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

of his tenure. As a consequence, his progress was not up to the mark inrewriting his various papers around the theme ‘Towards literary figurationand literary stereo-types in the early twentieth century Bengali literature’.He has just restarted working on the project. Tapati Guha-Thakurta hasbeen developing a new research project on travelling art objects andmonuments, as originals and copies, across different regional, national andinternational locations. A paper on the theme of travelling architecturalreplicas has been written and was presented at two conferences over thelast academic year. She is planning to write another paper on the travelsand collections of art works and objects across India and Britain during the19th and earth 20th century, where she will juxtapose the case of thetransportation to England of the “Hindoo Stuart” collection of Indiansculptures in the early 19th century, its auctioning and purchase by theBritish Museum, with the acquisition of objects and artworks from acrossEngland and India by Curzon in the early 20th century for the proposedVictoria Memorial in Calcutta. Samarpita Mitra started work on a bookproposal and will start working on the occasional paper required by theNRTT-CSSSC fellowship. The book project shall be an extension of herdoctoral dissertation The Literary Public Sphere in Bengal: Aesthetics,Culture and Politics, 1905-1939 (Syracuse University, August 2009).Sheintend to utilize following months in preparing the groundwork to start onthe book project.Society, Politics, Culture, and EnvironmentAnirban Das is planning two major book projects this year. The first is a coauthoredbook on the general theoretical import, with a few empiricalillustrations, of the workings of Third World Feminisms. This book will use apart of his PhD dissertation. The second project is that of a co-authoredbook on the ways of translating deconstruction beyond the context of theWest. It shall consist of the translation of a Bangla piece on deconstructionby Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and one essay each by the three authorsnamely myself, Prof. Benjamin Conisbee Baer of Princeton University andProf. Arindam Dutta of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There aretwo proposals from publishers to edit books, which he intend to start in thefollowing year 1) Translating Deconstruction: The Indic Space, a collectionof writings on deconstruction which are either translations of vernacular(mostly Bangla) pieces or are written with specific reference to Indic materialsand ii) Critical Readings in Feminist Thought, a collection of essays byFeminist theorists and critical contemporary readings of their work.RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR OUTSIDE AGENCIESCOMPLETED PROJECTSInstitute of Pro-Poor Growth (DFID-UK) ProjectThe project ‘Outsourcing of Production and the Pattern of Contracts betweenFormal and Informal Sector Firms in Post-Reform India: Determinants andEffects’ was carried out. It is headed by Sugata Marjit in collaboration withDibyendu Maiti formerly at the Centre and now at the Institute of EconomicGrowth, Delhi. Nimai Das worked as Research Officer under the project.The final report of this project work comprising a detailed survey of someleading industries, namely, iron & steel, cement, jute, cotton textile andpolymer, in West Bengal and Gujrat was submitted.A Quantitative Study of Tea Industry: Market, Pricing and OrganisationA Tea Board (India) Pilot Project on Tea Industry in India, undertaken bySugata Marjit and Saibal Kar, was completed and the interim reportsubmitted. Final report will be submitted in 2011.UNICEF – Social Inclusion CellThe initial report of the project towards forming a Social Inclusion Cell wassubmitted by a team including Anjan Ghosh, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, SohelFirdos, Saibal Kar, Surajit Mukhopadhyay, and Sugata Marjit. Anjan Ghoshserved as Nodal Faculty of the UNICEF-CSSSC Social Inclusion Cell, whichwas set up in April 2009, and organized several workshop and field researchprojects under the rubric of this cell.What Explains Differences in Human Development Outcomes acrossSpace? An Analysis of Education Outcomes in IndiaThe Sir Ratan Tata Foundation Trust (SRTT) sponsors the project. JyotsnaJalan is the coordinator of this project.Development and Implementation of Decentralization and HealthSurvey in West BengalFunded by the World Bank, this project is coordinated by Jyotsna Jalan.10 11