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FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE/ CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Name: 2. Designation: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (STAGE II) 3. Date of Birth: 31/07/1979 4. Specializations: Social history of modern 5. Contact Information: Contact Address: 1D, Gobimda Mondal Road, : 700002 Email: [email protected]

6. Academic qualifications:

College/ University from which the Abbreviation of the degree degree was obtained

Presidency College, Kolkata B.A.

University of Calcutta, Kolkata M.A.

University of Calcutta, Kolkata Ph. D.

7. Academic Experience:

Assistant Professor, WBES, 2009-2016

8. Administrative Experience: 1. Member of administrative committees, Hooghly Mohsin College, Keshiary Government College and Bankura University 2. Member, Equivalence Committee, State Council of Higher Education

9. Research Interests:  Partition of 1947, migration and the experience of women in Bengal

10. Research Guidance / Supervision:

Number of researchers pursuing Ph. D: 4

11. Select list of publications:

a) Journals / Online Journals:

1. … Book Review, Partitioned Memories; Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Tyranny of Partition:Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in India,in Sephis e-magazine, Volume 3, Number 1, September 2006.

2. Book Review, Partitioned Lives: Reading Narendranath Mitra’s Jaiba in, Refugee Watch Online (a Co Publication of Refugee Watch), January 16, 2013. 3. Settling the Bazaar: the Colony Market and the Refugees, in Refugee Watch Online (a Co Publication of Refugee Watch), September 14, 2016.

b) Edited volumes:

1. Hooghly College 175, 175th Anniversary Commemorative Volume, 2011, Chinsurah, Hooghly.  Nari: Andare Bahire, 2014, Chinsurah, Hooghly.

c) Articles:

1. “The Partition, The Refugees and the Narrative of Violence”, in Chakraborty, Bhaskar ed. (guest editor), The Calcutta Historical Journal, Special Number, Volume XXIX, 2009, Kolkata. 2. “The Refugee Women: Bengal 1947-1964”, in Mukhopadhyay, S.K. ed.(Chief Editor) Academic Journal of Hooghly Mohsin College, Volume 04, Number 02, 2010, Chinsurah, Hooghly. 3. “Casting the Mould: Colonial Perceptions of the Indian Caste System”, in Karpha, Tapan Kumar ed. (Chief Editor), Academic Journal of Hooghly Mohsin College, Volume 09, Number 02, 2014, Chinsurah, Hooghly. 4. “ Revisiting the Partition: Myths, Memories, Mirrors”, in Lahiri, Debabrata ed. Victorian Journal of Arts,ABN Seal College, Volume 10, Issue II, July 2017, Cooch Behar. 5. “A Home of One’s Own: The Colony-women and Their World”, in Bhaumik, Mahuya and Chattopadhyay, Anjona (ed.), Partition: Diverse Dimensions, Rachayita (for Derozio Memorial College), 2016, Kolkata.

12. Fellowships: Junior Research Fellow, Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata; 2004-2007.

13. Invited lectures delivered:

1. ‘Unattached and Bound: the Permanent Liabilities of the Partition of India’, in a seminar on ‘Dynamics of Politics, Society and Culture…in Bengal: a Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspective, Department of History, University of Calcutta in collaboration with Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities on 30 March, 2016. 2. ‘The Experience of Women in the Partition of Bengal’, Postgraduate Department of English, Bethune College, Kolkata, 8 March, 2017. 3. ‘The Pangs of Birth: the Nation and its Partition’, Department of History, Government General Degree College, Manbazar-II, Purulia, 25 April, 2018. 4. Special lecture on the Partition of Bengal, 1947 at the Postgraduate Department of Bengali, Bethune College on 19 March, 2019.

14. Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Symposia:

1. ‘Partition and the Journey into a New Land’, in the national seminar on ‘Explorations in the Contemporary History of India’, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of History, University of Calcutta and Nehru Studies Centre, University of Calcutta, 28 February, 2009. 2. ‘Twice Displaced: the Refugee Women of Bengal’, at a workshop on ‘The Trope of Women and Children Displaced: Issues and Challenges’, The School of Women’s Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Refugee Studies, 19 March, 2012. 3. ‘A Home of One’s Own: the Colony-women and their World’, in the UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘Partition: its Trauma and Triumph’,Departments of English and History, Derozio Memorial College in collaboration with the Institute …of Historical Studies, Kolkata, 4 August, 2016. 4. ‘Revisiting the Partition: Myths, Memories, Mirrors’, in the UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘Interpretation of Memories: Literary, Psychological, Cultural and Historical Aspects’, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, in collaboration with the University of Calcutta, 1-2 December, 2016. 5. ‘Children of Charity: the State and the Refugees of Bengal’, in the international Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, 21-22 August, 2017. 6. ‘The Political Mobilisation of Refugees in West Bengal’ at a collaborative workshop on ‘Of Resistances and their Interfaces’, organised by Calcutta Research Group, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and West Bengal State University, Barasat, on 22 June, 2018 at West Bengal State University, Barasat.