AR 2009-10 - Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

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THE CENTREThe Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta a premier ICSSRresearch institute has kept up and expanded its various research andacademic programmes during 2009-10.Two new programmes, M. Phil in Social Sciences and ResearchMethods in Quantitative Economics completed their first year with flyingcolours. Our Ph.D. Programme is now formally affiliated with JadavpurUniversity, Kolkata. Delay in implementation of the recommendations ofthe Sixth Pay Commission has adversely affected the operations at theCentre. Centre has been conducting two major projects funded by the RatanTata Trust, the NRTT Project on “Training in New Social Science ResearchMethods” and the SRTT project on “An analysis of education outcomes inIndia”. These are flagship endeavours enriching the profile of the institution.UNICEF in collaboration with Centre has set up a cell on social Inclusionwhich engages in detailed research on socially excluded communities.The year 2009-10 also saw some changes in the faculty of CSSSC.Prof. Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political Science and our former directorretired in July 2009. He is now affiliated with the CSSSC as an HonoraryProfessor for a period of three years and continues to participate in some ofour seminars and teaching activities. Prof. Gautam Bhadra, Professor ofHistory also retired in January 2010. Centre welcomes Prof. LakshmiSubramanian as a Professor of History. Prof. Janaki Nair has left CSSSCfor JNU.INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTSCOMPLETED PROJECTSEconomicsJyotsna Jalan successfully completed the Health Decentralization projectfunded by the World Bank and submitted the report to the funding agency.Saibal Kar completed five papers on i)Recession, Terms of Trade andImmigrants, ii) Emigration, Wage Inequality and Vanishing Sectors (withSugata Marjit), iii) Unemployment Benefit and Nascent Entrepreneurship(with H. Beladi), iv) Smuggling, Trafficking and Exploitation of UnskilledMigrants, v) Trade Liberalization and Adjustment Assistance in DevelopingCountries (with Hamid Beladi). He also completed a book-manuscript titled
The Outsiders: Economic Reform and Informal Labour in a DevelopingEconomy (with Sugata Marjit).Indrajit Mallick completed his game theoreticwork, which identifies the necessary and sufficient conditions for theexistence of a pure strategy Nash Equilibrium in a static discrete game ofcomplete information. He also completed the work on Real Indeterminacyin a simple Walrasian Model with a Financial Asset. Sugata Marjit completedthe book project “The Outsiders: Economic Reform and Informal Labour ina Developing Economy” along with Saibal Kar, to be published by the OxfordUniversity Press.HistoryGautam Bhadra completed his manuscript on the project of writing Historyof Book Advertisement and Book Reading of the Nineteenth Century Bengal.The MSS is now in the press through a number of unforeseen hazards inprinting nearly hundred images and a large number of documents. He hasdone all the necessary adjustments in the printing process with the help ofhis colleagues in CSSSC’s archives. The book may come-out within a monthor two.Bodhisattva Kar completed six papers. These forthcoming papersare (i) Productivities of Imprecision: Some Thoughts on the Histories of theSocial, Kuruvilla Zachariah Memorial Lecture 2008 which was presented inthe Department of History, Presidency College; (ii) “The Birth of the Ryot:Rethinking the Agrarian in British Assam”, to be published in the IndianEconomic and Social History Review; (iii) “Can the Postcolonial Begin?:Deprovincializing Assam”, in Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee-Dube (eds.)Oxford Handbook of Modernity in South Asia (Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress); (iv) ‘Welsh’s Fallacy: A Note on the Problematic of Sovereignty inNortheastern India’, in Dilip Gogoi (ed.), Unheeded Hinterland: Sovereigntyand the Assamese Mind (Delhi: Routledge India); (v) ‘DispersedGeographies, Mobile Landscapes: Assam in the Eighteenth-Century BritishIndian Cartographic Archive’, in Subhas Ranjan Chakravorty (ed.), TheEighteenth Century in Comparative Perspectives (Calcutta: The AsiaticSociety) (vi) ‘Run, Deserter, Run: Mobility, Belongingness and the Discourseof Savage Slavery in British Assam’ in Alessandro Stanziani (ed), BetweenFree and Unfree Labour (Leiden: Brill).Rohan Deb Roy completed twopapers. These forthcoming papers are i) Malaria and the making of Burdwanfever, ii)’Debility, Diet, Desire’: Food in nineteenth century Bengali medicalmanuals.Sraman Mukherjee completed the paper on Being and BecomingIndian: The Nation in Archaeology.Society, Politics, Culture and EnvironmentSibaji Bandyopadhyay completed three articles. These forthcoming papersare (i) French translation of ‘Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik’ (included in AlibabarGuptabhandar) to appear in Le cinéma épique de Ritwik Ghatak (‘The epiccinema of Ritwik Ghatak’), edited by Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Paris:Éditions L’Arachnéen, (ii) ‘A Critique of Non-violence’, Seminar, No. 607(special number on the Mahâbhârata), edited by Rakesh Pande, Delhi, and(iii) “translating Gitâ 2.47 or inventing the National Motto”, which will appearin Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), edited by ManasRay,Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.Partha Chatterjeecompleted the compilation of a book entitled Empire and Nation: SelectedEssays 1985-2005 to be published by Columbia University Press andPermanent Black in May 2010.He also completed a book manuscript entitledLineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Democracy to bepublished by Columbia University Press and Permanent Black in 2011.Rosinka Chaudhuri completed editing (together with Elleke Boehmer) TheIndian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader. The introduction and individual sectionheads were written, essays compiled and submitted for publication toRoutledge, UK. She completed a paper, ‘Refashioning Milton: Madhsudanand the Modernist discourse of Reading’ for an international conference onJohn Milton at Delhi University in January 2010. A further chapter of thebook on nineteenth-century Bengali poetry was written and a part of itpresented at the New Cultural Histories Conference at the CSSSC as ‘Poetof the Present: The Self-Division of Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) andthe Bengali Modern’ in January 2010. Six letters from Rabindranath Tagore’sChhinnapatrabali were translated and submitted for publication to a Readerto be published jointly by Visvabharati Press and Harvard University Pressin 2011. She also conducted research in June 2009 at the Rhodes HouseLibrary, Oxford, to investigate an archive on the Bishop’s College, Calcutta,in the context of the poet Madhusudan Datta. Many original letters andpapers were photocopied and scanned from the archives there and broughtback and deposited in the CSSSC Library. The material shall be put tofurther use in the writing of a paper for publication in the Archives PublicationSeries. Anirban Das has just completed the final manuscript titled TheBody in Third World Feminisms: Toward a Politics of the (Im) Possible: TheBody in Third World Feminisms. With the initial version of the completedmanuscript he signed the contract for this book with the Anthem Press, UK.It is to be published initially from London and New York with later provisionsfor an Indian edition. He also completed six papers. These forthcoming2 3
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