Executive Committee Members

Aparajita Dhar passed her B.A (Hons) and M.A. in History from Jadavpur University. She has pursued her Ph-D on The Advent Of Gynaecology: Western Medicine and Women in Colonial Bengal. She is presently serving as an Associate Professor in the Dept Of History, The University Of Burdwan, West Bengal. Her areas of specialization are social history of science, technology and medicine, gender history, social and economic history of modern India. She has presented papers in several national and international seminars, and has a number of research papers published in national journals to her credit. She has co-edited Medical History of India: Discipline, Disease, Death ( 2019, Kunal Books, New Delhi)along with Prof Chittabrata Palit. She has also edited Life and Culture in Bengal: Colonial and Post Colonial Experiences along with Prof. Arabinda Samanta and Prof. Syed Tanveer Nasreen.( 2011, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata) and Pondering the Past, Volume II co-edited with Dr. Sutapa Sengupta (Kolkata: PAIOLCK, 2018). She is also the Assistant Editor of CLIO, an interdisciplinary journal enlisted in UGC Care List published under the aegis of Corpus Research Institute, Kolkata.

Dr. Dona Ganguly has been working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science in The Bhawanipur Education Society College since 2012. She has completed her Post Graduation, M Phil and PhD in International Relations from the department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. She has specialised in Southeast Asian Studies. She has authored around 12 articles in various national journals and has contributed chapters in book titled Politics of Dissent; Caste, Gender and Media: Significant Sociological Trends in India; Women in Indian Politics:Traditions, Transformations and Transitions. She has been the co-editor of the India in Indian Ocean: Past, Present and Future. She is an active member of two academic bodies-Council for Political Studies and Bengal Institute of Political Studies. She has presented scholarly articles in many national and international seminars and has been the co-convenor of international seminar on India and Indian Ocean. She has also successfully carried out her role as a peer reviewer of the UGC enlisted journal of Kolkata Society of Asian Studies. She has been selected as the Executive Council Member of Indian Association of Asia Pacific Studies. She has acted as the Resource Person in the in 68 th Online Refresher Course: Research Methodology in Social Sciences (20-11-2021 to 02-01-2022) organized by Sardar Patel University, Gujarat.

Dr. Rajarshi Chakrabarty is presently working as an an Associate Professor of History in The University of Burdwan. Earlier, he worked as Assistant Professor of History at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University from 2012 to 2016. Before that, he worked as Assistant Professor in Krishnath College, Berhampore, Murshidabad from 2005 to 2012. He was awarded B.B. Chaudhuri Prize by the Indian History Congress in 2011. He did his PhD. on the topic: From Cantonment to Divisional Head Quarter: Berhampore A Case Study of Urbanization in Rural Area. He has edited 4 books and 2 journals.  

Dr. Srabanti Basu is a professor in the department of biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. She did her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta. She started her career as a journalist in The Telegraph, a leading daily of Kolkata for the science page. After two years, she joined her present institute as an assistant professor (then lecturer). She received Fulbright Nehru fellowship and several other international and national awards for her contribution to biotechnology research. Environmental biotechnology is her special area of interest. She has 26 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is an elocutionist in Bratati Parampara. 

Dr. Sohini Nayak is a foreign policy analyst, specializing in Indian foreign policy in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific. She has completed her PhD in International Relations from the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. Sohini has completed her M. Phil and M.A. from the same Department. She has also worked as an analyst at Observer Research Foundation, India, for five years, with focus on connectivity and geopolitics. She was also a contributing member of the South Asia Weekly (a weekly online portal). Sohini has widely written and published several articles, commentaries and book chapters on India and Nepal’sforeign affairs.  

Dr. Sulagna Som is a SACT in History Department of Syamaprasad College. She did her M. A, and M. Phil from the Department of History, University of Calcutta and Ph. D. in History from Jadavpur University. Her primary area of research interest is the history of medicine in colonial India, with a particular focus on the political and social dynamics of institutional medicine. Currently, she is engaged in exploring the alternative histories of World Wars through a critical evaluation of military medical practices and field medicine. Dr. Som currently serves as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Islamic History and Culture at the University of Calcutta and in the Department of History at Jadavpur University. She is also an Executive Member of Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad for the current tenure. In addition, she has authored numerous publications in reputed research journals and contributed to several edited volumes in her field of expertise.