JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY [www.jaduniv.edu.in] SELF-STUDY REPORT for submission to the National Assessment & Accreditation Council VOLUME II PART 1 DEPARTMENTS/SCHOOLS/CENTRES/SPECIAL PROGRAMMES FACULTY OF ARTS & FACULTY OF SCIENCE JANUARY 2014 Table of Contents Page Note 5 Faculty of Arts Bengali 9 Comparative Literature 19 Economics 43 Education 60 English 65 Film Studies 98 History 111 International Relations 138 Library and Information Science 149 Philosophy 157 Physical Education 171 Sanskrit 176 Sociology 183 Faculty of Science Chemistry 191 Geological Science 200 Instrumentation Science 221 Life Science and Biotechnology 230 Mathematics 240 Physics 254 3 4 NOTE This is the first part of the second volume of Jadavpur University’s NAAC Self-Study Report. It contains the profiles of all the departments in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science. Some additional information, such as detailed lists of publications or seminars and conferences attended by faculty members, has been separately incorporated in a volume of annexures. These annexures will be made available, as per the NAAC guidelines, to the Peer Team on-site when they visit the university. 5 6 Faculty of Arts 7 8 Department of Bengali 1. Name of the Department/School/Centre: BENGALI 2. Year of establishment: 1957 3. Faculty to which the Department/School/Centre is attached: Arts 4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, MPhil, PhD, Integrated Masters; Integrated PhD, DSc, DLitt, etc.): UG, PG (Day and Evening), M.Phil, Ph. D 5. Interdisciplinary programmes being conducted and other departments involved: Nil 6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: Proposal under consideration of BoS 7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: None 8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System : Semester system 9. Participation of the department in courses offered by other departments: 1. ED Courses offered by Rabindranath Studies Centre 2. ED Course offered by School of Media, Communication and Culture 10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professor/Associate Professor/Asst. Professor/others): Sanctioned Filled Actual (including CAS & MPS) Professor 01 00 4+1 (superannuation) Associate Professor 02 02 03 Asst. Professor 13 10 05 Other - - - 11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance: Name Qualification Designation Specialization Years of Ph.D./M.Phil. Experience students guided - last 4 years Satyabati Giri MA Ph.D Professor Folk, Medieval 37 Years PhD : 10 Literature, 19th Century M Phil : 20 Bengali Literature Achintya MA, Ph.D Professor Folklore and Oral 33 Years PhD : 08 Biswas Tradition, Medieval M Phil : 08 Bengali Literature, Novel & Fiction Udaya MA, Ph. D Professor Linguistics, 31 Years PhD : 07 Kumar Modern Bengali M Phil :08 Chakraborty Literature, Oral Literature Sekhar MA, Ph. D Professor Linguistics, Modern 29 Years PhD : 5 Kumar Literature & Dramatics, M Phil : 8 Samaddar Rabindranath Studies Sampa MA, Ph.D Professor Modern Bengali 27 years Ph.D: 5 Chowdhury Literature, Women M.Phil: 5 Studies Dipanwita MA. Ph.D Associate Medieval Literature and 23 Years PhD : 06 Ghosh Professor Culture, Art and M Phil :10 Aesthetics, 19th Century Bengali Literature Ananya MA, Ph.D Associate Folk Literature, Modern 17 Years PhD : 9 Baruya Professor Bengali Literature M Phil : 3 9 Name Qualification Designation Specialization Years of Ph.D./M.Phil. Experience students guided - last 4 years Sutapa MA, M.Phil Associate Modern Bengali 16 Years M Phil : 2 Sengupta Professor Literature, Rabindranath PhD : 1 Studies Saswata MA Assistant Rabindranath Studies, 13 Years Bhattacharya Professor 19th Century Bengali Literature & Culture Abdul Kafi MA Assistant Aesthetics, Literary 08 Years M.Phil: 6 Professor Theory Criticism, Modern Bengali Literature Barendu MA Assistant Rabindranath Studies, 11 Years M Phil : 4 Mandal Professor Modern Bengali Literature, Literature of Bangladesh Rajyeswar MA Assistant Medieval Bengali 10 Years Sinha Professor Literature & Culture, 19th Century Bengali Literature Cultural Studies Joydeep MA Assistant Rabindranath Studies, 08 Years Ghosh Professor Modern Bengali Poetry, 19th Century Bengali Literature 12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors, visiting professors, etc.: Professor Debnath Bandyopadhyay, RBU Professor Sanatkumar Naskar, CU Professor Sumita Chakrabarty, BU Professor Bijaya Goswami, JU, Sanskrit Dr Samantak Das, JU, Comp. Lit. Dr Biswajit Ray, VBU 13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – programme-wise information: 14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio: B.A. : 4:1 M.A (Day) : 6:1 M.A (Eve) : 4:1 M.Phil : 1:1 PhD : 2:1 15. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff - sanctioned, filled and actual: Designation Sanctioned Filled Actual Librarian 01 01 01 Sorter 01 01 01 Junior Assistant 01 01 01 Peon 02 02 02 16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies: 1. Endangered Languages 2. Ethnicity, Culture of East and North-East India 3. Modern Bengali Drama 4. Popular Culture 10 17. Number and names of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project titles and grants received project-wise. Name Project Title Funding Agencie(s) Grants Received Professor Preparation of Teaching CIIL, Mysore Rs.36,00,000/- Udayakumar Materials of Minor and Chakrabarty Smaller Languages Professor Orally performed Literature UGC Rs. 5,00,000/- Udayakumar of southern Bengal : Video Chakrabarty recording digitalizing and to findout its Linguistics features of orality Professor Aesthetics of Undian Theatre UGC Rs. 5,00,000/- Sekharkumar : with special notes on Samaddar Bengali Theatre Co-PI : Abdul Kafi Rajyeswar Sinha Bangla Travel Literature UGC-UPE II Rs. 4,00,000/- (with SCTR) 18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received a) National collaboration : Nil b) International collaboration : Nil 19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received. (Give details.) UGC-SAP/DRS project completed and report submitted to the funding agency in 2012. “Eastern Indian Society, Culture, Literature & Language: A Comprehensive and Comparative Study (With special reference to the indigenous ethnic groups of the region)” 20. Research facility/centre run by the Dept./school/centre which has: state recognition : NIL national recognition : 1. Bhashacharya Sunitikumar Chatterjee Centre for Language 2. Centre for Theatre Studies international recognition : NIL 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies: N/A 22. Publications: Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) : N/A Articles published in Reputed Journal : 74 Monographs : 4 Chapters in Books : 5 Edited Books : 10 Books with ISBN with details of publishers : 10 Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) : N/A Citation Index – range / average SNIP : N/A SJR : N/A Impact Factor – range / average : N/A h-index : N/A (See Annexure 1 for details) 23. Details of patents and income generated: N/A 11 24. Areas of consultancy and income generated: N/A 25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories / institutions / industries in India and abroad (give details): NIL 26. Faculty serving in National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other (please specify and give details, including the name of the committee/s, position/s held, duration, etc.) a) National Committee : Professor Satyabati Giri, academic committee member, Asiatic Society Professor Satyabati Giri, member, UGC-SAP advisory committee, Department of Bengali, Assam University, Assam b) International Committee : Nil c) Editorial Boars : Barendu Manadal is in the Editorial Board of “Dibaratrir Kavya”, Kolkata and “Bangladesher Galpakatha”, Rajsahi, Bangladesh. d) Other Professor Achintya Biswas served as Vice-Chancellor of Gaurbanga University Professor Sekhar Samaddar, member, Paschimbanga Natya Academy Professor Satyabati Giri, subject expert, PG-BoS, Kalyani University & Vidyasagar University Abdul Kafi, subject expert, UG-BoS, Netaji Subhash Open University, Kolkata Abdul Kafi, Member, UG Faculty Council, Arts Faculty, Kalyani University 27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops, training programs and similar programs) conducted: Refresher Course conducted: 1. 2008 : Title “Bangla Samayikpatra”, Co-ordinators : Ananya Baruya 2. 2009 : Title “Nandantattwa” Co-ordinators : Abdul Kafi, Barendu Mandal 3. 2010 : Title “Post Independence Bengali Culture : Recent Urban Experiences” Co-ordinators : Saswata Bhattacharya, Rajyeswar Sinha 4. 2011 : Title “Kavitar Yog Biyog”, Co-ordinators : Sutapa Sengupta, Joydeep Ghosh 5. 2013 : Title “Popular Culture : Theory and Politics”, Co-ordinators : Abdul Kafi, Barendu Mandal 28. Student projects percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter-departmental projects : 100% PG students percentage of students doing projects in collaboration with other universities / industry / institute : Nil 29. Awards /