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Dr Chandan Basu Is Currently Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences, Netaji Subhas Open University. He Is Also No Dr Chandan Basu is currently Professor of History in the School of Social Sciences, Netaji Subhas Open University. He is also now the Director of the School of Social Sciences, NOSU. His areas of research are the development of left ideology and politics in West Bengal, the social history of modern Bengal and the gender studies. The Email ID of Dr Basu is [email protected]. Dr Basu’s publication details are given below: Publications Books 1. The Making of the Left Ideology in West Bengal: Culture, Political Economy, Revolution, 1947 – 1970. New Delhi: Abjjeet Publications, Delhi, 2009. (ISBN 978-93-80031-20-0) 2. Radical Ideology and ‘Controlled Politics’: CPI and the History of West Bengal, 1947-1964. Kolkata: Alphabet Books, 2015. (ISBN 978-81-929635-0-1) Edited Volume 1. Third Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture (Decolonization and the Crisis of Hindu Nationalism, 1947-52: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay). Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture, 2012. (Co-edited with Professor Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-93-82112-06-8 2. Fourth Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture (The End Game of the Raj and Subhas Bose’s Political Strategy, 1943-1954: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya). Kolkata, 2013. (Co-edited with Professor Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-93-82112- 08-2 3. Gender Sensitization, Women Empowerment and Distance Education: History, Society and Culture. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2014. (Co-edited with Professor Kajal De and Sri Srideep Mukherjee) ISBN 978-93-82112-12-9 4. Fifth Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture (Search for New Constituencies of Politics: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Freedom Struggle: Bidyut Chakrabarty). Kolkata: 2014. (Co-edited with Professor Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-93-82112-17-4. 5. Women, Violence and Law: An Intimate Interrogation – Open Distance Paradigm (Volume I). Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2015. (Co-edited with Professor Kajal De and Sri Srideep Mukherjee) ISBN 978-93-82112-24-2 6. Sixth Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture (Regional Reflections from Nation’s Margins: Identity Politics in Twentieth-Century Orissa: Jayanta Sengupta). Kolkata: 2016. (Co-edited with Professor Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-93-82112- 27-3. 7. Women, Violence and Law: An Intimate Interrogation – Open Distance Paradigm (Volume II). Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2016 (Co-edited with Professor Kajal De and Sri Srideep Mukherjee) ISBN 978-93-82112- 25-9 8. Gender, Culture, Politics: Bengal in the 20th Century – Open Distance Initiative. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2016. (Co-edited with Barnana Guha Thakurta (Banerjee) and Manosanta Biswas) ISBN 978-93-82112-32-7 9. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lectures Series – A Compilation (Volume I). Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2017(Co-edited with Professor Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-81-929635-1-8 10. Caste, Gender and Media: Significant Sociological Trends in India – An Open Distance Paradigm. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2017 (Co-edited with Srabanti Choudhuri) ISBN 978-93-82112-57-0 11. Teaching Social Sciences through Open and Distance Learning – A Twenty First Century Perspective (Co-edited with Debnarayan Modak) ISBN 978-93-82112-59- 5 Research Papers 1. The Agrarian Structure of West Bengal: Power, Profit and Politics, 1947-1977, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Institute of Historical Studies, Vol. XXXVII, April – September, 1997, ISSN 0033-5800. 2. Unemployment, Price Rise and the Question of Standard of Living: West Bengal, 1947-1970, Journal of History, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Vols. 22 & 23 (2004-05 & 2005-06), ISSN 0976-5476. 3. The Industrial Economy of West Bengal: Production and the Structure of Employment, 1947-70, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Institute of Historical Studies, Vol. XLV, October 2005 – March 2006, ISSN 0033-5800. 4. The Political Economy, Social Crisis and the Left Ideology: West Bengal, 1947- 70, History, Department of History, The University of Burdwan, Volume – VIII, 2006, ISBN 81-87259-52-3. 5. Writing History from Below: The Question of Research Methodology, University News, Vol. 46 No. 05, February 04-10, 2008, ISSN 0566-2257. 6. The Intelligentsia and the Left Ideology in West Bengal: Culture and Revolution, 1947-1970, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Institute of Historical Studies, Vol. XLVIII, Nos. 3 & 4, October 2008 – March, 2009, ISSN 0033-5800. 7. Interpreting Political-Ideological Formation of CPI in 1947-48: From ‘Revisionism’ to ‘Revolutionary Ideology’, The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, Institute of Historical Studies, Vol. LIII, Nos. 3 & 4, October 2013 – March, 2014, ISSN 0033-5800. 8. Ideological Crisis and Strategy Formulation: Politics of the CPI, 1947-1952, Journal of History, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Vol 30 (2014-15), ISSN 0976-5476. 9. Left Ideology and the Political Perspectives of West Bengal, 1952 – 1964, International Journal of Bengal Studies, 2013 – 2014, Vol. 4 – 5, ISSN 2277-7717 Chapters in Edited Volume 1. ‘Netaji Subhas Open University and its Study Centres – A Study of Evolving Relationships’ (co-authored with Srideep Mukherjee and Nilanjana Chatterjee) in Asit Baran Aich and Anirban Ghosh eds. Open and Distance Learning: Issues and Challenges. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2012. ISBN 978-93-82112-01- 3. 2. ‘Mapping Gender Sensitization, Women Empowerment and Distance Education: A Critique from Within’ in De, Kajal, Chandan Basu and Srideep Mukherjee, Eds., Gender Sensitization, Women Empowerment and Distance Education: History, Society and Culture. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University, 2014. ISBN 978-93- 82112-12-9. 3. ‘Studying History: The Frontiers of Ideology, Identity and ODL’ in Modak, Debnarayan and Chandan Basu, Eds., Teaching Social Sciences through Open and Distance Learning – A Twenty First Century Perspective. Kolkata: Netaji Subhas Open University. ISBN 978-93-82112-59-5 . .
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