Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
List of Occasional Papers
1. Asok Sen, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and his Elusive Milestones.
2. Bhabatosh Datta, Budget Deficit, Money Supply and Inflation.
3. Sunil Munsi, Railway Network Growth in Eastern India, 1854-1910.
4. Dipesh Chakraborty, Sasipada Banerjee: A Study in the Nature of the First Contact of the Bangali Bhadralok with the Working Classes of Bengal
5. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Reflections on Patterns of Regional Growth in India During the Period of British Rule.
6. Gautam Bhadra, Social Groups and Social Relations in the Town of Murshidabad, 1765-1793 .
7. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Contemporary Studies on the Indian Party System: An Evaluative Account.
8. Shibani Kinkar Chaube, Studies in the Constitution and Government of India: A Methodological Survey.
9. Nirmala Banerjee, Demand for Electricity.
10. Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, Comintern and the Colonial Question: The Decolonisation Controversy.
11. Dipesh Chakraborty, Communal Riots and Labour: Bengal’s Jute Mill Hands in the 1890s.
12. Nripendranath Bandyopadhyay, An Enquiry into the Causes of the Sharp Increase in Agricultural Labourers in North Bengal.
13. Arun Ghosh(comp), Research Notes and Documents Collected by the Late Pradyot Mukherjee
14. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Choice of Techniques and Technological Development in Underdeveloped Countries: A Critique of the Non-Neoclassical Orthodoxy .
15. Partha Chatterjee, On the Scientific Study of Politics: A Review of the Positivist Method .
16. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Trade and Empire in Awadh, 1765-1804.
17. Shibani Kinkar Chaube, The Ethnic and Social Bases of Indian Federalism.
18. Debes Roy, Bangla Sambad-Samayik Patre Joti Chinher Byabahar, 1818-1858 . (In Bengali)
19. Amalendu Guha, Medieval Northeast India: Polity Society and Economy, 1200-1750 A.D.
20. Barun De, The Colonialist Premise in the British Occupation of Bengal: Contributions by Clive and Pitt, the Elder, During 1757-59.
21. Partha Chatterjee, Thinking About Ideology: In Search of an Analytical Framework .
22. Ranajit Das Gupta, Material Conditions and Behavioural Aspects of Calcutta Working Class 1875- 1899. 23. A.P. Rao, An Essay on John Rawls’ Theory of Distributive Justice and its Relevance to the Third World .
24. Keya Deb, Impact of Plantations on the Agrarian Structure of the Brahmaputra Valley .
25. Amalendu Guha, Assamese Peasant society in the Late Nineteenth Century: Structure and Trend.
26. Indrani Ray , Of Trade and Traders in Seventeenth Century India: An Unpublished French Memoir by George Roques.
27. Abanti Kundu, Pattern of Organisation in Handloom Industry of West Bengal .
28. Subhendu Dasgupta, Foreign Technical Collaboration in Indian Business Houses 1957-1976: A Quantitative Analysis.
29. Indrani Ray, The Multiple Faces of the Early 18th Century Indian Merchants .
30. Partha Chatterjee, Agrarian Relations and Politics in Bengal: Some Considerations on the Making of the Tenancy Act Amendment, 1928.
31. N. Krishnaji, Cobb-Douglas Agricultural Production Functions: A Sceptical Note.
32. Hiteshranjan Sanyal, Rarher Itihas Prasange Kayekti Katha. (In Bengali)
33. Subhendu Dasgupta, Continuity of Linkages: A Study of Transnational Corporations in the Power Sector of India, 1947-1967 .
34. Sunil Munsi, An Enquiry into the Nature of Frontier Settlements: Case Study of Hill Darjeeling.
35. Iqtidar Alam Khan, Coming of Gunpowder and the Response of Indian Polity.
36. Keya Dasgupta, The Formation of a Transport Network in an Export-Oriented Economy: Brahmaputra Valley, 1839-1914 .
37. Gyanendra Pandey , Economic Dislocation in Nineteenth Century Eastern UP: Some Implications of the Decline of Artisanal Industry in Colonial India .
38. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Merchants and Colonialism .
39. Gyanendra Pandey, Rallying Round the Cow: Sectarian Strife in the Bhojpur Region, c.1888- 1917.
40. Dipesh Chakraborty and Ranajit Das Gupta, Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views.
41. Abanti Routh, Determinants of Territorial Specialisation in the Cotton Handloom Industry in Early Colonial Bengal .
42. Javeed Alam, Dialectics of Capitalist Transformation and National Crystallization: Some Notes on the National Question in India.
43. Amalendu Guha, A Historiographical Perspective for North-east India.
44. Saugata Mukherji, The Jute Industry in Eastern India during the Depression and its Influence on the Economy of the Region.
45. Amalendu Guha, The Indian National Question: A Conceptual Frame . 46. N. Krishnaji, Family Size, Levels of Living and Differential Mortality .
47. Partha Chatterjee, More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry .
48. Debes Roy, Pre-British Bengali Prose: Search for Sources .
49. Sanjeeb Mukherjee, The Indian Big Bourgeoisie and the State: An Exploratory Analysis
50. Amalendu Guha, More About Parsi Seths: Their Roots, Entrepreneurship and Comprador Role, 1650-1918.
51. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Money and Credit as Areas of Conflict in Colonial India.
52. Hitesranjan Sanyal, Literary Sources of Medieval Bengali History: A Study of a Few Mangalkavya Texts.
53. Saugata Mukherji, Agricultural Marketing in a Colonial Setting: An Introduction .
54. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Towards a Correct Reading of Lenin’s Theory of Imperialism.
55. Pranati Chaudhuri, Refugees in West Bengal: A Study of the Growth and Distribution of Refugee Settlements within the CMD.
56. Parthasarathi Banerjee, Induction of Computers in India.
57. Gyanendra Pandey, Encounters and Calamities: The History of a North Indian Qasba in the Nineteenth Century
58. N. Krishnaji, Poverty and Fertility: A Review of Theory and Evidence.
59. Partha Chatterjee, The Colonial State and Peasant Resistance in Bengal 1920-1947.
60. Asok Sen and Alok Banerjee, Calcutta Metropolitan District in the Urban Context of West Bengal (1651-1981).
61. Sanjeeb Mukherjee, The Bourgeoisie and Politics in West Bengal .
62. Asok Sen and Alok Banerjee, Migrants in the Calcutta Metropolitan District 1951-1971.
63. Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya, The Growth of the Machine Tool Industry in India.
64. Amalendu Guha, The Ahom Political System: An Enquiry into the State Formation Process in Medieval Assam 1228-1714.
65. Asok Sen, The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism .
66. Asok Sen, Weber, Gramsci and Capitalism .
67. Amalendu Guha, Neo-Vaishnavism to Insurgency: Peasant Uprisings and the Crisis of Feudalism in late 18th century Assam
68. Sunil Kumar Munsi, Some Observations on the Trend of Urbanisation in West Bengal.
69. Gyanendra Pandey, The Congress and the Nation, c. 1917-1947 .
70. Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Price of Rice and Land Transfer in the West Bengal Districts (1905-6 - 1941-42)
71. Nirmala Banerjee, Women and Industrialisation in Developing Countries 72. Keya Dasgupta and Amalendu Guha, The 1983 Assembly Poll in Assam: An Analysis of its Background and Implications.
73. Ramachandra Guha, Eco-Development Debate: A Critical Review .
74. Ruma Chatterjee, Cotton Handloom Manufactures of Bengal 1870-1921.
75. Saugata Mukherji, Agrarian Class Formation in Modern Bengal 1931-1951
76. Hiteshranjan Sanyal, Trends of Change in the Bhakti Movement in Bengal .
77. Ramachandra Guha, Forestry and Social Protest in British Kumaun, c 1823-1921 .
78. Javeed Alam, Class Community and Nationality Formation: A Theoretical Exploration Through Two Case Studies.
79. Bhubanes Misra, The Cotton Mill Industry of Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century.
80. Ramkrishna Chatterjee, Christian Missionaries and Labour Migration to Assam Tea Gardens in Colonial Times
81. Bimal Kirshan Matilal, Scepticism and Mysticism in Indian Philosophy .
82. Keya Dasgupta, Wastelands Colonization Policy and the Settlement of Ex-Plantation Labour in the Brahmaputra Valley: A Study in Historical Perspective.
83. Siddhartha Guha Ray, Tram workers of Calcutta: Some Reflections on Unionisation and Political Experience 1920 to 1930.
84. Amalendu Guha, The Decline of the Ahom Kingdom of Assam: 1765-1826.
85. Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Indian National Congress and the Indian Bourgeoisie: Liaquat Ali Khan’s Budget of 1947-48.
86. Uttam Kr. Bhattacharya, Engineering Research Institute, Technology Development and Economic Growth: A Case Study .
87. Debdas Banerjee Unevenness of Development in a National Economy: A Case Study , of West Bengal Industries.
88. Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, An Early British Government Initiative in the Genesis of Indian Planning.
89. Satyajit Dasgupta, The Tebhaga Movement in Bengal, 1946-47 .
90. M.S.S. Pandian, Peasants, Natural Resource Use and State Intervention in Manchilnadu, c.1850- 1940
91. N. Krishnaji, Poverty and Sex Ratio: Some Data and Speculations.
92. Gerard Heuze, Dhanbad: Exception or Model?
93. Barun De, Nationalism as a Binding Force: The Dialectics of the Historical Course of Nationalism - 1.
94. Partha Chatterjee, The Nationalist Resolution of the Women’s Question . 95. Arun Kumar Patnaik, Concept of Commonsense: Towards a theory of Gramsci’s Subaltern Consciousness in Hegemony Processes.
96. Govinda Chandra Rath, Industrialization to Indigenization: A Study on Cultural Reformulation of a Tribe in Orissa.
97. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Technological Self-reliance and Underdevelopment.
98. Debdas Banerjee, An Appraisal of the Indo-British Commodity Trade: 1871-1887 .
99. Sanjukta Das, Feminist Literary Criticism: A New Look at Old Things .
100. Arun Kumar Patnaik, The Local State and Rural Policies: A Study of Digapahandi Block 1957- 1983.
101. Debdas Banerjee, Some Quantitative Aspects of the Changes in Manufacture in India 1880- 1900.
102. N. Krishnaji, Agricultural Price Policy: A Survey with Reference to the Indian Foodgrain Economy.
103. Rila Mukherjee, The Story of Kassimbazar: Silk Merchants and Commerce in the Eighteenth Century.
104. Gautam Bhadra, The Mentality of Subalternity : Kantanama or Rajdharma.
105. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Keynes, India and Gold Standard .
106. Himani Bannerjee, Representation and Class Politics in the theatre of Utpal Dutt .
107. Anjan Ghosh, The Stricture of Structure or the Appropriation of Anthropological Theory .
108. Sudipta Kaviraj, Bankimchandra and the Making of Nationalist Consciousness I: Signs of Madness.
109. Sudipta Kaviraj, Bankimchandra and the Making of Nationalist Consciousness II: The Self Ironical Tradition .
110. Sudipta Kaviraj, Bankimchandra and the Making of Nationalist Consciousness III: A Critique of Colonial Reason .
111. Partha Chatterjee, Caste and Subaltern Consciousness .
112. Asok Sen, The Limits of “Economic Man ”.
113. Indrani Ghosh, Technological Diffusion : A Study Based on Indian Agriculture .
114. Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Trends in Peasant Indebtedness and Dispossession: WestBengal Districts (1901-41).
115. Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Peasant Indebtedness and Dispossession: A Study in the Registered Debt and Sale of Land in West Bengal Districts (1901-41).
116. Barun De, Problems of the Study of Indian History: With Particular Reference to Interpretation of the 18th Century .
117. Amalendu Guha, The Decline of India’s Cotton Handicrafts: 1800-1905 a Quantitative Macro- Study. 118. Arun Kumar Patnaik, Reification of Intellect .
119. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Public Sector Industry and the Political Economy of Indian Development.
120. Prabirjit Sarkar, Is there any Transfer Burden of Debt ?
121. Ranabir Samaddar, New Technology in Indian Newspaper Industry: A Critical Appraisal.
122. Rila Mukherjee, The Chandernagore - Jugdia Letters: A Look at the FEIC’s East Bengal Trade from 1750 to 1753 .
123. Saugata Mukherji, Some Aspects of the Policy on Technical and Industrial Education in India under Colonial Rule: From Late Nineteenth Century to Independence.
124. Debdas Banerjee, Silk Production in West Bengal: A Case of Stunted Commercialization.
125. Amitav Ghosh, The Slave of Ms. H.6.
126. Ranabir Samaddar, The Lengthening Shadow of New Technology Over The Institutionalised Process of Wage Settlement.
127. Asok Sen, The Bindery Workers of Daftaripara-1: Forms and Fragments.
128. Asok Sen, The Bindery Workers of Daftaripara-2: Their Own Life-stories.
129. Tapti Roy, Sepoy Mutiny and the Uprising of 1857 in Bundelkhand .
130. Prabirjit Sarkar, Theories of Worsening North-South Terms of Trade from Prebisch-Singer to Emmanuel: A Survey and Synthesis
131. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, On the Political Economy of the Choice of a Trade Regime .
132. Debes Roy, Bengali Novel: Readings From Old Narrative Literature.
133. Nirmala Banerjee, Poverty. Work and Gender in Urban India .
134. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Land Tax, Property Rights and Peasant Insecurity in Colonial India.
135. Barun De, Some Socio-Political Implications of the Cognomen Tipu Sultan .
136. Debdas Banerjee, Development and Women: Some Experience of the Mulberry Silk Productions in West Bengal.
137. Debdas Banerjee, Regional Specialization and Market Convergence Revisited: India’sInternal Commodity Trade, c.1850-1920.
138. Asok Sen, Life and Labour in a Squatters’ Colony .
139. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, “Rent-Seeking”, The New Political Economy and the Negation of Policies,
140. Manjusri Bandyopadhyay and Pranab K. Das , A Study in Indian Stock Price and Behaviour: January 1991 - May 1993.
141. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Fluctuations in Global Economy: Income Debt and Terms of Trade Process.
142. Debdas Banerjee , Institutional Constraints on Rural Development: An Exploratory Study of Silk Weaving in West Bengal. 143. Prabirjit Sarkar, Longterm Behaviour of Terms of Trade of Primary Products vis-à-vis Manufactures: A Critical Review of Recent Debate.
144. Tarun Kabiraj, Intellectual Property Rights, TRIPs and Technology Transfer.
145. Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Making Popular Culture From Above: Leisure in Nairobi 1940-60.
146. Preben Kaarsholm, Si Ye Pambili - Which Way Forward? Urban Development, Culture and Politics in Bulawayo.
147. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Political Economy: A Discourse of Mastery or an Apparatus of Dissent?
148. Nirmala Banerjee and Millie Nihila, Business Organisations in Leather and Industries of Calcutta and Madras.
149. Debdas Banerjee, Industrial Programme in West Bengal: Policy and the Problems – Some Lessons from the Newly Industrializing Countries in Asia.
150. Debes Roy, Chaitanya Akhyan. (In Bengali)
151. Prabirjit Sarkar, Indian Economy Under the New Regime: An Analysis of Trade,
Price and Exchange Rate Behaviour Since 1991.
152. Manjusri Bandyopadhyay and Pranab K. Das, Fundamentals and Share Prices in the Drugs and Medicines Industry.
153. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Traversing Past and Present in the Victoria Memorial .
154. Pranab Kumar Das, Stochastic Rationing of Credit and Economic Activities in a Model of Monopolistic Competition.
155. Debdas Banerjee, Rural Informal Credit Institution in South Asia: An Unresolved Agrarian Question.
156. Dipankar Dasgupta, New Growth Theory: An Expository Device .
157. Meenakshi Rajeev, Money and Markets .
158. Prabirjit Sarkar, India’s Foreign Trade and Real Exchange Rate Behaviour: An Analysis of Monthly Data since January 1980.
159. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Archaeology As Evidence: Looking Back from the Ayodhya Debate.
160. Nita Kumar, The Modernization of Sanskrit Education .
161. Saugata Mukherji and Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Growth and Institutional Change in West Bengal Agriculture 1901-1988.
162. Meenakshi Rajeev, Monetary Trade, Market Specialization and Strategic Behaviour.
163. Prabirjit Sarkar, Are Poor Countries Coming Closer to the Rich ?
164. Samaresh Bardhan, Electronics Industry in India : Profitability and Growth, 1990-94.
165. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Economic Theory and Economic Organization I: A Critique of the Anglo- American Theory of Firm Structure. 166. Debdas Banerjee, The Political Economy of Imbalances Across Indian States: Some Observations on 50 Years of Independence .
167. Nita Kumar, Children and the Partition History for Citizenship .
168. Byasdeb Dasgupta, A Review of Financial Reform in Developing Economics – With
Reference to the East and South East Asia.
169. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Globalizing India: A Critique of an Agenda for Financiers and Speculators.
170. Prabirjit Sarkar, Uneven Development or Convergence?
171. Debdas Banerjee, Processes of Informalisation in Rural Non-Farm Sector: Silk Production in West Bengal, Institution and Organisation .
172. K.T. Rammohan, Kerala Model, Labour and Technological Change: A View from Rural Production Sites.
173. Samaresh Bardhan, Financing Pattern of Indian Firms: Textile Industry.
174. Indrajit Mallick, Sugata Marjit and Hamid Beladi, Signalling and Entry Deterrence in Banking.
175. Keya Dasgupta, Genesis of a Neighbourhood: The Mapping of Bhabanipur.
176. Anirban Das, Not for a Place of Her Own: Beyond the Topos of Man. (March 2009)
177. Indrajit Mallick, Reconstructing Corporate Business: History Using Accounting Data . (June 2009)
178. Anjan Ghosh, Contested Spaces: Puja and its Publics in Kolkata . (October 2009)
179. Mollica Dastider, Liberal Dilemma with Difference: Muslims in a Western Democracy . (May 2010)
180. Sohini Guha, The Politics of Low Caste Empowerment in North India: Notes on the State/Society Distinction . (March 2014)
181. Srabanti Bhattacharya, The Right to Water: Juxtaposing Normative Conceptualization to Lived Experiences and Perceptions of the Urban Poor . (March 2014)
182. Shilp Shikha Singh, Countering Violation: Resistance, Articulation and Politics . (March 2014)
183. Samarpita Mitra, At the Altar of Ba ńgalak mī: Literary Community (Sāhitya Sam āj) and Literary Practice (S āhitya Seb ā) in Swadeshi Bengal . (March 2014)
184. Rohan Deb Roy, Side-effects of Empire: ’Pure’ Quinine, Insect-pests and Malaria Maladies in British India, 1890-1910 . (March 2014)
185. Suhit K. Sen, Party and Government: The Sources of Legitimacy . (March 2014)
186. Madhumita Sengupta, Of Alienations State, Temples and the Elite in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century Assam . (March 2014)