nara<strong>in</strong> and K J Joy). Forthcom<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> South Asian Water <strong>Studies</strong>.Other Publications"Development via the Lens of Value and Labour", review of V<strong>in</strong>ay Gidwani's Capital,Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work <strong>in</strong> India <strong>in</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> Humanitiesand <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> (Journal of the Inter-University <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Humanities and <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>,Volume XVI (1 and 2), 2009, pp. 281-287."Water <strong>for</strong> basic needs" and "Water <strong>for</strong> socio-cultural needs" <strong>in</strong> K J Joy et al., 2011, 'Life,Livelihoods, Ecosystems, Culture: Entitlement and Allocations of Water <strong>for</strong> Compet<strong>in</strong>g Uses'(position paper by the thematic subgroup on Water Entitlements and Allocations<strong>for</strong> Livelihoods and Ecosystem Needs), Pune: Forum <strong>for</strong> Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts<strong>in</strong> India.54PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


Lakshmi SubramanianBooks (Authored)1. A history of India 1707-1857. (Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2010).2. From the Tanjore Court to the Madras Music Academy. A social history of music <strong>in</strong> south India.Second edition with a new <strong>in</strong>troduction (Ox<strong>for</strong>d University Press, 2011).Book Chapters3. 'Community, Nation, Diaspora and the Public Sphere <strong>in</strong> the Indian Ocean' <strong>in</strong> Isabel Hofmeyr,M.N.Pearson and Pamila Gupta (edited) Eyes across the water Navigat<strong>in</strong>g the Indian Ocean.(Unisa Press, South Africa, 2010).4. 'Indian Ocean communities <strong>in</strong> historical perspective' <strong>in</strong> Shanti Moorthy and AsrafJamal edited Indian Ocean <strong>Studies</strong> Cultural, <strong>Social</strong>, and Political Perspectives. (Routledge,U.S.A., 2010).55PUBLICATIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS


10... Academic EventsThe <strong>Centre</strong> ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s an active sem<strong>in</strong>ar series <strong>in</strong> addition to host<strong>in</strong>g a number of conferences andworkshops. Several workshops <strong>for</strong>m part of the projects undertaken by the <strong>Centre</strong>. The EconomicsStudy Group runs a regular series while the faculty is encouraged to make presentations of theirongo<strong>in</strong>g work. In addition, the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>in</strong>vites visit<strong>in</strong>g academics of stature as well as youngerscholars to present their work. The annual presentations of doctoral students is also an importantactivity <strong>in</strong> the academic calendar on 2010-2011.General Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. 5 April, 2010: Dr. Henrique Espada Rodrigues Lima Filho, Professor Adjunto, Departmentof History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catar<strong>in</strong>a, Brasil. Preserv<strong>in</strong>g the Essence ofConventions: The Regulation of Domestic Labour <strong>in</strong> N<strong>in</strong>eteenth-century Brazil.2. 26 April, 2010: Dr. Pallavi Banerjee, Department of Sociology, University of Ill<strong>in</strong>ois atChicago. The Role of Religious Involvement <strong>in</strong> the Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women:Repressive or Liberat<strong>in</strong>g Force?3. 9 August, 2010: Debora Sp<strong>in</strong>i, Department of Humanities and <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, SyracuseUniversity <strong>in</strong> Florence. Civil Society and the Democratisation of Global Public Space.4. 13 September, 2010: Michael Dillon, (Professor of IR, Lancaster University, UK), and JulianReid (Professor of IR, Lapland University, F<strong>in</strong>land), 'The Halle Orphanage,Polizeiwissenschaft, Religion, and Imperialism and Development and The Debased andPolitically Degraded Subject of Resilience.5. 20 September, 2010: Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamdi, Professor of Psychology at the City Universityof New York. Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata, and Culture: The History ofUnderstand<strong>in</strong>g and Understand<strong>in</strong>g of History.6. 27 September, 2010: Dr. Luke S<strong>in</strong>well, Post-doctoral fellow at the Research Unit <strong>for</strong> <strong>Social</strong>Change, University of Johannesburg. Knowledge Production and <strong>Social</strong> Movements:Possibilities <strong>for</strong> Participatory Engagement with Poor People's Movements <strong>in</strong> PostapartheidSouth Africa.7. 1 October, 2010: Dr. Elisa T. Bertuzzo, Associate Professor at Humboldt University, Facultyof Ethnology. Fragmented Dhaka - Analys<strong>in</strong>g everyday life with Henri Lefebvre's theory ofproduction of space.8. 13 October, 2010: Dr. Stephen Legg, Assistant Professor at the School of Geography,University of Nott<strong>in</strong>gham. Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities andInterwar India.56ACADEMIC EVENTS


9. 18 November, 2010: Dr. Jacques Arnould Ph.D. <strong>in</strong> History of <strong>Sciences</strong>, Ph. D. <strong>in</strong> Theology ofthe French Space Agency (CNES). The new world of nanotechnologies: between promises,fears and debates.10. 1 December, 2010: Prof. Philip A. Lutgendorf, Professor of H<strong>in</strong>di and Modern Indian<strong>Studies</strong>, University of Iowa. Chai Why? Toward a <strong>Social</strong> History of the National Dr<strong>in</strong>k.11. 23 December, 2010: Prof. Roma Chatterjee, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School ofEconomics, Folk Art and New Media: Experiments <strong>in</strong> Intertextual Communication.12. 2 and 3 February, 2011: Prof. Partha Chatterjee, CSSSC. The Pedagogy of Culture.13. 21 February, 2011: Bijaya Chanda, Advocate and Human Rights activist. LegalEmpowerment of Under Trial Prisoners: Prelim<strong>in</strong>ary Experience on Objective Condition.14. 7 April, 2011: Prof. Charles Taylor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (Visit<strong>in</strong>g rofessorat CSDS, Delhi,). The Discipl<strong>in</strong>ary Revolution.Special Academic Events1. A Sem<strong>in</strong>ar In Memory of Dr. Anjan Ghosh was organized on 21 December 2010. ProfessorGyanendra Pandey (professor <strong>in</strong> History, Emory University, Atlanta, U.S.A) delivered a talkon Subalternity of Difference or the Difference of Subalternity.2. Book release organized on 23 February 2011 jo<strong>in</strong>tly by the CSSSC and O.U.P. Delhi. The book<strong>in</strong> question was Theoriz<strong>in</strong>g the Present: Essays <strong>for</strong> Partha Chatterjee edited by AnjanGhosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair.3. On the event of the successful completion of the project of Bengali advertisements and onbehalf of the Hitesh Ranjan Sanyal Memorial Archive and the IFA, the CSSSC organized aspecial discussion with Professor Gautam Bhadra on 23 March 2011. Professor Bhadradiscussed his newly published book Nera Battolai Jai Kaw'bar?.Economics Study Group Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. 11 June, 2010: Dr. Kaushik Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.Emergence of <strong>in</strong>dependent candidates: A negative b<strong>in</strong>omial regression model of an Indianparliamentary election.2. 25 June, 2010: Prof. Debabrata Datta, The Institute of Management Technology, Gaziabad.West Bengal Government F<strong>in</strong>ance - A Critical Look.3. 8 July, 2010: Prof. Uday Rajan, Stephen M. Ross School of Bus<strong>in</strong>ess, University of Michigan,USA. Optimal Corporate Governance <strong>in</strong> the Presence of an Activist Investor.4. 10 August, 2010: Prof. Kunal Sen, Institute <strong>for</strong> Development Policy and management, TheUniversity of Manchester. Trade Openness, labor <strong>in</strong>stitutions and flexibilisation: Theoryand Evidence from India.57ACADEMIC EVENTS


5. 20 September, 2010: Prof. Parantap Basu, Durham University. Inflation, Human Capital, andTob<strong>in</strong>'s Q.6. 23 September / 25 August, 2010: Dr. Nabamita Dutta, University of Wiscons<strong>in</strong> - La Crosse.The PTA Factor: Role of Preferential Trade Agreements <strong>in</strong> the Trade-Institution Relation.7. 4 November, 2010: Prof. Arnab Basu, College of William and Mary. Aversion to Poverty andRelative Deprivation? An Analysis of Consumers' Will<strong>in</strong>gness to Pay <strong>for</strong> Fair TradeCoffee.8. 30 December, 2010: Dr. Kaniska Dam, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas,Mexico. Optimal assignment of CEOs to firms: implications <strong>for</strong> market power, executivecompensation and managerial <strong>in</strong>centive.9. 11 February, 2011: Prof. Sudeshna Maitra, York University. Who are the Indian MiddleClass? A Mixture Model of Class Membership Based on Durables Ownership.Staff Sem<strong>in</strong>ars1. 8 March, 2011: Dr. Indrajit Mallick, CSSSC. The Contours of Contract Law.2. 24 February, 2011: Dr. Madhumita Sengupta, CSSSC-NRTT Post-Doctoral Fellow. Orient<strong>in</strong>gProgress: A Few Aspects of Education <strong>in</strong> N<strong>in</strong>eteenth-Century Assam.Conferences and Workshops (Economics)The CSSSC-UNICEF <strong>Social</strong> Inclusion Cell at the CSSSC organized a one-day workshop onInclusive Goals, Exclusive Practices on April 19, 2010. Dr. Saibal Kar was the coord<strong>in</strong>ator of boththe conferences.The workshop was <strong>in</strong>augurated by Dr.Anjan Ghosh and the keynote address was delivered byProfessor Virg<strong>in</strong>ius Xaxa of the Department of Sociology, Delhi University. Paper presentationswere made by Prashant Negi, Deepita Chakravarty, Ridhita Bannerjee and Sohail Firdaus. Therewas a panel discussion moderated by Professor Sugata Marjit, the other participants be<strong>in</strong>g SisterCyril of Loreto School, Sealdah and Kumar Rana of the Pratichi Trust.The <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> organized two International Conferences on Advances<strong>in</strong> Economic Theory on July 22, 2010 and December 22, 2010 respectively. Dr. Saibal Kar was thecoord<strong>in</strong>ator of both the conferences.The <strong>in</strong>augural address on July 22, 2010 was delivered by Sugata Marjit, Director, CSSSC. The fivesessions that followed were chaired by Professor Abhirup Sarkar of the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata, Soumyen Sikdar and Arijit Sen of Indian Institute of Management, <strong>Calcutta</strong>, Jyotsna Jalanof CSSSC and Asis Kumar Banerjee of Jadavpur University respectively. The papers presentedwere 'Credible <strong>Social</strong> Learn<strong>in</strong>g' by Professor Kalyan Chatterjee, Pennsylvania State University andDr. Bhaskar Dutta, University of Warwick, 'Do Opportunity Costs Matter <strong>in</strong> a Sequential ContributionPublicGoods Game?' by Dr. Utteyo Dasgupta, Frankl<strong>in</strong> and Marshall College, 'Conflict and Mobility:58ACADEMIC EVENTS


Resource Shar<strong>in</strong>g among Groups' by Dr. Joyee Deb, New York University, 'Partial Harmonization ofCorporate Taxes among Asymmetric Countries <strong>in</strong> a Repeated Game Sett<strong>in</strong>g' by Jun-ichi Itaya, HokkaidoUniversity and 'Susta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g a Consumption Target under Uncerta<strong>in</strong>ty' by Dr. Mukul Majumdar,Cornell University and Dr. Nigar Hashimzade, University of Read<strong>in</strong>g.The <strong>in</strong>augural session of the December 22, 2010 International Conference on Advances <strong>in</strong>Economic Theory was addressed by Professor Jyotsna Jalan of CSSSC. Five papers were presentedthereafter. These were chaired by Abhirup Sarkar and Tarun Kabiraj of the Indian StatisticalInstitute, Kolkata, Professor Indraneel Dasgupta of CSSSC, DR. Asis Kumar Banerjee and Dr. RajatAcharyya of Jadavpur University. The presentations were 'Discipl<strong>in</strong>e or Disruption? StakeholderRelationships and the Effect of takeover Threat' by Sudipto Dasgupta, Hong Kong University ofScience and Technology, 'Secret Reserves and the Right of Refusal <strong>in</strong> Auctions: Lokshaan <strong>in</strong> Auction' byAbhijit Sengupta, University of Sydney, 'Dynamic Mechanisms' by Sambuddha Ghosh, BostonUniversity, 'The Economics of Self-Control' by Debraj Ray, New York University [with DougBernheim (Stan<strong>for</strong>d), and Sev<strong>in</strong> Yeltek<strong>in</strong> (Carnegie Mellon)] and 'Collusion, Experts and Incentives:Can reputation of experts and op<strong>in</strong>ions outside firms serve as Checks and Balances?' by Sanjay Banerjee,University of Essex.National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS): Current Situation and Emerg<strong>in</strong>gPriorities <strong>for</strong> Research 5-6 August 2010.The purpose of the workshop was to familiarize the <strong>in</strong>vestigators associated with the InternationalInstitute of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Studies</strong>, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and the CSSSC with the first handexperiences of <strong>in</strong>dividuals and organizations work<strong>in</strong>g on the NREGS at the level of policy mak<strong>in</strong>gand implementation. The workshop consisted of four sessions.Session ISession IISession IIISession IVRole of NREGS <strong>in</strong> ensur<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong>clusive development trajectory <strong>for</strong> rural India.Implementation of the NREGS; Decentralization, <strong>in</strong>clusion and rural capture.Reflection by Research Team.Household level impact of NREGS.Rural Infrastructure creation and long term growth Reflection by Research team.One day workshop cum conference titled Strengthen<strong>in</strong>g Rural Decentralisation <strong>in</strong> West Bengal:Initiatives and Challenges was organized by the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> (CSSSC) <strong>in</strong>association with Department of International Development (DFID), UK and Department ofPanchayats and Rural development, Government of West Bengal on February 22, 2011. Dr. PranabKumar Das was the coord<strong>in</strong>ator of the conference.The welcome address was given by Sugata Marjit, Director, CSSSC. This was followed by<strong>in</strong>troductory remarks by Shantanu Das, DFID, from the DFID perspective and an address by theGuest of Honour, Bankim Chandra Ghosh, M<strong>in</strong>ister of State, Panchayats and Rural Development,Government of West Bengal. The keynote lecture was delivered by Jyotsna Jalan, CSSSC, followedby a presentation on 'Strengthen<strong>in</strong>g Rural Decentralisation: The Way Forward' by Indira Rajaraman,59ACADEMIC EVENTS


Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and Member of XIIIth F<strong>in</strong>ance Commission. In the first session,chaired by Dr. Buddhadeb Ghosh of Institute of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Studies</strong>, Kolkata Perspectives, Policy<strong>in</strong>itiatives and Implementation of the strengthen<strong>in</strong>g Rural Decentralisation Programme <strong>in</strong> West Bengalwas discussed and three papers were presented by M. N. Ray and Dilip Kr. Pal, Govt. of WestBengal, Pranab Kumar Das, CSSSC and Dilip Ghosh, Govt. of West Bengal. The second session waschaired by Kripa Ananthpur, MIDS. A discussion on Perspectives and experiences of RuralDecentralisation <strong>in</strong> other States was held with three presentations made by S. M. Vijayanand, Govt.of Kerala, Dwaipayan Bhattacharya, CSSSC and Yam<strong>in</strong>i Aiyar and Ambarish Dongre, CPR, NewDelhi. This was followed by a panel discussion on Emerg<strong>in</strong>g Challenges and Way Forward <strong>for</strong>Decentralisation <strong>in</strong> West Bengal/India with Buddhadeb Ghosh, Institute of <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Studies</strong>,Kolkata, Harihar Bhattacharya, Bardhaman University, Prasad Ranjan Ray, Chairman, WBERC and<strong>for</strong>mer Pr<strong>in</strong>cipal Secretary, Land Re<strong>for</strong>ms and Revenue, Govt. of West Bengal and Surajit C.Mukhopadhayay, CSSSC as panelists and Indraneel Dasgupta, CSSSC as moderator.The conclud<strong>in</strong>g session on Policy Conclusions and Th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g Ahead was presented by SugataMarjit, CSSSC. The day came to an end with a vote of thanks from Sujata Sen, of the British Council<strong>in</strong> <strong>Calcutta</strong>.Conferences and Workshops (others)The Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund (PGMF) annual workshop 2010 was held at CSSSC on July 1and 2, 2010. The theme of this year's workshop was Communities at the Marg<strong>in</strong>s: Practices andLivelihood.This annual workshop was part of the project supported by the Papiya Ghosh Memorial Fund <strong>for</strong>young researchers. Of the ten paper-presenters, three were the exist<strong>in</strong>g Papiya Ghosh MemorialFellowship-holders. All the papers were commented upon by discussants, compris<strong>in</strong>g the CSSSCfaculty and scholars from other <strong>in</strong>stitutions of the country. Prof. Shahid Am<strong>in</strong> of Delhi Universitydelivered the keynote address titled "The Marg<strong>in</strong>al Jotter: The Curious Case of Ram GharibChaube".NRTT workshops2010 November: The Public and the private: Lives, Institutions, PracticesIn keep<strong>in</strong>g with the larger mandate of the NRTT project <strong>for</strong> enhanc<strong>in</strong>g research capacities amongbeg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g doctoral, doctoral and post doctoral students, the workshop was structured arounddiscussion of pre-circulated key read<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> the morn<strong>in</strong>g and presentation of student work <strong>in</strong> theafternoons followed by comments by designated discussants. The resource persons were carefullychosen and were drawn from both the faculty at the <strong>Centre</strong> and from other <strong>in</strong>stitutions anduniversities. What dist<strong>in</strong>guished the workshop was both the high level of academic rigour and<strong>in</strong>teraction as well as the emphasis on <strong>in</strong>terdiscipl<strong>in</strong>ary orientation towards the study of socialsciences. The selected participants were Ashokan Nambiar C, Bhuvi Gupta, T. Chandramouli,Debasis Poddar, Partha Pratim Shil, Shruti Dubey, Shivani Kapoor, Himadri Chatterjee, Javed IqbalWani, Geetika Bapna, Mohammed Faisal, S. Rajasulochana, Abhishek Mitra, Kaustubh Mani60ACADEMIC EVENTS


Sengupta, Saayan Chattopadhyay, Saikat Mitra, Samrat Sengupta, Sarbani Bandyopadhyay, SayamGhosh, Shruti Dubey, Sruthi Muraleedharan, Susmita Ghosh.Workshop under the Ford Foundation Project29 November, 2010: This one day workshop saw <strong>for</strong>mal presentations by doctoral and postdoctoral fellows who had been awarded short term fellowships under the Ford project. Thepresentations were the outcome of research they had undertaken dur<strong>in</strong>g the tenure of theirfellowship and were subsequently committed to publication under the Occasional papers series ofthe <strong>Centre</strong>.The presentations were as follows:Ms. Swati Chatterjee, (Doctoral <strong>in</strong>tern work<strong>in</strong>g under the supervision of Dr. Bodhisatva Kar,CSSSC) Dress<strong>in</strong>g Room Of Modernity? Notes on the Politics of Attire <strong>in</strong> Late N<strong>in</strong>eteenth Century<strong>Calcutta</strong>.Dr. Mollica Dastider (Post doctoral fellow) From Major to M<strong>in</strong>or: The Contested Category of NepaliLanguage Community <strong>in</strong> the East Himalayas.Dr. Sraman Mukherjee (Post Doctoral fellow) Ru<strong>in</strong>s & Temple Build<strong>in</strong>g: Construct<strong>in</strong>g the MulagandhaKuti Vihara at Sarnath.Dr. Madhumita Sengupta (Post doctoral fellow) Of Alienations: The state and temples <strong>in</strong> n<strong>in</strong>eteenthand early twentieth century Assam.Ford Foundation Project and Sephis23-28 January, 2011: 16th Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop held <strong>in</strong> Jaipur on Empire, Nation andCosmopolitanism.Report on the WorkshopThe Cultural <strong>Studies</strong> Workshop organized by the <strong>Centre</strong> has over the years ga<strong>in</strong>ed enormousreputation and is seen as enabl<strong>in</strong>g doctoral students at different stage of their work to ref<strong>in</strong>e theirresearch methodology. This workshop like its predecessors generated a very significant responsewith more than 40 applications from <strong>in</strong>ternational students of the south alone. The idea beh<strong>in</strong>dthe workshop was to revisit the Kantian idea of perpetual peace <strong>in</strong> the context of post colonialconflict and tensions stemm<strong>in</strong>g from the aftermath of Empire and Nation. Under the broad theme,five sub-themes were spelt out to facilitate submission of research papers by young students. Theresource persons <strong>in</strong>cluded six faculty members and eight external faculty persons. These wereUday Kumar (Delhi University), Prathama Bannerjee (CSDS, Delhi University), Rahul Gov<strong>in</strong>d(Delhi University), Sanjay Srivastava (IEG, Delhi University), Janaki Nair (J.N.U. Delhi),Ravi Sundaram (CSDS, Delhi University), Saumyabrata Chowdhury (Institute of Advanced<strong>Studies</strong>, Shimla) and Rajarshi Dasgupta (J.N.U, Delhi). The <strong>Centre</strong>'s faculty <strong>in</strong>cluded TapatiGuha-Thakurta, Partha Chatterji, Manas Ray, Lakshmi Subramanian, Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri andAnirban Das.61ACADEMIC EVENTS


Annual Ph.D. Presentation 2010DAY 1: 08.12.2010Sl.No.Name &SignatureDiscipl<strong>in</strong>e TimeName ofSupervisorTitle ofPresentation1. Sarani Khatua Geography 10:00to11:00Dr. Keya Dasgupta DemocraticDecentralisation orCorporatisation?Trends <strong>in</strong> UrbanGovernance <strong>in</strong> ContemporaryKolkata.2. Iman Kumar Mitra Economics 11:00to12:00Dr. Bodhisattva Kar The Reality of EconomicModels: FewObservations.3. Sushmita Ghosh History 12:00to01:00Dr. Anirban Das Cosmo politics andmascul<strong>in</strong>ities: Th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>gthrough contemporaryH<strong>in</strong>di c<strong>in</strong>ema.LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm4. Sreemoyee Ghosh PoliticalScience02:00to03:00Dr. ManabiMajumdarPolitical Party andLocal Entrepreneurs:In<strong>for</strong>mal IndustrialPractices <strong>in</strong> Durgapur.5. Tr<strong>in</strong>a NileenaBanerjeeEnglish 03:00to04:00Dr. RajarshiDasguptaSpectacles of Freedomand Misogyny: Representationsof Women<strong>in</strong> Bengali PoliticalTheatre Develop<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> and around theEmergency <strong>in</strong> India(1965-1978).Ph.D. TitleUrban Governance <strong>in</strong>Kolkata MunicipalCorporation: A Focuson Poverty AlleviationPolicies.Some Aspects of theHistorical Evolutionof the EconomicDiscipl<strong>in</strong>e.Some Aspects of theHistorical Evolutionof the EconomicDiscipl<strong>in</strong>e.Organized In<strong>for</strong>mality?The Case ofIndustrial In<strong>for</strong>malWomen Workers <strong>in</strong>Durgapur.Per<strong>for</strong>mance, Autonomyand thePolitics of the Marg<strong>in</strong>al:Women <strong>in</strong> theGroup TheatreMovement <strong>in</strong> India(1950-2005).62ACADEMIC EVENTS


Annual Ph.D. Presentation 2010DAY 1: 08.12.2010Sl.No.Name &SignatureDiscipl<strong>in</strong>e TimeName ofSupervisorTitle ofPresentation6. Parama Banerjee Geography 04:00to05:00Dr. Keya Dasgupta Participation,Projects, Policies andBeyond: The CaseStudy of ChakadobaVillage, BankuraAnnual Ph.D. Presentation 2010DAY 2: 09.12.20107. ParomitaBrahmachariFilm <strong>Studies</strong> 10:00to11:00Prof. SibajiBandyopadhyayPolitical Party andLocal Entrepreneurs:In<strong>for</strong>mal IndustrialPractices <strong>in</strong> Durgapur.8. Indira Biswas History 11:00to12:00Prof. GautamBhadra'The Battle <strong>for</strong> Earsdur<strong>in</strong>g World War II:Propaganda Broadcast<strong>in</strong>g,the AIR <strong>Calcutta</strong>,Nirad C.Chaudhuryand <strong>Calcutta</strong>Listeners'.9. Runa DasChowdhurySociology 12:00to01:00Prof. SibajiBandyopadhyayGames without alibi<strong>in</strong> Bangla KishoreSahitya.LUNCH BREAK: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pmPh.D. TitleParticipatory Plann<strong>in</strong>gGovernance:Context of Urban andRural West BengalOther<strong>in</strong>g Spaces, Forgo<strong>in</strong>gSelves: ContemporaryC<strong>in</strong>ema, Globalizationand the NewIndian Middle ClassA History of All-IndiaRadio, <strong>Calcutta</strong>StationThe Interplay betweenthe 'Everyday'and the 'Uncanny':Sociology of GhostStories Written <strong>for</strong>Children <strong>in</strong> Banglabetween 1940 and1980.63ACADEMIC EVENTS


Annual Ph.D. Presentation 2010DAY 2: 09.12.2010Sl.No.Name &SignatureDiscipl<strong>in</strong>e TimeName ofSupervisorTitle ofPresentation10. Debarati Bagchi History 02:00to03:00Dr. Bodhisattva Kar Shift<strong>in</strong>g Logics ofTerritorial Reorganizations<strong>in</strong> ColonialSylhet.11. KamalikaMukherjeeHistory 03:00to04:00Prof. Tapati Guha-ThakurtaDesir<strong>in</strong>g and DesirableWomen: theFem<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>e Figure <strong>in</strong>Advertisements ofEarly TwentiethCentury <strong>Calcutta</strong>12. Suryanand<strong>in</strong>i S<strong>in</strong>ha Visual Art&Art History04:00to05:00Prof. Tapati Guha-ThakurtaDesir<strong>in</strong>g and DesirableWomen: theFem<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>e Figure <strong>in</strong>Advertisements ofEarly TwentiethCentury <strong>Calcutta</strong>13. Kallol Ray English 05:00to06:00Prof. Tapati Guha-ThakurtaThe Ambivalence ofIndian Art History:Rab<strong>in</strong>dranath Tagoreas a Site of Narration For each Ph.D. Scholar: * Presentation: 40 m<strong>in</strong>utes * Discussion: 20 m<strong>in</strong>utesPh.D. TitleMany Spaces ofSylhet: Mak<strong>in</strong>g of aRegional Identity1870s-1940sAllegories of Womanhood:Gender <strong>in</strong> thePopular Visual Cultureof Late N<strong>in</strong>eteenthand EarlyTwentieth-CenturyBengal.The InterceptedPhotograph: Interactionsof Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g andDigital Media withStudio Photography<strong>in</strong> IndiaCatastrophes,Textualities, andSubjectivities: ThePa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs of Rab<strong>in</strong>dranathTagore andthe Narratives ofModernism64ACADEMIC EVENTS


11... Archive & LibraryHitesh Ranjan Sanyal Memorial ArchivesThe Hitesh Ranjan Sanyal Memorial Archives at the CSSSC play a vital role <strong>in</strong> strengthen<strong>in</strong>g itsprofile as a major resource centre of the country. Served by a committed and tra<strong>in</strong>ed staff, itma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s a repository of valuable digitized collections (textual and visual) and from time to timeorganizes exhibitions to present these to a wider public. It also ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s a vibrant publicationprogramme that is <strong>in</strong> part supported by specific research projects like the Ford Foundation project.Several members of the archives take a keen <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong> archive related research activities. Thedigital acquisitions <strong>for</strong> the year 2010-11 <strong>in</strong>clude the Jugantar (1937-1980), the Amrita Bazar Patrika(1872-1890, 1892-1905, 19111 and 1919). Additionally under the Ford Foundation Project, the<strong>Centre</strong> conducted digital documentation of the career-long pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs, sketches and murals of theveteran artist, Shanu Lahiri, dur<strong>in</strong>g April 2010.Activities of the Archive StaffAbhijit Bhattacharya1. Attended (as resource person): a two-day workshop at the School of Women's <strong>Studies</strong>,Tezpur University <strong>for</strong> a panel on "Digital Humanities and State of Archives <strong>in</strong> South Asia" on6 and 7 April 2010.2. Attended a workshop on "Revisit<strong>in</strong>g Research Methods <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>" at SambalpurUniversity and organized <strong>in</strong> Collaboration with Contemporary India Study <strong>Centre</strong> Aarhusand presented a paper titled: "Nationalism, Identity and Culture of Public <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong>Colonial Bengal: A Space <strong>for</strong> Study<strong>in</strong>g Academic Discipl<strong>in</strong>es Beyond University" from 25 - 27November 2010.3. Attended a panel (with S. Theodore Baskaran, Ma<strong>in</strong>ak Biswas, Steven Hughes and RaviVasudevan) on "New Media and Problem of Archives" <strong>in</strong> a conference on "Future of EarlyTamil C<strong>in</strong>ema" at the Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai on 17 and 18 February 2011.Kamalika MukherjeePublished an occasional paper <strong>in</strong> the Archive Series: Parallel Lives: Chart<strong>in</strong>g the History of PopularPr<strong>in</strong>ts of the Bengal and Bombay Presidencies, Archive Work<strong>in</strong>g Paper Series - 03.CSSSC LibrariesThe ma<strong>in</strong> library completed a decade of its function<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the Patuli Campus. It has s<strong>in</strong>ce its<strong>in</strong>ception acquired books through purchase and <strong>in</strong>dividual donations. The library has developedits brochure that awaits pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g.65ARCHIVE & LIBRARY


The library has functioned smoothly <strong>in</strong> the year under review and has facilitated both faculty andstudents <strong>in</strong> the course of their academic activities. Two new computers have been provided to theread<strong>in</strong>g room and the catalogue of periodical hold<strong>in</strong>g has been updated.The Anjan Ghosh Read<strong>in</strong>g Room was set up <strong>in</strong> a designated space <strong>in</strong> the library <strong>in</strong> memory ofDr. Ghosh.Additions: BooksA total of 1038 books added to the <strong>Centre</strong>'s ma<strong>in</strong> library at Patuli. Of this 871 books (83.9%) werepurchased and 167 (26.1%) books received as gift.JournalsFour <strong>for</strong>eign journals published by IMF have been resumed dur<strong>in</strong>g the year 2011. Institutionalsubscriptions <strong>for</strong> Indiastat.com; CMIE-Prowess & JSTOR have been paid. All subscription tojournals have cont<strong>in</strong>ued.World Bank MaterialsAs one of the full Depository Libraries of the World Bank, the CSSSC Library received allrequisite Publications of the World Bank. Dur<strong>in</strong>g the year 38 E mail based enquiries wereattended and over 1512 pages of photocopies of World Bank publications were providedto users.UsersThere has been an appreciable <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> readership. 132 new non-borrow<strong>in</strong>g and 40 borrow<strong>in</strong>gmembers were recorded dur<strong>in</strong>g this period. 2154 users visited the Library dur<strong>in</strong>g this year. Thefigure represents a 33% <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> the users' attendance <strong>in</strong> the Library. Besides, 97 scholarsresid<strong>in</strong>g outside West Bengal used the library; of which 41 (42%) were from various <strong>for</strong>eignuniversities.Reprographic ServicesThe reprographic service provided by the CSSSC Library is efficient and appreciated by itsusers. A total of 2, 21, 138 pages of photocopy materials have been provided dur<strong>in</strong>g the year. Anew photocopy mach<strong>in</strong>e has been acquired.Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong>BooksThe Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> (JSRC) has a total collection of 16 197 books as on 31/3/2010. Of this, 13066 books were received as gifts from em<strong>in</strong>ent scholars and 3131 books werepurchased. Dur<strong>in</strong>g the year under review, 1751 books were added which <strong>in</strong>clude 1623 gift booksand 128 purchased books. However, ow<strong>in</strong>g to f<strong>in</strong>ancial str<strong>in</strong>gency, the number of purchasedbooks has significantly decreased. Dur<strong>in</strong>g the period under report, 240 old books were bound.66ARCHIVE & LIBRARY


Magaz<strong>in</strong>e/Periodicals29 issues of Bengali magaz<strong>in</strong>es Desh and Boier Desh were acquired through purchase dur<strong>in</strong>gthis year.The Collections of Jadunat Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> have cont<strong>in</strong>ued to be significantly used byscholars. The collection of old newspapers like Ananda Bazar Patrika, Telegraph, Bus<strong>in</strong>essStandard, Jugantar and Amrita Bazar Patrika and children's literature <strong>in</strong> Bengali language wereamong the most sought after items. The <strong>Centre</strong> is <strong>in</strong> the process of draft<strong>in</strong>g a questionnaire tosurvey the users' needs.67ARCHIVE & LIBRARY


12... The Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong><strong>for</strong> Historical ResearchIn 2010, the M<strong>in</strong>istry of Culture, Government of India sanctioned an amount of Rs. 3 crorestowards the project of convert<strong>in</strong>g the Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>in</strong>to a small museum, withan archive and library attached to it. The first <strong>in</strong>stallment of this grant has been received andallocated to the civil construction and renovation of the exist<strong>in</strong>g premises at 10 Lake Terrace.Follow<strong>in</strong>g an advertisement <strong>for</strong> the post, and an <strong>in</strong>terview conducted at the CSSSC on March 21,2011 by a Selection Committee, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g external experts from the architectural profession, thefirm of Alleya and Associates has been selected to undertake the work of design and execution ofthe architectural renovation and upgradation of the prec<strong>in</strong>cts to allow its function<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> itsextended capacity of a museum, archival repository, special library and resource centre. Follow<strong>in</strong>gthe preparation of f<strong>in</strong>al draw<strong>in</strong>gs and the mak<strong>in</strong>g of a schedule of tenders <strong>for</strong> civil construction,the physical reconstruction work on the build<strong>in</strong>g is expected to beg<strong>in</strong> by the w<strong>in</strong>ter of 2011.History of the Premises at 10 Lake TerraceSir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958), one of India's em<strong>in</strong>ent historians, settled with his family <strong>in</strong>to hisnew house at 10 Lake Terrace <strong>in</strong> 1938, and lived there until his death <strong>in</strong> 1958. It was then a 2-storied house with Sir Jadunath's study on the ground floor. The front of the house had a coveredportico and the back an open yard. Sir Jadunath's wife, Lady Kadamb<strong>in</strong>i (1880-1964), left a willstat<strong>in</strong>g that after her death, the house should be sold and the proceeds given to a hospital. On herdeath, the trustees of her will were search<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> potential buyers of the house when the thenEducation Advisor of the Government of India, J. P. Naik, negotiated with the trustees and boughtthe house <strong>for</strong> the Indian Council of <strong>Social</strong> Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. The newlyfounded <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> (CSSSC) rented the house <strong>in</strong> 1973 andsubsequently purchased it. The CSSSC's first home was <strong>in</strong> this build<strong>in</strong>g, and some of its mostimportant and eventful history belongs to this location. In the year 2000 the CSSSC moved <strong>in</strong>to itsnew premises at Baishnabghata Patuli and <strong>in</strong> 2004 the Jadunath Sarkar Resource <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong>Historical Research (JSRC) was set up at 10, Lake Terrace.The Jadunath Sarkar <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> Historical Research and the Hitesranjan SanyalMemorial Collections (The CSSSC Archive)The JSRC, along with the archives of the CSSSC, was <strong>in</strong>tended to house and display relativelyunconventional cultural resources that are <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly be<strong>in</strong>g used <strong>in</strong> new historical research, but68THE JADUNATH SARKAR RESOURCE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH


which are not easily available <strong>in</strong> conventional museums, libraries and archives. The CSSSC'sArchive is named the Hitesranjan Sanyal Memorial Collection after Dr. Hitesranjan Sanyal, apioneer social and cultural historian of Bengal, who was a member of the faculty of the <strong>Centre</strong>from 1973 till his sudden death <strong>in</strong> 1988. Begun <strong>in</strong> 1993, the CSSSC's Archive functions primarily asa documentation unit, conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g microfilms, transparencies, photographs and digital copies ofdifferent k<strong>in</strong>ds of textual and visual material from 19th and 20th century Bengal, which exist <strong>in</strong>small <strong>in</strong>stitutional and private hold<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> Bengal. The idea of the archives is to preserve andcollate under a s<strong>in</strong>gle collection analogue and digital copies of Bengali books and periodicals, anda variety of visual material, rang<strong>in</strong>g from pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs, pr<strong>in</strong>ts and photographs to book covers andillustrations, advertisements, labels, posters and pamphlets. While the archives houses primarilycopies of texts and images <strong>in</strong> analogue and digital <strong>for</strong>m, where the orig<strong>in</strong>als lie scattered anddispersed across libraries, <strong>in</strong>stitutions and homes, a parallel collection of orig<strong>in</strong>al rare books,journals, newspapers and photographs that have come <strong>in</strong>to the CSSSC's custody are housed <strong>in</strong> theJSRC. With<strong>in</strong> a few years of its <strong>in</strong>auguration, the JSRC has established itself as a major collectionof sources <strong>for</strong> research <strong>in</strong>to the cultural history of Eastern and North-eastern India.Need and plan <strong>for</strong> a Small Museum and Consolidation of the JSRC and CSSSC'sArchival CollectionsThe rare collections of the JSRC and the CSSSC Archives have not thus far been permanentlydisplayed, largely due to the unavailability of exhibition facilities. Our experience from the fewexhibitions we have held of material from the archival collections is that there is considerable<strong>in</strong>terest not only among scholars but a wider public <strong>in</strong> these rare items that are not usuallycollected or displayed <strong>in</strong> public museums or libraries. There is excellent scope, it was felt, <strong>for</strong>open<strong>in</strong>g a permanent display section of such hold<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>in</strong> the JSRC. Given the historical associationof the build<strong>in</strong>g with Sir Jadunath Sarkar, a chang<strong>in</strong>g museum display of the book collections,papers and photograph albums of several em<strong>in</strong>ent scholars of 20th century Bengal, that have beenacquired by the JSRC, will be extremely appropriate <strong>in</strong> these premises, along with displays ofCSSSC's rich archival hold<strong>in</strong>gs of pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs, pr<strong>in</strong>ts, posters, c<strong>in</strong>ema booklets, advertisements andphotographs of 19th and 20th century Bengal.It is <strong>in</strong>tended to <strong>in</strong>clude the Follow<strong>in</strong>g Components <strong>in</strong> the New Facility:A re-creation of Sir Jadunath Sarkar's study, with a display of his photographs, booksand papers.Reorganised and upgraded spaces which will comb<strong>in</strong>e archival storage and museum display<strong>for</strong> the material <strong>in</strong> the JSRC and Hitesranjan Sanyal Memorial Collection.Display cum storage space <strong>for</strong> large <strong>for</strong>mat materials such as newspapers and maps.Gallery space <strong>for</strong> chang<strong>in</strong>g exhibits.Digital retrieval and documentation unit <strong>for</strong> endangered materials.THE JADUNATH SARKAR RESOURCE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH69


Modern read<strong>in</strong>g rooms equipped with <strong>in</strong>ternet and other facilities required by researchers.Auditorium, sem<strong>in</strong>ar room and discussion rooms to facilitate educational programmes andrelated events.Offices and other support facilities.70THE JADUNATH SARKAR RESOURCE CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH


13... Other Activities1. Over the last year, the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong> has been active <strong>in</strong> complet<strong>in</strong>g thedraft<strong>in</strong>g of a policy on gender sensitization and sett<strong>in</strong>g up a <strong>for</strong>mal committee to undertakegender sensitization.The Work<strong>in</strong>g Committee on Gender Sensitization aga<strong>in</strong>st SexualHarassment (coord<strong>in</strong>ated by Manabi Majumdar) completed the task of draft<strong>in</strong>g a policy ongender sensitization aga<strong>in</strong>st sexual harassment and <strong>for</strong>mally adopted it <strong>in</strong> September 2010.The Work<strong>in</strong>g Committee also oversaw the constitution of the first Committee on GenderSenstization aga<strong>in</strong>st Sexual Harassment (COGSASH), which became effective <strong>in</strong> October2010. Subsequently, a number of steps have been undertaken <strong>for</strong> dissem<strong>in</strong>ation of the policyand <strong>for</strong> general sensitization. These <strong>in</strong>clude:Mak<strong>in</strong>g the policy and the names and contact details of COGSASH members available <strong>in</strong>the public doma<strong>in</strong> (website, notice board, etc).Discussion of the key po<strong>in</strong>ts of the policy <strong>in</strong> dissem<strong>in</strong>ation meet<strong>in</strong>gs with the fourconstituencies <strong>in</strong> the <strong>Centre</strong> (adm<strong>in</strong>istrative staff, faculty, project staff, and students).Preparation of a summary of the policy <strong>in</strong> English as well as <strong>in</strong> Bangla.Posters to sensitize people with regard to sexual harassment put up at various locations <strong>in</strong>the <strong>Centre</strong>.2. The <strong>Centre</strong> extends its support towards <strong>for</strong>mal academic collaboration with other<strong>in</strong>stitutions both national and <strong>in</strong>ternational. It is open to academic visits by heads of<strong>in</strong>stitutions to consider the possibility of academic collaboration and research. On 29 March2011, a group of visit<strong>in</strong>g Ch<strong>in</strong>ese scholars and artists from the West Heavens Project onIntellectual Dialogue between Ch<strong>in</strong>a and India, visited the <strong>Centre</strong> and discussed ways of<strong>for</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong>mal ties between the <strong>Centre</strong> and <strong>in</strong>stitutions <strong>in</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>a. The delegation consisted ofTsung Zung Chang, curator, Hong Kong, Kuan-Hs<strong>in</strong>g Chen, Prof. of Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>,National Chiao of Tung University, Taiwan, Shim<strong>in</strong>g Gao, Deputy Director, Ch<strong>in</strong>a ArtAcademy, Lu X<strong>in</strong>ghua, Department of Philosophy, Tongji University, Ch<strong>in</strong>a, Q<strong>in</strong> Zhijie,artist, Chieh Jen Chen, Prof. of Cultural <strong>Studies</strong>, Taiwan and Chen Yun, Project Manager,West Heavens Project, Shanghai.71OTHER ACTIVITIES


14... Students’ EnrollmentStudent Enrollment <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> M.Phil. 2010-121. Ammel Sharon 9. Rupsa Ray2. Anwesha Ghosh 10. Santanu Sengupta3. Kena Nav<strong>in</strong> Wani 11.Saswati Saha4. Maharghya Chakraborty 12. Sebanti Chatterjee5. Parjanya Sen 13. Sourit Bhattacharya6. Piya Chakraborty 14. Sujeet C. George7. Piya Sr<strong>in</strong>ivasan 15. Yagna Nag Chowdhuri8. Romit ChowdhuryStudent Enrollment <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> M.Phil. 2011-131. Koyel Lahiri 6. Sreenanti Banerjee2. Praskanva S<strong>in</strong>haray 7. Sreya Banerjee3. Sangita Saha 8. P<strong>in</strong>aki Roy4. Sayori Ghoshal 9. Souradip Bhattacharyya5. Senjuti ChakrabortiStudent Enrollment <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> RMQE 2010-111. Mr. Parag Chandra 5. Ms. Chaitali S<strong>in</strong>ha2. Mr. Saptorshee Kanto Chakraborty 6. Ms. Anua Chakraborty3. Ms. Meghna Dutta 7. Mr. Salim Shah4. Ms. Amrita Pramanick72STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Doctoral Students with and without ICSSR Fellowship under supervision of the faculties at CSSSCSl. Name of Scholar Date of ICSSR Discipl<strong>in</strong>e Supervisor & Co TopicNo. Address/Ph. No. Registration Fellowship Supervisor/Email id. w.e.f.1. Debarati Bagchi 23.03.2009 10.11.2008 History Bodhisattva Kar 'Many spacesDelhi (CSSSC) of Sylhet:University Mak<strong>in</strong>g of a'RegionalPrabhu Mohapatra Identity(Delhi University) 1870s-1940s'2. Iman Kumar Mitra 10.06.2009 10.11.2008 Economics Bodhisattva Kar Some aspectsJadavpur (CSSSC) of the historicalUniversity evolution ofVivekananda the EconomicMukherjee J.U.) discipl<strong>in</strong>e3. Parama Banerjee 20.3.2009 03.10.2008 Geography Keya Dasgupta 'Participatory<strong>Calcutta</strong> (CSSSC) Plann<strong>in</strong>gUniversity Governance:Sumona Context ofBandhopadhyay Urban and Rural(C.U.) West Bengal'4. Sarani Khatua 02.06.2008 15.11.2007 Geography Keya Dasgupta Urban<strong>Calcutta</strong> (CSSSC) governanceUniversity <strong>in</strong> KolkataMunicipalCorporation: Afocus on povertyalleviationpolicies5. Susmita Ghosh Mar 2008 12.12.07 History Anirban Das Mascul<strong>in</strong>ity <strong>in</strong>Jadavpur (CSSSC) H<strong>in</strong>di C<strong>in</strong>emaUniversityIpshita Chanda(J.U.)73STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Doctoral Students with and without ICSSR Fellowship under supervision of the faculties at CSSSCSl. Name of Scholar Date of ICSSR Discipl<strong>in</strong>e Supervisor & Co TopicNo. Address/Ph. No. Registration Fellowship Supervisor/Email id. w.e.f.6. Runa Das May 2005 Dec 2004 Sociology Sibaji The <strong>in</strong>terplayChaudhuri Jadavpur Bandyopadhyay between theUniversity (CSSSC) 'everyday' andthe 'uncanny':Aveek Majumdar Sociology of(J.U.) ghost storieswritten <strong>for</strong>children <strong>in</strong>Bangla between1940 and 1980.7. Suryanand<strong>in</strong>i Mar 2008 Feb 2008 Visual Art Tapati Guha- Work<strong>in</strong>g title:S<strong>in</strong>ha Jawaharlal and Art Thakurta 'The InterceptedUniversity History (CSSSC) Photograph:Interactions ofKavita S<strong>in</strong>gh pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g and(J.N.U.) digital mediawith studiophotography <strong>in</strong>India'8. Paromita 13.05.2005 27.12.2004 Film <strong>Studies</strong> Sibaji 'Other<strong>in</strong>g spaces,Brahmachari Jadavpur to 27.12.2007 Bandyopadhyay Forgo<strong>in</strong>g selves:University (CSSSC) ContemporaryC<strong>in</strong>ema,Mo<strong>in</strong>ak Bisaws Globalization(J.U.) and the NewIndian MiddleClass'.74STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Doctoral Students with and without ICSSR Fellowship under supervision of the faculties at CSSSCSl. Name of Scholar Date of ICSSR Discipl<strong>in</strong>e Supervisor & Co TopicNo. Address/Ph. No. Registration Fellowship Supervisor/Email id. w.e.f.9. Tr<strong>in</strong>a Nileena 20.4.2007 1.11.2006 English Rajarshi Dasgupta Per<strong>for</strong>mance,Banerjee Jadavpur (CPS, JNU) Autonomy andUniversity the Politics ofParomita the Marg<strong>in</strong>al:Chakravarti Women <strong>in</strong> the(J.U.) Group TheatreMovement <strong>in</strong>India (1950-2005)10. Kamalika 19.05.2005 N.A. History Tapati Guha- Allegories ofMukherjee <strong>Calcutta</strong> Thakurta Womanhood:University (CSSSC) Gender <strong>in</strong> thePopular VisualCulture of LateN<strong>in</strong>eteenth andEarly Twentieth-Century Bengal11. Indira Biswas 13.05.2005 N.A. History Prof. Gautam A History ofBhadra All-India Radio,<strong>Calcutta</strong> Station12. Kallol Ray 31.03.2008 13.12.2007 English Tapati Guha- Catastrophes,Jadavpur presently Thakurta Textualities, andUniversity <strong>for</strong>feited (CSSSC) Subjectivities:The Pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs ofRab<strong>in</strong>dranathTagore and theNarratives ofModernism75STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Student Enrollment <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> M. Phil. 2009-11Sl. Name Name of Supervisor M. Phil. TitleNo.1. Arunita Mukherjee Dr. Keya Dasgupta Precarious Certa<strong>in</strong>ties: Everyday Lives,Negotiations and Visible-Invisible Actors ofStreet Vend<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Kolkata.2. Dam<strong>in</strong>ee Basu Dr. Ros<strong>in</strong>ka Chaudhuri Narrativiz<strong>in</strong>g Pa<strong>in</strong>: An Ethnography on thePer<strong>for</strong>mance of Pa<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong> the Rituals of Chadak3. Darshana Sreedhar Dr. Priya Sangameswaran Theoriz<strong>in</strong>g Same-Sex Desire: DissonantVoices <strong>in</strong> Twenty First-Century Kerala4. Kaustubh Das Prof. Tapati Guha-Thakurta Liv<strong>in</strong>g Monument to Preserved Fossil:A Study on the Effects of GovernmentalGovernmental Adm<strong>in</strong>istration on Heritage/Monumental Sites of Heterodox Practice<strong>in</strong> Orissa5. Subhankar Ghosh Dr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharya Explor<strong>in</strong>g Div<strong>in</strong>ity and Identity <strong>in</strong>Estuar<strong>in</strong>e Bengal6. Najn<strong>in</strong> Islam Dr. Manabi Majumdar Intransient Borders?: Identities, CulturalFormations and the Sikh-Punjabi Community<strong>in</strong> Kolkata7. Jayanti Ghosh Dr. Saibal Kar Women Employment: Influence of Religion,Region and Ethnicity8 Priyankar Dey Dr. Bodhisattva Kar The Bhadraloks and the Mach<strong>in</strong>es: Culturesof Subjectivity <strong>in</strong> Late Colonial World9. Sagnik Atarthi Prof. Lakshmi Subrahmanian Writ<strong>in</strong>g Music <strong>in</strong>to Bengal's Publics:1890-194710. Sanjna Mukhopadhyay Dr. Bodhisattva Kar Time Off: Holidays, Leaves and Questions ofWork <strong>in</strong> Colonial Bengal76STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Student Enrollment <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>, <strong>Calcutta</strong> M. Phil. 2009-11Sl. Name Name of Supervisor M. Phil TitleNo.11. Sayantan Saha Roy Dr. Anirban Das 'Mak<strong>in</strong>g' Abortion Laws <strong>in</strong> India: Rights,Debates and Sex-Selection12. Moumita Sen Prof. Tapati Guha-Thakurta The Mak<strong>in</strong>g and Unmak<strong>in</strong>g of the Sacred:The Politics of Production and Consumptionof Holy Idols <strong>in</strong> Kolkata13. Zaid Al Baset Prof. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay The Reflexive Construction of the Queer'Self': An Enquiry <strong>in</strong>to the Politics ofIdentity, Identification and Experience77STUDENTS’ ENROLLMENT


Statement of Accounts79STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


S. N. Mukherji & Co.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSPhone: 2248 1726, 2230 7281Fax: 91 33 2230 7281Cable: BESTADVICEe-mail: snmukherji@vsnl.nedtsnm_calcutta@hotmail.com1B, Old Post Office StreetKolkata 700 001AUDITORS' <strong>REPORT</strong>The Board of GovernorsCENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1, Baishnabghata Patuli TownshipKolkata 700 0941. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of '<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>,<strong>Calcutta</strong>' as at 31st March, 2011 and also the Income & Expenditure Accounts of the <strong>Centre</strong><strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date. Our responsibility is to express an op<strong>in</strong>ion on these f<strong>in</strong>ancialstatements based on our audit.2. We conducted our audit <strong>in</strong> accordance with audit<strong>in</strong>g standards generally accepted <strong>in</strong> India.Those standards require that we plan and per<strong>for</strong>m the audit to obta<strong>in</strong> reasonable assuranceabout whether the f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit <strong>in</strong>cludesexam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, on a test basis, evidence support<strong>in</strong>g the amounts and disclosures <strong>in</strong> the f<strong>in</strong>ancialstatements. An audit also <strong>in</strong>cludes assess<strong>in</strong>g the account<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>in</strong>ciples used and significantestimates made by the management, as well as, evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the overall f<strong>in</strong>ancial statementpresentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis <strong>for</strong> our op<strong>in</strong>ion.3. We report as follows :-i) We have obta<strong>in</strong>ed all the <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and explanations, which to the best of ourknowledge and belief were necessary <strong>for</strong> the purpose of our audit<strong>in</strong>g the accounts <strong>in</strong>the <strong>for</strong>m <strong>in</strong> which they have been prepared.ii)iii)In our op<strong>in</strong>ion, proper books of accounts as required by law have been kept by the<strong>Centre</strong> so far as it appears from our exam<strong>in</strong>ation of those books.The Balance Sheet and Income & Expenditure Account dealt with by this report are <strong>in</strong>agreement with the books of accounts.4. In our op<strong>in</strong>ion and to the best of our <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and accord<strong>in</strong>g to the explanations given tous and subject to the follow<strong>in</strong>g observations :-i) Gratuity liability of Rs. 33,92,548/- and Leave Encashment liability of Rs. 54,07,095/-were estimated and provided <strong>for</strong> the year 2001-02 and 2002-03 respectively.80STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


No re-assessment or fresh provision was made on actuarial basis thereafter upto thef<strong>in</strong>ancial year 2010-11 which is a deviation from Account<strong>in</strong>g Standard 15 issued by theInstitute of Chartered Accountants of India. Under the circumstances we are unable tocomment on adequacy or otherwise of the provisions made under the above heads.ii)iii)A credit balance of Rs. 19,268/- is still appear<strong>in</strong>g under the head "Sales Tax" and shownas "current liability" <strong>in</strong> the Books of the <strong>Centre</strong> (CSSSC) as on 31.03.2011. Although thesame report appeared <strong>in</strong> last year's accounts, the reason <strong>for</strong> such credit balance has notyet been expla<strong>in</strong>ed to us.Provident Fund payable account shows a sum of Rs. 40,13,613.02 under the head"Current Liabilities and Provisions " as on 31.03.2011. Step should be taken to settle theliability.The said accounts together with the Significant Account<strong>in</strong>g Policies and Notes onAccounts attached thereto, give a true and fair view <strong>in</strong> con<strong>for</strong>mity with the account<strong>in</strong>gpr<strong>in</strong>ciples generally accepted <strong>in</strong> India:a) <strong>in</strong> the case of the Balance Sheet, of the state of affairs of the <strong>Centre</strong> as at 31stMarch, 2011 andb) <strong>in</strong> the case of the Income & Expenditure Accounts, of the excess of expenditureover <strong>in</strong>come <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date.For S.N. Mukherji & Co.Chartered Accountants(Reg. No. 301079E)Place: KolkataDate: 19th July, 2011Sd/-( P.S. Basu)PartnerMembership No. 5222481STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIBALANCE SHEETCORPUS/CAPITAL FUND AND LIABILITIESCorpus/Capital FundReserves and SurplusEarmarked/Endowment FundsSecured Loans and Borrow<strong>in</strong>gsUnsecured Loans and Borrow<strong>in</strong>gsDeferred Credit liabilitiesCurrent Liabilities and ProvisionsTOTALASSETSFixed AssetsLess: Accumulated DepreciationInvestments – From Earmarked/Endowment FundsInvestments – OthersCurrent Assets, Loans, Advances, etc.Miscellaneous Expenditure(to the extent not written off or adjusted)TOTALSignificant Account<strong>in</strong>g PoliciesCont<strong>in</strong>gent Liabilities and Notes on Accounts1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar82STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Schedule Current Year Previous Year1 34131703.86 35424491.802 0.00 0.003 662078.00 662078.004 — —5 34541370.02 32590917.916 — —7 13381825.32 10356595.3282716977.20 79034083.03Schedule Current Year Previous Year8 65896411.5331927301.0733969110.46 35268541.409 272791.00 272791.0010 — —11 48475075.74 43492750.63— —Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountant242582716977.20 79034083.03Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)83STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIINCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FORINCOMEIncome from Sales/ServicesGrants/SubsidiesFees/SubscriptionsIncome from Investments(Income on Invest. from Earmarked/Endow. Funds transferred to funds)Income from Royalty, Publication, etc.Interest EarnedOther IncomeIncrease/(decrease) <strong>in</strong> stock of f<strong>in</strong>ished goods and works-<strong>in</strong>-progressTOTAL (A)EXPENDITUREEstablishment ExpensesOther Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative Expenses, etc.Expenditure on Grants, Subsidies, etc.InterestDepreciation (Net Total at the year end – correspond<strong>in</strong>g to Schedule 8)TOTAL (B)Balance be<strong>in</strong>g excess of Expenditure over Income (B – A)Transfer to Special Reserve (specify each)Transfer to/from General ReserveBALANCE BEING SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) CARRIED TO CORPUS/CAPITAL FUNDSignificant Account<strong>in</strong>g PoliciesCont<strong>in</strong>gent Liabilities and Notes on Accounts1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar84STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Schedule Current Year Previous Year12 — —13 32745001.79 32636901.3914 — —15 — —5 34541370.02 32590917.9116 49131.00 69244.0017 42007.74 14903.0018 308935.47 235532.0819 — —33145076.00 32956580.47Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountant20 27122536.00 24200844.0021 5931675.00 8608726.4722 90865.00 147010.0023 — —23 4291161.94 5104321.07242537436237.94 38060901.544291161.94 5104321.07— —— —4291161.94 5104321.07Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)85STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 1 – CORPUS / CAPITAL FUNDBalance as at the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g of the yearAdd: Contributions towards Corpus/Capital FundLess: Balance of net expenditure transferred from the Income and Expenditure AccountBALANCE AS AT THE YEAR ENDSCHEDULE 2 – RESERVES AND SURPLUS1. Capital ReserveAs per last AccountAddition dur<strong>in</strong>g the yearLess: Deductions dur<strong>in</strong>g the year2. Revaluation ReserveAs per last AccountAddition dur<strong>in</strong>g the yearLess: Deductions dur<strong>in</strong>g the year3. Special Reserves: (General Resarch Fund)As per last AccountAddition dur<strong>in</strong>g the yearLess: Deductions dur<strong>in</strong>g the year4. General ReservesTOTALAs per last AccountAddition dur<strong>in</strong>g the yearLess: Deductions dur<strong>in</strong>g the year1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar86STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year35424491.80 — 25982355.84 —2998374.00 — 14546457.03 —4291161.94 — 5104321.07 —34131703.86 35424491.80Current YearPrevious Year— —— —(—) — (—) —— —— —(—) — (—) —— —— —(—) 0.00 (—) 0.00— —— —(—) — (—) —0.00 0.00Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)87STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 3 – EARMARKED / ENDOWMENT FUNDSa) Open<strong>in</strong>g balance of the fundsb) Additions to the Funds:i. Donations/grantsii.iii.TOTAL (a+b)Income from <strong>in</strong>vestments made on account of funds<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Employee's ContributionOther additions (specify nature) Employer's Contributionc) Utilisation/Expenditure towards objectives of fundsi. Capital Expenditure– Fixed AssetsTotalii.TotalTOTAL (c)– OthersRevenue Expenditure– Salaries, wages and allowances, etc.– Rent– Other Adm<strong>in</strong>istrative expensesNET BALANCE AS AT YEAR END (a + b - c)Notes: 1) Disclosures shall be made under relevant heads on conditions attach<strong>in</strong>g to the grants.2) Plan Funds received from the Central / State Governments are to be shown as separate funds and not to bemixed up with any other funds.1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar88STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)FUND-WISE BREAK UPTOTALSProvident Gratuity G.R.F S. Ghosh Current Year Previous YearFund Fund Mem. Fund362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —— —— —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 662078.00362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —Nil Nil — — Nil —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 —Nil Nil — — Nil —Nil Nil — — Nil —362078.00 300000.00 662078.00 662078.00Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)89STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 4 – SECURED LOANS AND BORROWINGS1. Central Government2. State Government (specify)3. F<strong>in</strong>ancial Institutions:a) Term Loansb) Interest accrued and due3. Banks:a) Term Loans— Interest accrued and dueb) Other Loans (specify)— Interest accrued and due4. Other Institutions and Agencies5. Debentures and Bonds7. Others (specify)TOTALNote: Amounts due with<strong>in</strong> one year1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar90STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)91STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 5 – UNSECURED LOANS AND BORROWINGS1. Central Government ICSSR1. ICSSR-New Delhi (Grant-<strong>in</strong>-Aid): Plan-Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g2. Grant Non Plan-Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g (2008-09)Less: Amount transferred to I/E Account3. Grant <strong>in</strong> Payable ICSSR, Plan-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g2. State Government (specify) Govt. of W.B.1. Govt. W.B. (Grant-<strong>in</strong>-Aid): Plan-Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g2. Govt. W.B. Non-Plan Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g3. F<strong>in</strong>ancial Institutions:4. Banks:a) Term Loansb) Other Loans (specify)5. Other Institutions and Agencies (Advance Account – L.P.) Open<strong>in</strong>g BalanceAdd: dur<strong>in</strong>g the year 2010-11Less: refund dur<strong>in</strong>g the year 2010-116. Debentures and Bonds7. Fixed Deposits8. Others (specify)TOTALNote: Amounts due with<strong>in</strong> one year1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar92STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011Current YearPrevious Year(Amount Rs.)0 0 0674254.06 6665941.95126621.96 2000000.00800876.027991687.89674254.06126621.96 126621.96800876.02 8792563.91006370576.002000000.008370576.00 8370576.0015427778.0016600871.0032028649.006658731.0025369918.00 15427778.0034541370.02 32590917.91Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)93STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 6 – DEFERRED CREDIT LIABILITIESa) Acceptance secured by hypothecation of capital equipment and other assetsb) OthersTOTALNote: Amounts due with<strong>in</strong> one year1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar94STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year34541370.02 32590917.91Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)95STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 7 – CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PROVISIONSA. CURRENT LIABILITIES1. Acceptances2. Sundry Creditors:a) For Goodsb) Others3. Advances Received4. Interest accrued but not due on:a) Secured Loans/borrow<strong>in</strong>gsb) Unsecured Loans/borrow<strong>in</strong>gs5. Statutory Liabilities:1 P.F. Payable2 Liability <strong>for</strong> Revenue Expenses (Auditors)6. (ICSSR - Fellowship, 375433.30) + (Library Deposit - 107550) + (FFRA - 13015) +(Sales Tax – Biswas Construction - 19268) + (RMQE - 28243)TOTAL (A)B. PROVISIONS1. For Taxation2. Gratuity3. Superannuation/Pension4. Accumulated Leave Encashment5. Trade Warranties/Claims6 Others (Specify)TOTAL (B)TOTAL (A+B)1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar96STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 0004013613.02 1084992.0225060.00 20000.00543509.30 451960.304582182.32 0.00 0.00 1556952.324582182.32 0.00 0.00 1556952.323392548.00 3392548.003392548.00 3392548.004582182.32 0.00 0.00 1556952.325407095.00 5407095.004582182.32 0.00 0.00 1556952.328799643.00 0.00 0.00 8799643.0013381825.32 0.00 0.00 10356595.32Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)97STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


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CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 9 – INVESTMENTS FROM EARMARKED/ENDOWMENT FUNDS1. In Government Securities2. Other approved Securities3. Shares4. Debentures and Bonds5. Subsidiaries and Jo<strong>in</strong>t Ventures6. Others (to be specified):In Fixed Deposit with Uco Bank under Kuber Yojonavide no.00950310013382 dt. 3/4/2007 (Expiry dt. 3/4/2013)TOTALSCHEDULE 10 – INVESTMENTS – OTHERS1. In Government Securities2. Other approved Securities3. Shares4. Debentures and Bonds5. Subsidiaries and Jo<strong>in</strong>t Ventures6 Others (to be specified):TOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar102STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —— —— —272791.00 272791.00272791.00 272791.00Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —— —— —— —NilNilSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)103STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 11 – CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS, ADVANCES etc.A. CURRENT ASSETS:1. Inventories: (Central Stores)a) Stores and Sparesb) Loose Toolsc) Stock-<strong>in</strong>-trade– F<strong>in</strong>ished Goods– Work-<strong>in</strong>-Progress– Raw Materials2. Sundry Debtors:a) Debts Outstand<strong>in</strong>g <strong>for</strong> a period exceed<strong>in</strong>g six monthsb) Others (Postage Petty Cash Frank<strong>in</strong>g)3. Cash balance <strong>in</strong> hand (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g cheques/drafts and imprest)4. Bank Balances:a) With Scheduled Banks– On Current Accounts– On Deposit Accounts (<strong>in</strong>cludes marg<strong>in</strong> money)– On Sav<strong>in</strong>gs Accountsb) With Non-Scheduled Banks– On Current Accounts– On Deposit Accounts– On Sav<strong>in</strong>gs Accounts5. Post Office – Sav<strong>in</strong>gs AccountsTOTAL (A)1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar104STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year108563.40 101920.40— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — ———2564.30 — 573.3019221.89 — 32352.8960384.31 — — —— — —14963.59 —75347.90 274362.43Nil —— — — —— — — —— — — —Nil — — —205697.49 409209.02Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)105STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OFSCHEDULE 11 – CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS, ADVANCES, etc. (contd…)B. LOANS, ADVANCES AND OTHER ASSETS:1. Loans:a) Staff – Festival advanceb) Other entities engaged <strong>in</strong> activities/objectives similar tothat of the entity LTC Advancec) Other (specify) Advance(Advance RKM – 2940, Advance AAP – 7500, Advance – Sugata Marjit – 1358,Advance Flipkart.com – 784, Advance Janki Nair – 10000, Advance S.N. Nag – 2728)2. Advances and other amounts recoverable <strong>in</strong> cash or <strong>in</strong> k<strong>in</strong>d or <strong>for</strong> value to be received:a) On Capital Accountb) Deposits (CESC LTD – 575302, Security Deposit – 48474)c) Others – Security Deposit – (700 + 17000 + 1400)3. Income Accrued:a) On Investments from Earmarked/Endowment Fundsb) On Investments – Othersc) On Loans and Advancesd) Others (General Research Fund – 118886)(<strong>in</strong>cludes <strong>in</strong>come due unrealised – Rs. ............................)5. Claims Receivable:– Account Receivable Grant ReceivableOthers Receivable(ICSSR ERC)TOTAL (B)TOTAL (A+B)1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar106STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year28800.00 — 34800.00 ——9350.00 — 94925.00 —25310.00 — 1136190.00 —63460.00 1265915—623776.00 — 623776.0019100.00 19100.00642876.00 642876.00— — — —— — — —— — — —118886.00 — — 106192.2647433161.25 41061473.3547552047.25 —— 10995.00 — 7085.0048269378.25 43083541.61Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountant48475075.74 43492750.63Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)107STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULE FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITUREPARTICULARSOPENINGBALANCEGrant-In-Aid ReceivableG-I-A Govt. of WB Plan-Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g 7000000.00G-I-A Govt. of WB Non-Plan (Additional) 1600000.00G-I-A Govt. of WB Non-Plan 15049495.15G-l-A Govt. of WB Plan-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g 2082267.00G-I-A ICSSR Non-Plan 14885495.20G-I-A ICSSR (Plan) 444216.00GRAND TOTAL 41061473.351B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar108STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE YEAR 31ST MARCH, 2011 (Amount Rs.)RECEIVEDDURING THEYEARRECEIVABLEFOR THEYEARCLOSINGBALANCE1000000.00 0.00 6000000.000.00 0.00 1600000.00964000.00 9071687.90 23157183.05736000.00 0.00 1346267.000.00 0.00 14885495.200.00 0.00 444216.002700000.00 9071687.90 47433161.25Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)109STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 12 – INCOME FROM SALES/SERVICES1. Income from Sales:a) Sale of F<strong>in</strong>ished Goodsb) Sale of Raw Materialsc) Sale of Scraps2. Income from Services:a) Labour and Process<strong>in</strong>g Chargesb) Professional/Consultancy Servicesc) Agency Commission and Brokeraged) Ma<strong>in</strong>tenance Services (Equipment/Property)e) Others (specify)TOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar110STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious YearNil —— —— —— —Nil —— —— —— —— —— —Nil —Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)111STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 13 – GRANTS/SUBSIDIES(Irrecoverable Grants & Subsidies received)1. ICSSR-New Delhi (Grant-<strong>in</strong>-Aid):– Plan 3600000.00– Non-Plan 6280000.009880000.00Add: Non-Plan Non-Recurr<strong>in</strong>g 7991687.90Transferred from B/SheetLess: Transfer to Capital Fund 1499187.002. State Government(s)– Plan 3600000.00– Non-Plan 6280000.009880000.00Add: Grant Receivable Transferred to B.S. 7991687.89Less: Transfer to Capital Fund 1499187.003. Government Agencies4. Institutions/Welfare Bodies5. International Organisations6. Others (specify)TOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar112STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year16372500.90 16318450.7016372500.89 16318450.69— —— —— —— —32745001.79 32636901.39Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)113STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 14 – FEES/SUBSCRIPTIONS1. Entrance Fees2. Annual Fees/Subscriptions3. Sem<strong>in</strong>ar/Program Fees4. Consultancy Fees5. Others (specify)TOTALNote: Account<strong>in</strong>g Policies towards each item are to be disclosedSCHEDULE 15 – INCOME FROM INVESTMENTS(Income on Invest. From Earmarked/Endowment Funds transferred to Funds)1. Interest:a) On Govt. Securitiesb) Other Bonds/Debentures2. Dividends:a) On Sharesb) On Mutual Fund Securities3. Rents4. Others (specify)TOTALTRANSFERRED TO EARMARKED/ENDOWMENT FUNDS1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar114STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —— —— —Nil —Investment from Earmarked FundInvestment – OthersCurrent Year Previous Year Current Year Previous Year— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —— — — —Nil — Nil —Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)115STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 16 – INCOME FROM ROYALTY, PUBLICATION, etc.1. Income from Royalty2. Income from Publications3. Others (specify) (Photocop<strong>in</strong>g)TOTALSCHEDULE 17 – INTEREST EARNED1. On Term Deposits:a) With Scheduled Banksb) With Non-Scheduled Banksc) With Institutionsd) Others2. On Sav<strong>in</strong>gs Accounts:a) With Scheduled Banksb) Interest on P.F.c) Post Office Sav<strong>in</strong>gs Accountd) Others3. On Loans:a) Employees/Staffb) Others4. Interest on Debtors and Other ReceivablesTOTALNote: Tax deducted at source to be <strong>in</strong>dicated1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar116STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year— —— —49131.00 69244.0049131.00 69244.00Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —12693.74 —29314.00 14903.00— —— —— —— —— —— —42007.74 14903.00Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)117STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 18 – OTHER INCOME1. Profit on sale/disposal of Assets:a) Owned Assetsb) Assets acquired out of grants or received free of cost2. Export Incentives realised3. Fees <strong>for</strong> Miscellaneous Services4. Miscellaneous IncomeTOTALSCHEDULE 19 – INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN STOCK OF FINISHED GOODS &WORK-IN-PROGRESS1. Clos<strong>in</strong>g Stock— F<strong>in</strong>ished Goods— Work-<strong>in</strong>-Progress2. Less: Open<strong>in</strong>g Stock— F<strong>in</strong>ished Goods— Work-<strong>in</strong>-ProgressNET INCREASE/(DECREASE) [a - b]1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar118STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —— —308935.47 235532.08308935.47 235532.08Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —— —— —— —NilNilSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)119STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 20 – ESTABLISHMENT EXPENSES1. Salaries and Wages2. Allowances and Bonus (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Children Edu. Assistance)3. Contribution to Provident Fund4. Contribution to Other Fund-Gratuity5. Staff Welfare Expenses6. Expenses on Employee's Retirement and Term<strong>in</strong>al Benefits – Leave Encashment & LTC7. Others (specify) – Medical Exp.TOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar120STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious YearRs. P. Rs. P.22955224.00 20002546.00133101.00 132306.00980238.00 968396.001062292.00 1050000.0074000.00 65384.001508492.00 1561610.00409189.00 420602.0027122536.00 24200844.00Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)121STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 21 – OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, etc.a. B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>gb. Electricity and Powerc. Insuranced. Repairs and Ma<strong>in</strong>tenancee. Publication & Pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gf. Rent, Rates and Taxesg. Vehicles Runn<strong>in</strong>g and Ma<strong>in</strong>tenanceh. Postage, Telephone and Communication Chargesi. Pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g and Stationaryj. Travell<strong>in</strong>g and Conveyance Expensesk. Expenses on Sem<strong>in</strong>ar/Workshopsl. Membership & Subscription Expensesm. Interset on Investment transferred to CPF Accountn. Auditors Remunerationo. Hospitality Expensesp. Auditors Other Expensesq. Advertisement and Publicityr. Others (specify) – Miscellaneous Expenses and Bank ChargesTOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar122STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year11770.00 67895.00886219.00 701372.0027226.00 53262.003391829.50 2448949.7240000.00 49375.00331558.00 330948.00405197.00 294432.00176191.00 205060.00326778.00 311912.75127712.50 89576.0042890.00 80067.00— 1200.00— 3889633.0024120.00 20000.0084988.00 37550.003000.00 —18032.00 2689.0034164.00 24805.005931675.00 8608726.47Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)123STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISUB SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITUREPARTICULARSMa<strong>in</strong>tenance <strong>for</strong> Photocopy Mach<strong>in</strong>eMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of GeneratorMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of LibraryMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of A.C. Mach<strong>in</strong>eMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of Build<strong>in</strong>gMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of CanteenMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of ComputersMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of ElectricityMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of GardenMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of OfficeMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of Resource <strong>Centre</strong>Ma<strong>in</strong>tenance of TelephoneMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of WebsiteMa<strong>in</strong>tenance of LanOffice Up-KeepRepairs & RenewalsTOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar124STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011AMOUNTRs. P.93048.0035876.0018991.0076527.001360337.0029728.00411309.008548.00118625.00215740.5028730.0044965.0049125.00571486.00239350.0089444.003391829.50Signed <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)125STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULISCHEDULES FORMING PART OF INCOME & EXPENDITURESCHEDULE 22 – EXPENDITURE ON GRANTS, SUBSIDIES, etc.a. Grants given to Institutions/Organisations (Research Project Expenses, M.Phil Course)b. Subsidies given to Institutions/OrganisationsTOTALNote: Name of the Entities, their Activities along with the amount of Grants/Subsidies are to be disclosedSCHEDULE 23 – INTERESTa. On Fixed Loansb. On Other Loans (<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g Bank Charges)c. Others (specify)TOTAL1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar126STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094FOR THE PERIOD/YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)Current YearPrevious Year90865.00 147010.00— —90865.00 147010.00Current YearPrevious Year— —— —— —NilNilSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)127STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULI TOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094SCHEDULE 24 – SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES1. Account<strong>in</strong>g Convention:1.1 The f<strong>in</strong>ancial statement are prepared on the basis of historical cost convention, unlessotherwise stated and on the accrual method of account<strong>in</strong>g.2. Inventory Valuation:2.1 Publication are valued at cost.3. Fixed Assets:3.1 Fixed assets are stated at cost of acquisition <strong>in</strong>clusive of <strong>in</strong>ward freight, duties and taxesand <strong>in</strong>cidental and direct expenses related to acquisition.4. Depreciation:4.1 Depreciation is provided on the straight l<strong>in</strong>e method as per rates specified <strong>in</strong> the IncomeTax Act, 1961, follow<strong>in</strong>g central Govt. norms.5. Grant:5.1 The <strong>Centre</strong> received grant from Central Government as well as State Government whichhas been utilised <strong>for</strong> revenue and capital expenditure.1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrarSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)128STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULI TOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094SCHEDULE 25 – CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND NOTES ON ACCOUNTS1. Cont<strong>in</strong>gent Liabilities:Claims aga<strong>in</strong>st the entity not acknowledge as debts. Rs. Nil (Previous Year Rs. Nil)2. Current Assets, Loans and Advances:In the op<strong>in</strong>ion of the management, the current assets, loans and advances have a value onrealization <strong>in</strong> the ord<strong>in</strong>ary courses of bus<strong>in</strong>ess, equal at least to the aggregate amount shown<strong>in</strong> the Balance Sheet.3. Taxation:In view of there be<strong>in</strong>g no taxable <strong>in</strong>come under Income Tax Act, 1961, no provision <strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong>cometax has been considered necessary.4. Correspond<strong>in</strong>g figures <strong>for</strong> the previous years have been regrouped / rearranged, wherevernecessary.5. Schedules 1 to 23 are annexed to and from an <strong>in</strong>tegral part of the Balance Sheet as at 31.03.2011and the Income and Expenditure Accounts <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date.6. Depreciation on Fixed Assets has been provided follow<strong>in</strong>g straight l<strong>in</strong>e method at the rateprescribed by the Income Tax Act, 1961 except<strong>in</strong>g "Periodicals" which is fully depreciated.1B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrarSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)129STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


S. N. Mukherji & Co.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSPhone: 2248 1726, 2230 7281Fax: 91 33 2230 7281Cable: BESTADVICEe-mail: snmukherji@vsnl.nedtsnm_calcutta@hotmail.com1B, Old Post Office StreetKolkata 700 001AUDITORS' <strong>REPORT</strong>The Board of Governors,CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 Baishnabghata Patuli TownshipKolkata 700 094Contributory Provident Fund1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of '<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>,<strong>Calcutta</strong>, Contributory Provident Fund' as at 31st March, 2011 and also the Income &Expenditure Accounts of the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date annexed thereto. Thesef<strong>in</strong>ancial statements are the responsibility of the <strong>Centre</strong>'s management. Our responsibility isto express an op<strong>in</strong>ion on these f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements based on our audit.2. We conducted our audit <strong>in</strong> accordance with audit<strong>in</strong>g standards generally accepted <strong>in</strong> India.Those Standards require that we plan and per<strong>for</strong>m the audit to obta<strong>in</strong> reasonable assuranceabout whether the f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit <strong>in</strong>cludesexam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, on a test basis, evidence support<strong>in</strong>g the amounts and disclosures <strong>in</strong> the f<strong>in</strong>ancialstatements. An audit also <strong>in</strong>cludes assess<strong>in</strong>g the account<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>in</strong>ciples used and significantestimates made by the management, as well as, evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the overall f<strong>in</strong>ancial statementpresentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis <strong>for</strong> our op<strong>in</strong>ion.3. We report as follows:i) We have obta<strong>in</strong>ed all the <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and explanations which to the best of knowledgeand belief were necessary <strong>for</strong> the purpose of audit.ii)iii)In our op<strong>in</strong>ion, proper books of accounts as required by law have been kept by the<strong>Centre</strong> so far as it appears from our exam<strong>in</strong>ation of those books.The Balance sheet and Income & Expenditure Account are <strong>in</strong> agreement with the Booksof account.130STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


4. In our op<strong>in</strong>ion and to the best of our <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and accord<strong>in</strong>g to the explanations given tous the said accounts give a true and fair view <strong>in</strong> con<strong>for</strong>mity with the account<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>in</strong>ciplesgenerally accepted <strong>in</strong> India :a) <strong>in</strong> the case of the Balance Sheet, of the statement of affairs of the Fund as at 31st March,2011 andb) <strong>in</strong> the case of Income & Expenditure Account, of the Income and the Distributionthereof <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date.For S.N. Mukherji & Co.Chartered Accountants(Reg. No. 301079E)Place: KolkataDate: 19th July, 2011Sd/-(P. S. Basu)PartnerMembership No. 52224131STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULICONTRIBUTORYBALANCE SHEET ASPREVIOUSYEAR2009–2010LIABILITIESAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.CSSSC CPF BALANCE14925338.00 A. Employees Subscription 11506296.0011720839.00 B. Employers' Contribution 10124490.0021630786.0022659.00 Suspense Account —4001457.00 Excess of Income over Expenditure 4001457.00as per last yearLess: Excess of Expenditure over <strong>in</strong>come 1298045.00dur<strong>in</strong>g this year 2703412.0030670293.00 24334198.001B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar132STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094PROVIDENT FUNDAT 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009–2010ASSETSAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.2810531.98 Cash at Bank 9949.98(SB A/c. No. C/20400 with SBIBallygunge Branch, Kolkata 19)— (SB A/c. No. 50032263904 with 446358.00ALLAHABAD BANK, 456307.98Jadavpur Branch, Kolkata 86)251692.00 Outstand<strong>in</strong>g P.F. Loan 224592.0020732987.00 P.F. Investment —(FD with SBI,Ballygunge Branch, Kolkata 19)— (FD with Allahabad Bank 18800000.00Jadavpur Branch, Kolkata 86)5790090.00 Accrued Interest Receivable on Investment 839685.001084992.02 P.F. Receivable 4013613.0230670293.00 24334198.00Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)133STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULICONTRIBUTORYINCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FORPREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010EXPENDITUREAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.20.00 To Bank Charges 198.001092675.00 To Interest on Contributory Provident Fund 897443.00(Employees)879537.00 To Interest on Contributory Provident Fund(Employer's Share) 763332.001660775.004001457.00 Excess of Income over Expenditure —5973689.00 1660973.001B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar134STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094PROVIDENT FUNDTHE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010INCOMEAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.15150.00 Bank Interest 43669.005925710.00 Interest on Investment 319259.0032829.00 Interest Recd. From RBI (Corpus) —— Excess of Expenditure over Income 1298045.005973689.00 1660973.00Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)135STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


S. N. Mukherji & Co.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSPhone: 2248 1726, 2230 7281Fax: 91 33 2230 7281Cable: BESTADVICEe-mail: snmukherji@vsnl.nedtsnm_calcutta@hotmail.com1B, Old Post Office StreetKolkata 700 001AUDITORS' <strong>REPORT</strong>The Board of Governors,CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 Baishnabghata Patuli TownshipKolkata 700 094Employees Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity Fund1. We have audited the attached Balance Sheet of '<strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Social</strong> <strong>Sciences</strong>,<strong>Calcutta</strong>, Employees Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity Fund' as at 31st March, 2011 and alsothe Income & Expenditure Accounts of the <strong>Centre</strong> <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date annexedthereto. These f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements are the responsibility of the <strong>Centre</strong>'s management. Ourresponsibility is to express an op<strong>in</strong>ion on these f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements based on our audit.2. We conducted our audit <strong>in</strong> accordance with audit<strong>in</strong>g standards generally accepted <strong>in</strong> India.Those Standards require that we plan and per<strong>for</strong>m the audit to obta<strong>in</strong> reasonable assuranceabout whether the f<strong>in</strong>ancial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit <strong>in</strong>cludesexam<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, on a test basis, evidence support<strong>in</strong>g the amounts and disclosures <strong>in</strong> the f<strong>in</strong>ancialstatements. An audit also <strong>in</strong>cludes assess<strong>in</strong>g the account<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>in</strong>ciples used and significantestimates made by the management, as well as, evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the overall f<strong>in</strong>ancial statementpresentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis <strong>for</strong> our op<strong>in</strong>ion.3. We further report as follows:i) We have obta<strong>in</strong>ed all the <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and explanation which to the best of ourknowledge and belief were necessary <strong>for</strong> the purpose of Audit.ii)iii)In our op<strong>in</strong>ion, proper books of accounts as required by law have been kept by the<strong>Centre</strong> so far as it appears from our exam<strong>in</strong>ations of those books.The Balance sheet and Income & Expenditure Account are <strong>in</strong> agreement with the booksof account.136STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


4. In our op<strong>in</strong>ion and to the best of our <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation and accord<strong>in</strong>g to the explanation given tous, the said accounts give the <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>mation as required by law and give a true and fair viewand <strong>in</strong> con<strong>for</strong>mity with the account<strong>in</strong>g pr<strong>in</strong>ciples generally accepted <strong>in</strong> India.a) <strong>in</strong> the case of the Balance Sheet, of the statement of affairs of the Fund as at 31st March,2011 andb) <strong>in</strong> the case of Income & Expenditure Account, of the Income and the Distributionthereof <strong>for</strong> the year ended on that date.For S.N. Mukherji & Co.Chartered Accountants(Reg. No. 301079E)Place: KolkataDate: 19th July, 2011Sd/-(P.S. Basu)PartnerMembership No. 52224137STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIBALANCE SHEET ASCSSSC EMPLOYEES' DEATH–CUM–PREVIOUSYEAR2009–2010LIABILITIESAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.CSSSC Employees' Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity Fund7565316.00 As per last account 7565316.00Add: Transferred from <strong>Centre</strong> 712292.00Add: Received Fund from <strong>Centre</strong> 350000.008627608.00Less: Gratuity Paid 1412292.007215316.00Add: Excess of Income Over Expenditure 495165.007710481.007565316.00 7710481.001B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar138STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094AT 31ST MARCH, 2011RETIREMENT GRATUITY FUND(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009–2010ASSETSAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.5901179.00 CSSSC Employees' Death-cum- 7391983.00Retirement Gratuity Investment1662383.00 Accrued Interest 285800.007677783.001754.00 Clos<strong>in</strong>g Balance 32698.00(SB A/c. No. 16299 with UCO Bank,Kolkata 700 0197565316.00 7710481.00Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)139STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIINCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT OFGRATUITY FUND FOR THEPREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010EXPENDITUREAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.1050000.00 CSSSC Employees Death-cum-Retirement —Gratuity Fund564646.00 Balance transferred to Gratuity Fund 495165.00(excess of Income over Expenditure)1614646.00 495165.001B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar140STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094CSSSC EMPLOYEES' DEATH-CUM-RETIREMENTYEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010INCOMEAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.63.00 Interest (SB A/c No. 16299 with UCO Bank, 1182.00Kolkata 700 019)564583.00 Interest on Investment 493983.001050000.00 CSSSC Employees Death-cum-Retirement —Gratuity Fund(Recd. from CSSSC)1614646.00 495165.00Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)141STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIPROJECTBALANCE SHEET FOR THEPREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010LIABILITIESAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.13011280.01 Project Fund 13011280.01— Addition dur<strong>in</strong>g the year 1450136.0025801528.33 ’’ Reserve Fund 15002213.33Less: Excess of Expenditure over Income 7117236.9214461416.017884976.41Current Liabilities & Provisions5625038.40 Enreca 5505038.401090701.00 GHP-II 962281.001875729.20 New Ford Foundation 4422386.20764092.00 Grant from TATA <strong>Social</strong> Welfare Trust (PGMF) 426112.001968274.00 NRTT 0.00778221.50 SAUC 620220.501794152.00 MCD 1794152.0015762079.51 RBI Corpus 14872868.51164647.00 IFA – II 64647.001129234.00 SRTT 779018.00262181.00 Indo European Workshop 218257.005585950.96 SEPHIS 5769346.96690577.00 DFID – IPPG 566244.00747301.00 National Tea Research Foundation 478038.001184439.00 New UNICEF 364718.00483368.00 WBIDC 469477.001088220.00 Urban Poverty Reduction Strategy 1088220.001B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar142STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094ACCOUNTYEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010ASSETSAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.11937312.40 Fixed Asset (As Per Schedule Enclosed) 13387448.40as on 31.03.2011 exclud<strong>in</strong>g periodicals— Less: Accumulated Depreciationupto 31.03.2011 7304864.326082584.081073967.61 Periodicals 0.0013896.14 i) Cash-<strong>in</strong>-hand 24228.1410770890.08 ii) Cash-at-Bank (Schedule Enclosed) 14287986.4814312214.62Advances & Receivables1891990.70 i) Receivables 1184890.703061.00 ii) Loans to S.N. Nag 0.0025743595.00 iii) Loans to CSSSC 25369918.00iv) NRTT & British Council Sem<strong>in</strong>ar 571685.0027126493.70Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)143STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIPROJECTBALANCE SHEET FOR THEPREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010LIABILITIESAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.454820.00 EAP 1314131.00992482.00 World Bank II 850017.00340048.10 DFID-ESRC 1068170.10433010.00 Jadunath Sarkar Museum 8835056.00— New MCD 1655936.00— UNICEF Internship 2010 229284.00— SANEI – 2011 107799.00— NREGA 16392.00— Contest<strong>in</strong>g Indian City 13157.3952490967.0682027374.01 74837359.481B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar144STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094ACCOUNTYEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011 (Contd.)(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009–2010ASSETSAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.Investment & Securities13127607.00 i) CSSSC Investment (Project) 11725559.0015027562.08 ii) Govt. Securities (RBI) 15027562.082437492.00 iii) Accrued Interest (Receivable aga<strong>in</strong>st FD) 562946.0027316067.0882027374.01 74837359.48Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)145STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES INR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULIPROJECTINCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTPREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010EXPENDITUREAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.To4496.00 ” Bank Charges 3358.0052000.00 ” Staff Excursion 69600.006618.00 ” Audit Fees 7721.00— ” Periodicals (Project) 1078832.61— ” Depreciation— ” Books 243521.96— ” Computer 4440252.15— ” Furniture & Equipment 1029504.05— ” Microfilm 759813.46— ” Photography 831772.707304864.322955149.48 Excess of Income over Expenditure —transferred to Balance Sheet3018263.48 8464375.931B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrar146STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTATOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094ACCOUNTFOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2011(Amount Rs.)PREVIOUSYEAR2009-2010INCOMEAMOUNTRs. P.AMOUNTRs. P.By330359.48 ” Interest on Sav<strong>in</strong>gs 190520.01250412.00 ” Misc. Income 7021.002437492.00 ” Interest on Investment 1149598.00— ” Excess of Expenditue over Income 7117236.92transferred to Balance Sheet3018263.48 8464375.93Sd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)147STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS


CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAR-1 BAISHNABGHATA PATULI TOWNSHIP, KOLKATA 700 094SCHEDULES FORMING PART OF BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH 2011(Amount Rs.)SCHEDULE 8 – FIXED ASSETSCOST DEPRECIATION NET BLOCKSL.NO.DESCRIPTIONOPENINGBALANCEADDITIONDURING10-11DEDUCTIONDURING10-11CLOSINGBALANCE10-11ACCUMU-LATEDDEP.DEPRECIA-TION ONOPENINGBALANCEDEPRE-CIATION ONADDITIONDEPRE-CIATIONIN ONDED.TOTAL DEP.DURINGTHE YEAR31.03.11ACCUMU-LATED DEP.AT THE ENDOF THE YEAR(31.03.11)BOOKVALUEAS ON31.03.20111 2 3 4 = (1+2-3) 5 6 7 8 9 = (6+7–8) 10 = (5+9) 11 = (4–10)1 Land 2008600.00 2008600.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 2008600.002 Build<strong>in</strong>g 26455815.16 0 26455815.16 1220475.70 431229.79 0.00 0 431229.79 1651705.49 24804109.673 Office 846301.14 178550.00 0.00 1024851.14 187030.72 53570.86 11302.22 0.00 64873.08 251903.80 772947.34Equipment4 Furniture & 6480953.04 12825.00 0.00 6493778.04 1227408.79 410244.33 811.82 0.00 411056.15 1638464.94 4855313.10Fixture5 Computer/ 2544440.00 407841.00 0.00 2952281.00 1512521.07 412453.72 66111.03 0.00 478564.75 1991085.82 961195.18Peripherals6 Library Books 7603183.30 364979.00 0.00 7968162.30 6840929.01 762254.29 88726.39 0.00 850980.68 7691909.69 276252.617 Periodicals 16540087.89 2027536.00 0.00 18567623.89 16540087.89 0.00 2027536.00 0.00 2027536.00 18567623.89 0.008 Generator 425300.00 0.00 425300.00 107685.95 26921.49 0.00 0.00 26921.49 134607.44 290692.56TOTAL 62904680.53 2991731.00 0.00 65896411.53 27636139.13 2096674.48 2194487.46 0.00 4291161.94 31927301.07 33969110.461B Old Post Office StreetKokata 700 001Dated: 19/07/2011Sd/-Sugata MarjitDirectorSd/-Ashoke ChaudhuriRegistrarSd/-Arab<strong>in</strong>da BoseAccountantSigned <strong>in</strong> terms of our report attachedFor M/s. S.N. Mukherji & CO.CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTSSd/-(P.S. Basu)Partner(M/NO 52224)

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