4 CULTURAL RESOURCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

This group consists of the following related subgroups. 1: Cultural Processes 2: Cultural Documentation 3: Cultural Diversity 4: Social Sciences

4.1 SELF APPRAISAL REPORT ON Cultural Processes

4.1.1 Contributing Faculty Members 1. Nilanjana Gupta, Professor, Department of English, 53 years, Books-13, journal/conference/ book chapter publications -23 2. Parthasarathi Bhaumik, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, 38 years, Books-1, Journal/Conference/book chapter publications – 2. 3. Abhijit Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, 41 years, Books-2, journal/conference/book chapter publications—English 14, Bengali 9.

In addition to the above, the following persons are also associated with various projects:

1. Dalia Chakrabarty, Department of Sociology, JU 2. Nandini Saha, Department of English, JU 3. Madhumita Roy, Department of Architecture, JU 4. Amitava Sanyal, Independent Researcher 5. Devalina Mookerjee, Independent Researcher

4.1.2 Relevant Projects in Last 10 years including the Ongoing Projects

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) Studies in Cultural Processes. A ‘University with Nilanjana Gupta, total of 11 sub-areas of Potential for Abhijit Roy, Ipsita 25 2003-08 research under the first phase Excellence’ (UPE) Chanda, Sayantan of the UGC-UPE scheme scheme of the UGC Dasgupta, Dalia (phase-I) granted to Jadavpur University. (2003-08) Chakraborty from the current group of UPE, phase-II. Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) Setting up of Community Radio Technical Education managed Quality Improvement Nilanjana Gupta 17 2007- by School of Media, Programme, Govt. of 2008 Communication and Culture India Launching the UGC Career UGC Nilanjana Gupta Oriented course for Radio Iman Kalyan Lahiri 10 2007-12 Production

Child Radio Reporter UNICEF Nilanjana Gupta 14 2008- ongoing **Multi-media reporting for University of Miami Abhijit Roy 0.26 2009-10 the world’s most under- (USA) reported issues Training programme for Commonwealth Nilanjana Gupta 1.67225 2009-11 community radio professionals Educational from Bangladesh Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) Oral Narrative Project on UGC, Innovative Parthasarathi Bhaumik .26 2010-11 ‘Hearing the City: Exploring Research Scheme Kolkata through the Narratives of Sound’ Training programme & Vikramshila Education Abhijit Roy 3 2010-12 production of magazine for Resource Abdul Kafi under-privileged children of Society, Calcutta Calcutta studying in informal schools Rabindra Post Centenary Jadavpur University Samantak Das 0.5 2010-12 Golden Jubilee celebration: ‘Tagore 150’

‘East Kolkata Wetlands: A 360° United States-India Sanjeev Chatterjee and Funds directly 2011-12 View’ Educational Abhijit Roy managed by Foundation USIEF Chatterjee, the Fulbright grantee for the project Baseline Survey and Capacity Department of Nilanjana Gupta 1.3 2011-12 Building Science and Workshop on ‘Science for Technology, Govt. of Women’s India Health and Nutrition’ Women Speaking to Women : National Council for Nilanjana Gupta 14.6 2013-14 Community RadioJU & Science & Technology Women's Health Communication, DST, Govt. of India

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) Acropolis UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta 10.649 2012- ongoing New Media for Change: UGC-UPE Abhijit Roy and 29.548 2012- Multimedia Stories on Under- Nilanjana Gupta ongoing Reported Issues Madrasa in India UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta 14.983 2012- ongoing Soundscapes of Kolkata UGC-UPE Parthasarathi Bhaumik 8.5 2012- ongoing Media and Public Opinion UGC-UPE Abhijit Roy and 9.449 2012- Nilanjana Gupta ongoing Community Radio in India UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta 6.999 2012- ongoing East Bengal Club UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta and 1.5 2012- Amitava Sanyal ongoing Online humour UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta and 1.3 2012- Devalina Mookerjee ongoing Performance UGC-UPE Nilanjana Gupta 8.249 2012- ongoing

4.1.3 Relevant Publications in Last 5years of the faculty members

Books and monographs:

1. Partha Pratim Basu, Revisiting Rammohun Roy’s Political Agenda: Implications for Post-colonial Indian Polity, Kolkata: Raja Rammohun Roy Memorial Museum, 2009. 2. Nilanjana Gupta, Himadri Banerjee & Sipra Mukherjee eds. Calcutta Mosaic: Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta, Anthem Press: London, 2009. 3. Nilanjana Gupta & Rimi B. Chatterjee eds. Reading Children: Children's Literature in Colonial & Post- colonial Literature, Orient Longman, Chennai, 2009. 4. Nilanjana Gupta, Reading with Allah: Madrasas in West Bengal, Routledge: London & New Delhi, 2009. 5. Nilanjana Gupta & Pallabi Chakravorty eds. Dance Matters: Performing India, Routledge: London & New Delhi, 2010. 6. Parthasarathi Bhaumik and Jatindra Kumar Nayek (eds.), Memory Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886-1948), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2010. 7. Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process. Sage: New Delhi, 2011. 8. Nilanjana Gupta ed. Strangely Beloved: Calcutta, the City, Raintree Publications: Delhi, 2014. 9. Abhijit Roy and Biswarup Sen (eds.) Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014. Book Chapters/Papers published in journals:

1. Partha Pratim Basu. “India’s Economic Diplomacy and the Print Media” in Anjali Ghosh et al eds. Indian Foreign Policy, Pearson, New Delhi, 2009

2. Partha Pratim Basu. “India Looks East: Perceptions of the Print Media” in Rabindra Sen et al eds. Power, Commerce and Influence: India’s Look East Experience, Lancer’s Books, New Delhi, 2009.

3. Ipshita Chanda, ‘Selfing the City: Single Women Outsiders in Calcutta, Gender and the Processes of Everyday Life” in N. Gupta. H. Bannerji and S.Mukherjee eds. Calcutta Mosaic, Anthem Press, 2009.

4. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘Stress and Morals’ in Stress Syndrome of the Adult Youth and Degeneration of Moral Values: A collection of papers and articles, Women’s College, Calcutta in collaboration with Centre for the Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, 2009

5. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘Sociology and Disability: Limitations and Prospects’, Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, no. 2, February 2009.

6. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘Sociology of D. P. Mukerji’, Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, vol 3, no. 3 March 2010.

7. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘D. P. Mukerji and the Middle Class in India’, Sociological Bulletin 59(2), May-August 2010.

8. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘The Making of a Syllabus: An issue beyond academics’, in Maitrayee Chaudhuri ed. Sociology in India: Intellectual and Institutional Practices, Rawat Publications, New Delhi.2010.

9. Parthasarathi Bhaumik, ‘The Year of Independence, the Year of Partition: Between History and Memory’ in Debra Castillo and Kavita Panjabi (eds.) Cartographies of Affect: Across Borders in South Asia and The Americas, Worldview Press, New Delhi, 2010.

10. Partha Pratim Basu. “Minority Rights in India: A View from the Regional Press” in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process, Sage, New Delhi, 2011.

11. Ipshita Chanda, ‘Kya Humne pehley kabhi yahan aye hai: Returning to the Indian in Indian cinema through Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om’ in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory Method Process, Sage, 2011.

12. Nilanjana Gupta, ‘Just for fun: Changing Notions of Social Forms of Leisure’in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory Method Process, Sage, 2011.

13. Abhijit Roy, ‘Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin and the Makeover of Indian Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory Method Process, Sage, 2011.

14. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘Medical Advertisement: An embodiment of culture’, in Basu and Chanda (eds.) Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process, Sage Publications. 2011.

15. Dalia Chakrabarti. ‘Social Impact Assessment: Plea for a broadband Approach’, Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, June 2011.

16. Partha Pratim Basu. “The Indo-Bangla Enclaves and a Disinherited People”, Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, Vol 15, 2011.

17. Partha Pratim Basu. “Buddhism and Dalit Emancipation: A Study of Tagore and Ambedkar”, Perception, Vol 3, 2011.

18. Ipshita Chanda, ‘An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues’ in Comparative Literature and Culture Web Vol 13 No 3 (September 2011) Article 12

19. Parthasarathi Bhaumik, Book Review of J.P.Das’s A Time Else Where in Indian Literature, journal of Sahitya Akademi, Vol. LV No 6, New Delhi, 2011.

20. Partha Pratim Basu, “CPI (M) and Globalization: Anatomy of Ambivalence” in Bhupinder Brar and Pampa Mukherjee eds. Globality: Relocation, Resistance and Reinvention, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012.

21. Abhijit Roy, ‘The Border Within: India and Manipur’ in Beyond Borders in John Hutnyk ed. Pavement Books, London, 2012.

22. Abhijit Roy, ‘A Reflexive Turn in Television Studies? Conjectures from South Asia’, Journal of South Asian History and Culture, vol 2, no 4, September 2012.

23. Abhijit Roy, ‘The Many Travels of Dopdi Mejhen: Women, Borders and the Indian state’ in Subhasis Dutta, Basabi Roy Chowdhury, Antara Banerjee and Swaty Mitra (eds.) Women and Literature: Different Faces Different Voices, Barasat Government College, India, 2013.

24. Abhijit Roy, ‘A Reflexive Turn in Television Studies? Conjectures from South Asia’ (book chapter) in Television at Large in South Asia eds. Shanti Kumar and Aswin Punathambekar, Routledge, New Delhi, 2013.

25. Abhijit Roy, ‘TV after Television Studies: Recasting Questions of Audiovisual Form’ in Abhijit Roy and Biswarup Sen eds. Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014.

26. Partha Pratim Basu, ‘Brahmo Samaj’ in Nilanjana Gupta ed. Strangely Beloved: Calcutta, the City, Raintree Publications: Delhi, 2014.

27. Abhijit Roy, ‘Reading Space: Daftaripara’, in Nilanjana Gupta ed. Strangely Beloved: Calcutta, the City, Raintree Publications, New Delhi, 2014.

28. Abhijit Roy, ‘When was Participation? The Many Legacies of Indian Television’s Public’ in Rana Nayar ed. Cultural Studies in India: Essays on Literature, History and Politics, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014. 29. Abhijit Roy, 'Staging democracy: Indian news television and its publics' in Parthapratim Sen, Arunima Ray (Chowdhury) and Gopa Biswas (eds.) Indian Nationhood and Nationalism: Perspectives, Representations and Reflections, Reader's Service, Calcutta, 2014. 4.1.4 Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5 years

1. Nilanjana Gupta, Representation of Child Issues in the Print Media, a report based on field survey and research, commissioned by and submitted to the UNICEF, published by School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, 2010.

4.1.5 Facilities Available Name of the Equipment, Year of Installation – year, Place of installation, Purchased under the programme name, Names of the departments within the University and outside served.

Name of the Equipment Year of Place of Purchased Service Coverage Installation installation under 1 7 desktops, 1 laptop, 1 Till 2013 School of Various All projects scanner, 2 printers, 1 Media projects affiliated to projector, 1 television, , 1 Communicati (Except School of Media, radio, 1 audio-system, 2 still on and Community Communication cameras, 4 digital sound Culture’s Radio 90.8 and Culture recorders, office room RadioJU and and project UPE-II room. projects) of School of Media, Communicatio n and Culture, JU 2 4 cameras, 1 edit set-up, 1 2012-13 Project room All ‘Cultural For ‘Cultural studio monitor, 4 digital of School of Processes’ Processes’ sound recorders, 1 lapel Media, (UPE-II) projects and mike, 2 desktops, 3 laptops, 2 Communicati projects limited service to tablets, 2 scanners, 1 printer, on and except other Cultural 1 radio, 1 television, 1 copier, Culture ‘Soundscapes Resources (UPE) of Calcutta’ projects 3 1 camcorder, 1 tripod, 1 2012-13 Rabindranath Soundscapes ‘Soundscapes of Portable digital recorder Studies of Calcutta, Calcutta’ project (Zoom H4N), 1 laptop. Centre, JU UPE-II

4.1.6 Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

The Cultural Processes sub-group largely focuses on the emerging issues in culture, media and urban communities with special focus on marginal and minority groups.

A. Projects under the ‘Cultural Processes’ subgroup and work done so far

(i) Acropolis:

Project ‘Acropolis’ deals with the ever expanding city of Kolkata. From colonial neighbourhoods to post-colonial developments in places like Salt Lake to the rising global cities in Rajarhat, how has the urban space changed and why? What is the changing nature of the communities who resides in these spaces? What are the differences that are noticeable in the planning stages and during the process of its actual execution? How is the nature of the space determined by socio-economic status of the residents? What are the overlapping characteristics that could be seen traced any neighborhood? How successfully can one identify the concepts like garden city or global city in the cities in India? The project seeks to examine such questions to understand the varied and complex evolution of cities, neighbourhoods and the related ideologies. A comparative framework is taken up to understand the rate of growth of cities in various parts of India, their similarities and differences. As a whole, the project tries to trace the continuous evolution of various urban spaces across the country pre and post-globalisation to get an idea as to which direction the policies adopted are leading the citizens.

A detailed research on Salt Lake city’s planning and evolution of its neighborhood has been undertaken. Field surveys on the daily activities of its residents and also their participation in festivals like Durga Puja are underway. Local newspapers and magazines are being examined and to learn about the demographic change over the last five decades, municipal records, census reports, voter list, etc. are being thoroughly analyzed. A reasonable amount of data have been generated based on interviews of people holding important position in the local community and administration. Concepts such as public/private domain, rise of commercial sectors in Salt Lake and changing class character of space are also looked into.

(ii) Madrasa: Madrasa Modernization is an ambitious project and Indian Govt. is trying in every possible ways to enhance these Islamic schools with modern facilities and ideas required by any other educational institution of a developing country like India. Our project is dealing with madrasas (all types of them based on sect/funding/classes taught) and their views on Govt.’s proposed Modernization projects. We are examining how madrasas are guiding a particular community to maintain their identity even in a fast changing world, their socio-religious services towards their own community, and their immense importance in enhancing literacy of this country in general. What are the changes they actually want (academic/technical/perceptual)? What do the madrasas perceive as unnecessary intervention of the state and resultant threat to their autonomy, community and religion in general? The project has already collected background information from various academic books available on the topic. Govt. proposals and previous project reports have been thoroughly read. We are also keeping track of relevant news from newspapers (Urdu/Bengali) published from Hyderabad, Lucknow and West Bengal. A database has been prepared. Visits have been made to important institutions and organizations in Delhi, Moradabad and Aligarh, interviews conducted and a reasonable amount of data have been generated., collected relevant information, met people who helped in contacting people there.

(iii) New Media for Change: Multimedia Stories on Under-Reported Issues:

This project tries to reach out to a wider community of people around the university and the city of Calcutta through multimedia stories. The aim is to ethically report under-reported issues involving the community itself and disseminating knowledge and awareness on the concerned issues through web and other accessible platforms. Students of Jadavpur University are involved at every stage of the work since one of the key objectives of the project is to equip students with the basic skills for fieldwork, research, audiovisual production, multimedia reporting and web-based communication. The project wishes to play a key role in the creation of researchers and media practitioners with a critical mind and a drive for social change in the digital era.

The very first initiative in the projects has been documenting Daftaripara, the binding industry of Calcutta, located primarily in ward no.37 of the city. Since August, 2012, the students, under supervision of the faculty, have been interviewing people connected with the binding industry in Calcutta, from workers, suppliers and owners to publishers, union leaders and experts in the field, and trying to capture the many nuances of life, labour and human stories in Calcutta’s 150 year-old Daftaripara. A large volume of academic material, historical resources, policy documents and primary data have been collected so far. We have already launched the project’s website (http://www.daftaripara.org). The website contains text, data, sound, images, artwork and videos created by students so far, and continue to grow as we collect more documents on the particular form of informal labour sector in Daftaripara.

(iv) Media and Public Opinion:

This is a research project on the relationship between Media, participatory culture and communicational convergence, with particular reference to Indian television. Television has made possible convergence of a wide spectrum of media: landline, cellphone, internet and even traditional forms of communication like the postal letter. All such networks play a significant role in generating audience participation (live sms poll, call-in, feedback through social media like Twitter and Facebook, electronic and postal mails) and a formidable ‘participatory culture’ around Reality TV, news television, participation-based promotion and even soap opera. The issues that come under sharp focus are class, consumerism, nationalism, communities, publics, governance, justice, geo- politics, gender, body, sexuality, ethics and politics. One of the key objectives of the project is to analyze the ethical standards of media practices in India and thus help sustenance of a commendable standard of media ethics in India. By generating a series of research papers on the public’s role in generating participatory culture and public opinion in India, we hope to also contribute towards enrichment of academic discourses and policy research on media. We wish to work on two specific areas in the five-year period of the project: a) Reality TV and participatory culture in India and b) News television and structures of public opinion in India. At the very outset, we have started collecting data on Rojgere Ginni (The Earning Wife), a Bengali Reality show based on women’s participation and one of the record-breaking long-running shows on Indian television. We are interviewing channel managers, producers, directors, anchors, technicians and participants related to the programme. The data so far promises to give us a comprehensive picture of the nature of women’s participation in television and of Bengali television history since the turn of the century, but also broadly of consumerism and gender-politics in contemporary society. We are also consulting policy documents, media reports, corporate reports, trade figures and documents pertaining to public participation and media practices.

(v) Soundscapes of Kolkata

Significant changes of soundscapes of Kolkata with time and space is closely related to socio-cultural and economical changes in urban spaces. This project aims to document and analyze different soundscapes of Kolkata through intensive field works relating them to the city’s lived experiences. It is through this project that the sonic history of Kolkata is being documented for the first time in multimedia format.

A large amount of sound, images, audiovisual material and texts have been collected so far. The collection is presented in multimedia format engaging audios, videos, images and texts in the website www.kolkatasounds.org. It is an ever cumulative project where the entire findings would be open for public access, and the end users may also contribute to bring in a multi-perspectival dimension to the project.

(vi) Social Networks:

This project studies the mechanism of surveillance on employees’ online social networking activities in digitally- connected organisations. The focus is on IT companies, since they have the maximum exposure to the use of digital networks and online communication tools at workplace.

Field visit to Amdocs, a telecommunication and IT solution provider in Magarpatta Cybercity, Pune, has been completed. Data gathered from interviews during this visit have been tabulated. Various IT organisations in Kolkata are being approached for conducting surveys.

(vii) Community Radio in India:

This project looks at the role of community radio in India in the contexts of development, women’s empowerment, and other social issues. A special focus lies on community radio in academic campuses across India.

Visits have already been made to these community radio stations: Radio Namaskar (Konark), Radio Luit (Guwahati) and Radio Jnan Taranga (Guwahati), Anna FM (Chennai) and Puduvai Vaani (Pondicherry). The heads of the organizations, management staff and listeners were interviewed by the researcher. Focus-group discussions have been carried out as part of case studies. Transcripts of the interviews are being studied. Along with this, audiovisual documentation of the activities of these radio stations is helping understand the broader scenario of community radio in India. Academic material on the concerned issues, policy documents and archival resources are also being collected.

(viii) Performance:

Performances in the Indian context has always been researched either from the perspective of Indian aesthetic theories or from that of related western studies. This project wishes to dissolve such a binary by bringing in diverse perspectives to interact in a wider forum for understanding performance as social, political and cultural practice. The aim is to reexamine questions of body, labour, audience, performance pedagogies, production, circulation and consumption in a globalized world. Emergent sites of performance around Bollywood and Indian television have been amply emphasized along with traditional performative traditions. The project brings performers, researchers, activists, entrepreneurs and audience together to engage in a series of dialogues so that a repertoire of resources can be produced. The objective is to propel the research based on such resources towards providing critical tools for performance studies to shape up as an academic discipline in India. The first conference under this project titled ‘Dance Matters-II’ has been already organized and the papers presented are being submitted for publication. A 3-day exhibition on Indian and international dance forms have also been organized. Preparations for the second conference in these series are underway.

(ix) East Bengal Club:

This project is an attempt to write the first comprehensive history of one of the most important football clubs in India. Using reminiscences, anecdotes, fan discourses, sports myths and archival material related to the East Bengal Club, the project aims to look into broader themes of migration, settlement, refugee colonies, football cultures and sub-national identities.

Interviews of some eminent footballers, coaches and journalists were carried out by Amitava Sanyal. Several matches played by East Bengal Club in recent times have been watched and a number of supporters who came to watch these matches were interviewed by the researcher. Related documents are being collected.

(x) Online Humour:

This project looks at the burgeoning culture of humour, wit, fun, spoofs, cartoons and parodies across the web- world. The aim is to connect such content and corresponding interactions to larger questions in politics, institutions, and histories of dissent. A special focus of the project is on webs of circulation that constantly add new meanings to online content.

A large amount of material has been collected so far. Available academic resources on the issue are also being consulted.

B. Events organized/attended and presentations made so far by the ‘Cultural Processes’ subgroup

1. ‘Sustainable urban development: A systematic approach of waste disposal in Salt Lake City’, paper presented at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, January 8, 2014. 2. ‘Salt Lake City: Caught between two worlds’, paper presented at the First International UGC-UKIERI ETIC Workshop on ‘Envisioning the City: Spaces of Encounter’ organized by Jadavpur University, India and Liverpool University, UK. January 9, 2014. 3. ‘Madrasa and Education : Indian Traditions of Transmission of Knowledge’, paper presented at the second international seminar on ‘Philosophy of Education’, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, May 13, 2014. 4. ‘The Role of Community Radio in Sustainable Development’, paper presented at the National Seminar on ‘Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development’ organized by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai on January 9, 2014 5. ‘The Impact of Community Radio in bringing Gender Empowerment’, paper presented at the UGC- sponsored National Seminar on ‘Gender and Development’, Arya Mahila P.G. College, B.H.U, Varanasi, February 9, 2013. 6. ‘The Status of Community Radio in India’, presentation made at Community Radio Jnan Tarang (90.4FM, owned by KKHSOU), Guwahati, March 22, 2013. 7. ‘Songs of Pakistan’ with Taimur Rahman, in collaboration with Centre for Maxian Studies and School of Cultural Texts & Records, December 10, 2012 8. ‘Dance Matters II’, international seminar, July 18-20, 2013.This was the sequel to the seminar called ‘Dance Matters’ held in 2006. 9. An exhibition on Indian and international dance forms was organized parallel to the ‘Dance Matters-II’ conference. National Library, Calcutta. July 18-20, 2013. 10. ‘Technological Confinement of Digital Citizens versus Liberation of the Machine: Reading Alan Turing in Social Networking Sites’, paper presented at the Conference to Commemorate the Birth Centenary of Alan Turing, Jadavpur University in December 2013. 11. ‘New Globalisation: Changing Faces of Economy through Social Networking Websites’ paper presented at the international seminar on ‘Technology, Innovation and Social Change’, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, January 2013. 12. ‘Opportunities for Privacy and Surveillance in Social Networking Sites’, paper presented at UGC-sponsored seminar on Opportunities of New Media, Department of Mass Communication, Rabindra Bharati University, March 2013. 13. Panel on ‘Facebook and misogyny’ at a students’ seminar on Media, Gender, Security and Public Space jointly organized by Ebong Alap and School of Media, Communication and Culture, in September 2013. 14. ‘Trends and issues in narrative journalism’ presentation made by Jonathan Shainin, Senior Editor of The Caravan magazine, January 11, 2013. 15. ‘Media for Change: The Asian Neighbourhood’, national-level panel discussion organized in collaboration with Kolkata Literary Festival, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and the National Library. National Library, Calcutta. January 12, 2013. 16. ‘Media for Change: What about Media Education?’, presentation made at the national-level panel discussion on ‘Media for Change: The Asian Neighbourhood’, National Library, Calcutta. January 12, 2013. 17. ‘Camerawork for Multimedia Stories’, workshop organized from February 23 to 25, 2013. The workshop was conducted by eminent cinematographer Chandan Goswami. 18. ‘Editing for Multimedia Stories’, workshop organized from March 6 to 9, 2013. The workshop was conducted by eminent film editor Tuhinabha Majumdar. 19. Two panel discussions, one on ‘Daftaripara: Craft, Labour, Human Stories’ and another on ‘Documentation in the era of Digital Media’, were organized on the occasion of the website launch of the project ‘New Media for Change: Multimedia Stories on Under-Reporetd Issues’, July 31, 2013. The website address is www.daftaripara.org. 20. ‘Archival research and documentation’, colloquium with Kamal Swaroop and screening of Rangbhoomi (Dir: Kamal Swaroop, Films Division India, 2013).Jadavpur University, February 5, 2014. 21. ‘Daftaripara: Documenting the working class in Calcutta’, presentation (through Skype video) made at the virtual international gathering for cross-border conversation on ‘The future of life in cities’, organized by the ‘On Cities’ project of the Knight Center for International Media, University of Miami, US, October 22, 2012. 22. ‘Television, participatory culture and questions in Indian democracy’, paper presented at the UGC- Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Whither Culture Studies: Contexts and Contestations’ organized by Department of English, University of Kalyani, March 6, 2013. 23. ‘Rethinking gender and development in reality television viewing’, paper presented at the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on ‘Gender and Development’, Arya Mahila P.G College, B.H.U, Varanasi. February 10, 2013. 24. ‘The nation and its public: On media and democracy in India’, paper presented at the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on ‘Indian Nationhood and Nationalism: Perspectives, Representations and Reflections’ organized by Departments of Political Science, History and Bengali, Vidyanagar College, West Bengal. September 28, 2013.

C. Publications by the ‘Cultural Processes’ subgroup

1. Nilanjana Gupta (ed.) Strangely Beloved: Calcutta, the City, Raintree Publications, New Delhi, 2014 2. Nilanjana Gupta (ed.) The Digital Citizen: New Technologies, New Indians, Jadavpur University Press. Manuscript for book under preparation. 3. Nilanjana Gupta (ed.) Dance Matters 2 (tentative title). Routledge. Manuscript for book under preparation. 4. History of the East Bengal Club, Manuscript for book under preparation. 5. Nilanjana Gupta, ‘Dance me till the end of time: eavesdropping on DJ cultures’, in Fabrique de l'art n°1 (English and Bangla). Forthcoming. 6. Nilanjana Gupta et al. ‘Between the Past and the Future: Looking at Salt Lake’, essay submitted for publication to Economic and Political Weekly, India. 7. Abhijit Roy, ‘Reading Space: Daftaripara’, in Nilanjana Gupta ed. Strangely Beloved: Calcutta, the City, Raintree Publications, New Delhi, 2014. 8. Abhijit Roy, ‘When was Participation? The Many Legacies of Indian Television’s Public’ in Rana Nayar ed. Cultural Studies in India: Essays on Literature, History and Politics, Routledge, New Delhi. Forthcoming. 9. Abhijit Roy, 'Staging democracy: Indian news television and its publics' in Parthapratim Sen, Arunima Ray (Chowdhury) and Gopa Biswas (eds.) Indian Nationhood and Nationalism: Perspectives, Representations and Reflections, Reader's Service, Calcutta, 2014.

D. Research based web-platforms created by the ‘Cultural Processes’ subgroup www.daftaripara.org (launched) www.kolkatasounds.org (launched) www.smccju.org (under construction)

4.1.6 Work plan during 2014-17

Acropolis:  Comparative analyses of growth of cityscapes across India is yet to be done and is a major focus area in the coming years.  The project would move beyond Salt Lake and Rajarhat/Newtown near Calcutta to examine during 2014- 17 new urban spaces and cultures in Lavasa, Pune, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Navi Mumbai. New Media for Change: Multimedia Stories on under-reported issues  The current focus on the binding workers of Calcutta would continue with a major focus on making the website daftaripara.org more resourceful with added interviews, videos, statistical data and other primary material collected from fieldwork.  Making the website www.daftaripara.org at par with the global standards of design and interactivity in multimedia storytelling.  Workshops and discussions on web development and design, intellectual property issues, free and open source software, media ethics and digital collaboration.  Learning from our current work on Daftaripara, the ‘field’ for the project may shift from 2015 April to a different unorganized urban labour sector in Calcutta. We think that would diversify and enhance our understanding of the livelihoods, labour, crafts, people and struggles that shape our cities.

Media and Public Opinion  The current research on publics and participatory culture would continue both in the sectors of news and Reality TV.  We also plan to focus on the structures of participatory culture and public opinion in the circuits of promotional television. Calcutta has a number of television channels that exclusively promote sale of commodities from garments and consumer durables to services like astrology, black magic, legal consultation and health. The project wishes to examine the mode of live interaction with audience in these programmes and the associated questions in infrastructure, finance, labour, law and impact on popular culture.  The project plans to come out with a series of research papers, and if possible a book, on contemporary forms of public opinion and participatory culture concerning television.

Soundscapes:  During 2014-17, the project would build an online archive containing the sounds collected so far and old and lost sounds of Kolkata from different archival sources.  The resource website www.kolkatasounds.org would be made more resourceful by adding more sonic and other related material.

Community Radio:

 To visit many more community radio stations in India. In 2014, visits will be made to Hyderabad, Mewar and Dharwad.  The project would organize an international conference on ‘Community Radio in India’ bringing scholars, practitioners and media activists from South-Asia.  Publication of a book containing papers presented at the above conference is planned during 2014-17. This will be first book on Community Radio in South-Asia.

Performance

 Series of seminars, conferences and workshops are planned during 2014-17  A full-length book is due to come out soon out of the international conference already organized. More of such conference-based publications would come out during 2014-17. Madrasa:

 Visiting madrasas and related institutions, collecting data and interviewing concerned people in Surat, Hyderabad and Kozhikode. We also plan to visit and study madrasas in Kashmir.  Workshops and seminars to be organized.

Social Networks:

 The networking environment of more companies will be researched.  Seminar presentations and publications during 2014-17 East Bengal Club

 As the research continues, a book on history of the East Bengal Club is planned during 2014-17. Manuscript under preparation.  A series of presentations are also planned for this period. Online Humour

 As the research continues, a series of presentations and publications are planned for this period.

4.2. SELF APPRAISAL REPORT ON DOCUMENTATION OF CULTURAL TEXTS (SCHOOL OF CULTURAL TEXTS AND RECORDS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY)

4.2.1 Contributing Faculty Members (PI/direct supervision of research projects)

1. PROFESSOR AMLAN DAS GUPTA, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Digitization of Cultural Material

Digital Music Archiving

Electronic Editing

2. DR ABHIJIT GUPTA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Early Bengali Books Location Register

Physical Culture in Bengal

3. SHRI RAJESWAR SINHA, ASST. PROFESSOR OF BENGALI

Travel Literature in Bengal Database Advisory Faculty

1. PROFESSOR SUKANTA CHAUDHURI (PROFESSOR EMERITUS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY)

2. PROFESSOR SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI (PROFESSOR EMERITA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY)

3. PROFESSOR SWAPAN CHAKRAVORTY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

4. PROFESSOR MOINAK BISWAS, PROFESSOR OF FILM STUDIES

5. PROFESSOR SAMANTAK DAS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

6. DR RIMI B CHATTERJEE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Project Staff under UPE - 2 as on 1 January 2014

1. Sri Subrata Sinha, Research Fellow

2. Dr Spandana Bhowmik, Research Fellow

3. Dr Debapriya Basu, Research Fellow

4. Dr Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri Basu, Project Fellow

5. Ms Purbasha Auddy, Project Fellow

6. Dr Deeptanil Roy, Project Fellow

7. Sri Nikhilesh Bhattacharya, Project Fellow

8. Ms Moumita Haldar, Project Fellow

9. Ms Asmita Chaudhuri, Project Fellow

4.2.2 Relevant Projects in Last 10 years including the Ongoing Projects (MAJOR PROJECTS ONLY)

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) DOCUMENTATION OF UGC - UPE 1 SUKANTA CHAUDHURI, 25 + 25 = 50 2003- RARE TEXTS AND SWAPAN MAJUMDAR, LAKHS 2008 EDITING AS A SKILL SWAPAN CHAKRAVARTY, ANURADHA CHANDA, SUBHA CHAKRABARTI DASGUPTA ABHIJIT GUPTA, TRIDIB CHAKRAVARTY, AMLAN DAS GUPTA RECOVERY AND EDITING BRITISH LIBRARY UK - ANURADHA CHANDA GBP 10,000 2006- OF SYLHET NAGRI TEXTS ENDANGERED ARCHIVES (APPROX: 2007 PROGRAMME RS 7LAKHS) ARCHIVING POPULAR BRITISH LIBRARY UK - SUKANTA CHAUDHURI GBP 27000 2007- MARKET INDIAN BOOKS ENDANGERED ARCHIVES (APPROX: 2009 PROGRAMME RS 21 LAKHS) DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK - AMLAN DAS GUPTA GBP 26000 2007- NORTH INDIAN ENDANGERED ARCHIVES (APPROX: 2009 CLASSICAL MUSIC - PROGRAMME RS 20 PHASE 1 LAKHS)

DIGITIZATION OF IGNCA, NEW DELHI SUKANTA CHAUDHURI APPROX 10 2008- CULTURAL MATERIAL LAKHS 2010 AND VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES DIGITIZATION OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK - SUKANTA CHAUDHURI GBP 23700 2009- BENGALI DRAMA AND ENDANGERED ARCHIVES (APPROX: 2011 SONG BOOKS PROGRAMME RS 19 LAKHS) DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF BRITISH LIBRARY UK - AMLAN DAS GUPTA GBP 43000 2009- NORTH INDIAN ENDANGERED ARCHIVES (APPROX: 2011 CLASSICAL MUSIC - PROGRAMME RS 36 PHASE 1 LAKHS) THE COMIC BOOK IN BRITISH COUNCIL, INDIA ABHIJIT GUPTA RS 2.85 2010- INDIA LAKHS 2012 BICHITRA PROJECT: MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SUKANTA CHAUDHURI RS 270 2011- ONLINE TAGORE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA SUBHA CHAKRABARTI LAKHS 2013 VARIORUM DASGUPTA SAMANTAK DAS DIGITIZATION OF SOUTH SIR RATAN TATA TRUST, AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 42 2012- ASIAN ARTCHIVAL MUMBAI ABHIJIT GUPTA LAKHS 2015 RESOURCES - COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH BRITISH LIBRARY, UK DOCUMENTATION OF UGC - UPE 2 AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 99 2012- CULTURAL TEXTS ABHIJIT GUPTA LAKHS 2014 A. Digitization of RAJESWAR SINHA Cultural Material B. Digital Music Archiving C. Electronic Editing D. Early Bengali Books Location Register E. Travel Literature in Bengal Database F. Physical Culture in Bengal DOCUMENTATION OF MAKAIAS; GOVT OF AMLAN DAS GUPTA RS 6 LAKHS 2013- PAPER RECORDS AT INDIA 2014 MAULANA AZAD MUSEUM, KOLKATA DOCUMENTATION OF VICTORIAL MEMORIAL AMLAN DAS GUPTA CURRENTLY 2013-TO PAPER RECORDS AND HALL; GOVT OF INDIA RS 10 CONTINUE CULTURAL ARTIFACTS LAKHS AT VICTORIA MEMORIAL APPROX HALL, KOLKATA COLLABORATIVE IGNCA; GOVT OF INDIA AMLAN DAS GUPTA CURRENTLY 2014- TO PROGRAMES WITH APPROX RS CONTINUE IGNCA, NEW DELHI 5 LAKHS

4.2.3 Relevant Publications in Last 5years

Book-length studies only by faculty members involved:

2008-2009

1. Chakravorty. S and Gupta A., eds. Moveable Type: Book History in India, (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008) ISBN 13: 9788178242170

2. Chakravorty, Swapan. ( ed) Mudraner sanskriti o Bangla boi (second impression, Kolkata: Ababhas, 2009). ISBN 978-81-904755-4-9

3. Das Gupta, Amlan. Trans. Mosquito and Other Stories by Premendra Mitra (2nd ed. New Delhi: Penguin Modern Classics, 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0143032144

4. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Nagar o Nagarik (Ebong Alap, Kolkata, 2008)

5. Chakravorty, Swapan. Printing and Book Production in Bengal: An Exhibition at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre, 14 February 2009 – 21 February 2009 (Kolkata: School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, 2009).

2009-2010

1. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. (ed.) Renaissance Themes: Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Das Gupta (London & Kolkata: Anthem, 2009). ISBN-13:978-81-907570-1-0

2. Chaudhuri, Sukanta. Ed. (with A. Rudra) Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay, The Final Question, trans. by members of the Department of English, Jadavpur University (2nd ed., New Delhi: Penguin India, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-0143067788 2010-2011

1. Chaudhuri S., The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN-13: 978- 1107412569

2. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose: Supriya Chaudhuri, Aveek Sen, Rosemary Bechler, Anthony Lerman, Henrietta Moore and Stephen Frosh (Calcutta: Seagull Books/ University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1906497347

3. Chaudhuri S. and Bagchi. J, [eds] Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay: Non-fictional Prose Writings in English Translation, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

4. Chaudhuri, S. (ed.) Renaissance Reborn: In Search of a Historical Paradigm (Delhi: DC Publishers, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-8180280382

5. Gupta, A., Associate Editor, Oxford Companion to the Book, eds. Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-0198606536

2011-2012

1. Chakravorty S,., and Gupta A., [eds] New Word Order: Essays in Transnational Book History (Delhi: Worldview, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-8192065113

2. Chaudhuri S., and Chatterjee R.B., [eds] The Writer’s Feast: Food and the Cultures of Representation (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011) ISBN-13: 978-8125041955

3. Khan, A., Khansahab Alladiya Khan: My Life Translated with a critical introduction by A. Das Gupta, with U. Bhirdikar, revisedand enlarged second edition, Kolkata, March. 2012. ISBN : 978-93-81703- 02-1

2012-13

1. Chaudhuri S. and Chaudhuri S, [eds] Petrarch: The Self and The World, (Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-8186954911

2. Chaudhuri S., Tadie A., and Mangan J., [eds] Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies, (London: Routledge, 2013) ISBN-13: 978-0415825689

3. Gupta A., [ed]The Crazy Tales of Pagla Dashu & Co., (New Delhi: Hachette, 2012). ISBN : 978-81-8462- 056-6 4. Chaudhuri S. and Trivedi P., [eds] Playing the Game: Essays on Literature and Sport, (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, forthcoming 2013)

5. Gupta A, Das Gupta A, and Kanoi L., The First Book of Virgil's Aeneid, translated by H. Sargent (1810): facsimile edition, with a trilingual rendition, notes and supplementary essays, (Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2103) ISBN 978-81-86954-92-8

6. Gupta A., [ed] Essays on Half-Tone Photography by Upendrakishore Ray, edited by A Gupta ((Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press, 2014, forthcoming) ISBN 978-81-906760-8-3

4.2.4 Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5years

1. A. Das Gupta (member) Report of Technology and Options Committee, Prasar Bharati, Government of India, 2013

2. A. Das Gupta (member) Report of the Expert Committee on Prasar Bharati, submitted to Government of India by Dr Sam Pitroda, Chairperson (2014)

4.2.5 Facilities Available (Major Equipment only):

Name of the Equipment Year of Place of Purchased Service Coverage Installatio installation under n 1 Dell Server and Storage 2011 Bichitra Bichitra For Bichitra Project Room, Project, Govt of material only Energy India Studies Building 2 Atiz Book Digitizer 2011 Bichitra Bichitra Services offered Project Room, Project, Govt of to all Energy India collaborating Studies institutes and Building departments 3 Dell Server and Storage 2014 Rabindra UPE-II For all Bhavan, 5th departments floor participating in CR and SS programme 4 Sound Lab (with facilities 2009 Rabindra British Library Facilities offered for extraction and Bhavan, 5th Endangered to all digitization sound from floor (being Archives Grant collaborating legacy media including reel transferred departments, tape, shellac disc, vinyl from UG institutes, and disc, cassette tape) using Science private collectors appropriate A/D interfaces building) 5 Digital imaging Lab 2009, Rabindra Bichitra Facilities offered (with high quality cameras, 2012 Bhavan, 5th Project, Govt of to all scanners, stands, software) floor (being India; UPE-II collaborating transferred departments, from UG institutes, and Science private collectors building) b) Approximately 50 Desktop and Laptop computers for day to day work acquired under various programmes.

4.2.6 Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14 Documentation of Cultural Texts The Documentation of Cultural Texts group of projects is being carried out by the School of Cultural Texts and Records under the UPE-II scheme. There are six different projects, and their activities during the last one year are reported separately. A. Digitisation of Cultural Materials The school has acquired and started to process 08 collections since the inception of the UPE-II Programme. The school is in the process of digitizing and cataloguing the collections, along with the basic care and management required for the preservation of the original documents. Suchitra Mitra Collection The collection contains manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, sketchbooks and other miscellaneous paper items. A total of 9000 pages (approx.) have been digitized so far. Buddhadeva Bose Collection The collection contains letters to Buddhadev Basu from various dignitaries like Amiya Chakraborty, Sudhindranath Datta, Henry Miller and others. The collection was received from his daughter, Damayanti Basu Singh. 700 such letters have been digitized so far, amounting to a total of 1500 images (approx.). Ashoka Gupta Collection The Ashoka Gupta Collection contains personal and official letters, official documents on the Jamnalal Bajaj Award and the Kasturba Gandhi Memorial Trust, Ashoka Gupta’s memoirs on refugee camps, and notes and papers on the riot in Noakhali. The collection was received from her daughter-in-law Narayani Gupta. Approximately 2312 pages have been digitized so far. Sankho Chaudhuri Collection The collection was received from his daughter Subha Chaudhuri. The collection contains published and unpublished articles written by Sankho Chaudhuri, private correspondence, official correspondence, drawings and other artworks, reports of various organisations such as the Lalit Kala Akademi and the Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, newspaper reports and articles, both by and on Sankho Chaudhuri. Cataloguing and digitization of the collection stands complete, with 4,444 photographs of 1,186 items. Snehanshu Kanta Acharya Collection The collection was received from his daughter Bijoya Chaudhuri. It consists of 80 photographs of Snehanshu Kanta Acharya, his acquaintances, and his family. Andre Laszlo Collection Mr. Andre Laszlo donated 6 books authored by his father Andras Laszlo, who was an eminent novelist. Katharina Moss collection 1 album of photographs and news clips, 3 records and 5 cassettes, relating to the Anglo Indian Community of Kolkata B. Digital Music Archive A total of 300 audio cassettes (approx.), with 400 hours of music (approx.) were digitized within the period. A brief description of the progress is provided below. James Stevenson Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 200 Duration of digitised audio – 250 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of vocal music by Sharafat Hussain Khan, Yunus Hussain Khan and Vilayat Hussain Khan. There are also recordings of Siddheshwari Devi and Rasoolan Bai, and in instrumental music, recordings of Hariprasad Chaurasia. Adhip Choudhury Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 21 Duration of digitised audio – 30 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of instrumental music by Nikhil Banerjee. Atanu Sen Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 12 Duration of digitised audio – 11 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of vocal music by Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Subinoy Roy, Amita Thakur, Nilima Sen, and Suchitra Mitra,and instrumental music by Vilayat Khan and Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Mihir Purakayastha Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 57 Duration of digitised audio – 64 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of AIR broadcasts of North Indian Classical Music and Bengali songs. Saptarshi Hazra Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 20 Duration of digitised audio – 25 hours The digitized music consists mostly of recordings of Mushtaq Ali Khan and Netai Basu. Archan De Collection 10 hours of audio recordings of the eminent Hindustani Classical Vocalist Ms. Uma De was digitized. Hemango Biswas Collection Approximately 125 phonodiscs and 75 audiocasssettes from the collection of Late Hemango Biswas, eminent musician, musicologist and political activist were deposited to the school archives by his family and the digitization and cataloguing is in progress. Three notebooks containing songs collected by Sri Biswas were also digitized. Kali Dasgupta Collection 18 notebooks and 65 audiocassettes were deposited by the family of Late Kali Dasgupta, an eminent musician, musicologist Soma Marik Collection Total no. of cassettes digitised – 29 Duration of digitised audio – 40 hours Audio recordings of interviews with First Generation Communist Women were deposited Bandish Transliteration as teaching aid An attempt was made at creating a set of teaching aids, by transliterating bandishes from V. N. Bhatkhande’s Kramik Pustak Malika, with a new transliteration scheme for Romanising the Nagari script, and embedding music samples from the archive within the transliterated text. C. Electronic Editing The School coordinated and cooperated with the developer-programmers Arunashish Acharya (Lecturer, School of Education Technology, Jadavpur University) and Sunanda Basu from SCTR’s end, towards development of a new collation software. The School now has a stable 1.0.0.0 version release of the ‘Prabhed’ collation pack, which includes the gross collation software ‘Chhatrobhango’, fine collation tool ‘Tafat’ and a tri-tier result-display system. Version 1.0.0.0 is available in both 32bit and 64bit. Further development of the programme is ongoing and a stable version 1.1 is expected shortly. Apart from that, the School has also provided support for electronic transcription of several Bengali and English manuscripts of Rabindranath Tagore, website management, various assorted tasks (such as working on a now-public bibliography and master-list of Tagore's works, electronic collation etc.), besides the overall management of the project. A new work on Sukumar Ray’s Calaccittacancari is in progress. This will collate the different variations of the text already available. D. Early Bengali Books The focus for this phase of the project is on books published in Bengal between 1868 (a year after the Press and Registration of Books Act) and 1914 (the beginning of World War I). Bibliographical record and title page transcript of relevant books have been collected from 11 libraries, including the National Library, the Asiatic Society, Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, the Serampore College, Uttarpara Jaykrishna Library and the British Library. The collected data is now being digitised. A list of Bengali books published in Bengal from the Appendix to the Calcutta Gazette (1868) housed in the British Library in London has also been compiled. The programme has collaborated with the Jadavpur University Press for the translation of Book I of Virgil's Aeneid from Latin to English as part of a book consisting of Henry Sargent's early Bengali translation of the same work from Latin to Bengali. The English translation was done by Professor Amlan Das Gupta and Shri Lav Kanoi. The School has collaborated with the Jadavpur University Press over an edition of Essays on Half-Tone Photography by Upendrakishore Ray from rare material originally published in Penrose's Pictorial Journal, London, between 1897 and 1912. A documentary weblog on the South Asian Print Resources was created in collaboration with the Digitisation of South Asian Archival Resources, SCTRJU-SRTT project. The blog can be accessed online at http://granthsouthasia.wordpress.com/author/granthsouthasia/. E. Physical Culture Database This new project has identified places, people, and organisations across Bengal that are keeping alive traditional forms of physical activity, such as Indian-style wrestling, the martial dance form of Raibeshe and lathi-khela or stick-wielding games. Field work has been conducted and practitioners of these forms have been interviewed. F. Travel Literature A descriptive catalogue with a location register of approximately 2500 relevant items was created. Events

Seminars, Workshops and Lectures

“Owning and Using: Circuits of Knowledge in North Indian Classical Music”

A Two-Day Research Symposium was organized under the Music Archiving Project, in collaboration with the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, and The Media Lab, Jadavpur University, on 15th and 16th January 2013.

The list of speakers included Adrian McNeil (Macquarie University, Sydney), Anindya Banerjee (Sarod exponent, Kolkata), Abhijit Banerjee (Tabla exponent, Kolkata), Lakshmi Subramanian (CSSS,Kolkata), Moinak Biswas (The Media Lab, JU), Masakazu Tamori, (Tokyo University), Sugata Marjit (Khayal Exponent; CSSS, Kolkata), Jon Barlow (Independent Researcher Katherine Schofield (King's College, London), Partho Datta (Zakir Husain College, Delhi), Urmila Bhirdikar (Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar), Amlan Das Gupta (SCTR-JU) and Subrata Sinha (SCTR-JU).

A Jugalbandi Sarod recital by Anindya Banerjee and Adrian McNeil with Abhijit Banerjee on Tabla was also organized in this occasion.

Archiving Paper Documents: Handling and Care

A day-long workshop was organized on March 30, 2013. The resource persons and panelists included Anup Matilal, Director, Indian Museum; Malabika Ghosh, National Library; Uma Majumdar, Librarian, Rajabhavan; U Ramesh, Archivist and Curator, SBI; Dr. Abhijit Gupta, SCTR-JU; Rajib Kundu, SCTR-JU and Aritra Chakrabartu, SYLFF-JU.

Image & Audiovisual Archives

A Special lecture session was organised on 23 August 2013. The speakers were Dr. Shubha Chaudhuri, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies and Dr. John Falconer, British Library, UK. The session was chaired by Prof. Swapan Chakraborty, Professor of English and Former Director General, National Library, Kolkata.

Script Identity Region: A Study in Sylhet Nagri

A seminar was organized in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies on the occasion of the release of the book, which came out of a series of research projects started during the UPE phase I. The speakers included Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Prof. Swapan Chakraborty, Prof. Anuradha Chanda and Prof. Sriradha Datta among others.

Special Lectures Two lectures by Professor Aniket Jaaware, Department of English, Pune University were organised on 5th and 6th December, 2013. The topics were The Humanities and Technicity in Time of Technologies and Touch: A Brief History

Exhibition of Audio Visual Archives

The School participated at the Indira Gandhi National centre for the Arts, New Delhi, from October 23 – November 15, 2013, in collaboration with Sangeet Natak Akademi, Prasar Bharati, Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Rupayan Sansthan, Archive of Indian Music, Naadsaagar and IGNCA held at IGNCA, New Delhi.

Symposium on preserving and maintaining the archives, Oct 28 at IGNCA, Delhi Listening Sessions The School has regularly organized listening sessions, featuring selections from its archival holdings. Some of the sessions were on  Remembering Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, on April 17 2013  An Evening of Thumri, on 16 May 2013  Remembering Pt. Yashwantbua Joshi, on 27 June 2013  Remembering Ustad Sharafat Hussain Khan, on 15 July 2013  Remembering Smt Rasoolan Bai, 13 December, 2013

4.2.7 Work plan during 2014-17

 PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE THROUGH ARCHIVE BUILDING AND DIGITIZATION PROGRAMMES

 CONSOLIDATING STRENGTHS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BOOK HISTORY

 CREATION OF DIGITAL TOOLS FOR PROCESSING INDIC LANGUAGE CULTURAL MATERIAL

 DEVELOPING MODULES AND COURSEWARE IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL INFORMATICS IN THE SOUTH ASIAN CONTEXT

 RESEARCH IN AUDIO AND AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVAL MATERIAL TO DEVELOP BETTER SEARCH TOOLS. 4.3 SELF APPRAISAL REPORT ON Cultural diversity

4.3.1 Contributing Faculty Members

Name of the Department Age Journal/conference/book chapter Principal publications (number only) Investigator

Nilanjana Gupta English 53 23 Ipshita Chanda Comparative Literature 53 21 Sayantan Dasgupta Comparative Literature 40 18

Sujit Kumar Mandal Comparative Literature 36 9 Debarchana Sarkar Sanskrit 55 45

4.3.2 Relevant Projects in Last 10 years including the ongoing Projects

Project Title Sponsoring Name of the PI Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) Interface UGC UPE phase-II Ipshita Chanda 11.799 2012-14 Translation as a Cultural Process UGC UPE phase-I Sayantan Dasgupta 2003-08 Project Anuvad UGC UPE phase-II Sayantan Dasgupta 12.249 2012-14 Traditional Dramatic Performance UGC-UPE phase I Sujit Kumar Mandal 0.5 2006-08 Scroll painting of Bengal Centre for Advanced Sujit Kumar Mandal 0.75 2007-09 Studies, Dept. of Comparative Literature Documentation of Banabibir Pala Centre for Advanced Sujit Kumar Mandal 0.5 2006-08 Studies, Dept. of Comparative Literature Tagore and translation ASHISS programme of Sujit Kumar Mandal 0.15 2005-06 the Department of Comparative Literature Project Palagaan UGC UPE phase-II Sujit Kumar Mandal 13.649 2012-14 A Corpus of Prakrit and Sanskrit Joint Project of ASIHSS Debarchana Sarkar 2005-10 Inscriptions (written in Sanskrit language) and CAS Phase I, Dept coinvestigators being Prof. Bijoya of Sanskrit, JU Goswami and Dr. Kakali Ghosh; Editing a Sanskrit text on astronomy and ASIHSS-Sanskrit Project Debarchana Sarkar 2005-10 geography jointly with Dr. Kakali Ghosh). on Science and Technology in Ancient India. Research article on aphrodisiac medicines CAS-Sanskrit Project Debarchana Sarkar 2005-10 prescribed in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra. on Diet and Medicine in ancient India Sanskrit Manuscripts UGC-UPE phase-II Debarchana Sarkar 9.599 2012-14

4.3.3 Relevant Publications in Last 5 years

Nilanjana Gupta

Please see details in 4.1.3

Ipshita Chanda

1. Ipshita Chanda (with Partha Pratim Basu) eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process. Sage: New Delhi, 2011. 2. Ipshita Chanda, “Selfing the City: Single Women Outsiders in Calcutta, Gender and the Processes of Everyday Life” in N. Gupta. H. Bannerji and S.Mukherjee eds. Calcutta Mosaic, Anthem Press, 2009. 3. Ipshita Chanda, “Kya Humne pehley kabhi yahan aye hai: Returning to the Indian in Indian cinema through Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om” in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds. Locating Cultural Change: Theory Method Process, Sage, 2011. 4. Ipshita Chanda, ‘An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues’ in Comparative Literature and Culture Web Vol 13 No 3 (September 2011) Article 12

Sayantan Dasgupta

1. Sayantan Dasgupta (with Lakshmi Holmstrom and Sanjukta Dasgupta). Translation: Roles, Responsibilities and Boundaries. Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 2012. 2. Sayantan Dasgupta (with Kabita Lama) eds., Call of the Hills: A Coursebook of Indian Nepali Literature in Translation Volume 1. Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 2012. 3. Sayantan Dasgupta (with Lyangsong Tamsang and Aveek Majumdar) eds., Lepcha Lokgan O Lokkatha (Lepcha Folk Songs and Folktales). Kolkata: Sahitya Akademi, 2011. 4. Sayantan Dasgupta ed., The Oxford Anthology of Dalit Writing from Eastern India (forthcoming). 5. Sayantan Dasgupta, “Translating India Today: Local Cultures, Global Ambitions, Colonial Hangovers” in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda eds., Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process. Sage: New Delhi, 2011. 6. Sayantan Dasgupta, “Society and Political Environment in Shyam Selvadurai’s Cinnamon Gardens. Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism. Worldview (New Delhi and Kolkata), 2009. 7. Sayantan Dasgupta, ““Dalit Writing in Bangla: Repression and Resistance in Manoranjan Byapari and Manju Bala’s Narratives” in Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 46. 2009. 8. Sayantan Dasgupta, “Towards a New Shakespeare Pedagogy: Some Notes.” Only Connect: UGC Seminar on Shakespeare. 2012. 9. Sayantan Dasgupta, 2012. “Literary and Non-Literary Translation in Multilingual India.” Indian Literature. LVI: 3. 10. Sayantan Dasgupta, 2013. “Comparing Translations: Roots and Routes.” Indian Literature. LVII: 5. 11. Sayantan Dasgupta, 2013. “Writing Repression, Righting Resistance.” Jaydeep Sarangi and Champa Ghosal eds., Marginal Writings in English. Delhi: Authorspress. 12. Sayantan Dasgupta tr., 2013. “Noakhali” A Fighting Spirit: Selected Writings of Ashoka Gupta. Eds., Sarmistha Dutta Gupta and Narayani Gupta, with an introduction by Jashodhara Bagchi. 55-62.

Sujit Kumar Mandal

1. Sujit Kumar Mandal ed., Banabibir Pala, Kolkata. Gangchil, 2009.ISBN-10-818695452X 2. Sujit Kumar Mandal ed., Dukhushyam Chitrakar: Patua Sangit, Kolkata. Gangchil, 2011. ISBN 81-86954-53- 8 3. Sujit Kumar Mandal ed., Bideshi Phuler Guchchha: Rabindranath Thakur-krita a-Bharatiya Bhashar Kabita- Anubad, Kolkata, Papyras, December 2011. ISBN 978-81-908360-1-2 4. “Katha-Dharay Patkatha” in Ananya Barua ed., Lokakathar Katha. Kolkata: Bangla Bibhaga, Jadavpur University, February 2013. pp. 84-108 5. “Bangla Oityyabahi Natyadhara: Sanruper Sandhane Palagaan”. In Prabhat Kumar Das ed., Bahurupi, vol- 118. Kolkata: October 2012. pp. 97-116 6. “Sat(p)kahan”. In Dyuti Mukherjee and Titas Ray Barman eds., Thek, vol-IV., Kolkata: September 2011. pp. 155-220 7. “Bagh, Bagh, Tomar Manush Nai Sundarban!”in Keman Achhe Sundarbaner Manush: Aila parabarti Ekti Samiksha. ed. by Sundarbanbasir Sathe. Kolkata: Manthan Samayiki, November 2010. pp. 35-51. 8. Khanripather Yatri (a Bangla one-act play in the context of Sunderbans regions, inspired by G.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea) in Disha Sahitya, ed. by Anindya Ray, Kolkata: September 2009. pp. 81-92. 9. “Pater Ramayan: Uposi Chitralekha” in Varnaparichay vol-V, ed. by Samar Nag. Kolkata, September 2008. pp. 209-230.

Debarchana Sarkar

1. 1 book on Indian Epigraphy (Pashchim Banga Rajya Pustak Parshat, 2013) 2. 1 monograph in Digdarshini, Journal of Utkal Sanskrit Research Society, 2009 3. 1 book review in Journal of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2009 4. 3 articles annexed to books 5. 6 articles in Research Journals

4.3.4 Facilities Available

Name of the Equipment Year of Place of Purchased Service Coverage Installation installation under 1 1 Multifunction Printer and 2013-14 CENTIL office, ANUVAD (UPE) Project ANUVAD 1 Laserjet Printer (order Department only placed) of Comparative 1 Desktop computer 2009 Literature UGC grant to CENTIL 2 3 digital cameras 2012-13 Rabindranath Palagaan (UPE) Project Palagaan Studies only Centre, Subarnajayan ti Bhavan, Jadavpur University 3 1 digital SLR camera with 2012-13 Department Interface (UPE) Project Interface 18-55 IS lens of only Comparative MAXCORD M 602B (for Literature audio/video digitization) 4 1 HP 431 Laptop (November 2012-13 Office room Sanskrit Project ‘Sanskrit 2012), 1 HP Laserjet pro of Centre for Manuscripts Manuscripts’ only M275nw (Print, Copy, Scan) Advanced (UPE) scan type Camera & print Studies, Technology Laser Department (December 2012), 1 Canon of Sanskrit, Digital SLR Camera, Model: JU EOS 1100D with 18-55IS Lens (February 2013)

4.3.5 Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

A. PROJECT ANUVAD

Project Anuvad aims to identify a body of key literary and cultural texts from the Indian bhasas and produce an archive of these texts in English and Bangla translations. The emphasis is on smaller, marginalized bhasas in the particular context of eastern and northeast India. Project Anuvad seeks to disseminate this body of translations from various Indian bhasas and help spread awareness about the Indian multilingual and multicultural identity as well as help preserve these traditions and texts. The project has been working with languages as diverse as Nepali, Bangla, Rava, Kurukh, Ao Naga, Rajbansi and Tamang.

Events organized/attended so far: We have already held several translation workshops and undertaken a few field trips as per our plans in the current year. Project Anuvad has succeeded in building a sizeable and diverse archive incorporating different genres and spanning languages as diverse as Nepali, Bangla, Kurukh, Rava, Ao Naga, Rajbansi and Tamang. Events organized so far, either independently or in collaboration with other bodies and programmes include:

(a) Nepali-English translation workshop on the Tamang Selo,

(b) Nepali-Bangla translation workshop on the Tamang Selo,

(c) Nepali-English translation workshop on the Madalay Geet,

(d) Nepali-Bangla translation workshop on the Madalay Geet,

(e) Nepali-Bangla-English translation workshop on the Lahari-Sawai,

(f) Rajbansi-English translation workshop and performance on the Lahankari-Thakurali traditions,

(g) Translation workshop and performance on the Balagaan,

(h) Nepali-Bangla-English translation workshop on the Nepali short story,

(i) International Translation Autumn School with the University of East Anglia and the University of Western Sydney,

(j) Bangla-English, Kurukh-Bangla-English and Ao Naga-Bangla-English translation workshops slated to happen soon.

Data collected so far: Project Anuvad has produced a corpus of texts from various Indian bhasas, and this corpus is still growing. Our corpus includes Indian Nepali-language Madalay Geet songs in audio format as well as in transcribed print format and Tamang Selo texts in audio format as well as in transcribed print format—both of these have been translated into English and Bangla for publication. It also includes an archive of Lahari-Sawai texts from Nepali language in printed format—a section of these has been translated into English. We also have a collection of Rajbansi Lahankari-Thakurali songs in audio-visual form as well as in transcribed and translated form (in English). In addition to this, there is a body of modern Nepali short stories—some of these are being translated for publication. There is also a collection of some theme-based writings of Rabindranath Tagore, which are to be translated into English soon for a theme-based publication.

Publications so far (include forthcoming and websites, if any): 1 essay on the Goalbandhani Gaan on a refereed journal. A collection of Nepali short stories in Bangla translation is being prepared and will be published very shortly. We are preparing two volumes for immediate publication: (a) English translation of Tamang Selo (bilingual edition supplemented with critical essays), and (b) an anthology of Nepali Madalay Geet songs in Bangla translation (bilingual edition supplemented with critical essays).

Any other output: Damfu, 1 documentary on the Tamang Selo tradition of North Bengal.

B. INTERFACE

ThIS project carries out an in-depth work on how the newly setup industrial belt in Jharkhand has affected the ethnic cultural heritage of the place. The people of this place no longer feel the way they used to feel for their art. The money provided by the industries in order to preserve the art form is only preserving the material feature and constantly decomposing the pious and humanizing attribute. A number of field trips to Seraikella during the Chaitra Parva made it quite clear that the importance of Seraikella Chhau is lessening as the artists are no more interested in learning the sanctified theories behind the dance movements and mask making. The project is funded by the ‘University with Potential for Excellence’ Scheme of the University Grants Commission, India, and is housed at the School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University. The project aims at creating awareness regarding the rapidly changing trends in various art and crafts of Jharkhand and the related effects on the same. It also aims at protecting the cultural diversity of the place and preserves the cultural heritage of the communities concerned.

The Chaitra Parva celebrated in the month of April was the main target to observe Seraikella Chhau which was taken to be the first part of study in the above stated project. Data was collected and interviews were taken to make a documentary on Seraikella Chhau and its current situation in the changing scenario.

Events organized/attended so far: Field Trips have been undertaken in connection with this project to (a) Jamshedpur, (b) Ranchi, and (c) Sinni (Seraikella) (2). Forthcoming events include: (a) a workshop on mask making (Seraikella Chhau mask), (b) a workshop on Seraikella Chhau Dance, and (c) a seminar on the effects of industrialization on various art and crafts of Jharkhand.

Data collected so far: (a) Various materials on the art and craft of Jharkhand from the archive at Kalamandir, (b) Sales data from various outlets of Jharcraft, (c) information regarding the sales and demands of handmade materials, (d) data from interviews with various artistes regarding the current status of Seraikella chhau, (e) interviews with the chhau mask makers of Seraikellla , Mr. Sushant Mohapatra and Mr.Kanhai Lal Maharana

Any other output: (a) Interview with Shri Parabal Mahato, (b) 12 videos of Seraikella Chhau dance, (c) 2 videos of Chhau mask making technique, (d) many photographs of the Chaitra Parva and the Kharswan festival and Chhau dance in villages.

C. PALAGAAN

The primary task of Project Palagaan is to trace performers of the traditional dramatic forms residing at various corners of the two districts of West Bengal. Field surveys are conducted to interview the performers. These surveys attempt to document the verbal data received from each performer met. The process of documentation includes filling up questionnaires that include the personal and professional details of the performers and information regarding the enactment of the ‘palas’ and also audio-visual documentation of the pala- performances. Out of the 51 Blocks of North and South 24 Parganas inclusive of 200 and 311 Gram panchayats respectively, 357 Grampanchayats of 39 Blocks have been surveyed and 1071 performers have been interviewed. A vital aspect of the field survey encompasses the collection of a number of copies of various Palagaan. The other documentation includes audio-visual recordings of performances of Shitala, Manasa, Banabibi, Alomati, Puspamala, Kajalrekha, Manikpir, Lakshmi, Sashthi and other ‘palas’. Besides, most of the interviews conducted with the performers have been recorded. A second round of interview has been carried out to explore the experiences of women artistes. A number of books and magazines, dealing with ‘palas’, have been collected so as to facilitate the understanding of the different scholarly approaches to ‘palagaan’. In addition to this, work on launching a website on ‘palagaan’ is going on to have exchanges of ideas on ‘palagaan’. Through this whole initiative of archiving and documentation an effort is made to locate the interface between the traditional dramatic form and the modernity that is accommodated by the form and to channelise the worth of ‘palagaan’ thereby contesting the notion that it exists as a mere imitation of the Chitpur ‘jatra’.

Events organized/attended so far: Seminar and Performance were organized on 25-28.02.2013 at Vivekananda Hall, Jadavpur University (Papers presented: 6, Performance held: 6, Performers participated: 66 and other participants: 302).

Data collected so far: Reports (Field Reports): reports from the field surveyor (39 blocks). Performers Interviewed: 1071. Manuscripts collected: 52. Still Photographs: 2000 in nos. (approx). Audio-Visual Recordings–(a) Interviews- 200 (approx) b) Performances recorded: 10

Publications: ‘Bangla Oitihyabahi Natyadhara: Sanruper Sandhane Palagaan’, Sujit Kumar Mandal, Bahurupi, vol- 118. Ed. Prabhatkumar Das, Kolkata, October 2012]

Any other output: (i) Blog: “Project Palagaan” @ www.wordpress.com (still not open to public access) and (ii) the project website www.projectpalagaan.org (under construction)

D. SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS

This project essentially involves editing of some Sanskrit texts with scientific and philosophical content on the basis of manuscripts available in different manuscript libraries (eg. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata; Mysore Oriental Research Institute; Bombay University; Adyar Library, Chennai; Sanskrit College, Kolkata; BORI, Pune and others). We are trying to take up unpublished texts, though we may also prepare a more improved and detailed edition of an already published text. The transcrioption of the texts are being made by scholars with sound knowledge in Indian Paleography and Manuscriptology. These scholars are being paid from the contingency head of the Programme. Where more than one copy of the text is available the collation is also done. The the collation sheets are sent to subject experts who are editing the texts with translation and annotation. The Advisory Committee of the Project suggested a fee for the experts who edit the texts. The publications will bear the names of the Principal Investigators as General Editors and those of the experts as Editors.

Events organized/attended so far:

1) Series of lectures on Principles of Preparing Critical Edition from Manuscripts” held in 2013 (January- 28, 29 & February- 2, 4, 5, 8, 12, 18).

2) A five-day workshop on “Research Methodology and Text-Critical Edition”, held in 2013 (August- 26, 27, 28, 29, 30). Data collected so far:

Transcription of the following manuscripts are completed. The transcripts are sent to experts for preparing critical editions: 1) Cārucaryā 2) Saṃkṣiptakāpilasūtravivṛti 3) Anyathākhyātivāda 4) Ākāṅkṣāvāda 5) Maṇimāhātmya 6) Upamānasaṃgraha Transcription of the following has been undertaken: 1) Dravyaguṇaśataślokī

Publications: Once the editing of texts is complete, the project will approach publishers for publication of the same.

4.3.6 Work plan during 2014-17

Interface (Ipshita Chanda): • A documentary film on the effect of industrialization on the local arts and crafts of Jharkhand, • A close study of other relevant art forms that would help better understand the immediate context being studied, • A seminar on the effects of industralisation on art forms of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Project Anuvad (Sayantan Dasgupta):

• Creating an archive of literary and cultural texts from bhasas of eastern and northeast India in particular, • Translating these texts into English and Bangla with critical annotations in collaboration with Language Resource Persons using the collaborative workshop mode of translation, • Disseminating this critically annotated corpus of texts through publication in print and on the web.

Project Palagaan (Sujit Kumar Mandal):

•Field Survey in remaining 12 blocks of North and South 24 parganas and interviews with performers •Audiovisual documentation and transcription of performances • Translation of material into English and collection of secondary sources

 Preparing analytical texts (essays/ book)

Sanskrit Manuscript (Debarchana Sarkar):

Editing more texts with scientific and philosophical contents from manuscripts and publish them, and digitize, if possible, some rare unpublished texts lying in manuscript form. 4.4 SELF APPRAISAL REPORT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE GROUP

Joint Coordinator: Prof. Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032

A. Centre for West Bengal Economy, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University

I. Name: Ajitava Raychaudhuri, PI for Centre for West Bengal Economy under department of economics, Jadavpur University: Age - 56, Journal Publications – 24, Books publications – 7, In edited books publications – 24, Policy Documents – 3, Awarded and ongoing doctoral thesis guidance – 17, Awarded and ongoing M.Phil thesis guidance – 18.

Special Achievements (a) Resident Scholar, Columbia University, Paris Campus from January 3 – February 15, 2007 (b) Fulbright Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, USA, August 1996 To April, 1997. (c) Visitor, Centre for Development Studies, SOAS, London University, July 21,1996 to July 26,1996. (d) Appeared in Marquis Who’s who, 2001, 2002. (e) Dissertation Fellowship, American University, Washington, D.C., USA, Spring 1987 - Fall,1987. (f) Simon Naidel Prize for Best Comprehensive Examination, American University, USA, 1986. (g) Patel Grant, Institute of International Education, N.Y., USA, 1984. (h) UGC Junior Research Fellowship, Department Of Economics, Jadavpur University, November- April,1981. ( i) P.N.Banerjee Best All-Round Graduate Medal, Jadavpur University, 1978. (j) University Medals for standing First in the First Class, Jadavpur University, B.A. in 1976 and M.A. in 1978 (Awarded in 1979).

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

(a) Project Title: District Human Development Report, Nadia and Purba Medinipur, sponsored by UNDP and Planning Commission, Govt of India, 2011 (b) Project Title: Trade, Infrastructure and Inequality by ArTNET, UNESCAP, 2010 (c) Project Title: Manufacturing sector’s growth in the state Of West Bengal, India, IPPG project, LSE, UK, 2007. (d) Project Title: “Land Reforms in West Bengal”, Paper prepared for the Shanghai poverty reduction Scale up Conference sponsored by World Bank, 2003-04.

Relevant Publications in Last 5 years

BOOKS IN LAST 10 YEARS

1. Trade, Finance and Development (jointly edited with B.Chatterjee) Delhi: Deep and Deep Publishers, 2004. 2. West Bengal Economy: Some Contemporary Issues (jointly edited with Tuhin Das), Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2004. 3. Development Challenges (jointly edited with Joyashree Roy), Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2006

ARTICLES 1. “Public Capital, Growth and Allocative Efficiency in a Decentralised Agents Framework: A Case Study of India” (with Poulomi Roy), Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series, 7(1), 184-208.

2. "Is Value Added Tax (VAT) Reform in India Poverty Improving?" (with Poulomi Roy), Indian Economic Review, XXXXV, No 1, 131-158.

3. “Inter-governmental transfer rules, state fiscal policy and performance in India”, (with Poulomi Roy) in New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics, edited by Bhaskar Dutta et al, Singapore:World Scientific, 2009, 369-400.

4. “Immigration and Outsourcind: A eveloping Country’s View” Journal of Economic Development, 37(2), 109-138, 2012.

5. “South Asian Economic Integration: Need to Harvest Trade and Investment Complementarity” in Global Recovery, New Risks and Sustainable Growth: Repositioning South Asia, Edited by D. Bhattacharya and M. Rahman. Dhaka: Centre for Policy Dialogue, 2012

6. “Methodology of Construction of Composite Multidimensional Human Poverty Index for Identification of Regional Backwardness” (with Sushil Haldar) in Development Policy Issues in India –I: Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Poverty edited by Tuhin K. Das & Sushil Kr. Haldar. Kolkata: ACB Publications in collaboration with Planning and Development Unit, Jadvpur University 2012.

7. “Subcontracting, Renegotiation of Contract and Quality Provision” Singapore Economic Review, 56 (1), March 2011, 113-144, World Scientific.

8. “Barriers to Trade in Higher Education Services in the Era of Globalisation”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 43 No. 35 August 30 - September 05, 2008.

9. “An Investigation into the Inter-District Disparity in West Bengal, 1991-2005”, Economic and Political Weekly, June 27-July 6, Nos. 26 & 27, 2009.

10. Human Development Reports for Nadia and Purba Medinipur in West Bengal, 2011-12, Planning Commssion and UNDP.

Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5years

Human Development Reports for Nadia and Purba Medinipur in West Bengal, Planning Commission and UNDP, 2011-12.

Facilities Available a) 1 Laptop and Two Desktop computers with UPS and two printers , and One Almirah bought under the project

Ongoing Work and Work plan during 2014-17

Work in Progress- A Summary Report PROJECT #1 SOME GROUND REALITIES OF MAHATMA GANDHI NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE PROGRAM (MGNREGP) IN WEST BENGAL: A MICRO LEVEL FIELD RESEARCH Amit Kundu, Associate Professor, Department Of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata- 700032, West Bengal, India E-Mail: [email protected], [email protected] On the basis of micro level field research we have tried to identify few impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGP) in the rural areas of West Bengal. We have chosen Mandir Bazar block of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal for this micro level field investigation. In our research area we have observed sufficient availability of private non-farm employment in the agricultural slack season and the per day wage rate in different private non-farm sector is not less than one person-day piece rate of this employment generation program. It is identified that ‘Motivation’ and ‘priority’ are the two important factors which influence the prospective job seekers to secure job through MGNREGP. We observe group formation among the male job card holders in that region, where group is formed among physically strong members who jointly can complete one person day work quickly so that if necessary, the group can complete two person-day works in a single day. We have also observed the necessity of political loyalty of the poor rural households which helps the prospective job seekers to secure job through MGNREGP without devoting much effort. This program separately is not sufficient enough to help the participating households to reduce their problem of unemployment or help them to enhance their income as well as monthly per capita consumption expenditure. But no one can deny that this program can provide employment security for the rural households and play an important role to enhance farm as well as non- farm private wage rate in that region due to which without securing more person-days of work through MGNREGP, a rural household can place itself above poverty line.

The government of India had initiated bank payments of wages under MGNREGP. This initiative is undoubtedly a big financial inclusion drive particularly among the rural poor of India. The picture came out from field research is very encouraging. It is established that a large section of rural poor now have a bank account which they can operate individually without taking much assistance from local panchayat officials or bank officials or any middleman. It is also identified that the women job card holders of the households are deprived to become literate about banking services. This initiative of the government also encourages few participating households to initiate some savings of their wage income1. It is expected that proper expansion of MGNREGP can reduce rural out-migration of the rural labourers. It was already proved that seeking employment through MGNREGP is no exogenous but endogenous in nature. In spite of this incidence, it is observed that expansion of MGNREGP can reduce the intensity of rural out-migration of rural labourers. The participating rural households are now become less prone to migrate even in the near-by urban areas for better paid job. The basic objective of this employment generation programme is to provide safety net for the rural poor, mainly for the agricultural labour class and stabilize agricultural production through creating productive assets via employing labourers under this programme. But Government of India again and again hikes per man-day NREGP wage which increases reservation wage in agricultural labour market and reduces the profitability of the small and marginal farmers. We, theoretically have tried to determine the maximum possible per man-day NREGP wage at which the corresponding agricultural wage can help the small and marginal farmers to sustain their agricultural profitability at least at subsistence level. It is also proved that as a result of the hike of MGNREGP wage, sustenance of agricultural profitability may lead to food price inflation in agricultural sector. The study also attempts to analyze the welfare results in respect of NREGP considering different agricultural frameworks. It is proved that under certain condition the expansion of MGNREGP can enhance the overall welfare of the village economy.

Work in progress:

1. Impact of MGNREGP on the livelihood of the small and marginal farmer households of West Bengal: Another basic objective of MGNREGP is to create ‘productive assets’ in the rural areas. The ‘productive asset’ includes water harvesting, construction of irrigation canals, land development etc. Provision of water is vital for ensuring water security in the rural areas. It is expected that water related assets created by MGNREGP can change the cropping intensity and cropping pattern in the local agricultural economy. If, that happens then that can enhance the agricultural income of the small and marginal farmer households. But if no proper asset can be created through MGNREGP, then the farm households cannot get any income benefit from their agricultural activity. So we want to

1 This part is going to be published in PRAJNAN, January- March, 2014. investigate empirically now whether expansion of MGNREGP can actually help the small of marginal farmer households of the surveyed region to improve the livelihood in terms of farm income. 2. MGNREGP work on Private Land : A Synthesis in Rural West Bengal

From 2009, MGNREGP can be carried out not only in the public or common land but also in the private land, mainly at the families lying below the poverty line or of the small and marginal farmers for water conservation, water harvesting and drought proofing. The basic objective of this policy is to improve the provision of irrigation facilities, encourage horticultural plantation and land development facilities. This MGNREGP work mainly wants to improve irrigation facilities in the neighborhood areas through digging ponds. The private households can also cultivate different horticultural products around the pond and can cultivate fish in that pond. They can adopt organic method of cultivation where cost of production is not high but selling price of the crop is very high. In fact the development of private property under MGNREGP has the potential to contribute the more sustainable livelihood creation. We now want to investigate the effectiveness of MGNREGP works undertaken on private land and try to find out whether this policy is properly implemented in our survey region or not. If ‘yes’, then we have to investigate whether it is actually beneficial for the poor rural households or not.

PROJECT #2 Growth of unorganized vis-à-vis the organized sector in West Bengal Malabika Roy and Arpita Ghose, Associate Professors, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University West Bengal is a state, which has one of the largest unorganized sectors in terms of number of units as well as employment. So the industry subgroup decided to focus mainly focus on the unorganized industry while keeping the organized industry as a counterpoint. We have already completed part of the study and have plans for further extension as stated below. We have studied the growth of the unorganized sector as compared to the organized sector in West Bengal keeping certain other states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat where the unorganized sector has also grown keeping them as counter points. The issue here will be to study whether the growth of unorganized industry has been similar in these states or they follow different patterns. Also we have looked into the distribution of the three categories of enterprises (OAMEs, NDMEs and DMEs) in West Bengal as compared to the other states, and how this distribution can be related to the level and pattern of industrialization within each state. If the patterns are different, we need to ask what the sources of these differences are and which pattern has been most beneficial from the point of view of the workers as well as the economy. At the next stage we will study the evolution of unorganized industries at the micro-level. At this stage we will look into the following issues:

 The pattern of growth of the unorganized industries across different districts, whether the growth has been uniform or skewed towards the more prosperous areas and how this has changed over time.  The distribution of the unorganized units across the three categories of enterprises in different districts; whether and how this distribution has evolved over time  The pattern of income distribution, output distribution and employment across different districts the unorganized industrial sector has generated  The distribution of the unorganized industries across different industries in different districts; whether this distribution can be related to the growth of the organized industries in these districts

PROJECT #3 Had Implementation of VAT been Efficient? The West Bengal Experience

Vivekananda Mukherjee, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032, India

In recent times West Bengal has been going through a state of fiscal crisis. Since poor revenue collection is one of the major problems that has led to the crisis, an overall understanding of the performance of the state in sale tax revenue collection which is the most important source of revenue for the state seems to be important.

The present paper studies efficiency impact of introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) on West Bengal’s revenue collection from all tax and non-tax sources and compares it with all India average of other major states in order to assess if the West Bengal experience is unique in its character or it shares the inherent weakness of the Indian fiscal system. While deriving the results the effect of factors like the size of the informal sector, size of the service sector, opening up of the Indian economy to international trade and the Centre’s transfer to the state on the revenue performance of the state have been controlled for.

The study finds although all India impact of VAT has been insignificant, in case of West Bengal it has adversely affected the efficiency of revenue collection. Surprisingly unlike the other Indian states in West Bengal rise in per capita income resulted in lowering of revenue efficiency which seems to occur due to its administrative inefficiency in checking evasion arising from higher number of transactions. However like all other Indian states the revenue efficiency of West Bengal fell as the government practiced free- riding over the transfer from the central government. The paper suggests some policies for improvement of revenue performance of the state. In particular it suggests at the policy level West Bengal should reverse its attitude of free-riding on the central transfer to the state, should take measures to increase its administrative efficiency in revenue collection so that evasions can be checked. A rise in registration threshold under VAT which is currently fixed at Rs. 5 Lakhs annual turnover of the firms can be raised for this purpose. A rationalization of existing rate structure can also be considered.

PROJECT #4

Women’s Participation in Household decision making process

Tanmoyee Banerjee(Chatterjee) and Malabika Roy, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032

The present project studies the extent of participation of female household head in household decision making process vis-à-vis the male head of the household. Basically, we try to capture dynamics intra household decision making process. While intra household allocation is a much better investigated area, there exists some literature on theoretical as well as empirical analysis of household decision making. Xu (2007) gives a very good survey of the theoretical as well as the empirical aspects of household decision making. However such analyses in the Indian context are few and far between. Lancaster, Maitra and Ray (2003) investigate the relative power of the male vis-à-vis the female household members in the household decision making process and hence the extent of gender bias if any. To this end they empirically estimate the weights attached to the utilities of individual members. Based on a primary survey, our study tries to encompass different aspects of household decision making process including decision on daily household expenditure, small purchases, large purchases like land asset, capital goods, farm implements and others, children related decision, health related decision, saving and investment decision, time allocation, decision regarding fertility choices and others. Along with this, we also consider the extent of awareness of the male vis-a – vis the female household head about financial instruments or the level of their respective financial literacy and about the legal rights and the extent to which they exert such rights. Our study is based on a survey conducted eight villages spread across three blocks located in the district of North 24-Parganas in West Bengal. Our unit of study is the household. Initially we carried out a complete enumeration initially and then stratify the sample according to the following criteria: income , education level of the female household, whether the female household is working outside the family or not. Then we followed a random sampling method within each stratum. The details of the sampling method are as follows:

Sampling Method Initially a sample of 525 households was drawn from a population of 870 households.The method used was Stratified Random Sampling. The method followed was such:

1. The proportion of households from each village in the total population was calculated. 2. For a total sample of 525 the sample size from each village in the sample was chosen in such a way that the proportion of sample collected from a village equals the proportion of households from that particular village in the total population 3. For each village the population was divided into two categories: One in which unemployed women were included; the other included employed women. 4. Next the median income is calculated for each of the two categories. 5. The sample is drawn in the following way: 1/4 of the sample from each village from above median unemployed,1/4th from the below median unemployed;1/4th from above median employed and 1/4th from below median employed.

Progress of Work

We have finished our final round of survey and have ultimately received complete data on 513 households. Presently we are doing the descriptive and econometric analysis on the data. PROJECT #5 NEXSUS BETWEEN THE FEMALE CHILD DISADVANTAGE AND THE LEVEL OF EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF WEST-BENGAL

Soma Mandal and Arpita Ghose, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032

Abstract: In this study female child disadvantage is measured by the male-female ratio for the age group 0-6. A two way relationship is assumed between female child disadvantage and education (measured by the percentage of population attained primary education). The relationship is measured using a two- equation simultaneous equation system. The system is measured using data released by Census of India for the year 2001 and the data provided by the govt. of West Bengal for the same year.

It is found that there is a significant negative both way relationship between female child disadvantage and education. The other variable that affect the female child disadvantage female work force participation rate.

Most significant conclusion(s):

1. Enhancement of education is the basic need to reduce female child disadvantage.

2. Enhancement of female work force participation rate is also needed to reduce female child disadvantage.

Work plan during 2014-17

1. Finding the relationship between female child disadvantage and education for the Census year 2011.

2. Finding the change in the two way relationship between female child disadvantage and education between the Census years 2001 and 2011

PROJECT #6 Poverty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance and Programmes Siddhartha Mitra, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata 700032

The position of West Bengal in terms of incidence of poverty has improved relative to other states since the 1970s. However, a source of worry is the slackening of the pace of poverty alleviation from the pre- liberalization to the post– liberalization period. The individual districts are characterized by varying poverty incidence: districts in the South Eastern zone exhibit low to moderate rural as well as urban poverty; those in the South Western zone exhibit moderate to high poverty; while the poverty in the Northern districts shows large variations from low to moderate to high. In regard to poverty alleviation through the MNREGA – West Bengal does very well in terms of percentage of rural households provided employment. However, targeting leaves a lot to be desired: it is observed that the high poverty districts often exhibit lower impact of the programme (in terms of percentage of rural population registered and works completed per 1000 persons) when these districts should be exhibiting higher impact.

Most significant conclusion(s):

 The position of West Bengal in terms of incidence of poverty has improved relative to other states since the 1970s

 In regard to poverty alleviation through the MNREGA West Bengal does very well in terms of percentage of rural households provided employment

 Targeting in MNREGA leaves a lot to be desired: it is observed that the high poverty districts often exhibit lower impact of the programme (in terms of percentage of rural population registered and works completed per 1000 persons) when these districts should be exhibiting higher impact.

Work plan during 2014-17

 To determine through a survey of the poor the effectiveness of MNREGA in addressing the needs of the poor

 The effectiveness of the MNREGA in reducing the deficiencies in consumption and productivity (inclusive of health) of the poor will be addressed in the survey

 Needed change in the design of MNREGA will be suggested

PROJECT #7

Financial Inclusion in the South 24- Parganas district of West Bengal- Summary Report

 Basabi Bhattacharya  The present study examines the extent of financial inclusion in the South 24- Parganas district of West Bengal, which is one among the districts mostly financially excluded. As financial inclusion is defined as the process of ensuring access to financial services and timely and adequate credit to the vulnerable and excluded groups at an affordable cost, it has both the demand and supply side. This study focuses on the issue from the demand side investigating the households’ motivation/lack of motivation towards accessing the provision of formal financial facilities. The success of the most recent initiative of opening Ultra Small Branches (USB) of the base bank in the villages in including more households within the ambit of formal finance is particularly addressed. The factors determining the motivation of being included and the usage of bank accounts are analyzed.  A primary survey has been conducted on the sample households (initially 320 and finally 315), randomly selected, from four villages in Dhapdhapi, Baruipur, 24 Parganas in West Bengal. Profile of the households and their current status in terms of financial inclusion are dealt with in Part I of the study. Households have mean income, expenditure and savings to the tune of Rs. 4346.51, 3769.52, 550.16 respectively. About two-thirds of households are Hindus and rest is mostly Muslims. More than half of the households belong to SC category. About 60 % of 7 + group have primary education rest have education upto class X and above leaving 7 % illiterate. Self employment surfaces as a predominant feature in the region and employment opportunities seem to be better in non agriculture in the selected region. Although 81 % of households do save, 57.87% keep their savings at home and 24.41% in banks & post offices. A high percentage of households have knowledge on various services provided by the banks. On the basis of bank account holding status, households are categorized into four groups: old users of large bank, only new users of USB, both large as well as USB account holders and totally non-users of financial services. Out of 315 households 249 had accounts in base/large branch. Among 249 old account users, 128 visit bank more than twice a month. Among rest 66 non-users of base branch 54 households are unwillingly excluded and 12 are under self-excluded group. Out of 54 households excluded from large bank account holding, 30 (55.56%) have opened account in USB and also out of 12 earlier self excluded households, 10(83.33%) households have opened account in USB leaving ultimately 26 households as financially excluded. Thus opening of USBs with facilities of No-Frill accounts in villages under survey has motivated the households towards financial inclusion.  In Part II, a logit regression analysis has been conducted to identify the factors that determine the households having bank accounts in a) large banks and b) USBs and the factors operating behind the frequency of usage of the accounts. Households’ income, savings, expenditure, asset position, occupational status, education, opportunity cost in terms of man-days foregone for visiting the bank etc. are considered as independent variables. Financial Literacy Index has been constructed considering three components, households’ knowledge on general financial issues, general banking facilities and USB facilities. Results reveal that account holding in large banks is primarily determined by households’ income and degree of financial literacy. With income omitted from the set of independent variables, savings, financial literacy, occupation as agricultural labourer & self-employed in agriculture appear as determining factors in having accounts in large banks. For having accounts in USBs, variables like financial literacy, savings & occupation as self employed in agriculture are significant. Usage of bank accounts more than twice a month are determined by savings, opportunity cost in terms of man-days foregone, income, Financial literacy, transportation cost & distance from residence. II Vivekananda Mukherjee, Department: Economics, Age: 43, Journal Publications – 15, Total Citations – 20, Awarded doctoral thesis -2, Ongoing doctoral thesis – 4.

Special Achievements i. Research Fellowship awarded by INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE during 1994-1997. ii. SIDA Fellowship awarded by SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY in 2001. Hermes International Fellowship awarded by FMSH, PARIS in 2007. iii. Indo-French Visiting Fellowship awarded by ICSSR and FMSH, PARIS in 2008. iv. Post Doctoral Fellowship awarded by INRA, France in 2009. v. Erusmus Mundus Fellowship awarded by EUROPEAN COMMISSION to visit Katholik University, Leuven, Belgium in 2010-2011. vi. Visiting Fellowship awarded by INRA, France in 2010. vii. Editor of Trade and Development Review from 2012 viii. Member of Editor Board of Arthabishleson from 2013 Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in lakh) 1. Globalization, Income Inequality South Asia Network for Vivekananda Rs. 5 Lakhs 2004 – 06 and Regional Disparity : analyzing Economic Research Mukherjee, R. the Indian Experience in the 1990s’ Institute, New Delhi. Acharyya, S. Marjit and S. Kar 2. Trade Policy and Increasing UNCTAD-Government Vivekananda Rs. 1 Lakh 2008- Return Based Agglomeration: Is of India-Jadavpur Mukherjee, Gautam 2008 There Any Evidence in India? University Programme Gupta

3. Valuation of an Ecosystem and its South Asian Network for Rs. 6 Lakhs 2009- Impact on Livelihood Support: The Development and 2011 Case Study of East Kolkata Wetlands Environment Economics

4. Determinants of Stamp Duty Centre for Training and Revenue in Indian States Research in Public Rs. 3 Lakhs 2012-13 Finance and Policy

5. Determinants of Stamp Duty Centre for Training and Revenue in West Bengal Research in Public Rs. 3 Lakhs 2013-14 Finance and Policy

Relevant Publications in Last 5years

1. ‘Of Guns and Trees: Impact of Terrorism on Forest Conservation’ (with Gautam Gupta), Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 11, 221 - 233, 2006. 2. ‘Poverty, Taxation and Governance’ (with Sugata Marjit and Martin Kolmar), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 15(3), 325 – 333, 2006. 3. ‘Copyright Infringement, Product Quality and Producer’s Profit’ (with Dyuti Banerjee), Review of Law and Economics, 3(3), 793 - 816, 2007. 4. ‘Incidence of an Outsourcing Tax on Intermediate Inputs’ (with Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Sugata Marjit), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 30(2), 1271-1277, 2010. 5. ‘R & D Cooperation in Emerging Industries, Asymmetric Innovative Capabilities and Rationale for Technology Parks’(with Shyama V. Ramani), Theory and Decision, 71, 373 – 394, 2011. 6. ‘Public Economics and the Environment’ (with Sujan Pandit and Tilak Sanyal), India Macroeconomics Annual, 79 – 99, 2011. 7. ‘A Note on Welfare Effect and Desirability of Inequality Inducing Transfers’ (with Tilak Sanyal), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 82(3), 301 – 311, 2011. 8. ‘Determinants of Stamp Duty Revenue in Indian States’, South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Policy, 2 (1), 33 – 58, 2013. 9. ‘Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Wastewater Irrigation: The Case of East Calcutta Wetlands’ (with Abhishek Das, Anirban Akhand and Gautam Gupta), Ecological Economics, 93, 292 – 300, 2013. 10. ‘Does a Salary Hike Reduce Corruption?’ (with Siddhartha Mitra), Economics Bulletin, 33 (4), 2540 – 2544, 2013. 11. ‘Can Breakthrough Innovations Serve the Poor (BOP) and Create Reputational (CSR) Value? Indian Case Studies’ (with Shyama V. Ramani), Technovation, forthcoming. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2013.07.001) 12. ‘Willful Default in Developing Country Banking System: A Theoretical Exercise’ (with Samaresh Bardhan), Journal of Economic Development, forthcoming. 13. ‘Perceived Corruption Frequency and Size of Corruption in Economies’ (with Aparajita Roy), Indian Growth and Development Review, forthcoming. 14. ‘Entreprenurial Culture, Occupational Choice and Tax Policy: A Simple Theoretical Model’ (with Saibal Kar) in Ajitava Raychadhuri and Joyashree Roy (ed.) Development Challenges: Some Contemporary Issue, Allied, New Delhi, 1 – 20, 2006. 15. ‘Preventing Global Climate Change: Technology Transfer from Developed to Developing Countries’ (with Dirk Rubbelke) in D. Rubbelke and K. John (ed.) Development Aid and Environmental Protection, Peter Lang Verlag, 51 – 75, 2007. 16. ‘Poverty, Utilization of Foreign Aid and Corruption: The Role of Redistributive Politics’ (with Sugata Marjit) in S. Lahiri (ed.) Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Volume 1, Elsevier, 17 - 29, 2007. 17. ‘Market Disrupting Product Innovations and Corporate Social Responsibility’ (with Shyama V. Ramani) in Patricia Crifo and Jean-Pierre Ponssard (ed.) Corporate Social Responsibility: From compliance to opportunity? Editions de l'Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 281 – 299, 2010. 18. ‘Education, Corruption and Growth’ in C. Roy and J, Barman (ed.) Right to Education: An Accelerator of Social Transformation and Economic Development, New Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 45 – 52, 2013. 19. ‘Technology Transfer as a Means to Combat Global Warming’ (with D. Rubbelke and T. Sanyal) in S. Marjit and M. Rajeev (ed.) Emerging Issues in Economic Development: A contemporary Theoretical Perspective, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, forthcoming.

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Decide a title to describe each ongoing work before filling below under 1, 2, ….

1. Title: Had Implementation of VAT been Efficient? The West Bengal Experience

Author: Vivekananda Mukherjee

Name of the Journal/Conference: Tentative

Abstract: The paper studies efficiency impact of introduction of VAT on West Bengal’s revenue collection from all tax and non-tax sources and compares it with all India average of other major states. It finds while all India impact of VAT has been insignificant, in case of West Bengal it has adversely affected the efficiency of revenue collection. Surprisingly unlike the other Indian states in West Bengal rise in per capita income resulted in lowering of revenue efficiency which seems to occur due to its administrative inefficiency in checking evasion arising from higher number of transactions. However like all other Indian states the revenue efficiency of West Bengal fell as the government practiced free-riding over the transfer from the central government. The paper suggests some policies for improvement of revenue performance of the state.

Status: First Draft subject to revision

Most significant conclusion(s):

 The sale tax revenue collection in West Bengal seriously suffers from administrative efficiency.

1.1.8 Work plan during 2014-17

 To study the effect of informality on sale tax revenue collection in West Bengal

 The equity impact of the state tax system in West Bengal

 Determinants of fund utilization at local government level in West Bengal

III Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chatterjee), Department: Economics, Age: 40, Journal Publications –9, Total Citations –8 (source https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tanmoyee_Chatterjee/citations/?ev=prf_cb), Awarded and ongoing thesis guidance: doctoral– 3, Masters – 1.

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

S No. Title of the project Duration Sponsored/ Members Amount in Funded by the Institute Rs 1. Economic Impact of 2005-2006 Seed Support” of Potential For Tanmoyee 50000 Self-Help groups –A Excellence Scheme of Banerjee Case Study Jadavpur University 2. Rationale for Choice of 2006-2008 CAS. Department of Tanmoyee 50000 Alternative Sources of Economics , Jadavpur Banerjee, Fund for the Rural university Malabika Roy Poor: A Case Study (Worked as Co investigator) (Phase I and II) 3. Borrowing Patterns In 2009 ICSSR TanmoyeeBan 396670 a Rural Economy – A erjee, Selective Study Malabika Roy, C. Ghosh, A. Raychaudhuri 4. Social and Economic 2009 University Grants Commission Tanmoyee 95000 Impact Assessment of Banerjee, Self Help Groups C. Ghosh 5 Financial Inclusion of 2010 Planning Unit, Department of Tanmoyee 25000 Rural Households Economics , Jadavpur university Banerjee, Malabika Roy 6 Women’s Participation 2012 UPE Phase II, Jadavpur University Tanmoyee 75000 in Household decision Banerjee, making process Malabika Roy

Relevant Publications in Last 5years

1. Journals:

1. Economic Impact of self Help Group—A case study, Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 28, No. 4,-451- 467, 2009 2. Does Political Identity Matter in Rural Borrowing? Evidence from a Field Survey, JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT, vol. 5 no. 1 pp. 137-163, 2010 ( First Author) 3. Borrowers in a Village Economy: An Analysis of Credit Contracts Across Rural Households, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, 2010. vol10 No 1 pp 85-101( First Author) 4. Subcontracting Renegotiation of Contract and Quality Provision, Singapore Economic Review, 56(1), 2011, pp. 113-144. (Co Authored with Ajitava Raychaudhuri) 5. What Factors Play a Role in Empowering Women? A Study of SHG Members from India, ((First Author) Gender Technology Development, 16(3) 329–355, 2012

6. Product Quality in the presence of Network Externality and Commercial Piracy Tanmoyee BANERJEE (Chatterjee ) and Nilanjana Mitra, Economics Bulletin 12/2013; vol. 33, issue 4, pages 3006-3013.

2. In Edited Volumes:

1. Self Help Group Participation and Employment of the Women: Myths and the Realitym Second Author., Proceedings of FIKUSZ ’10 Symposium for Young Researchers, 2010, 55-78 © The Author(s). Conference Proceedings compilation © Obuda University Keleti Faculty of Business and Management 2010. Published by Óbuda University Keleti Károly Faculty of Business and Management, Tavaszmezı u. 15-17. H-1084 Budapest, Hungary. http://kgk.uni-obuda.hu/fikusz 2. Financial Inclusion of Rural Households,Co-Authored, in Tuhin K Das and Sushil K Halder Edited Development Policy Issues in India–I: Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Poverty, acb publication in collaboration with Planning and Development Unit, Jadvpur University, Kolkata-700032., (2012)

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Title: : Women’s Participation in Household Decision Making Process

1. Authors: Tanmoyee Banerjee and Malabika Roy  Our study is based on a survey conducted eight villages spread across three blocks located in the district of North 24-Parganas in West Bengal. Our unit of study is the household.  Initially we carried out a complete enumeration initially and then stratify the sample according to the following criteria: income , education level of the female household, whether the female household is working outside the family or not. Then we followed a random sampling method within each stratum.  We have finished our final round of survey and have ultimately received complete data on 513 households. Presently we are doing the descriptive and econometric analysis on the data.

1.1.8 Work plan during 2014-17

Maximum of 5 bulleted points; in case any point pertains to any of the most significant conclusions stated above, then take care for differentiating the newness in the proposed plan.

IV Amit Kundu, Department: Economics, Associate Professor, Age: 44 Yrs, Journal Publication: 19 (since 2009), H Index : 1 (REPEC), Total Citation: 20 (Scholar Google), Ongoing Doctoral Thesis Guidence: 2 (going to submit their Ph.D. Thesis with in March 2014), M.Phil Dissertation Guidance: 3

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency Individual Liability UGC, Major Individual Rs.4,36000 2Yrs Completed versus Joint Research Project (PI) in June 2011 Liability in Microfinance and Their Impact on Rural Poor Demand to Secure Centre for West Principal Rs.55,000 1 year Job Through Bengal Economy, Investigator from UPE-2 2012-2013 MGNREGP UPE II and Rs.15,000 programme, from CAS Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal. Impact of Centre for West Principal Rs.60,000 1 year MGNREGP on the Bengal Economy, Investigator from UPE-2 2013-14 livelihood of the UPE II and Rs.25,000 small and marginal programme, from CAS farmer households Department of of West Bengal: Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal.

Relevant Publications in Last 5years:

1. Amit Kundu: “An Evaluation of Financial Inclusion through Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme” Prajnan, Vol.XLII ,No.4 January-March 2014 (forthcoming). 2. Amit Kundu: “Mobilization of Personal Savings among Microfinance –participating Households: A survey in West Bengal, India”. Journal of Rural Cooperation, Vol 41, Issue-2 (Fall) June- December 2013 3. Amit Kundu: “Effective Public Policy which can reduce Gender Discrimination in the Agricultural Labour Market: A Theoretical Investigation” The Asian Economic Review, Vol.55, December, 2013, pp.429- 442. 4. Amit Kundu: “SGSY: How much beneficial across Socio-Religious Community?”, Journal of Rural Development, April-June 2013, pp. 213-135 5. Amit Kundu: “Linkage Between Microfinance Participation and Securing Employment through MGNREGP”, Indian Journal of Economics and Research, Vol.2, No. 1, January-February 2013, pp. 22-29 6. Amit Kundu: “Assessing Empowerment through Generation of Social Capital” International Journal of Business and Social Research Vol.2, No.6, Nov-2012, pp. 72-84. 7. Amit Kundu: “Can Microfinance Program and NREGS Jointly improve the Economic Condition of the Participating Rural Households? A Social Experiment” Asian Journal of Empirical Research Vol.2, No.2 June 2012, pp. 40-54 8. Amit Kundu: “Enhancement of Social Capital through Participation in Microfinance : An Empirical Investigation” The Empirical Economics Letters, Vol.11, No.3 March 2012, pp.231- 238 (published in June 2012 9. Amit Kundu: “Swarnajayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona as a Safety Net: Evidence From Murshidabad District of West Bengal” Bangladesh Development Studies Vol. XXXV, March 2012, No.1 pp.79-103, published in July, 2012 10. Amit Kundu: ‘Savings, Lending Rate and Skill Improvement in Microfinance Participation Operating Through Public-Private Cooperation’ The IUP Journal of Managerial Economics. November, 2011. 11. Amit Kundu: ‘Effectiveness of Microfinance under SGSY Scheme to Reduce Poverty and Vulnerability of Rural Households : A Natural Experiment’, The IUP Journal of Financial Economics, September, 2011 12. Amit Kundu: ‘Impact of Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojona (SGSY) on Health, Education and Women Empowerment’ (Jointly with Arghya Kusum Mukherjee) Microfinance Review, June 2011. 13. Amit Kundu: ‘Joint Versus Individual Liability in Microfinance – A Comparative Impact Evaluation Through Natural Experiment’, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review, June 2011. 14. Amit Kundu: “Can Microcredit and Job under NREGS jointly bring more Happiness to the Villagers?” The IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy March 2011 15. Amit Kundu: “Choice between Microfinance Systems Operating on the basis of Individual Liability Loan Contract or Through Joint Liability Loan Contract” The Asian Economic Review, December 2010 16. Amit Kundu: “Switching over to Organic Cultivation and its Impact on Living Wage and Employment in the Agricultural Labour Market” Modern Indian Economy: Essays in Memory of Prof. Alak Ghosh’ Edited by Rajkumar Sen Deep and Deep Publication, New Delhi September 2010 17. Amit Kundu: “Group Lending Scheme Operating Primary Agricultural Credit Society: A Critical Assessment” The IUP Journal of Managerial Economics , August 2010 18. Amit Kundu: “Some Unexplored Economics of Roaming Child Workers” Asia Pacific Journal of Social Sciences, January – June 2010 19. Amit Kundu ‘Determinants Influencing a Rural Household’s Preference to Join Individual Liability or Joint Liability Micro Credit Contract Operated by Primary Agricultural Credit Society’ Microfinance Review Dec.2009

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Title: Some Ground Realities of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGP) in West Bengal: A Micro Level Field Research On the basis of micro level field research we have tried to identify few impacts of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (MGNREGP) in the rural areas of West Bengal. We have chosen Mandir Bazar block of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal for this micro level field investigation. In our research area we have observed sufficient availability of private non-farm employment in the agricultural slack season and the per day wage rate in different private non-farm sector is not less than one person-day piece rate of this employment generation program. It is identified that ‘Motivation’ and ‘priority’ are the two important factors which influence the prospective job seekers to secure job through MGNREGP. We observe group formation among the male job card holders in that region, where group is formed among physically strong members who jointly can complete one person day work quickly so that if necessary, the group can complete two person-day works in a single day. We have also observed the necessity of political loyalty of the poor rural households which helps the prospective job seekers to secure job through MGNREGP without devoting much effort.

(i) It is observed that this program individually is not sufficient enough to help the participating households to reduce their problem of unemployment or help them to enhance their income as well as monthly per capita consumption expenditure. But no one can deny that this program can provide employment security for the rural households and play an important role to enhance farm as well as non- farm private wage rate in that region due to which without securing more person-days of work through MGNREGP, a rural household can place itself above poverty line.

(ii). The government of India had initiated bank payments of wages under MGNREGP. This initiative is undoubtedly a big financial inclusion drive particularly among the rural poor of India. The picture came out from field research is very encouraging. It is established that a large section of rural poor now have a bank account which they can operate individually without taking much assistance from local panchayat officials or bank officials or any middleman. It is also identified that the women job card holders of the households are deprived to become literate about banking services. This initiative of the government also encourages few participating households to initiate some savings of their wage income. (iii) It is proved that proper expansion of MGNREGP can reduce rural out-migration of the rural labourers through seeking employment through MGNREGP is no exogenous but endogenous in nature. In spite of this incidence, it is observed that expansion of MGNREGP can reduce the intensity of rural out-migration of rural labourers. The participating rural households are now become less prone to migrate even in the near-by urban areas for better paid job. The basic objective of this employment generation programme is to provide safety net for the rural poor, mainly for the agricultural labour class and stabilize agricultural production through creating productive assets via employing labourers under this programme. But Government of India again and again hikes per man-day NREGP wage which increases reservation wage in agricultural labour market and reduces the profitability of the small and marginal farmers. We, theoretically have tried to determine the maximum possible per man-day NREGP wage at which the corresponding agricultural wage can help the small and marginal farmers to sustain their agricultural profitability at least at subsistence level. It is also proved that as a result of the hike of MGNREGP wage, sustenance of agricultural profitability may lead to food price inflation in agricultural sector. The study also attempts to analyze the welfare results in respect of NREGP considering different agricultural frameworks. (iv). It is proved that under certain condition the expansion of MGNREGP can enhance the overall welfare of the village economy. Work in progress:

1. Title: Impact of MGNREGP on the livelihood of the small and marginal farmer households of West Bengal: Another basic objective of MGNREGP is to create ‘productive assets’ in the rural areas. The ‘productive asset’ includes water harvesting, construction of irrigation canals, land development etc. Provision of water is vital for ensuring water security in the rural areas. It is expected that water related assets created by MGNREGP can change the cropping intensity and cropping pattern in the local agricultural economy. If, that happens then that can enhance the agricultural income of the small and marginal farmer households. But if no proper asset can be created through MGNREGP, then the farm households cannot get any income benefit from their agricultural activity. So we want to investigate empirically now whether expansion of MGNREGP can actually help the small of marginal farmer households of the surveyed region to improve the livelihood in terms of farm income.

2. Title: MGNREGP work on Private Land : A Synthesis in Rural West Bengal From 2009, MGNREGP can be carried out not only in the public or common land but also in the private land, mainly at the families lying below the poverty line or of the small and marginal farmers for water conservation, water harvesting and drought proofing. The basic objective of this policy is to improve the provision of irrigation facilities, encourage horticultural plantation and land development facilities. This MGNREGP work mainly wants to improve irrigation facilities in the neighborhood areas through digging ponds. The private households can also cultivate different horticultural products around the pond and can cultivate fish in that pond. They can adopt organic method of cultivation where cost of production is not high but selling price of the crop is very high. In fact the development of private property under MGNREGP has the potential to contribute the more sustainable livelihood creation. We now want to investigate the effectiveness of MGNREGP works undertaken on private land and try to find out whether this policy is properly implemented in our survey region or not. If ‘yes’, then we have to investigate whether it is actually beneficial for the poor rural households or not. Status: One paper is forthcoming in PRAJNAN and other two are under the revision of first draft before submission.

Work plan during 2014-17

1. To check the effectiveness of different public policies adopted by the government of India (just like Mid-Day Meal Program, MGNREGP, RSBY, Indira Awas Yojona) to remove poverty and to improve the standard of living among the poorer sections of the rural people of West Bengal.

V. Siddhartha Mitra, Department: Economics, Age: 43, Journal Publications – 34, Total Citations – 68, Awarded doctoral thesis -1, Ongoing doctoral thesis – 7.

Relevant Publications in Last 5years

1. Vivekananda Mukherjee & Siddhartha Mitra, 2013. "Does a Salary Hike Reduce Corruption?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 33(4), pages 2540-2544

2. Siddhartha Mitra, 2013. "Utility Maximisation as a Pathway for Maximisation of Happiness," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 11(3), pages 302-309

3. Siddhartha Mitra, 2011, “Measuring state–business relations within developing countries: An application to Indian states," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(3), pages 394-419 (co-authors: Massimiliano Calì & Purnima Purohit).

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Poverty in West Bengal: A Review of Recent Performance and Programmes

Authors: Siddhartha Mitra

Abstract: The position of West Bengal in terms of incidence of poverty has improved relative to other states since the 1970s. However, a source of worry is the slackening of the pace of poverty alleviation from the pre- liberalization to the post– liberalization period. The individual districts are characterized by varying poverty incidence: districts in the South Eastern zone exhibit low to moderate rural as well as urban poverty; those in the South Western zone exhibit moderate to high poverty; while the poverty in the Northern districts shows large variations from low to moderate to high. In regard to poverty alleviation through the MNREGA – West Bengal does very well in terms of percentage of rural households provided employment. However, targeting leaves a lot to be desired: it is observed that the high poverty districts often exhibit lower impact of the programme (in terms of percentage of rural population registered and works completed per 1000 persons) when these districts should be exhibiting higher impact.

Status: First Draft subject to revision Most significant conclusion(s):  The position of West Bengal in terms of incidence of poverty has improved relative to other states since the 1970s

 In regard to poverty alleviation through the MNREGA West Bengal does very well in terms of percentage of rural households provided employment

 Targeting in MNREGA leaves a lot to be desired: it is observed that the high poverty districts often exhibit lower impact of the programme (in terms of percentage of rural population registered and works completed per 1000 persons) when these districts should be exhibiting higher impact.

Work plan during 2014-17  To determine through a survey of the poor the effectiveness of MNREGA in addressing the needs of the poor  The effectiveness of the MNREGA in reducing the deficiencies in consumption and productivity (inclusive of health) of the poor will be addressed in the survey  Needed change in the design of MNREGA will be suggested

B. Management of Stress of Students Higher Educational Institutions of West Bengal

Contributing Faculty Members

Sadhan Chakraborti, Department / School : Department of Philosophy and Centre for Counselling Services and studies in Self Development, Age: 54, Journal Publications : 14, Doctoral thesis guidance : Awarded- 6, Ongoing – 4; M.Phil. thesis guidance: Awarded- 10.

Special Achievements A. Member of PG Board of Studies in Philosophy of North Bengal University (5 Years) B. Member of PG Board of Studies in Philosophy of West Bengal state University (4 Years) C. Member of PG Board of Studies in Philosophy of Rabindra Bharati University (3 Years) D. Member of PG Board of Studies in Philosophy of Gourbanga University (2 Years) E. UGC nominee of the DRS in Philosophy, Assam University , Silchar (3 Years ) F. UGC Expert for evaluation and allocation of Seminar / Conference / workshops Professor from colleges of N.E. region (3 years) Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

1. Management of Stress of Students Higher Educational Institutions of West Bengal, UGC.

Relevant Publications in last 5 years

a. Belief and wellbeing : An exploration of Indian psyche, Gangchil, 2009 b. Ethical Issues in Mental Health Services, Gangchil, 2009

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Title : Management of Stress of Students Higher Educational Institutions of West Bengal Authors : Sadhan Chakraborti, Rashmi Chattopadhyay, Subhrangsu Aditya, Sumit Dutta, Sahana Nag Abstract: Target population of the project includes students of higher educational instructions of West Bengal. A questionnaire has been developed and it is provided to the students of different educational institutions of the identified zones of West Bengal. Students of various disciplines are accommodated in order to collect data of divergent character. Apart from providing the data Focused Group Discussion and individual sessions are conducted for collecting data concerning the stressors of the students, intensity of then stress and the coping strategies they use for handling their stress So far we have covered 4 universities and colleges and number of students participated in the survey is 1428. Statistical analysis of the data collected is going on. Most Significant findings:  The major stress of the students are syllabus, examination system career are special relationship.  There are significant gaps between teachers are students.  Family related factors are adversely affecting the academic matters of students in a significant way. Work plan during 2014-17

 Conducting more workshops and focused Group discussion and individual session with students of some other higher educational institutions in accordance with the targeted sample designed.  Analyzing the data ( new along with the data already collected ) and drawing conclusions.  Developing a comprehensive system of management strategy and techniques keeping in view the indigenous character of stress of students of our society.  A longitudinal study of the effectiveness of managing the management techniques developed by undertaking a pilot project.  Suggesting a grand plan for the management of stress of students of higher educational institutions all over India.

C. Gender Audit of Higher Education in West Bengal, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University

Contributing Faculty Members

Dr. Paromita Chakravarti, Associate Professor, Department of English, Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Date of Birth: 17.03.1969

Special Achievements

1. Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Hyderabad University, February 2011. 2. Academic Visitorship at the Department of Development Studies, University of Oxford (April 24th to 9th July, 2010). 3. Myerstein Award in 2001 from the Faculty of English Literature, University of Oxford, U.K. 4. Violet Vaughan Morgan Commonwealth Studentship in 1996, granted by the University of Oxford U.K., covering full costs of maintenance and college and university fees for the first two years of doctoral research at the University of Oxford, U.K. (1996-1998). 5. Light Senior Scholarship in 1996, granted by St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, U.K. 6. Overseas Research Students’ Award in 1994 and 1996, granted by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of U.K. 7. Radhakrishnan Scholarship in 1994, granted by the University of Oxford and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to study for a M.Phil degree, covering full maintenance and college and university fees for two years. 8. P.C. Ghosh Memorial Prize, 1993, from Presidency College, Kolkata, for ranking first in the University in the M.A. English Examination. 9. Amal Bhattacharji Memorial prize from Presidency College, Kolkata for ranking first in the B.A final examination , in English in the University. 10. Junior Research Fellowship in English Literature by the University Grants Commission, in 1993, to fund graduate research. 11. Diplome de la Langue in French Language by the Alliance Francaise de Paris in recognition of linguistic proficiency in French, in 1990.

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Duration Agency Value Kaushik Guha: An Anthology of School of Rs. 10, 000 2002-2003 a Poem by Marina Tsvetayeva Women’s Studies from Russian to Bangla. (SWS), JU Published as a book by Thema in 2005 Retired Women Academics in Jadavpur Rs. 50, 000 2003-2004 west Bengal: A Pilot Study University unassigned grant Coming of Women into SWS, JU Rs. 15, 000 2004-2005 Panchayati Raj: 1998-2005 Women and Media in the Context Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Dr. Moinak Rs. 3, 07, January of Globalosation Stiftung Biswas 250 (2004- 2004- Foundation, Research Assistant: Nandita march 2005, December Germany Dhawan, Srila Roy, Balaka received till 2006 Basu, date) Field Worker: Irani Seal Women and Her Sexual Health UGC (NFE) Supervisor: Sarbani Goswami Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Research Assistant : Maya Karmakar Lifestyle Education UGC (NFE) Supervisor: Dr. Paromita Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Chakravarti Research Assistant : Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Irani Sil Bhanjo Dance: A folk dance of UGC (NFE) Shukla Banerjee Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Medinipur Lakshmir Panchali : A UGC (NFE) Swapna Dutta Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 documentry film Collection of writings of UGC (NFE) Aishika Chakraborty Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Ranjabati Sircar Women Police in Community UGC (NFE) Tumpa Mukherjee Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Policing: A Comparative Study of Kolkata Police and WB Police Workshop on Gender Awareness UGC (NFE) Ebong Alaap Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 for College Students The introduction of “Life Style” UGC (NFE) Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 education in Kolkata school Kolkatay Nari Samakamita : UGC (NFE) Amit Ranjan Bas Rs. 10, 000 2006-2007 Akkhyan o Pratakkhyaner Dharabhashya CHILDLINE Ministry of Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen, Rs. 2002-till Social Justice and / Dr. Paromita Chakravarti, 10,95,337 date empowerment, Coordinator: Sm. Indrani Ministry of Banerjee Women and Child Development Re-negotiating Gender Relations Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 2007-2009 in Marriage: Family, Class and Stiftung Research Coordinator: Ms 35,02,700 Community in the Era of Foundation, Nandita Dhawan Globalisation Germany Women Domestic Workers in SWS, JU Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen 2006-2007 Kolkata: Strategies of Survival Research Coordinator: Nilanjana Sengupta Research Assistants: Swati Basak, Sanchari Banerjee, Mamata Das, Shuchorita Roy, Paromita Bhattacharya Woman and Her Body SWS, JU Research Coordinator: Ms 2006-2007 Sarbani Goswami Pathika Samvad: Women SWS, JU Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen 2007 Students in Jadavpur University Research Coordinator: Ms Jayeeta Bagchi Resaerch Assistant : Anindita Ghosh, Field Assistant: Animesh Baidya, Prakriti Mitra, Mallika Ghosh, Soma Nath, Sreyashi Sarkar Through the Gender Lens: An Nirantar, New Research Coordinator: Dr. Rs. 3,28,000 2005 - Analysis of Nation and Identity in Delhi Paromita Chakravarti 2008 School Textbooks Research Assistant: Sreerupa Sengupta Understanding Violence against Action Aid India Supervisor: Dr. Paromita Rs. 3,00,000 September Women and Its Implications for Chakravarti, 2006-2007 Our Struggle against HIV/ AIIDS Anchita Ghatak (Action Aid India) Research Assistants: Sreerupa Sengupta, Trina Nileena Banerjee, Indrani Banerjee Field Assistant: Irani Sil Legislation Review of the HIV/ Supported by: Supervisor: Dr. Paromita Rs. 1,90,000 October AIDS Bill 2005 National Chakravarti 2006-2007 Commission for Research Assistants: Women Sreerupa Sengupta, Shuhita Bhattacharjee Integrating VAW and HIV and Action Aid India Supervisor: Dr. Paromita Rs. 4,00,000 2007-2008 AIDS – Phase II (2007-2008) Chakravarti Research Assistants: Sreerupa Sengupta, Trina Nileena Banerjee, Shuhita Bhattacharjee Panchayat Mahila Shakti Abhiyan Central Ministry Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 8,25,067 Sept. of Panchayati Raj Research Coordinator: Smt. 2007-Feb. Sudakshina Mitra 2009 Assistant Coordinator: Anindita Ghosh Gender Implications of the Mc Gill Supervisor: Dr. Paromita Rs. 8,00,000 2008 National Commission Report University, Chakravarti 2006-2007 (conducted in Canada. Research Assistants: Nandita collaboration with McGill Roy, Doyeeta Majumder University) Research and Documentation of SWS, JU Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen 2008-2009 the Journey towards a Self- Consultants: Dr. Mukul managed Financial Institution by Mukherjee, Rural Women of South 24 Prof. Nirmala Banerjee Parganas, West Bengal Coordinator: Nilanjana (conducted in collaboration in Sengupta Jeevika) Building Resources in Women’s Sir Ratan Tata Project Supervisor: Prof. Rs. October Studies Trust, Mumbai Samita Sen 91,64,000/- 2007-June Project Coordinator: Jayeeta 2011 Bagchi Photos of Women/ Women in India Foundation Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 7,75,000 2008-2010 Photos: The Photographic Worlds of Arts Principal Investigator: Hardik of Bengali Urban Middle Class Brata Biswas Women Women, Art and Gender: SWS, JU Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 2008-2009 Representations of Women in Art Principal Expert (Honorary): 1,35,000/- from the Medieval to the Prof. Ratnabali Chatterjee Colonial: Digitizing Professor Ratnabali Chatterjee’s Collection

Awareness Generation and Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 2010-12 sensitization on the Issue of Stiftung Research Coordinator: 28,32,000 Domestic Violence in Kolkata Foundation, Nandita Dhawan Germany

Microfinance Practices: UGC Research Coordinator: 2010-12 Alternative Categories and their Nilanjana Sengupta Impact upon Women Dynamics of Marriage, UGC Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen 2010-12 Separation & Remarriage: Urban Research Coordinator: Milieu in the New Millennium Nandita Dhawan

Women’s Empowerment and Shastri Indo- Principal Investigator: Dr. Rs. 2010-12 Education: Panchayats and Canadian Paromita Chakravarti 34,00,000 Women’s Self Help Groups in Institute Research Assistants: Nandita India (in collaboration with Roy, Doyeeta Majumder McGill University Canada) Protection against Vulnerability: Oak Foundation Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. 2011-12 What Works? The Indian Research Coordinator: Dr. 12,36,426 Experience (in collaboration with Ranjita Biswas University of Highlands and Islands, Perth College, Scotland) Increased Understanding of Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. January to Single Women Migration and Stiftung Research Coordinator: Dr. 11,16,000 December Their Working Conditions as Foundation, Ranjita Biswas 2012 Domestic Workers in West Germany Research Assistants: Bengal Somdutta Mukherjee, Shenjuti Dutta Increased Understanding of Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen Rs. January to Politics and Ideology of Trade Stiftung Research Coordinator: 12,22,000 December Unions in Gujarat and West Foundation, Nandita Dhawan 2012 Bengal Germany Senior Research Assistant: Madhurima Mukhopadhyay Gender Audit of Higher UGC Principal Investigator: Dr. Rs. 2012- Education in West Bengal Paromita Chakravarti 16,08,000 Project Fellow: Sreerupa Sengupta Increased Understanding of Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Professor Samita January Gendering of Workers and Stiftung, Sen 2013 to Culture and Politics of Germany Research Coordinator: December Organization of Workers with Nandita Dhawan 2015 Special Reference to Auto- rickshaw Drivers and Beauty Workers in West Bengal Domesticity and Domestic Rosa Luxemburg Supervisor: Prof. Samita Sen January Labour: Women’s Agency and Stiftung, Research Coordinator: 2013 to Collectivities in Contemporary Germany Nandita Dhawan December West Bengal 2015 Increased Understanding of Rosa Luxemburg Supervsior: Nandita Dhawan Rs. Gendering of Workers and Stiftung, 73,69,450 Culture and Politics of Germany Organisation of Workers with Special Reference to Auto- rickshaw Drivers and Beauty Workers in West Bengal Domesticity and Domestic Rosa Luxemburg Supervsior: Nandita Dhawan Rs. Labour: Fostering Women's Stiftung, 60,64,300 Agency and Collectivities in Germany Contemporary West Bengal Creating a Data-base for PWDVA WB State Rs. 64,000 Commission for Women Sephis Foundation Visiting Sephis Professor Samita Sen Rs. 82,849 2006 Fellowship

Relevant Publications in Last 5years Publications of the School of Women Studies (April 2007-March 2013) Books (in Bengali) 2007

Durgabati Ghosh: Pashchimjatriki [reprint of a travel narrative by Durgabati Ghosh]. Introduction by Amit Ranjan Basu, with editorial assistance by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: January 2007, 108 pages, Rs.60.00. ISBN 81- 295-0773-0

Saraladevi Chaudhurani: Jibaner Jharapata [reprint of the new edition of Saraladevi Chaudhurani's autobiography]. Introduction for the new edition by Sutapa Bhattacharya, with editorial assistance by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing . Kolkata: January 2007, 240 pages, Rs. 125.00. ISBN 81-295-0274-7

Jyotirmoyee Gangopadhyay: Jyotirmoyee Gangopadhyayer Rachana-Samkalan [collected writings by Jyotirmoyee Gangopadhyay (1889-1945)]. Introduction by Tanika Sarkar, compiled by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: April 2007, 144 Pages, Rs.100. ISBN 81-295-0780-3

Ashalata Singha: Ashalata Singher Galpa-Samkalan, vol. II [collected short stories by Ashalata Singha]. Introduction by Tapobrata Ghosh, compiled by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: June 2007, 440 pages, Rs.300.00. ISBN 81-295- 0786-2

Punyalata Chakrabarty: Ekal Jakhan Shuru Holo [a memoir]. Introduction and edited by Joyeeta Bagchi with editorial assistance by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: October 2007, 88 pages, Rs.75.00. ISBN 978-81-295-0713- 6

Rusati Sen: Chharano Srinkhal: Jibane Ebang Bayane (Kalyani Dutter Jiban o Sahitya). School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: October 2007, 48 pages, Rs.30.00. ISBN 978-81-295-0715-0

Sarmistha Duttagupta: Saugat Patrikaye Bangali Narir Atnaprakash 1927-47. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: October 2007, 40 pages, Rs.30.00. ISBN 978- 81-295-0714-3

Bimala Dasgupta: Norway-Bhraman o Kashmirey Ko' Din [two short travel narrratives by Bimala Dasgupta (1868-1923)]. Introduction by Simonti Sen, edited and selected by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: December 2007, 120 pages, Rs.100.00 ISBN 978-81-295-0747-1

2008

Shantisudha Ghosh; Shantisudha Ghosher Nirbachita Rachana. Selected, edited and introduced by Sarmitha Duttagupta, with a foreword by Jasodhara Roychaudhury. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: July 2008, 128 pages, Rs. 100.00. ISBN 978-81-295-0828- 7 Sudakshina Ghosh: Swapna Aar Satya: Rokeyar Anganara. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: July 2008, 71 pages, Rs. 40.00. ISBN 978-81-295-0831-7

2009

Indira Devi: Amar Khata. Edited by Dr. Suchitra Sen. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing, School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: 2009, 127 pages, Rs. 80.00. ISBN 978-81-295-0980-2

2010

Sandip Bandyopadhyay and Nirban Basu. Saheed Preetilata Waddedar Smarak Baktrita 11/12: 2009- 2010. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: June 2010, 46 pages, Rs. 40.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1083-9

Uma Devi. Babar Katha. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: August 2010, 103 pages, Rs. 60.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1093-8

2011

Girindranandini Devi: Dholpur [Rajput Jatir Samaj-Chitra]. Edited by Anuradha Ray with editorial assistance by Abhijit Sen and Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: January 2011, 93 pages, Rs. 60.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1185-0

Sishukanya: Katha O Kahini [Compilation of essays on the girl-child]. Edited and introduced by Jayeeta Bagchi. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: May 2011, 87 pages, Rs. 70.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1220-8

Sethu Ramaswami: Ek Ajana Bharatiya Narir Atmakatha. Ekti Sakshatkar-Saha. Translated by Syed Tanveer Nasreen. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: September 2011, 176 pages, Rs. 150.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1362-5

Saudamini Devi: Pitrsmriti o Anyanya Rachana. Edited and introduced by Prof. Sutapa Bhattacharya and Abhijit Sen, assisted by Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with Dey’s Publishing. Kolkata: September 2011, 80 pages, Rs. 60.00. ISBN 978-81-295-1354-0

Books (in English)

2011

Samita Sen, Ranjita Biswas, Nandita Dhawan (eds.): Intimate Others: Marriage and Sexualities in India. School of Women’s Studies in association with Stree. Kolkata: 2011, 465 + [xvi] pages, Rs. 450.00. ISBN 978-81-906760-1-4 Nirmala Banerjee, Samita Sen, Nandita Dhawan (eds.): Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India (Vol. I) (Readings in Gender Studies 1). School of Women’s Studies in association with Stree . Kolkata: 2011, 264 + [xlii] pages, Rs. 400.00. ISBN 978-81-906760-6-9

2012

Nirmala Banerjee, Samita Sen, Nandita Dhawan (eds.): Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India (Vol. II). (Readings in Gender Studies 1). School of Women’s Studies in association with Stree. Kolkata: 2012, 594+ [xliv] pages, Rs. 475.00. ISBN 978-93-81345-00-9

Kavita Panjabi, Paromita Chakravarti (eds.): Women Contesting Culture: Changing Frames of Gender Politics in India (Readings in Gender Studies 2). School of Women’s Studies in association with Stree. Kolkata: 2012, 381+ [lxxvi] pages, Rs. 500.00. ISBN 978-81-906760-8-3

2014

Ipshita Chanda, Jayeeta Bagchi (eds): Shaping the Discourse: Women’s Writings in Periodicals 1865- 1947 (Readings in Gender Studies 3). School of Women’s Studies in association with Stree. Kolkata: 2014, 398+ [lxvii] pages, Rs. 550.00. ISBN 978-81-906760-5-2

Occasional Paper (in Bengali)

2011

Sutapa Bhattacharya: Rabindra-Upanyase Prem Ebong Premika (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 12). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 26 pages. ISBN 81-86954-72-4 (in Bangla)

Occasional Paper (in English)

2009

Anirban Das, Ritu Sen Chaudhury, Jayeeta Bagchi: Scripting the Nation: Bengali Women's Writing, 1870 to 1960s (Occasional Paper No. 9). School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University. Kolkata: June 2009. Rs. 80.00

2010

Soma Marik: Lives in Struggle: Communist Women of Bengal 1951-1977: A Few Case Studies (SWS- SRTT occasional paper 1). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: December 2010, 34 pages. Rs. 50.00. ISBN 81-86954-58-9

Kusum Datta: Diversity and Unity: The Feminist Project in Face of Difference in South Africa (SWS- SRTT occasional paper 2). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: December 2010, 60 + [2] pages. Rs. 50.00. ISBN 81-86954-59-7 2011

Bonita Aleaz: Comparative Study of Alternate Justice Systems with Reference to Specific Case Study of Justice Disbursement at Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 3). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: February 2011, 29 pages. ISBN 81-86954-61-9

Mukul Mukherjee: A Rights-based View of Gender and Poverty Perspectives from West Bengal (SWS- SRTT occasional paper 5). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: February 2011, 24 pages. ISBN 81- 86954-63-5

Sudarshana Sen: Two Generations of Anglo-Indian Women in Kolkata: Responses on Family and Marriage (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 6). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: March 2011, 40 pages. ISBN 81-86954-64-3

Sudhanya Dasgupta Mukherjee: Narratives of Partition in Bengal: The Caste Experience (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 7). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 24 pages. ISBN 81-86954-65-1

Nilanjana Deb: The Agartala Satyagraha against Atrocities on Women: Oral Histories (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 8). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 26 pages. ISBN 81-86954-68-6

Asha Achuthan: The Feminist Response to Medical Technology in the Indian Context (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 9). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 41 pages. ISBN 81-86954-69-4

Anindita Ghosh: Elected Women Representatives of West Bengal: Experience and Condition in Birbhum Gram Panchayats (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 10). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 49 pages. ISBN 81-86954-70-8

R. Uma Maheshwari: A Discourse of/in Dismemberment: Women in Submerged Zone (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 11). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: May 2011, 52 pages. ISBN 81-86954-71- 6

Subir Rana: ‘Public Women’ and Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century British India: Issue of Race, Sex, Class and Gender During the ‘Limited Raj’(SWS-SRTT occasional paper 13). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: June 2011, 55 pages. ISBN 81-86954-73-2

Hardik Brata Biswas: Spatialising Families and Fantastic Couples: Photographs as Cultural Identity and ‘Performance’ (SWS-SRTT occasional paper 14). School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: July 2011, 39 pages. ISBN 81-86954-74-0

Directory (in English)

2012

Services Relating to Domestic Violence in West Bengal: A Guide. School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: March 2012.

Report (in Bengali)

2008

Bishwayaner Pariprekshite Nari O Ganamadhyam: Gabeshana O Matgathan Prakalpa (Women and Media in the Context of Globalisation) / A report by Nandita Dhawan, translated by Anindita Bhaduri. School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: June 2008.

2011

Meyeder Adhikar: Ekti Ain Sahayika. Prepared by Ruchira Goswami, assisted by Kavana Ramaswami, Shayonee Dasgupta and Vaneesha Jain. Editorial assistance by Anindita Bhaduri and Gargi Banerjee. Translated by Anindita Bhaduri, Anindita Ghosh, Animesh Baidya and Gargi Banerjee. Kolkata: School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: August 2011.

2012

Saransha-Pratibedan: ‘Marjadapurna Drishtite Amader Dekhun’ (‘Look at us with Respect’). School of Women’s Studies, OAK Foundation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth College, Centre for Rural Childhood. Kolkata: 2012

Karmashalar–Pratibedan. School of Women’s Studies, OAK Foundation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth College, Centre for Rural Childhood. Kolkata: 2012

Report (in English)

2007

Understanding Violence against Women and Its Implications for Our Struggles against HIV & AIDS / A report by Paromita Chakravarti and Anchita Ghatak. School of Women's Studies, JU, & Action Aid, India. Kolkata: 2007, 95 pages.

2009

Re-negotiating Gender Relations in Marriage: Family, Class and Community in Kolkata in an Era of Globalisation: A Report. Prepared by Samita Sen, Nandita Dhawan, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, Nilanjana Sengupta, Diya Dutta. School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: December 2009.

2011

Know Your Rights: A Legal Handbook for Women. Prepared by Ruchira Goswami, assisted by Kavana Ramaswami, Shayonee Dasgupta and Vaneesha Jain, editorial assistance by Anindita Bhaduri and Gargi Banerjee. School of Women's Studies, JU. Kolkata: August 2011. Report (in Hindi)

2012

Saransha-Report: ‘Hame Samman se Dekhiye’ (‘Look at us with Respect’). School of Women’s Studies, OAK Foundation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth College, Centre for Rural Childhood. Kolkata: 2012

Karyaashalar–Report. School of Women’s Studies, OAK Foundation, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth College, Centre for Rural Childhood. Kolkata: 2012

Newsletter (School of Women's Studies, JU, for free distribution only)

Volume 20: March 2007: 45 pages Volume 21: March 2008: 43 pages Volume 22: December 2008: 66 pages Volume 23: March 2009: 48 pages Volume 24: September 2009: 60 pages Volume 25: March 2010: 38 pages Volume 26: November 2010: 38 pages Volume 27: March 2011: 24 pages Volume 28: December 2011: 48 pages Volume 29: May 2012: 40 pages Volume 30: December 2012: 61 pages Volume 31: March 2013: 25 pages

Publications of the PI

In Books

1. “Shakespeare’s Intellectual Background: Re-evaluating the Medical Legacy” in Shakespeare’s Intellectual Background, ed. Bhim S. Dahiya, (Viva Books, New Delhi, 2008). 2. “Folly and Androgyny: Shakespeare’s King Lear” in Renaissance Themes: Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Dasgupta ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri (Anthem Press, 2008) 3. “Dancing to Shakespeare: Crossing Genre and Gender in the Tragedies’ in Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia, ed. Poonam Trivedi; Minami Ryuta (Routledge, New York, London, 2010). 4. ‘Women’s Education in India at the start of the twenty-First Century: Implications of the National Knowledge Commission Reports. In A Tribute to David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World, Masemann, V., Majhanovich, S., Truong, N and Janigan, K. (eds.). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2010. [written in collaboration with Professor Ratna Ghosh, Mcgill University, Montreal] 5. “The Ideology of Literature: A Gendered Study of Bengali-Language School textbooks in West Bengal” in Paromita Chakravarti and Kavita Panjabi eds Women Contesting Culture: Changing Frames of Gender Politics in India, (Kolkata: Stree, 2011) 6. “Interrogating ‘Bollywood Shakespeare’: Reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear” in Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia eds Bollywood Shakespeare (Palgrave, forthcoming) 7. “ Fantasies of Transformation: Education, Neoliberal Self-making and Bollywood” in Nandini Gooptu ed. Enterprise Cultures (Routledge: London, 2013

In Journals

1. “Decolonising and globalizing English Studies: The case of English textbooks in West-Bengal, India”, English in Education, vol. 42 (1), Spring, 2008, Blackwell publishers, Oxford,UK and USA, pp.37-52. 2. “I have no other but a woman’s reason”: Folly, femininity and sexuality in Renaissance Discourses and Shakespeare’s Plays, Shakespeare Yearbook, vol.6, Ashgate, 2008, UK, pp.136-161 3. “Natural fools and the historiography of Renaissance folly”, in Renaissance Studies, vol 25 (2), 2010, Blackwell, UK. pp.208-227 4. “Reading Women’s Protest in Manipur: A Different Voice?” in Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, vol5 (3), 2010, pp.47-60. 5. “The sex education debates: teaching ‘Life Style’ in West Bengal, India” in Sex Education, vol.11, Number 4, November 2011, Routledge, UK, pp.389-400. 6. “Reading Intertextualities in Rituparno Ghsosh’s The Last Lear: The Politics of Recanonization” in The Shakespearean International Yearbook, vol. 12: Special Section, Shakespeare in India ed. Tom Bishop and Alexander C.Y. Huang, Special Editor, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Ashgate, UK, 2012, pp.115-129. 7. “Renaissance Bodies and their After-deaths? A post-mortem of “BodyWorlds” and the legacy of Renaissance Anatomy” in Apperception, Journal of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, vol.VI (Santiniketan: August, 2013) In Books:

1. Edited anthology of essays entitled Women Contesting Culture: Changing Frames of Gender Politics in India. Co-edited with Kavita Panjabi (Kolkata: Stree, 2011)

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

Gender Audit of Higher Education in West Bengal School of Women’s Studies Status Report (August 2012 – December 2013) ------

The School of Women’s Studies has undertaken a project entitled Gender Audit of Higher Education in West Bengal. It is part of the scheme of ‘University with Potential for Excellence – Phase II’ and is funded by the University Grants Commission.

The objectives of the project are the following – a) To analyse proportion of women (both teachers and students) at different levels and in different departments of higher education institutions in West Bengal b) To understand the working of glass ceilings in West Bengal academia for women faculty c) To explore the perceptions of gender among women and men students in some selected institutions of higher education in West Bengal The project will contribute significantly to the existing body of knowledge about gender and higher education in India and will help in formulating appropriate policy for gender inclusion at institutes of higher learning.

The project began in August 2012. In the first two months (August-September 2012) we did a review of literature which had twin focus: gender audit of organizations, especially educational institutions around the world and gender and higher education. The literature review was followed by a set of exploratory interviews. These interviews were conducted over a span of two months (October – December 2012).

The School of Women’s Studies had initially proposed to conduct the gender audit of select departments in five institutions of higher education in West Bengal. We first began our survey at Jadavpur University. The survey was conducted between February – August 2013. During this period we interviewed both teachers and students. Our experience at Jadavpur University showed that in order to generate comparable data we need to conduct exhaustive and complete surveys of select institutions rather than of select departments in specific colleges/universities as was initially proposed in the beginning of our study. Hence, we decided to take into account all departments in the selected institutions of higher education. Consequently, the volume of work increased considerably. This would mean a reduction in the total number of institutions of higher education that the initial proposal had promised to cover. In the year (January – December 2013) the School has focused on two universities - Jadavpur University and West Bengal State University, Barasat. The survey at West Bengal State University (WBSU), Barasat began in mid September 2013. We completed interviewing teachers at WBSU by early November. Currently, we are conducting the survey among students. List of activities

August-September (2012) – Reviewed reports, policies, books and relevant journals (international and national) related to gender audit of organisations and in particular educational institutions around the world and gender and higher education

October – December (2012) - The review of literature is an ongoing process, however, significant concepts from the first phase of the review were used to frame a semi-structured questionnaire for exploratory interviews. We conducted 30 exploratory interviews for about two months. The key informants for this exploratory interviews included teachers working in the area of gender and education, professors across the four faculties of Jadavpur University (Arts, Science, Engineering and Technology and Interdisciplinary Studies) and some senior administrative staff. The purpose of conducting these interviews was to identify themes which were later incorporated in the quantitative research instruments designed for teachers, students and administrative staff. Some of the themes of the questionnaire are as follows: longitudinal changes in the sphere of higher education and on campus, work-life balance, harassment on campus, representation of women and men (both faculty and students) in unions, awareness about gender on campus and possible core areas for gender audit research. The process of transcribing and translating these interviews began in early November 2012. While the interviews were being transcribed, we acquired gender segregated data on teachers and students from the university officials and calculated the proportion of women and men according to disciplines and levels, women and men employed as teaching/ non-teaching or administrative staff, and the proportion of women to men in the various faculties, schools and departments.

As per the official data, Jadavpur University (JU) has a total of 628 teachers and 10,132 students, across the Arts, Science, Engineering and Technology and Interdisciplinary Schools (IDS). Considering the logistics, time and finance, we decided to interview 10% sample of the total strength of teachers and students.

January (2013) – In January, we designed two research instruments - one for the students and the other for the teachers. We also organized consultative workshops with experts in the areas of gender audit and higher education to refine the research instruments.

The students’ questionnaire focuses on subject choice, infrastructure, sexual harassment, dress code, participation in student unions, tuition, representation and participation of students in different clubs and activities on campus, among other areas. The teachers’ questionnaire focuses on staff-specific issues besides asking for gender related topics covered by the student questionnaire.

February – March (2013) – In these two months we interviewed 70 teachers, both male and female (Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors) from Arts, Science, Engineering and Technology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

March – September (2013) - The survey among students began in March. As mentioned above a 10% sample was decided for the student survey (which is approximately 1000 students). A one-day sensitisation and training workshop was held at the School of Women’s Studies in January. The workshop was attended by 12 students from Arts, Engineering and IDS who had volunteered to work as field workers for the project. We interviewed 1000 students by July (from different levels, across different departments in the four faculties).

The process of coding the questionnaires began in March 2013. In April we finished coding the questionnaires designed for the teachers. The process of coding the student questionnaires were completed by September-October 2013. We are currently doing a preliminary analysis of both faculty and student questionnaires. In addition, we have conducted in-depth interviews with faculty and students regarding the HEPSN Cell and the Day Care Centre. All these interviews have been transcribed and short reports have been prepared which would be included in the final report.

September – December (2013) - West Bengal State University

As mentioned earlier, the second institution of higher learning chosen for this research is West Bengal State University which is located in Barasat. This is a new university established in 2007 (through the West Bengal Act XXVIII of 2007).The university seeks to expand access to higher education particularly among students from minority and poor communities and from rural areas. We chose this university on the basis of its periurban location, courses offered (it has a department of management and commerce) and the profile of the students. Given the rising incidence of violence against women in the area, one of the key objectives of our survey is to examine the role that the University (given its specific location) can play in empowering women giving them access to higher education. The survey would specifically analyse the strategies adopted by the University to ensure safety of women both on and off campus. We began our survey at West Bengal State University in September 2013. We have collected gender segregated data on teachers and students from the university and have calculated the proportion of male and female teachers and students in the various departments. As per the official records, there are 500 students and 88 teachers. 10% of the total strength of teachers and students are being interviewed.. Prior to the survey, we did some exploratory interviews with the teachers to acquire background information about the university and the students. These semi-structured interviews helped us to adapt the questionnaires for WBSU.

We have interviewed 30 teachers from WBSU. We conducted a one day training workshop at this university to train field workers who would conduct the student survey. The training workshop was attended by 15 students from the departments of Sociology, Psychology and English. The student survey began in November 2013. Till December 2013, 220 students have been interviewed from Arts, Science, Management and Commerce.

In January, we will wrap up the student survey at WBSU. Currently we are coding the data gathered from this university.

Meanwhile we have begun networking with Aliah University. We chose Aliah University because of its focus on students from minority background. The primary objective is to explore the ways in which Aliah University has ensured access to and retention of women from minority communities in higher education. The gender audit will also examine the proportion of women faculty and their representation in various bodies in the University. Secondly, like JU, among other faculties, Aliah University has the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering and this will enable us to compare data with the former. Thirdly, like WBSU, Aliah too has faculties of Commerce and Business and Management. This would help us make a comparative analysis of the two institutions. We hope to begin survey by April 2014.

Currently we are analyzing the data gathered from Jadavpur University. We have completed interviewing the teachers at West Bengal State University, Barasat. Currently we are conducting the student survey in the aforementioned university.

Work plan during 2014-17

 Complete coding and preliminary analysis of data collected from Jadavpur University and West Bengal State University by April 2014.  Complete survey at Aliah University by June/July 2014 and coding of data by September 2014.  Plan to conduct a gender audit in a vocational intuition or at a private institution like Pailan College of Management and Technology, if funds and time permit in 2014.  Write the final report of the surveys also plan research papers based on the data collected through these surveys between January – March 2015.  Organise a dissemination workshop to share the final findings of the project in March 2015.

D. Centre for Experiment in Social and Behavioural Sciences

Principal Investigator: Prof. Gautam Gupta, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University

Activity: Main activity of the center is to run experiments both in the laboratory and field as well for testing economic theory with these experiments. Several experiments had been done in the center during this time period, some of them are as follows; various types of Public good games, Centipede game, Pirates game, New Keynesian Macro economics Model. Some of the experiments had been run in the Indian Sundarbans region with people who are actually facing the situation. All the experimental results shows that practice is something significantly different from the existing well establish theoretical prediction.

Year I: April 2012 to March 2013.

Research Projects Undertaken:

1. Rich versus Poor in a Centipede Game (Completed) 2. Expectation Formation for Inflation and Output Gap (Completed) 3. Role of Leadership in Community Actions (Ongoing)

Deliverables

1. Wealth difference In Centipede Game: Backward induction in an Experimental Economics Framework: Sanjukta Basu, Santanu Mitra and Gautam Gupta (published in International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences; Vol. 3, No.10, May 2013)

2. Heterogeneity in Expectation formation and Monetary Policy in New Keynesian Economy Framework: Evidence from Laboratory Experiment (Abhishek Das, Arpita Ghosh and Gautam Gupta) Communicated

Conference Two Day conference to commemorate the Birth Centenary of Alan Mathison Turing on 18-19 December 2012, titled Beyond the Obvious: Conference to commemorate the birth Centenary of Alan Mathison Turing Speakers: Pathik Guha, Shaymol Chakravarty, Simanti Banerjee, Santanu Mitra, Mihir Chakravarty, Lopamudra Choudhury, Rianka Roy and others followed by a biopic on Alan Turing.

Year II: April 2013 to March 2014.

Research Projects Undertaken:

1. Expectation formation and Monetary Policy in Overlapping Generation Model Framework :Evidence from Laboratory Experiment (Ongoing)

2. Field Experiment to Investigate Trust in Public Good Creation (Ongoing)

3. Role of Leadership in Community Actions (Ongoing)

One Two Day International Conference on Experimental Economics to be held December 2013

Equipment to be purchased in the current year (Rs. 1,00,000)

Publications 1. “Regeneration of Common Pool Resources: Experimental Evidence from the Indian Sundarbans” Review of Market Integration, Forthcoming (Abhishek Das, S.K. Mandal , Santanu Mitra, Gautam Gupta) 2. “Does Leadership Matter? Evidence from Community Participation from a Laboratory Experiment in India” International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 22, No. 1, January – March 2014 (Santanu Mitra, Gautam Gupta) 3. Wealth Differences in a Centipede Game: Backward Induction in an Experimental Framework” International journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol.3 No. 10 [Special issue-May 2013] (Sanjukta Basu, Santanu Mitra, Gautam Gupta) 4. “Contributions for a Community Good: Results from a Field Experiment in India” Canadian Social Science, Vol. 9 No.3, 84-89, 2013 (Santanu Mitra, Gautam Gupta) 5. “A New Methodology for Investigating Human Behavior: Insights from an Experiment in Microfinance” (Santanu Mitra, Gautam Gupta): Accepted in edited volume

Communicated 6. “Expectation formation in New Keynesian Economy: Evidence from laboratory Experiment” (Abhishek Das, Arpita Ghosh, Gautam Gupta )

E. Interstate variation of Efficiency of Elementary Education in India: A Meta Frontier and Group Frontier Analysis

Contributing Faculty Members

Arpita Ghose, Department: Economics, Age: 51, Journal Publications – 25, Conference Publications: 3, Policy Documents : 1, Awarded doctoral thesis – 6, Ongoing doctoral thesis – 6.

Special Achievements

Collaboration type: Research Collaboration in Project (a) Collaborating Institute: Calcutta University and Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal Project Title : Hospitals Efficiency in West-Bengal (b) Collaborating Institute: McGill University, Montreal, Canada, under PDIG grant of Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute, Calgary, Canada

Project Title: Economy wide Impacts of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between India and Canada at 2030. Member or Chairman of Board or Council outside JU/ any other relevant type, Year/Duration Nominated as the member of the Executive Council of “The Indian Econometric Society”, for the year 2012-13 and also for the Year 2014-15.

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects (Mentioning only about efficiency and Productivity)

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) a) Informal UPE –II, under center for Dr. Malabika Roy (PI) Year Industrialization, project studies in West-Bengal Dr. Arpita Ghose 2012- as Co-PI (ongoing) Economy ongoing

b) Hospital Efficiency in Department of Health & Dr Arijita Dutta, Year West Bengal, In Family Welfare, University of Calcutta (PI) 2009- collaboration with Government of West- Dr Arpita Ghose, JU Ms Satarupa Bandyopadhyay, 2011 University of Calcutta, as Bengal, Co-PI Bethune College

Dr Aniruddha Mukherjee, SPSRC, DH&FW, GoWB

Dr B R Satpathi, Deputy

Director

of Health Services (Hospital

Administration Cell) DH&FW, GoWB

c) A study on the Indian Council of Social Arpita Ghose (PI) Rs 3,37,550/- April Relationship Between Science Research, 2010- Principal Investigator August R&D Expenditure and 2012 Total Factor Productivity

Growth of the Firm Level of the Indian Export Intensive Industries: A Nonparametric Approach

Relevant Publications in Last 5years(Mentioning only about efficiency and Productivity)

1. “Production Efficiency in Indian Agriculture: An Assessment of the Post Green Revolution Years” (co- authored with Subhash Ray ), Omega, 44, 58–69, Elsevier, 2014. 2. “Measurement and Determinants of Hospital Efficiency in West Bengal” (co-authored with A.Dutta,and S.Bandopadhyay ) , Journal of Asian Public Policy, Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), forthcoming. 3. “Efficiency of Health Care System in India: An Inter State Analysis using DEA Approach”(co-authored with B.N.Bhattacharya and Parta De) Social Work in Public Health ,Taylor and Francis Group, U.K vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 482-506, 2012. 4. “The Role of Trade Policy variables on Efficiency in West-Bengal Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from a Stochastic Production Function Approach”, (co-authored with Paramita Roy Biswas) Trade and Development Review Vol 5, No1,pp 1-36. 5. “The Relative Role of Imports and Exports in Explaining Productivity of Bio-Pharmaceutical Firms : Evidence from Non Parametric Data Envelopment Analysis”, (co-authored with Chandrima Chakraborty), Foreign Trade Review, 48(2) 165–201 2013, Sage Publication. 6. “Inter Industrial Variation of Productivity Growth in Indian Manufactiring Sector: Evidence from a Non parametric Approach”(co-authored with Paramita Roy Biswas),Journal of Industrial Statistics, 1(1),57-81,2012 7. “Total Factor Productivity Growth and its Determinants for West Bengal Agriculture” (co-authored with Debjani Bhattacharyya), Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development,Vol 8, no1, 39-56,2011

8. “Intra industrial variation in total factor productivity growth in West Bengal Manufacturing : Evidence from Nonparametric Approach”, (co-authored with Paramita Roy Biswas), Indian Economic Journal 59(2) 29- 50, 2012 9. “Total factor productivity Growth in Pharmaceutical Industry: A Look Using Modern Time Series Approach With Indian Data”, (co-authored with Chandrima Chakraborty) The Journal of Industrial Statistics,1(2), 250-268, 2013 10. “The Role of TradePolicy variables on Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from a Non-parametric Data Envelopment Approach” (co-authored with Paramita Roy Biswas), in a volume Edited by KunalSen, VinishKathuria and Rajesh Raj S N, by Routldege., forthcoming.

Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5years

Hospital Efficiency in West-Bengal

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

1. Title: Interstate variation of Efficiency of Elementary Education in India: a Meta Frontier and Group Frontier Analysis

Author: Arpita Ghose

Name of the Conference: Parts of this research are presented at the

(i) CESI Annual International Conference on Education, Diversity and Democracy, organized by Department of Economics, University of Calcutta in association with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Pratichi Institute and Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, during December 28-30 and also at the

(ii) Golden Jubilee International Conference of The Indian Econometric Society held at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai during December 22-24, 2014.

Abstract: Technical-efficiency (TE) for primary and upper-primary education in Indian-states is estimated for 2005-06 to 08-09,by constructing two group-frontiersfor(i)General-Category-States(GCS),(ii)Special-Category- States(SCS) and the union-territories(UT), as these two-groups of states do not operate under same fiscal- environment using Data-Envelopment Approach. 90% of the central-assistance for SCS is treated as grant; remaining 10% as loan. GCS get 30% as grant and 70% as loan. Such fiscal-differentiation arises due to hilly terrains, international-borders and geographical-disadvantages for infrastructural-development inhibiting good industrial-development for SCS. UT also receives more grants as compared to GCS. Thus, maximum educational-- output producible from an input-bundle by a school under GCS may be different from what could be produced, if the school is located in SCS&UT. Technology -Closeness -Ratio (TCR) measuring the proximity of the group-frontiers to the Meta-frontier (representing the frontiers comprising of all states) is estimated. Using a second-stage panel regression the relative sensitivity of the central-grant in explaining TE of primary and upper- primary education both for GCS and SCS&UT is obtained along with the effects of the other variables like school- specific-infrastructure, social –indicators, policy-variables and the state-specific-factors: per-capita net-state- domestic-product, inequality-in-distribution-of-income.

Status: First Draft subject to revision

Most significant conclusion(s):

First of all, TCR corresponding GCS is high as compared to SCS&UT with respect to both primary and upper primary level. Thus, we are getting a less benefit from the employment of average bundle of input in a school that is located in a SCS&UT as compared to a school belonging to a GCS. Hence classification of the state’s in fact matter and on average, the maximum output producible from an input bundle by a school required within the region is not almost as high as what could be produced if the school could choose to locate anywhere in India. Secondly, the group efficiency for GCS is low as compared to SCS&UT both in case of primary and upper primary. Although both GCS primary and upper primary level are more close to meta but are but they possesses lower value of group efficiency, representing the higher degree of variability among them.

Thirdly, SCS&UT Upper- Primary has a high value of average group efficiency (0.98), but a relatively low value for average Grand efficiency (0.92) as compared to SCS&UT primary indicating that in this group almost all schools behave homogeneously and relatively poorly as compared to SCS&UT Primary!

Finally, coming to the determinants of technical efficiency score results of panel regression suggest that infrastructural variables, policy variables and school specific variables and also the state level macro aggregates are important in explaining TE scores. This observation is true for both the primary and upper primary level of education and for GCS and SCS& UT. The results are different from the earlier results that social and policy indicators are not significantly related to the efficiency improvement. TE score of both GCS and SCS&UT and for primary and upper primary level of education are significantly related to actual grant from Centre. Thus, the elasticity of TE with respect to central grant is higher for the SCS&UT as compared to the GCS both in case of primary and upper primary level of education. Also elasticity of TE score is higher for upper primary as compared to primary both in case of GCS and SCS&UT.

Work plan during 2014-17

 First of all, one possible way of extension of this research may be the estimation of input oriented measures of technical efficiency and the determinants of such efficiency score and a measure of input slack to assess the extent of inefficiency of the input usage.

The measurement of extent of efficiency of input utilization is very important one.

 Till date such an important issue has not been analyzed in the literature.

 Secondly, another important related extension is the estimation of the efficiency score for the all the schools located in Kolkata and around.  It needs Primary survey to get the data, which indeed is a bigger project. F. A study on ‘Education’ as a social security measure in the Tea Gardens of North Bengal and Northeast India Contributing Faculty Member: Dr. Imankalyan Lahiri, Department of International Relations, Age: 36 Years, Journal Publications – 08, Books: 02, Edited Books: 03, Conference Publications – 06, Total Citations – 10, Awarded and ongoing doctoral thesis guidance – 07, Submitted: 1, Awarded and ongoing Masters thesis guidance – Awarded: 10 Ongoing: 01.

Special Achievements

 Member, Board of Studies, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur.  Member, Expert Committee on Visit of Scholars to China, ICSSR,New Delhi  Member, Board of Studies, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math Howrah.  Executive Member, Hridaypur Nava Sopan, NGO for the marginalized Children.  Training on Research Methodology in Distance Education, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, 6-10 December, 2004, Organised by Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada  Attended Parliamentary Process Course on 22-24 August, 2012 at the Parliament of India, New Delhi  Mega Camp of NSS, Organised by Ministry of Youth Affairs,18-22 January, Government of India, Patna  Taught a Post Graduate Student Utthan Paul (a convict for Life imprisonment) at Alipore Central Jail, Kolkata registered under Netaji Subhas Open University.

 Provided Training to the W.B.C.S ( Exe) Probationary Officers at Administrative Training Institute(ATI), Government of West Bengal, Salt Lake in Public Administration.

International Conferences Organised:  Organised an International Conference on Regionalism, Sub-Regionalism and Connectivity: India’s Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, on 19-20 August, 2013 at Aizawl, Mizoram in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Council of Social Science Research and MAKAIAS.

 Organised an International Conference on Rabindranath Tagore and Internationalism: Tagore in the Contemporary World on 27-28 July, 2012 in collaboration with Ministry of Culture, Government of India  Organised an International Conference on India and Her Neighbours on 17-18 August, 2012 in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, MAKAIAS and ICSSR at Imphal, Manipur.  Organised a Two-Day National Seminar on The Challenge of Terrorism, 29-30th March, 2008 in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, at Kolkata.  Organised an International Conference on From Land Locked to Land Linked: Northeast India in BIMSTEC on 9-10 April, 2013 in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and ICSSR- NERC at Shillong.  Organised the Convention on International Relations on 17th -20th August, 2011 in collaboration with Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) and ICCR at Kolkata.  Convener, Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights, 12-13 August, 2005 in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India at Kolkata  Convener, International Seminar on Quality in Distance Education, 21-23rd November, 2005, Organised by NSOU in collaboration with Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Vancouver, Canada and UNESCO, Paris held in Kolkata.  Convener, Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights, 8-9 December, 2006 in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India at Kolkata

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects

Project Title Sponsoring Members Grant Value Duration Agency (Rs in Lakh) Media in India: Sensitizing the JU Research Grant Self 50,000/- 2 Years sentiments, JU Research Grant, Jadavpur University: Completed

A study on ‘Education’ as a social UPE-II Self 2 Lakhs 2 Years security measure in the Tea Gardens of Ongoing North Bengal and Northeast India- An application of Type II Diplomacy (Under Department of International Relations), University Grants Commission, University with Potential Excellence-II Programme

Relevant Publications in Last 5years

Books:  Malaysia’s Foreign Policy Under Dato Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, Academic Excellence, New Delhi, 2009. ISBN: 978-81-89901-97-4 Books Edited:  India’s Constructive Engagement in Asia and Around, published in collaboration with Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 2012.ISBN: 978-93-80525-81-5  The Challenge of Terrorism, published in collaboration with Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 2009.ISBN: 978-81-89901-99-8  Rabindranath Tagore: The Mthical Founder of a Universal Culture, Bharti Publications, New Delhi, 2013 ISBN:978-9381-212455 Occasional Paper:  Rationale of India’s Look East Policy, Published under Centre for Advanced Study Programme (CAS-I) programme of the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2012,

Articles published in the Edited Books/Proceedings:  “United States in Asia: The India and the China Factor”, in Debamitra Mitra (Ed.) Resurgent Asia in the 21st Century, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, 2008. ISBN: 978-81-314-2300-4  “India and Globalization: The US Factor”, in Debamitra Mitra (Ed.), Globalization and its Interface, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, 2009.ISBN: 81-314-1286-X  “Quality Assurance in Distance Education”, in Dr. Dhaneswar Harichandran (ed.), Open and Distance Learning: New Exploring Frontiers and Development, Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai, 2009. ISBN: 81-848-8314-5  “Swami Vivekananda and His Message to the World”, in Radharaman Chakrabarti and Imankalyan Lahiri( eds.),India’s Constructive Engagement in Asia and Around, published in collaboration with Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 2012. ISBN: 978-93-80525-81-5  “International Encounter of Civilizations in the 21st Century: A critical analysis of India-China Relations from the perspective of Rabindranath Tagore” in Imankalyan Lahiri Edited by Rabindranath Tagore: The Mthical Founder of a Universal Culture, Bharti Publications, New Delhi, 2013 ISBN:978-9381-212455 Articles Published in Journals:  “Moral Universalism ‘International Relations’ and beyond”, The Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, 2009.ISSN: 0973-5984 India-South Africa Relations in the 21st Century, The Diplomatist, Delhi, November, 2013

Relevant Patents and Policy Documents in Last 5years

 Report Prepared for the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India on Regionalism, Sub- Regionalism and Connectivity in the context of the North Eastern States of India, 2013

Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14

1. Title: A study on ‘Education’ as a social security measure in the Tea Gardens of North Bengal and Northeast India Authors: Dr. Imankalyan Lahiri , Sri Apurba Kanti Paik, Smt. Pritha Ghosh Abstract: The project primarily includes and detailed discussion on the Education as a social security measure in the Tea Gardens of the proposed geographical area and lists the following problems prevalent in recent years, to be overcome: (i) The redress of gross inequalities concerning lack of access or unequal access to primary education and training at all levels. (ii) Social, Caste-Based and Tribal Group based disparities (iii) Training of the teachers teaching in the Primary Schools of the proposed geographical Area. (iv) Poor health conditions, mainly mal nutrition of the children which is restricting them from the access to primary education. (v) Huge differences in the family lifestyles of the children, there is no similarity between the information received by the family members to convey that to their children (mainly through community television, cable channels) and their day to day lifestyles. It has been noticed while conducting the survey that the condition of primary education facility is miserable in the Tea Gardens, especially in the closed Tea Gardens. The following tea gardens have been visited during the first phase of this project: Mujani Tea Estate, Kumlai Tea Estate, Good hope Tea Estate, Ranichera Tea Estate, Bentguri Tea Estate, Sylee Tea Estate, Dam Dim Tea Estate, Toon Bari Tea Estate, Carron Tea Estate, Dekhlapara Tea Estate, Tasati Tea Estaten, However, some other tea estates have also been covered during the course of study. A questionnaire was prepared and based on that questions were asked to the stake holders, most of them were Tea Estate workers. A survey form was also prepared. Primarily, we have concentrated on the primary schools serving the mid-day meals. A total of 2000 workers who send their children to the primary schools have been interviewed. Mid-day meal is the major source of nutrition to the school goers to the above schools, so to study the primary education as the parameter; the condition regarding the supply of Mid-day meals became very important. The survey was conducted as follow: Total of 2000 feedbacks for quality of mid-day meal were taken from students in government schools of 12 tea estates in North Bengal. The estate-wise number of respondents is given in Table – 1 below. Table 1: Data Profile Tea Estates Surveyed Observations Bentguri Tea Estate 8 Carron Tea Estate 849 Dam Dim Tea Estate 78 Dekhlapara Tea Estate 23 Good hope Tea Estate 23 Kumlai Tea Estate 208 Mal Bazar Locality 64 Mujnai Tea Estate 131 Ranichera Tea Estate 4 Sylee Tea Estate 4 Tasti Tea Estate 581 Toon Bari Tea Estate 12

Most significant conclusion(s):

To check if there is a difference in satisfaction level of respondents between the four parameters, a chi-square test was done. The null and alternate hypothesis is given below:

Ho: There is no significant difference in satisfaction level between the different parameters (Null hypothesis)

Ho: There is a significant difference in satisfaction level between the different parameters (Alternate hypothesis)

The Frequency chart of different perception levels NUTRITIONAL REGULARITY QUALITY VALUE CLEANLINESS Very Un-Satisfied 200 504 316 266 Un-Satisfied 800 651 734 239 Partially Un-Satisfied 500 450 53 695 Satisfied 400 245 866 765 Very Satisfied 100 150 31 35 Difference between parameters in terms of satisfaction level

To test whether there is a significant difference between the satisfaction levels of various parameters viz. regularity, quality, nutritional value and cleanliness Chi-square test was performed.

The null hypothesis

H0: Satisfaction Level is independent of the parameters

H1: Satisfaction Level varies with the parameters

There is no significant difference between the satisfaction levels of various parameters. The satisfaction level of various parameters are significantly different. The expected outcome range table

NUTRITIONAL REGULARITY QUALITY VALUE CLEANLINESS Very Un- 1286 Satisfied 321.5 321.5 321.5 321.5 Un-Satisfied 606 606 606 606 2424 Partially Un- 1698 Satisfied 424.5 424.5 424.5 424.5 Satisfied 569 569 569 569 2276 Very Satisfied 79 79 79 79 316 Total 2000 2000 2000 2000 8000 Prob Value: p = 0 (There is a significant difference in satisfaction levels of various parameters)

Work plan during 2014-17

 Further survey is required in some Tea Estates of North Bengal.  During the last two years survey of the Tea Estates of Assam was not conducted due to the lack of time. It is now required  Man-power is now required to conduct the survey at Assam.  A web-site will be launched containing all the Survey Reports. G. School of International Relations and Social Sciences, Jadavpur University

Principal Investigator: Prof. Gautam Kumar Basu, Director, SIRSS, Jadavpur University

The School organized a National Seminar on 'South Asia: Global Order, Integration and Future Possibilities' during 19-20 March, 2013. We are planning to organize another national level seminar in March, 2014. Those who are engaged in the project are expected to submit their findings in the seminar. The appointed Project Fellow completed a project on 'Democratization and Human Security in Pakistan. She had completed her assignment in November, 2013.

H. The Problem of Equity in the Context of Education

Contributing Faculty Members 1. Ruby Sain, Professor, Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, Date of Birth: 3rd Feb 1956.

Publication JOURNALS i)Nutritional status of tribal children in Economic& political weekly(vol. Xxix. 18, 1994).page –1513. ii) The conquest of hunger in Social Welfare -(vol.xi, 7, 1993).page- 3- 6 . iii) Malnutrition among the rich in Social Welfare (vol-xxxiv, 2, 1987). Page –7-8. iv) Urban Planning Development and Applied Sociology in the Calcutta municipal gazette (vol- xcix, 16, 1982)page-2404-9.. v) A Social Analysis of Public Health in the New Millennium in Water, arsenic andenvironmental criss(2004) page-3 vi) ” Folk Religion : A Continuum ”, Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Number 3, March, 2010. vii) State of Nutrition—A Case Study of the Santal Tribe of West Bengal in Jadavpur University Journalof Sociology, (vol-1, No-1 , November2005).Page-87-90. viii) Women Development- A Dilemma in District Level Symposium On Women Development,21st Jan. 2006.Page –6-7. xii) “ Annunnata jatir Aandolone” ( Backward Class Movement) in “ Bharoter Samajik Aandolone” ( India’s Social Movement), edited by Krishnadas Chattopadhyya and Aniruddhya Choudhury, Levant Books , Kolkata ,,January 2010., Pages-128-135. xiv) Depression : A Social Problem of Elderly Population in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Number 2, February,2009, Page – 25-48. xv) Comments on Religion in Identity Politics in India and Europe by Michael Dusche, Sage Publications, New Delhi, India, 2010, Page 317-321. xvi) Folk Religion : A Continuum in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Number 3, March, 2010.. xvii) Leisure as a context for Depression Prevention in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, Vol. 4, Number 4, March, 2011. xix) Folk Religion in Bengal Progressive Publishers, Kolkata- (forthcoming,2014). xxx) “Religion and Environment, Environment and Religion :A Sociological Narrative of Interconnections” in Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, vol. 6, (February 2013).

Books

1.Right To Die---Slippery Slopes of Your Decision/ Evaluation Regarding the Paper may be considered as a final Decisionthical Dialectics” in “WOMEN SPEAK”,edited by Bholanath Ghosh and Subhabrata Dutta, Mittal Publication, New Delhi, 2008, Page -247-260. 2. Contemporary Social Problems in India –Vol I (edited) Reader’s Service, Kolkata,2008. 3. ‘The Sociology of Religion in India :Past , Present and Future’( edited) , Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, ,January, 2013. 4. Religion and Folk Religion in Modern and Postmodern Societies” in ‘The Sociology of Religion in India : Past , Present and Future’ ,edited by Ferdinanda Sardella and Ruby Sain , Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, January, 2013, pages – 84-104, 5. Depression Among the Elderly’, Serials Publications, New Delhi, July 2012. 6. White collar Worker’s Trade Union in Bengal 2005-2008: A Sociological Study, Rachayita, Kolkata, Newsletter Published : CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY Volume: 2 July, 2012 to March, 2013. Estd. 21st December, 20 Editor, Founding Editor of the first journal entitled “ Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology”of the Dept. of Sociology, Jadavpur University.

Relevant Projects in Last 10years including the Ongoing Projects Project supervised One project supervised as principal investigator. Title: food habits and nutritional status of muslim women - A case study of south west kolkata. The Project was funded by UGC,2005. - The second one entitled “working class movement in India with special reference to white collar employees’ role” has been completed on 1st July, 2007 (started on April,2006.)The Project was funded by JU under Prabhat Kar Memorial Endowment Fund .

Ongoing Project : I)Principal Investigator of ongoing Project ‘The Problem of Equity in the Context of Education ’, funded by UGC University with Potential for Excellence II under Social Science Activity Group ,(July 2012 to 31-3-2014).Rs.3,46,000.00

II) Principal Investigator of ongoing Project ‘ Social Justice and Empowerment for the Differently Abled Persons’funded by UGC University with Potential for Excellence II under Special Education and HEPSN Cell. ,(November 2012 to 31-3-2014).7,00000.00

III. UGC has selected 77 Professors in India for different projects and out of 77nos sanctioned a Project on COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIONS of Rs. 1.12 cr. (September 2013 –September 2014.)

5. Collaborative Programmes

1. ‘Go : India Project’ in collaboration with Prof .Ake Sander, Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion (LIR), University of Gothenburg,Sweden, 2011-2014. Kroner 1000000/per year.

2.Global Project on Religion among Young People in collaboration with Prof .Peter Nyes, Department of Religious Studies, University of Abo Academy,Finland, 2013-2015.

2.1.6 Ongoing Work under UPE II – 2012-14 *Seminar on ‘The Problem of Equity in the Context of Education”. * To complete Statistical works with SPSS *To complete analysis and hypotheses testing *To write a book on ‘The Problem of Equity in the Context of Education”. *To complete final editing & publication.