6. Research and Teaching Interests

Curriculum Vita

Arup Majumder, M.Phil, Ph.D

1. Name: Arup Majumder 2. Designation: Research Associate 3. Specialization: Social Cultural anthropology 4. Contract Information: School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata- 700032 E-mail: [email protected] (Official)/ [email protected] (Personal) Mobile Phone no. 8777672167

5. Academic Qualification College/ University from which the degree was Abbreviations of the obtained (Year) degree University of Calcutta (2005) B.Sc (Hons.)in Anthropology Vidyasagar University (2007) M.Sc in Anthropology NSOU (2009) M.Phil in Education IGNOU (2010) B.Ed NSOU (2013) M.S.W Vidyasagar University (2015) Ph.D in Anthropology Jadavpur University (2018) Introduction to Linguistics

6. Research and Teaching Interests Society, Anthropological thought and theories, Social institutions, Social organisations, Gender and School Education, Language Acquisition, Tribal Education, Language endangerment, Documentation of culture and languages , Development caused displacement, Sustainable development, Social impact assessments, linguistic anthropology etc

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1 7. Dissertation/ Thesis

M.Sc. in Anthropology: Changes in socio- economic condition of landloser families in a village in Paschim Midnapore: an anthropological assessment of development caused displacement, Guided by Prof. Abhijit Guha, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

M.S.W: Socio- economic and Health Condition of the Aged People in an Urban setting: A Study in Howrah Municipality, West Bengal, Guided by Prof. Abhijit Guha, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

M.A in Education: Effect of Student Teacher Ratio on School Management at Primary Level in North 24 Parganas , Guided by Dr. Subir Nag, Sattapriya College of Education, Salt Lake, Kolkata.

M.Phil. THESIS A Consequences of Land Acquisition on School Education Among the Members Peasants Families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur, Guided by Prof. Abhijit Guha, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

Ph.D THESIS Title: Socio-economic Impact of Land Acquisition for Industries among the Peasants of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal: A Test Case. Guided by Prof. Abhijit Guha, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

8. Research, Field work and Teaching Experience  Research and fieldwork experiences gained during my M.Sc, M.A, M.S.W, M.Phil and Ph.D. Work.  Fieldwork for Language data and Socio-economic data collection (Kurmlai from Purulia, West Bengal, Toto from Alipurduar, West Bengal, Koda/ Kora from Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal),  Fieldwork investigation for Language data and Socio-economic data Collection, Lodha and Mahali, Jhargram, West Bengal.

9. Publications

A. BOOKS:

1. Majumder, A. 2016. Consequences of Land Acquisition on School Education: A micro level study from South East Bengal (ISBN: 978-3-659-87385-0). Lumbert Academic Publishing, Germany.

2. Majumder, A. 2016. Consequences of Student Teacher Ratio on Primary Education: A Study Based on Implementation of Right to Education Act. 2009, India (ISBN: 978-3-659-89386-5). Lumbert Academic Publishing, Germany.

3. Mondal, P and Majumder, A. 2016. Socio- economic Problems of Primary Student Dropout in West Bengal: A Study from Indo- Bangladesh Border Region, (ISBN: 978-3-659-96351-3), Lumbert Academic Publishing, Germany.

B. Edited Books/ Dictionary/ Journal

1. Saha, A, Lahiri, B & Majumder, A. (2018). A Questionnaire Developed for Conducting Fieldwork on Endangered and Indigenous Languages, Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics (Supplementry issue), Vol. 2 No. 3.

2. Dictionary of Kurmali Language (in press), Jadavpur University press, 2018.

3. Dictionary of Toto Language (in Press), Jadavpur University press, 2018

4. Dictionary of Koda Language (in Press), Jadavpur University press, 2018

C. Journal Publications

 1. A. Majumder, A. Guha, A decade after land acquisition in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, Journal of Indian Anthropological society,sec.43: 121-133, 2008.

 2.A. Majumder, A. Guha, The impact of land acquisition on joint- extended family among the peasants of Gokulpur, Passchim Medinipur, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, sec. 44: 69- 75, 2009.

 3. A. Majumder, Landlessness to Kinlessness: A case Study of Peasant Joint Families under the Impact of Land Acquisition, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, Sec. 46: 239- 249, 2011.

 4. A. Majumder, Cognitive Performance of Disease and dimensions of Ethnomedicine among the tribal people of Patamda, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, International Journal of Innovative Research & Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 3: Jan. 2013.

 5. P. Mondal, A. Majumder, The Socio- economic Problems of the School Dropout among the Primary Level Ramnagar area of Gaighata Block, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Asian Journal of Research in social Sciences and humanities, Vol. 3 Issue. 3, 154-163, March 2013 .

 6. A. Majumder, P. Mondal, What are the Causes of Dropout among the Primary School Children? A Study on the Indo- Bangladesh Border Region, International Journal of Innovative Research & Studies, Vol. 2, Issue.2, 1-9, February 2013.

 7. A. Majumder, The Socio- economic effects of land acquisition in Paschim Medinipur; West Bengal: An Anthropological Perspectives, Radix International Journal of Research in Social Science, vol. 2 , Issue. 2, Feb-2013.

 8. S. Thangamayan, M. Thiruneelakandan, A. Majumder, Banking Sector Liberalization in India, International Journal of Innovative Research & Studies Vol. 2, Issue. 3, 1-10, March 2013.

 9. N. Sarkar, S.K.Dutta, A. Majumder, S.K. Biswas, Trends in Changing Pattern of Productivity of Agricultural Land in the District of Burdwan of West Bengal - A Case Study, International Journal of Innovative Research & Studies, Vol. 2, Issue. 3: 1-11, March 2013.

 10. A. Majumder, Effect of land acquisition and displacement on education: An anthropological study, International Journal of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. 1 (1): 45-56, August 2013.

 11. A. Majumder, The Impact of Land Acquisition on the Occupations of the Landloser Families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur: A Preliminary Enquiry on the Trends of Change, Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, Vol. 3 , No. 10: 34-46, 2013.

 12.A. Majumder, The impact of Land Acquisition on Kinship and agricultural cooperation among the Landloser families of Gokulpur Paschim Medinipur Medinipur, A Preliminary Enquiry on the trends of Change, Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary, Vol. 1, Issue. 12: 119- 132, August, 2013.

 13. A. Majumder, Development-Induced Displacement: A Gender Perspective, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 4, Issue IV, 1-11, 2013.

 14. S. Panda, A. Majumder, A Review of Rural Development Programmes in India International Journal of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. 1, no.2: 37-40, 2013.

 15. S. Panda, A. Majumder, The pattern of Disease and Treatment among the Santal and Munda Tribes in a Village of Jhargram Block, Paschim Medinipur: An Anthropological Observation, International Journal of Multidiciplinary Management Studies, Vol. 3 , No. 11 November.2013.

 16. A. Majumder, Impact of Land Acquisition on Women: An Anthropological Case Study on Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur, International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2014.

 17. A. Majumder, Development, Displacement and School Education: A Case Study from a District of West Bengal, Education: Journal of Education and Behavioural Science, Vol. VII, 2016

 18. A. Majumder, Effect of Student Teacher Ratio on Class Time Management in Primary Schools of West Bengal: A Study based on Implementation of RTE, 2009, India, North Bengal Anthropologist, Vol. 4: 76-82, 2016.

 19. A. Majumder, Role of Gender Towards Income Generation: An Impact Analysis of Land Acquisition in West Bengal, India, Sociology Study, Vol. 6, No. 10, 2016 . doi: 10.17265/2159-5526/2016.10.

 20. A. Majumder, Ethno-Medical Practices among the Bhumij of Jharkhand, India, BAOJ Medical and Nursing, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017.

 21. A. Majumder, Problems of Tribal Education in India: A Study from a Village of Jharkhand, India, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Analysis Vol. 1, Issue 2, Page no. pp. 98- 103, 2017.

 22. A. Majumder, Kurmali Kinship Terms and Its Morphology: An Anthropo- Linguistic Study, Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 38-48, 2018

 23. Majumder, A. (2018). Clans in Koda: An Anthropo-Linguistic Observations, North Bengal Anthropologists (in press)

 24. Majumder, A. (2018). Role of Socio-economic Variables in Language Shift: A Case Study from West Bengal, Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 40-48.

 25. Majumder, A. (2018). Questionnaire on Anthropo-linguistic Aspects, Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics(Suplimentary Issue), Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 39-52,

 26. Majumder, A. (2018). Questionnaire for Geolinguistic Surveys: Demographic profiling of the language community, Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics(Suplimentary Issue), Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 53-58  27. Majumder, A (2019). Effect of Land Acquisition on Social Structure: An Ethnographic Study of a Village in Paschim Medinipur District, West Bengal, South Asian Anthropologist in March Issue.

 28. Majumder, A (2019). An Anthropo-Linguistic Outlook of Koda Clan. International Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (ISSN: 2383-0514)

 29. Majumder, A & Lahiri, B (2019). An Anthropo- Linguistic Study on Kinship Terms of Kurmali, Journal of Indian Anthropological society (accepted for forthcoming issues)

D. Edited Book Chapter

1. A.Majumder, 2014. Understanding the Consequences of Land Acquisition among Female Peasants: A Case Study from South West Bengal. In the Development, Environment and Sustainable Livelihood. (Edited by Soumyendra Kishore Datta and Atanu Sengupta) Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. Pp. 66- 80

2. A. Majumder, 2015. Landloser: After Two Decades. In the Urbanization, Environmental Change and Sustainable Development. (Edited by Srabanti Bose and Jantu Mandal) Damodor Publisher, Badwan, West Bengal.

3. A.Majumder, 2015, Effect of Land Acquisition on Social Structure: An Ethnographic Study of a Village in India. (Accepted by CSSR, IUB, Dhaka, Bangladesh), 2015.

4. A. Majumder, 2018, Language and culture: A Linguistic Anthropological Study of Koda, in Indian Languages and Cultures: A Debate. (Edited by Kailash Pattanaik and Arimardhan Kumar Tripati), The Marginalized Publication, Delhi. (ISBN: 978-93-87441-31-6)

5. A. Majumder, 2019, Development caused Displacement on Peasants Livelihood: A Case Study from a Village ofWest Bengal. (edited by Utpal Kumar De and Manoranjan Pal), Levant Books, Kolkata, pp 335-347

E. Conference Proceedings

1. A. Majumder, 2016, Effect of Pupil Teacher Ratio on Education Time Management in Primary Schools of West Bengal, India (A Study based on Implementation of Right to

Education Act. 2009, India), Centre for Pedagogy (CP), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), 2-9. 2. A. Majumder & D. Piplai Mondal, 2018, Role of Socio- economic Variables in Language Shift with Special Reference to Kurmali and Toto Communities of West Bengal. (Forth coming)

3. A. Majumder & B. Lahiri, 2018. An Anthropo- Linguistic Study on Kinship Terms of Kurmali (Forth coming)

10. Seminar Presentations/ Participations (in India)

1. UGC sponsored Seminar on “Approaching Development: Theory and Practice” 28- 29th March 2007, Dept of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University.

2. 39th annual conference and national seminar (I.A.S), 2007, Title: “The Impact of Land acquisition on Joint/extended family among the Peasants of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur”.

3. 5tn National seminar, Dept of Anthropology, University of North Bengal, 2008, Title: “Socio- economic effect of land acquisition in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal”.

4. Indian Anthropological Congress-2010, Title: Impact of Land Acquisition on Occupational Pattern Among the Landloser families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur.

5. International Seminar on “Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education and Research across the Disciplines” VURSA, Vidyasagar University. 2010, Title: Impact of Land Acquisition on School Education among the Children of peasant Families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur.

6. National Seminar (Golden Jubilee Celebration, Dept. of Anthropology, Ranchi University, Ranchi & Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata ), Ranchi, Jharkhand, Dec.2010, Title: How Land Acquisition Jeopardized Kinship Relations in a Village in West Bengal: A Case Study.

7. Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray Memoriral (150 Years) Lectures on ‘Research Ethics for Young Researchers’ & ‘The Physical Growth of Children and Young. Does SES Matter?’, on 8th December 2012, Vidyasagar University Research Scholars’ Associations (VURSA), Vidyasagar University, Medinipur- 721102, West Bengal, India.

8. National Seminar (INCAA), Lucknow University, Lucknow, Feb. 2012, Title: The Impact of Land Acquisition on Kinship and Agricultural Cooperation Among the Landloser Families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur: A Preliminary Enquiry on the Trends of Change

9. National Seminar, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, W.B, March, 2012, Title: The Impact of Land acquisition on Female Members Among the Landloser Peasants of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal

10. Two day Collaborative seminar on “Anthropologists and Filmmakers view Sikkim” on 28th and 29th August, 2012 at Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University.

11. National Seminar on Tribal and Their Environment: Issues Challenges and Opportunities organized by The Institute of Social Research and Applied Anthropology, Bidisa, during 8th & 9th December 2012, Title: Development Induced Displacement: A Gender Perspective.

12. International Seminar “ECONference-2013” on “Development, Environment and Sustainable Livelihood” organized by Dept. of Economics, University of Burdwan, on January 18-19, 2013, Title: Understanding the Consequences of Land Acquisition Among the Peasant Female Members of Landloser, A Case Study from South West Bengal. 13. U.G.C Sponsored National Seminar on “Economic Development- Contemporary Issues” Organized by Dept. of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, during 20-21st March, 2013. Title: The Impact of Land Acquisition on Women and Children of the Land loser families of Gokulpur, Paschim Medinipur.

14. U.G.C Sponsored National Seminar on “Development for Communities and Country: Role of Anthropology” Organised by Dept. of Anthropology, Mahishadal Girls College, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, during 22nd -23rd March, 2013. Title: Industries and Development: An Anthropological Outlook.

15. U.G.C Sponsored National Seminar on “Economic Development- Contemporary Issues” Organised by Dept. of Economics with Rural Development, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, during 13-14th January, 2014. Title: The Impact of Land Acquisition on Women: An Anthropological View.

16. U.G.C Sponsored National Seminar on “ Dimensions of Urbanization, Environment Change and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries” Organised by Dept. of Geography, Dr. Bhupendra Nath Dutta Smroti Mahavidyalay, Hatgobindapur, Burdwan (In collaboration with Chandrapur College, Chandrapur, Burdwan), Burdwan, West Bengal on 17 & 18 February, 2014. Title: Landloser: After Two Decades.

17. 21st West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress- 2014, organized by The University of Burdwan and West Bengal State Science and Technology Council and Department, Government of West Bengal, on 20- 21 February, 2014. Title: Socio-Economic Impact of Land Acquisition: An Anthropological Outlook.

18. UGC- Sponsored National Seminar on Anthropology in the 21st Century, The Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India, 25th- 26th

March, 2014. Title of the paper: Land Use Change and its Sway on Socio-Economic and Cultural Environment: An Anthropological Vision.

19. National Seminar on Recent Trends in Anthropological Research, Department of Anthropology, West Bengal State University, West Bengal, India, 28th March 2014. Title of the Paper: Land Acquisition: A Gender Perspective.

20. ICHR- Sponsored National Seminar on Issues in Environmental History in India: Pre Colonial and ColoniaTimes, Dept. Of History, Vidyasagar University, Medinipur, West Bengal, September 16-17, 2014. Title of the Paper: Impact of Land Acquisition on Socio- Economic Environment: A Gender Perspective.

21. 22nd West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress- 2015, organized by West Bengal State Science and Technology Council and Department, Government of West Bengal and University of North Bengal on 28 February- 1st March, 2015. Title of the Paper: Social Impact Assessment of Land Acquisition: A case Study from South West Bengal .

22. UGC- Sponsored Seminar on Fieldwork and Legacy of T.C. Das organised by the Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal in collaboration with Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata during 11-12 March, 2015.

23. UGC- Sponsored National Seminar on New Paradigms in Anthropological Research, Organised by Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, during 19th-20th March 2015. Title of the Paper: Development, Displacement and Sadgope Livelihood: A case study.

24. ICSSR sponsored Two day National Seminar on Implementation of Right to Education and Mid-Day-Meal Programme: Promises and Challenges, organised by M.P Institute of Social Science Research (An Institute of ICSSR, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. Of India, New Delhi), Ujjain, M.P- 456010, during 25-26 th March 2015. Title of the Paper: Effect of Student Teacher Ratio on School Management at Primary Level in a District of West Bengal: A Study Based on Implementation of RTE, 2009.

25. UGC- Sponsored National Seminar on Child Health in India with Special Reference to North- East India, Organised by Department of Anthropology, DHSK College, Dibrugrah, Assam, during 2nd and 3rd May, 2015. Title of the Paper: Effect of Land acquisition on Women and Child Nutrition in Peasant Families: A case Study from a Village of West Bengal, India.

26. 45th Annual Conference of the Indian Anthropological Society on Anthropology and Human Welfare, 23- 25 May, 2015, Kolkata. Title of the Paper: Effect of Land Acquisition on Sadgope Livelihood: An Anthropological Study from a Village of South West Bengal.

27. One day National Seminar on “Status of Women in Indian Society”, Organised by The Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, on 21-08-2015. Title of the Paper: Land Acquisition and Women: A case Study From a Village of West Bengal.

28. National Seminer on “Proverty, Ineuality and Health in India with Special Reference to North- East India”, Organised by Department of Economics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, on 8-10 October, 2015. Title of the paper: Development Caused Dicplacement on Peasants Livelihoot: A Case Study from a Village of West Bengal.

29. 23rd West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress- 2016, organized by West Bengal State Science and Technology Council and Department, Government of West Bengal and Presidency University, Kolkata on 28- 29 February, 2016.

30. Two Day UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “ Teacher’s Responsibilities in Student Teacher Relationship: The changing Scenario”, Organised by Gobardanga Hindu College, B.Ed Department and Department of Education, in Collaboration with Gandhi Centenary B.T college, Habra, West Bengal on 12th & 13th May, 2016. Title of the Paper: Impact of Student Teacher Ratio on Primary Level Education.

31. “International Symposium on Contemporary Trends in Education”, Organised by Kingston Educational Institution (KEI) in Collaboration with Department of Education, west Bengal State University (WBSU), Barasat, West Bengal on 19th and 20th July, 2016. Title of the Paper: Challenging Issues of Tribal Education in India: A test Case from a Village of Jharkhand.

32. 24th West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress- 2016, organized by West Bengal State Science and Technology Council and Department, Government of West Bengal and NITTR, Kolkata on 13-14 November, 2016. Title of The Paper: A Case Study on Dropout Problem of Primary School in the Indo- Bangladesh Border of West Bengal

33. “ Agrarian Situation in India: Issues and Prospects and for the Lecture series on Frontiers of Anthropological Research in Central India”, Nagpur, Organised by Anthropological Survey of India, at Central Regional Centre, Nagpur, India on 22th to 24th November, 2016. Title of the Paper: Loss of employment and participation of women towards income generation: contextualising land acquisition in West Bengal.

34. International Conference on “Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Development” Organised by Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on 10-11 December 2016. Title of the Paper: Consequence of the conversion of agricultural land for industrial use: A Micro level study from West Bengal,India.

35. UGC Sponsored National Seminar “ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PRESENT ERA” organized by the Department of Anthropology, University of North Bengal, 23RD - 24TH March 2017. Title of the Paper: Outcome of the Change of Agricultural Land for Industrial use: A Anthropological Outlook.

36. One day Seminar-cum Workshop, “Field Survey, Language Archiving & The Study of Endangered Languages” under the UGC funded SRIELI- SLL-JU project, organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, on 30th March, 2017. Title of the paper: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology & its Methods,

37. One day Seminar-cum Workshop, “Field Survey, Language Archiving & The Study of Endangered Languages” under the UGC funded SRIELI- SLL-JU project, organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, on 30th March, 2017. Title of the paper: Kurmis and Their Language: An ethno- linguistic Perspective.

38. National Seminar on “Environment, Sustainable Development and Future Perspective in Northeast India: Emic and Ethic Dynamics” organised by Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 2nd and 3rd October, 2017. Title of The paper: Role of Socio- Economic Variables in Language Shift: A linguistic Anthropological Approach From Totopara, West Bengal.

39. 2nd Regional Science and Technology Congress (Western Region)- 2017, Organised by University of Burdwan on 16-17, November, 2017. Title of the Paper: Demographic Profile of Totopara, West Bengal.

40. 39th International Conference of Linguistic Society of India, Organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Patna, in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore and Linguistic Society of India on December 08-11, 2017. Title of the paper: An Anthropo- Linguistic Study on the Clan Formation of the Kurmali Community of West Bengal.

41. 2nd Regional Science and Technology Congress (Southern Region)- 2017, Organised by University of Kalyani and Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal on December 14-15, 2017. Title of the Paper:

42. 47th Annual Conference of The Indian Anthropological Society, “ National Seminar on Tribal Situation in India: Contemporary Issues and Concerns”, Jointly organised by Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, The Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata, Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur on 29- 31 January, 2018. Title of the Paper: A Linguistic Anthropological Study on Clan Formation of Toto of Totopara in West Bengal.

43. 6th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser- known Languages (ELKL-6) organised by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 21- 23 February, 2018 with Dr. Dripta Piplai Mondal. Title of the paper: Role of Socio- economic Variables in Language Shift with Special Reference to Kurmali and Toto Communities of West Bengal.

44. 6th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser- known Languages (ELKL-6) organised by Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru from 21- 23 February, 2018 with Dr. Bornini Lahiri. Title of the Paper: An Anthropo- Linguistic Study on Kinship Terms of Kurmali.

45. A Two day National Seminar cum Workshop on Broadening the horizon of the Current Research on Endangered and Indigenous Languages of India, Organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, under the project grand in Study and Research in Indigenous and endangered languages during XII plan, Sponsored by UGC from 16th & 17th March, 2018. Title of the Paper: Anthropolo- Linguistic Methods: Its Application & Outputs.

46. 46th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) & International Symposium organised in Jadavpur University, Kolkata in collaboration with School of Languages and Linguistics and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 21st to 23rd June 2018. Title of the Paper: Kinship Terms and Terminology of Koda: An Anthropo- Linguistic Observation.

47. National Seminar on Tribal Culture in West Bengal, organised by Cultural Research Institute, Tribal Development Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata on 28th and 29th June, 2018. Title of the paper: Consequences of Socio-Economic variables in Language shift in a village of West Bengal: An Anthropo- Linguistic view of Koda.

48. Selection of Linguistic Field, Data Collection and Field Management, Presented at One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University on 2nd August 2018. Presented by Dr. Arup Majumder.

49. Two day International Seminar on Recent Trends in Science Towards Sustainable Development, Organised by Acharya Prafulla Chandra College in collaboration with Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, W.B on 6th and 7th August, 2018. Title of the Paper: Health of Indigenous People of West Bengal: Special References to Toto.

50. National Seminar on Debating Indian Aspirational Languages: DIAL-2018, organised by Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, W.B on 9th to 11th September, 2018. Title of the Paper: Language and culture: A Linguistic Anthropological Study of Koda .

51. National seminar on Contemporary Anthropology and North-East India and Forty- Eight Annual Conference of The Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata, Organised by Department of anthropology, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam on 1st to 3rd November, 2018. Title of the Paper: Mahali Clans: Anthropo- Linguistic Study.

52. 3rd Regional Science and technology Congress (Southern Region), 2018, Organised Bidhannagar College and Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal on December 18-19, 2018. Title of the Paper: Problems of Tribal Women Education in India: Special References to Mahali, Jhargram.

53. 7th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser- known Languages (ELKL-7) organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur Unievrsity, Kolkata, from 21- 23 February, 2019. Title of the Paper A Linguistic Anthropological Study of Mahali Language.

54. Two days International Seminar on Understanding Tribes in Neo- Liberal Era under WB-OHEPEE programme, Organised by P.G. Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha on March 09-10, 2019: Title of the Paper: Kurmali: A Linguistic- Anthropological Overview.

55. National Seminar on Health Status and Health Care Practices of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal, Organised by Cultural Research Institute, Backward Classes Welfare Department, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata on 15th March, 2019. Title of the Paper: Health care Practices by Mahali Community in a Village of West Bengal

11. Seminar Presentations/ Participations (Outside of India)

1. International Conference on Environment and Development, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi- 6205, Bangladesh, 7th – 8th March, 2014. Title of the paper: The Socio-economic effects of the

conversation of agricultural land for industrial use: A case study from West Bengal, India.

2. International Seminar on Social Sciences and Humanities, CSSR, Independent University, Bangladesh. Dhaka, August 23- 25, 2014. Title of the Paper: Effect of Land Acquisition on Social Structure: An Ethnographic Study of a Village in India.

3. International Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL) 2016. Independent University, Bangladesh. Dhaka, April 22- 23, 2016. Title of the Paper: Effect of Pupil Teacher Ratio on Education Time Management in Primary Schools of West Bengal, India (A Study based on Implementation of Right to Education Act. 2009, India).

4. International Conference on Population, Health, Environment and Sustainable Development: Issues and Challenges, Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development (PSHRD), University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, December 17th – 18th, 2016. Title of the Paper: "Understanding the Consequences of Agricultural Land Acquisition on Women: A Study from South West Bengal".

5. 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Development, organised by United International University at Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh from February 15 to 17 February, 2018. Title of the Paper: Human Safety under Governmental Land Acquisition Act in India.

12. Invited Lecture

1. “SAMAJER ASLINOTA DUR KORTE SU- SHIKHA R PROYOJON”, ORGANISED BY GAIGHATA NABA SMRITI SANGHA, GAIGHATA BAZER, GAIGHATA, NORTH 24 PARGANAS, 743249 ON 4TH JULY 2015.

13. Workshop

a. Workshop on Activity-based Classroom Teaching of Mathematics for Primary Teachers from 7th to 9th September, 2009 at DIET, Banipur, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

b. UGC Sponsored Workshop on “Quality Improvement in Teaching and Development of Curricula in Anthropology” at Undergraduate level organized by the Department of Anthropology during 18- 20 January, 2012 at Vidyasagar University, Medinipur- 721102, West Bengal, India. c. One Day State Level Workshop, “Developing Tools of Educational Research” Organized by All India Association for Educational Research (AIAER), West Bengal Chapter in collaboration with Satyapriya Roy College of Education, Salt Lake. During 9th Febuary 2013.

d. 10 (Ten) days, National Level Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, ICSSR, Dept. of Economics, Assam University,Silchar, from 6th March to 15th March 2013.

e. 10 (Ten) days, Research Methodology Course in Anthropology and Allied Sciences, Conducted by Department of Anthropology, West Bengal State University funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, held at Proggaloy, 37/2 Jessore Road, Hridaypur, Barasat. From 2nd to 11th December 2013.

f. The Day- long Workshop on Perceiving and Pursuing Indian Environmental History: Recent Trends and Trajectories, reflecting on the existing literature, research methodologies and future possible lines of inquiries, organised by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata on June 5, 2015.

g. Two days International Workshop on Tactile Graphics during 26th and 27th of November, 2015, Organised by School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India by Prof. Boguslaw Marek from John Paul II Catholic University, Dept. of Typhlomethodology, Lublin, Poland .

h. Four Days Workshop on Statistical Techniques used in Research on 16- 19 February, 2016, Organised by The Department of Statistics, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan, West Bengal.

i. Two Day Workshop on Folk Architecture of Asian Villages and Towns – A Comparative Study on 28-29 March 2016, Organised by Kolkata Society for Asian Studies In collaboration with Archaeological Survey of India(ER) And Indian Council of Social Science Research, ERC , Kolkata.

j. Three days National Level Workshop on Second/ Foreign Language Acquisition and Research organised by School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University from 20th to 22nd December, 2017.

k. 5 -Day Workshop on Language Documentation and Revitalization organised by Central Institute of Languages, Mysuru from 26th February to 2nd March, 2018.

14. Workshop Activity (As Resource Person)

1. Conducted a half day workshop on “ Documentating Lesser- known Languages through Tools and Textbooks” in 11th Students’ Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI 11) on 29th January 2017, jointly with Dr. Bornini Lahiri and Dr. Dripta Piplai at the School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University.

2. Conducted "One Day Workshop on Preparation for the Fieldwork in Language Documentation" on 2nd August 2018, jointly by Dr. Arup Majumder, Dr. Bornini Lahiri, and Nivedita Mitra at School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University.

3. Conducted a Workshop on “Documenting Lesser Known Communities and Building Linguistic Resources” to be held on 18-19 September, 2018 at National Law University, Dwarka Sector 14, New Delhi -110078. Lecture Title: Linguistic- Anthropological Aspects of Language Study.

15. Winter School

1. Participated in 5 (Five) days, First Indian Winter School on Diagram 2015, Organised by School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. In Collaboration with University of Brighton, United Kindom & Tallinn University of Technology, Italy, During 27th – 31st January, 2015.

16. Membership

1. Indian Anthropological Society. (IAS) (27, Jawaharalal Nehru Road, Kolkata- 700016). 2. Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA). Kadam Kanan, Jhargram, Paschim(west) Medinipur, West Bengal. 3. International Society for Development & Sustainability (ISDS), Japan. 4. Green Earth Research Indexing and Green Earth Research Network (http://www.gejournal.net/ourteam.php) 5. Linguistic Society of India (LSI), c/o Department of Linguistics, Deccan Collegfe Postgraduate & Research Institute, Yerawada, Pune- 411006. Since, Dec. 2017

17. Editorial Board Member of National and International Journals

1. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS), India. Since 2013 to present 2. International Journal of Research (IJR), India. Since 2015 to present. 3. North Asian International Research Journal Consortium, Since 2015 4. International Scientific Invention Journals. (www.isij.in), since Aug. 2015

18. Reviewer

1. NEXUS: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology. Department of Anthropology McMaster University, 1280n Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

2. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology A & Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. David Publishing Company, 240 Nagle Avenue # 15 C, New York, NY 10034, USA http://www.davidpublisher.com, [email protected]

3. EMIRATES ASSOCIATION OF ARTS AND MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS (EAAMP).

Web site: http://eaamp.org/committee.php

19. Scholarship and Grants

FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES

1. Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, New Delhi (Not accepted), 2010

FOR INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR PRESENTATION

1. International Seminar on Social Sciences and Humanities, IUB, Bangladesh. Accommodation ($200) Partial transportation costs (Bangladesh taka 5000/-)

2. International Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL) 2016. IUB, Bangladesh. Registration fees ($ 80) Partial transportation costs (Bangladesh taka 5000/-)

20. Awards and Medals

Best Paper award (Medals) in Social Science Section from 22nd West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress- 2015, organized by West Bengal State Science and Technology Council and Department, Government of West Bengal and University of North Bengal on 28 February- 1st March, 2015.

21. Technical and Software Knowledge

Diploma in Information Technology & Application (DITA) with 64% marks from Habra Youth Computer Training Center (HYCTC), 24pgs (N). West Bengal.

Software 1. FLEX for dictionary making 2. Ms. Office (word, excel, power point) 3. Audacity Voice editor 4. Prath Voice Editor 5. Elan 22. Co-curricular activities

 Diploma in Social work and Community service (N.C.E, Kolkata)  N.S.S trained.  Knowledge in Rabindra sangeet. 23. Languages Known (Read, Write and Speak) Bengali, English, Hindi

24. Names and addresses of four referees

a. Professor Abhijit Guha b. Prof. Utpal Kumar De Department of Anthropology Department of Econimics Vidyasagar University North-Eastern Hill University Paschim Medinipur Shillong, 793022, Meghalaya West Bengal India Mobile phone no: 09434431864 E-mail ID: Mobile Phone no: 9436102066 [email protected] E-mail ID: [email protected]

c. Prof. Mahidas Bhattacharya d. Prof. Kaushik Bose Professor of Linguistics Department of Anthropology School of Languages & Linguistics Vidyasagar University Jadavpur University Paschim Medinipur Kolkata- 700032 West Bengal Mobile phone no:+91 9432804387 Mobile no: 7031936958 E-mail ID: [email protected] Email : [email protected]

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