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

investment in an imperfect credit market set up. Jyotsna Jalan is workingon a research project funded by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT), Mumbaithat is near completion. The final report will be submitted to the fundingagency in July. Saibal Kar is now working on the following themes –i) HumanCapital Formation, Occupational Choice and the Labor Market – A SyntheticReview; ii) The Multi Fibre Arrangement and South Asia (with MausumiKar); iii)Informal Sector and the Developing World: Relating Theory andEvidence (with Sugata Marjit); v).Wage Differential and corruption. IndrajitMallick is working now on two projects, i)the Design of ManagementContract with Ex Ante and Ex Post Conflict and ii) Management ScreeningContracts under Bankrupty Law. Sugata Marjit is now working on four newprojects i) A Macroeconometric Model for India: The Credit View (with SaibalKar and Pranab Kumar Das),; ii) Recession in the Skilled Sector andImplications for Informal Wage (with Saibal Kar and S. Chaudhury) and iii)Emigration, Unemployment and Welfare:Role of Non-traded Sector (withSaibal Kar and B.Hazari) and Conflicting Measures of Poverty andInadequate savings to the Poor-The Role of a Status Driven Utility Function(with Ranjan Ray).HistoryGautam Bhadra is working on the social history of the Bengali Almanacs.Initial result of the researches would be incorporated in his forth-comingbook. Tapati Guha-Thakurta is continuing her work on the book project,Durga Puja in Contemporary Calcutta.As the writing of the proposed bookproject has taken longer than anticipated, the field-work and photographicdocumentation on this project was extended into the season of 2009. Severalchapters of the book, titled, The Aesthetics of a Public Festival: Durga Pujain Contemporary Calcutta, has been written, and the remaining chaptersare to be completed soon, and the book manuscript would be ready by theend of 2010. She has been directing and coordinating all the activities ofthe Ford Foundation project on “A Cultural History Archive on Eastern India”.The project is now in its final year and will terminate in February 2011. As apart of the proposed project activities, she is working on an exhibition onhistorical and contemporary Calcutta out of the CSSSC’s archival collection,to be held in February- March 2011. Samarpita Mitra.is now working ontwo papers, i) BaEgadarœana — its intervention, legacy and the emergentliterary sphere in fin-de-siècle Bengal and ii) Towards a History of PeriodicalReadership in Early Twentieth Century Bengal: The Case of RamanandaChattopadhyay’s Prabâsî .Society, Politics, Culture and EnvironmentSibaji Bandyopadhyay is preparing the manuscripts for six books 1)Reader: An Anthology of ten essays in English of about 700 pages. Being a‘Reader’ the book will cover a broad range of topics. It is almost ready andthe final-copy will be submitted by September 2010. Worldview Publications(An Imprint of Book Land Publishing Co.), New Delhi, will publish the‘Reader’. Formalities regarding the contract have been completed; 2)Lineages of Post Colonial Modernity in Bengal (Tentative title). The bookwill be an anthology of nine essays of about 300 pages in English. Broadlydealing with the question of ‘modernity’ the book will include essays onBankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Thakur, ManikBandyopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and writers engaged in theproduction of ‘popular’ literature. All the essays are written. But they needto be revised. Also an ‘Afterword’ has to be added. He hopes to submit thefinal-copy by September 2010. Tulika Books, New Delhi, will publish the‘Reader’. Formalities regarding the contract have been completed. 3) TheColonial Chronotope (tentative title). The book will be an anthology of threeessays of about 250 pages in English. The essays are already written andpublished. But he needs to go over them again before submitting themanuscript to the publisher. They are 1)‘East’ Meeting ‘West’: A Note onthe Colonial Chronotope; 2) Macaulay and Rammohun: ‘Free Market’ andPedagogy;3)Producing and Re-producing the New Woman: A note on theprefix ‘re’. Social Science Press, Delhi, will publish the book. Formalitiesregarding contract have been completed. 4) A book in Bangla of about 250pages on Jibanananda the poet, the novelist and the short-story writer.Presently he is going over the proofs. He plans to submit the final manuscriptin the year 2010. Gangchil, Kolkata, will publish the book. Formalitiesregarding contract have been completed.5) A book in Bangla of about 200pages on the semantic mutations of the words ‘revolution’ and ‘biplab’. Heplan to develop the Key-note Address which he gave at the seminar on‘Technologies of Revolution’ organized by Barasat Government College onMarch 4, 2010. The Book should be ready by January 2011. Gangchil,Kolkata, will publish the book. Formalities regarding contract have beencompleted. 6) Undated: Nightskin: A book containing my essay in Englishon Chittrovanu Mazumdar’s Installation-Work titled Undated: Nightskin anda collage to be prepared by Chittrovanu Mazumdar. The essay is half-written;He hope to complete it soon. The book is still at the planning stage. He isjointly editing with Arindam Chakrabarti and Sanjay Palshikar an anthologyof essays titled Mahâbhârata Today: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics to be6 7