Fellow at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Dr. Anita Sengupta is engaged with the study of Central Asia in general and Uzbekistan in particular. She did her doctoral research on the theme of state formation in Uzbekistan.
She has been a Visiting Scholar at Zentralasien Seminar, Humboldt University, Berlin, in June 2000 & was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uzbekistan, to participate in the 2500 years celebrations of Bukhara and Khiva. Proficient in Russian, with a working knowledge of Turkish, Dr. Sengupta has had her work published in various international and national journals and she has also contributed book chapters in several publications of distinction. She is the author of Frontiers into Borders : The Transformation of Identities in Central Asia. She has been an invited speaker at various international and national seminars.
Educated in Sibpur Engineering College under Calcutta University, Professor Chaudhuri joined Jadavpur University in the year1966 as a lecturer and finally became Professor in the year 1983. Former Director of School of Material Sciences and former Chairman of Institute of Engineers, presently he is the head of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering in Jadavpur University. He has a special interest in the history of making, shaping and treating of steel in the South & Southeast Asia.
Professor Chaudhuri went abroad on academic visits and he also has several publications in reputed national and international journals.
Dr. Dwijendra Nath Bakshi., M.A , Ph.D is the Secretary of Indo-Japan Welfare and Cultural Association, Kolkata.. He was recipient of The Japan Foundation Fellowship and had post- Doctoral Studies in the Koyasan Daigaku (university). Joined the Consulate-General of Japan in Kolkata in 1965 as PRO for Cultural, Public Relations, Current Affairs and other works. Dr. Bakshi contributed wide range of research-articles as well as published books in India and Japan. He had been Member of the Board of Studies, Japanese Dept., Visva-Bharati, University Research Supervisor(External) for 5 students who obtained Ph.D.
In 1978, Dr Bakshi was selected by the Japan Foundation as the Team Leader-cum- Commentator for its Asian Traditional Performing Arts held in Tokyo, Osaka and other places. He was Recipient of The Japan Foundation Fellowship for post-doctoral studies which was done in the Koyasan Daigaku (University); was invited by the Gaimusho (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan) for visiting Japan with wife; invited by the Tenri Mission India to visit Tenri City and other places of Japan; with family; visited Chonbuk National University and two other universities in Korea on invitation.
Currently Dr. Bakshi is the Chairman, Indo-Japan Language Studies Society; Chairman, Eastern India Japanese Language Teachers’ Association; Director-Lecturer, Centre of Japanese Studies; Vice-Chairman, Calcutta Chapter of the Ikenobo Floral Art Society, Kyoto; Secretary, Tenri Mission India ; Vice-Chairman, Korean Language and Culture Center; Organiser, Bharat-Nippon Maitree Sangha (India-Japan Friendship Society). Life Member of the Asiatic Society. Life Member of the Monbusho Scholars Association of India, New Delhi and All India Japanese Language Teachers Association, New Delhi & Asiatic Society, Kolkata. Also Founder and Life-Member of The Indo-Japan Welfare and Cultural Association, Kolkata.
M.A., B.Ed, M.Phil. Diptendu Sarkar is a Principal of a Government School in Kolkata, with a teaching experience of above eight years. Currently he is working for Ph.D on: Traditional History to New Statism in the Era of Globalisation : A Study of Muslim Minorities in Southern Thailand in the department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, India. So far he has published some articles in the journal of national importance.
M.A in Economics, Ms. Sen Choudhury has wide teaching experience. She taught in Shillong College and Commerce College, Shillong, Meghalaya and in different schools of Calcutta. Currently she is an Asst. Teacher in Calcutta Girls’ High school. She takes interest in carrying research on history of Metallurgy in India and Southeast Asia. So far she has attended and presented papers on history of Metallurgy in India in the Seminars organised by Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh and Burdwan University, West Bengal, India and has published articles on tribal metal craftsmen of Bengal. Ms. Sen Choudhury also takes interest in learning languages and she has knowledge of Thai language.
M.A in Geography, Kamalini Dasgupta is a Senior Lecturer in Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Calcutta. This young scholar has in record experience of attending a number of orientation and training programmes conducted by prestigious organisations and institutes like Indian Council of Social Science Research; Indian National Cartographic Association; National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation; and University of Calcutta. Ms. Dasgupta has publications pertaining to her subject in journals/proceeding volumes of the abovenoted institutions.
Monirul Hussain obtained his graduation from Cotton College, Guwahati and MA from AMU, Aligarh. He did his M.Phil and doctoral research at the School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the post doctoral research at the University of Oxford. He was recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship in 1999 and South Asia Regional Fellowship (Senior) from the Social Science Research Council (New York) in 2004. He has contributed papers in national and international research journals on the society and politics in North East India. His book The Assam Movement: Class, Ideology and Identity (1993) received critical appreciations far and wide. This book is regarded as an indispensable source for understanding Assam’s colonial and postcolonial society and politics. He co-edited two volumes on Religious Minorities in South Asia : Selected Essays on Postcolonial Situation (2001). His latest edited volume is entitled Coming out Of Violence : Essays on Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution and Peace Process in North East India (2005). His forthcoming book Encountering Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India is being published by SAGE India.
Prof. Hussain has been a Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. At present he is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Gauhati University. Besides teaching at MA level and guiding research at doctoral level, he is now engaged in two major research projects on Human Security in South Asia and Displacement of Population in North East India.
Patit Paban Mishra had his postgraduate from Delhi University and doctorate from JNU, New Delhi. He received his D.Litt from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta. Presently he is Professor of history in Sambalpur University, Orissa, India. His articles have been published in various journals like; ECIMS (Moscow), ICT (Amsterdam),Tai Culture (Berlin), IIAS Newsletter (Amsterdam), Asian Review(Hong Kong),Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Asian Studies (Calcutta), Bengal Past & Present( Calcutta), Indian Archives (New Delhi) etc. His publications and projects relate to topics like India’s Cultural Rapprochement with Southeast Asia, Medieval Urban Centres of Orissa, Terrorism in Contemporary World and Tribal Resistance Movement in the Colonial Period. Dr Mishra regularly attends national and international conference and has presented seminar papers in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Berlin, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Hanoi, Manila, Moscow, Shanghai, Singapore, Warsaw, Vientiane etc. He is connected with different academic organizations and projects in national and international level. He is one of the editors of the Project South Asia of Missouri Southern College, the USA and Asian Encyclopedia, Berkshire Publishing House, USA. He has also edited two Encyclopedias, published from the USA and contributed about three hundred Encyclopedias to different Encyclopedias. He has authored books namely; Laos: Land and Its People (Indian Centre for Studies on Indo-China, New Delhi,1984), A History of Contemporary Laos (NBO, New Delhi, 1999) and Rapprochement between India and Southeast Asia,(NBO, New Delhi, 2005) etc.
Rajasri Basu, completed her graduation from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1985 with a First Class Honours degree in Political Science, followed by a First Class M.A. degree from Calcutta University in 1987. She worked as a UGC Research Fellow in the department and got her Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1995. Her Ph.D. topic was “ Ethnopsychology and Political Participation of the Santhals of West Bengal, 1984-1989”. She joined Presidency College as a lecturer in 1996 and shifted to Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) two years later. She is presently a Senior Lecturer in the department of Political Science, RBU.
Her favourite areas of study are political theory and politics of India. Currently her areas of focus are Gender Studies, Liberal and Communitarian political theories. Presently she is working on Citizenship-A Feminist Perspective.
Apart from her research work, she has a particular penchant for teaching. She is currently involved in both undergraduate and post graduate teaching in her university. She has also been invited by several undergraduate colleges for giving Extension Lectures on different aspects of political theory. She is also associated with the distance mode of education, Higher Secondary (Rabindra Mukta Vidyalaya), undergraduate (Netaji Subhash Open University) and post graduate (NSOU and RBU) levels. Besides, three Ph.D scholars are working under her supervision. She also has two books ( the second in the press) and several articles to her credit. She has presented papers in several state- level and national seminars. She has also delivered lectures in two international conferences.
Tridib Chakraborti is an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D in International Relations from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is a Professor in the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. Earlier he was a UGC Junior Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University before he joined the department as a Lecturer.
He has specialized in Southeast Asian politics, foreign relations, strategic issues, Indian Diaspora and Ethnic Issues of Southeast Asia. Apart from these he also teaches International Economic issues, issues concerning Asia Pacific Region, Indian Political Thought and Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies. Currently he is working on Regionalism in Southeast Asia, Emerging Internal Threats in Southeast Asia, Foreign Policy of India-Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Chinese Foreign Policy.
His first book is India and Kampuchea: A phase in their Relations –1978-81 (Minerva Associates (Publications) Pvt. Ltd. Calcutta, (1985). He is also the co-editor of two books on international relations, namely—Tridib Chakraborti and Santimoy Roy (eds): Vietnam: A Changing Horizon, (Chatterjee Publishers, Calcutta, 1992) and Purushottam Bhattacharya, Tridib Chakraborti and Shibashis Chatterjee (eds): Anatomy of Fear: Essays on India’s Internal Security, (Lancer’s Books, New Delhi, 2004).
He has also contributed more than eighteen articles on different topics related to International Relations especially related to Southeast Asia, Indian Diaspora in Malaysia, Environment Problem in Southeast Asia, Issues of Terrorism in Southeast Asia, India’s Look East Policy, Conflict Resolutions, South China Sea Problems, BIMSTEC etc. These books have been edited by scholars and published by publishers of international repute. Institute has published one of his articles for Southeast Asian Studies, Hanoi, 2003 in the Vietnamese language. Prof. Chakraborti is a regular reviewer of books in the Asian Journal of Political Science, Singapore National University, Singapore.
He is also guiding considerable number of Doctoral Scholars and Fellows in the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. He is also the member of different learned societies in India. Presently, he is the Secretary of Indo-Vietnam Solidarity Committee, West Bengal, and Coordinator of Centre of Hari Prasanna India-China Cultural Studies, Jadavpur University.
Prof. Chakraborti visited Academy of Science of Moscow in 1990 and presented a paper on Indo-China. He also visited Ho Chi Minh City in October 2005 on behalf of the Jadavpur University as a Delegation Member following the signing of MOU with the Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City in June 2005. He also participated to several national and international seminars/ workshops in India and abroad.
He is presently the Head of the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
