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2. ‘Apan Katha: mithya-satya’r prathyahik kabya’ in Nibandher TeenDasak,edited by Anirban Mukhopadhya, Charchapad Publication,2010,pp.303-326.Priya Sangameswaran1. ‘Water rights for the Landless in Western India: From Pani Panchayatto Water Entitlements’. European Journal of Development Research21(2), April 2009, pp. 195-212.2. ‘Rural Drinking Water Reforms in Maharashtra: The Role ofNeoliberalism’. Economic and Political Weekly,45:4:2010:62-69.3. ‘Institutional Reforms for Water’ (co-authored with Roopa Madhav) inWater Law for the 21st Century: National and International Aspects ofWater Law Reforms in India, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Abingdon: Routledge,2009, pp. 138-159.4. ‘Discourses in Water and Water Reform in Western India’, in WaterGovernance in Motion: Towards Socially and EnvironmentallySustainable Water Laws, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2010, pp. 53-79.BOOK REVIEWSSibaji Bandyopadhyay1. Review of A. Raghuramaraju’s Enduring Colonialism: ClassicalPresences and Modern Philosophy in Contributions to Indian Sociology,43, 3, edited by Veena Naregal, Delhi, December 2009Rosinka Chaudhuri1. Review of An Indian For All Seasons: The Many Lives of R.C. Dutt(New Delhi: Penguin, 2009) pp.385 by Meenakshi Mukherjee in OutlookMagazine, Oct 26th 2009.2. Review of The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Educationand Nationalism edited by Uma Das Gupta, Oxford University Press,2009, in Economic and Political Weekly, 45:8:2010:35-36.Manabi Majumdar1. Review of Financing of Secondary Education in India, edited byJandhyala B G Tilak, NIEPA/Ravi Books, Delhi 2003, in Economic andPolitical Weekly, 44:26&27:2009:54-55.Manas Ray1. Review of Peter Fitzpatrick ed. Law as Resistance (collected essays inLaw), Burlingtoon, VT:Ashgate 2008, in Law,Culture and the Humanities,6:2:2010:311-315OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESSibaji Bandyopadhyay delivered the Keynote Address at the seminar on‘Technologies of Revolution’, organized by Barasat Government College,Kolkata in March 2010. He spoke on several themes, 1) ‘Science’, CulturalStudies Workshop 2010: The Sacred in Contemporary Culture, organizedby Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in January, 2010; 2)‘Nonviolence’, Social Sciences Workshop 2009: Violation and Violence,organized by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) onNovember, 2009; 3) ‘Taboo’, Refresher Course: Gender and Power:Practices, Representations, Strategies, organized by School of Womens’Studies, Jadavpur University in November, 2009 . He was discussants atseminars on New Cultural History, organized by CSSSC, January 2010and at workshop-cum-seminar on Minority Cultures, organized by CSSSC,in June 2009. He gave a series of talks on ‘Bangla Prosody’ at Departmentof Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University in April, 2009. He chairedthe session ‘Comparative Literature: Some Reflections’, at the InternationalSeminar organized by Department of Comparative Literature, West BengalState University and Paschimbanga Bangla Academy in September2009.He also presented a paper on Vivan Sundaram’s Installation titled‘Journey Towards Freedom: Modern Bengal’ at CSSSC in February 2010.He received ‘Sisir Das Memorial Bangla Literature Award 2010’. He is46 47