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Application for the Visiting Professor Abroad CURRICULUM VITAE/ PERSONAL PROFILE 1. Name in Full: George Thadathil 2. Present Address Salesian College, Sonada, Darjeeling, WB 734 209 Permanent Address Salesian College, Sonada, Darjeeling, WB 734 209 3. Phone Number (0353) 2545627 (F) Mobile 934045539 E-mail ID [email protected] [email protected] 4. Date of Birth 01.05.1963 5. Details of Educational /Professional Qualifications Qualification Name of Institution Class Year Ph.D. University of Madras Commended 1998-2000 Title of Thesis: The Vision of Sri & Narayana Guru Movement in the Literature of Nitya Chaitanya Indian Council of Yati Philosophical Research 1 M.Phil. University of Madras First Class 1996-1997 M.Ph Jnana Deepa Vidhyapeeth First Class 1985-1987 (Affiliated to Catholic University, Rome) B.Th Kristu Jyoti College, First Class 1988 - 1992 Bangalore (Affiliated to Salesian Pontifical University, Rome) B.A Honours(English Literature) Salesian College, North Second Class 1981-1984 Bengal University B.Ph Salesian College, Sonada First Class do (As Dual Degree Certificate) Pre. Degree St Anthony’s College First Class 1978-1980 College, NEHU University Matriculation Don Bosco High School, First Class 1974-1978 Mannuthy, Trichur (Kerala Board) 6. Languages known: English, Malayalam, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, German (has done GI & GII at the Goethe Institute, Max Mullter Bhawan, Pune with 82% & 78% respectively) 7. Subject with area of specialization: (Humanities and Social Sciences – Social Philosophy) My area of specialization is Cross Cultural Social Philosophy. It was my attempt to apply the 2 research findings in South India (Ezhava Movement) onto the Language and Ethnicity based identity formations in Darjeeling District. Besides teaching basic courses in philosophy I continue with research in this field. 8. Details of Professional/Teaching Experience Name of Designation Period Nature of duties Institution Salesian College, Lecturer Coordinator 1987 Teaching of Extension onwards Sonada, Activities Local Leadership Training Darjeeling, 1992 Guiding B.Ph students & staff HOD, Philosophy & onwards University of pursuing research in their writing Principal Founder North Bengal Director of Salesian 2000 of papers & Dissertations and Publications onwards Socio-cultural Research Principal & Founder 2005 Administration and Coordination editor of Salesian onwards of the Faculty Research. Journal & 2009 onwards 9. Present Post: Founder editor of Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Founder Director of Salesian Publications & Principal, Salesian College, Sonada-Siliguri, University of North Bengal 10. Present Pay: Salesian College is a 2(f) and 12 (B) Minority, Rural College established in 1933. The Religious Faculty and staff did not claim Salary. However, having opened to the public since 2000, the efforts to resume the pay packet scheme is in process. 11. Date of Annual Increment: N/A 12. Date of Superannuation: N/A 13. Details of Research Activities: Assisted in the Ph.D. Supervision of: 3 Title Name of Candidate University The Effect of Religious Therapy on Depression in University of Madras ( As Patients Suffering from Johnny KK Irrecoverable Illnesses. External Examiner, 2012) Negotiating Gorkha Identity in Shreyasi Chettri Jadavpur University (As Indian Nepali Novels External Examiner, 2016) Impact of Christianity on the Terence Mukhia Assam Don Bosco University Tamang and Lepcha (External Examiner, 2017) Communities of Darjeeling District - A Philosophical Perspective Projects Undertaken Name of the Project Institution Published KABP (Knowledge Awareness, The outcome of the study has Behaviour, Practices) on HIV been published as a write up AIDS in the Locality of the Salesian College, Sonada in the local Newspapers College (Mini researches in the sunchari and himalay darpan locality are part of Social in Nepali. (Similar studies on Early Analysis Course for the final Marriage, Unemployment and School Drop outs have been year students) conducted during the past decade) The findings of the research project will form the A Research on the Local Traditional Music systems is in Department of Music curriculum of Music Course being offered presently as the process Salesian College UGC, COP programme. B.Ph Dissertations Final Year Students Over 50 students have been guided in the past decade in their final dissertation work for the Degree Programme in Philosophy. 4 The Impact of Higher The Research is to be Education in its Immediate coordinated by team led by Select Staff from the Xavier Neighbourhood: A study the Bosco Institute of Master Across Catholic Campuses in Board ENE College of Social Work wing for North East evolving strategies of intervention in catholic campuses Development Induced Coordinated by Sonam Sherpa The Study Report has been Displacement and Deprivation of the Economics Department submitted to ICSSR and the in Sikkim 1975-2010:A with research assistants in report is ready for publication. Quantitative Database on Its collaboration with Fr Walter Published as Teesta on the Extent and Impact Fernandes, Director, North Eastern Social Research Run (2016) Centre, Guwahati. Low Enrolment in Higher Coordinated by Dr Sukant (Project completed in 2016) Education among the Tribal Banerjee in Collaboration with Communities of Doars ICSSR, Delhi & Salesian Research Institute, Sonada- Siliguri. CORSIKA- Cosmic Ray Coordinated by Mr Dhirodutta The Porting Facility for Simulation Software Subba and undertaken by CORSIKA from Linux to Salesian Research Institute, Microsoft to be made Salesian College, Siliguri available for users. Campus NAAC ASSESSOR: Peer Team visit to Purnia College on 13-14 Oct 2017 and Rayat shikshan sanstha's Rajarshi chhatrapati shahu college, Kolhapur. 25-09-2017 to 26-O9-20L7 Details of Publications: Books and Articles 5 Books Brahmarshi Sri Narayana Guru, (Translation from Malayalam to Nepali) by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi (2016) Teesta On the Run: Development Induced Displacement in Sikkim 1975-2010, A Salesian College & NESRC Publication, (2016)Co-author Cultural Linguistic Transitions in the Nepali Speech Community of Darjeeling, a Sahitya Akademi Publication (2009) based on the research seminar on the same theme (March 2007), co-edited with Dr Lalita Rai Ahmed, Darjeeling Government College, and Dr Jiwan Namdung, convener for Nepali, Sahitya Akademi. Vision From the Margin: A Study of the Sri Narayana Guru Movement in the Literature of Nitya Chaitanya Yati (based on Doctoral Research) published by Asian Trading Corporation & Salesian College Publication (2007). Cultural Identity in Nepali Language and Literature a Salesian College Sonada Publication (2005) based on the UGC sponsored seminar on the same theme, (co-edited with Dr Jiwan Namdung, convener for Nepali, Sahitya Akademi, Mr Terence Mukhia, Department of Philosophy and Ms Basanti Mukhia, Department of Nepali, Salesian College). Subaltern Perspectives: Philosophizing in Context an Asian Trading Corporation, Bangalore, Publication (2005) based on the ACPI 2004 Trinity College, Jalandhar session (edited). Communities and Identity Consciousness: South Indian Trajectories a Madras University publication (2004) based on the researches on community transitions in the last century, (co-edited with Prof. Felix Wilfred, Department of Christian Studies, University of Madras). Founder & Series Editor/(Co-editor) of: Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol I, 1: Spirituality in Victorian Poetry (May 2010) Vol I, 2: Philosophy and Contemporary Living (December 2010) Vol II, 1: Darjeeling and Indian East (May 2011) Vol II, 2: Mountain Economy in Perspective (December 2011) Vol III, 1: Literary & Linguistic Terrain of Translation (May 2012) Vol III, 2: Indigenous Philosophies of the Himalayan Communities (December 2012); Vol IV, 1: Technology and Society (May 2013) Vol IV, 2: Sports, Games and Holistic Education (December 2013) 6 Vol V, 1: Engaging the Spiritual (May 2014) Vol V, 2: Contextual Management: Theories & Practices (December 2014) Vol VI, 1: Indigenous Management (May 2015) Vol VI, 2: Christian Education and Modern Democratic India (December 2015) Vol VII, 1: Education and Social Inclusion (May 2016) Vol VII, 2: Identity, Resistance and Empowerment (December 2016) Vol VIII, 1: Christianity and Indian Culture (May 2017) Vol VIII, 2: Pen, Pain and Writing (December 2017) Vol IX, 1: Politics of Ecology (May 2018) Vol IX, 2: Darjeeling and Eastern Himalayas (December 2018) Vol X, 1: Conflict in South Asia (May 2019) Articles and Chapters "The Transformative Power of the One World Vision of Sri Narayana Guru" in Vinay Lal (ed) India and Civilizational Futures Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics II, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019,pp. 240-260. "History, Culture, Environment and Development: Kerala and Darjeeling A Study in Contrast" in Anjan Chakraborty, Rajarshi Chatterjee and Panchali Sengupta (eds), Interrogating Development: Perspectives on Economy Environment, Ethnicity and gender, Kolkata, Setuprakashini, 2017, pp.174-185. "Reading Gandhi in Ambedkar's Shoes: Reclaiming Democracy." in Enhancing our Home: Re-Reading and Re-Living Gandhian Thought, ed. Johnson J. Puthenpurackal, Bangalore: Asian Trading Corporation - ACPI, 2016, pp.193-214. "Community, Critical Knowledge and Rights" in Pius V Thomas, Knowledge, Theorization and Rights: Renegotiating the Connectives, Sonada, Salesian College Publication, 2016, pp. 56-71. “Foreword: Darjeeling Society, Economy and Polity”, in Nupur Das, Darjeeling:
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