BINATA SARKAR Assistant Professor of History The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, , Cell : (0) 9434105675, Email : [email protected]

RESIDENCE OFFICE 501/3, Indraprastha, Department of History Baburbag, P.O. – Rajbati, University of Burdwan Burdwan, West Bengal Golapbag, Burdwan, West Bengal Pin – 713104 Pin – 713104 Cell : 9434105675 Phone : 0342-2657882

EDUCATION : 2010 Ph.D. History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan Malaria and Medical Intervention : Burdwan District 1860–1947 2003 M. Phil History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan Ecology and Epidemic : A Case Study of Malaria fever in Burdwan from 1860 – 1930. 1998 B.Ed., Govt. College of Education, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 1996 M.A. History, University of Burdwan, Burdwan 1994 B.A. (Honours) History, M.U.C. Women’s College, Burdwan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE : February 2008 Assistant Professor of History, University of Burdwan, onwards West Bengal. December 2001 to Lecturer in History, Government undergraduate colleges January 2008 (WBES) in West Bengal.

RESEARCH INTERESTS : History of Medicine and Public Health.

TEACHING INTERESTS : History of South East Asia, Indian National Movement, History of Science Technology and Medicine.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE :  Post-Graduate Courses taught  Burma and Indo-China : Continuity and Change, 103.  Indonesia and Malaysia : Changing Experiences, 203  Indian National Movement : 1885 – 1947, 301  Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century, 401

SUPERVISED M.PHIL. DISSERTATION PROJECTS : 2010 Shanta Das “Swadhinata Parabarti Parjaye Barddhaman Jelar Krishi Unayaner Itihas (1947 – 2000) 2012 Surapa Mukherjee “Bangla Sahityer Chotogalper Prakshite Banga- narir Pragatir Itihas (Unbinsha Shatak O Bingha Shatak)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE : At present working on child health and education policy in India and history of public health in Burma.

SELECTED PUBLICATION : Book chapter  Malaria fever and its control in Burdwan district : A critique on colonial health policy in Arabinda Samanta, Syed Tanveer Nasreen & Aparajita Dhar ed. Life and culture in Bengal. Colonial and Post Colonial Experience, Kolkata, April, 2011. Proceeding Volume  Embankments Ecological Degradation: A case study of Malarial Fever in Burdwan (1860-1930) in Environica, vol.I Kolkata, December2014. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES : National :  Experiencing the maladies of colonial Bengal :Burdwan District 1860- 1930 at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Life and Culture in Bengal Colonial and Postcolonial experiences, organized by Department of History ,The University of Burdwan, 19-20, March,2009.  Ailing Bengal : Malarial fever and popular response in Burdwan District at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Interrogating Modernity in Bengal : Historical space and conceptual frame organized by the Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 10-11, March, 2010.  Burdwan fever :Western and Indigenous Medicine at the UGC-DRS- SAP, National Seminar on Rethinking Bengal : Structure ,Agency and Paradigm, organized by Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 24-25, February, 2011.  Revisiting the Public Health in Colonial Bengal through the Biography of Dr. Rai Bahadur Gopal Chandra Chatterjee at the UGC-DRS-SAP, National Seminar on Biography, Autobiography, Memoir : Contextualizing Bengal organized by the Department of History, The University of Burdwan, 23 – 24, February, 2012.

International :  ‘Child Health and Patterns of Educational Policy : Bengal, From 1910 to the present’, at the 6th Biennial International Conference of Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, , Kolkata, 17-19 December, 2012.  Medical Intervention and Sanitary Development in Burma:A Retrospect, at the International Seminar on India’s Look East Policy: Gleanings from the past to the present organized by Department of History, The University of Burdwan in collaboration with Department of South and South East Asia, C.U &IAAPS,18-19,December2013.  Embankments and Ecological Degradation :A case study of malarial fever in Burdwan(1860-1930),at the International Seminar on “Mother Earth: Save it to achieve a sustainable future for All,organized by Dept. of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan,10-12 December2014.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS : Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies. Indian History Congress