Two Days State Level Webinar RAJA BIRENDRA CHANDRA COLLEGE ORGANISED BY P.O.- Kandi, Dist.- DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & IQAC PIN-742137, RAJA BIRENDRA CHANDRA COLLEGE (Affiliated to the ) KANDI, MURSHIDABAD. WEST BENGAL

Date: 27th and 28th September, 2020

Time: 4p.m to 7p.m.

About College: RESOURCE PERSONS Raja Birendra Chandra College, formerly known as of Commerce was established in the year 1965 under the guidance of Late Kumar Jagadish Chandra Sinha, Member of Kandi Raj family for the benefit of service holder, businessmen as well as for the Rup Kumar Barman Professor development of Commerce education at . Due to shortage of Commerce Department of History students, the College authority was compelled to open Arts Stream (both General and & Coordinator, Centre for Ambedkar Studies Honours) at the degree level for survival of the College in the year 2003. Now the College is Jadavpur University, running with more than 1700 students and has been producing brilliant students. Kolkata

FOR PAPERS

Theme: MARGINALITIES AND THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Alok Kumar Ghosh Former HOD & :HISTORICAL CHALLENGES Associate Professor The subcontinental scale of as a nation poses unique problems in terms of diverse Department of History geographies, ethnicities, languages, cultures, and so on. From time to time— in the hoary past University of Kalyani, as much as in the present— majoritarian ambitions have tried to iron out this diversity to Kalyani dominate in the name of a singular identity and render this land in terms of a monolithic political and/or social conceptualisation. Predictably, such desires have produced a plethora of marginal groups and entities in the interstices of homogenising governmentality. And it is in these marginal multitudes that resistance has often found articulation, the repression of the dominant political will notwithstanding. Such marginalities, which are at a time repressed yet Dr. Atig Ghosh resistant, find instantiation in caste, race, gender, region, language, sexuality, class, religion, Assistant Professor and so on. These categories are, in lived experience, not watertight but often show a great Department of History Visva-Bharati, degree of intersection. Yet, it could also be that one marginal group, say a person belonging to Santiniketan a minority religion or a dalit male, could betray a great degree of animosity or may act as an oppressor to other marginal groups, say to women or to people from the North-East of India, in terrible demonstrations of sexism or racism respectively. Further, marginal groups are not necessarily internally homogenous but could be riven by rivalry between factions or sub- groups within them. It is this intricate web of intersection and competition, resistance and Dr. Samata Biswas resilience among the various marginalities of the subcontinent that the webinar at Raja Assistant Professor Birendra Chandra College, Kandi, seeks to explore. Department of English The Sanskrit College and University, Sub Themes: Kolkata  Caste  Race Papers are invited from research  Gender scholars, independent researchers and  Region faculty members of Colleges and SudipDepartmentto of Englisg  Language Mukhopadhyay Universities. Students can also be a part  Sexuality of this knowledge exchange programme. Assistant Professor  Class Department of English  Religion SCBC College, Lalbag, Murshidabad

Dr. Prodesh Ghosh Sri Apurba Sarkar Teacher-in-Charge GB President Raja Birendra Chandra Raja Birendra Chandra College College

CHAIRMAN PATRON

 Dr. Sreejita Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Co-ordinator-IQAC, Raja Birendra Chandra College  Krishna Kanta Barman, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Raja Birendra Chandra College  Dr. Mokbul Rahaman, Librarian, Raja Birendra Chandra College  Dr. Shamim Aktar Munshi, Librarian, A.C. College, Jalpaiguri

Organising Committee

Organising Secretary : Bikash Das, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Raja Birendra Chandra College Organising Members : Arpita Bhattacharyya, SACT, Department of History, Raja Birendra Chandra College : Sreemanta Das, SACT, Department of History, Raja Birendra Chandra College : Sadananda Kundu, SACT, Department of History, Raja Birendra Chandra College Treasurer : Dr. Oli Mohammad, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Raja Birendra Chandra College

Important Dates:

Registration Ends 16.09.2020 Last date of Submission of Abstract 16.09,2020 Last date of Submission Full Length Paper 19.09.2020 Paper Acceptance Information through e-mail 22.09.2020 Last Date of Payment 25.09.2020

Registration:  Every participant has to click on the link given below to register himself / herself.

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 Registration Fees (Only for paper presenter): Rs.200/- (Payment should be made after the acceptance e-mail for the paper.)  Free Registration (Only for attendees)

Bank Details:  Account Name: BIKASH DAS  Bank Name: STATE BANK OF INDIA  Branch Name: KANDI (0237)  IFSC: SBIN0000237  Account No.: 36570663256 (Only online transaction will be accepted. Image of the payment details must be sent to the e-mail- ([email protected]) on or before 25.09.2020. Otherwise registration will not be accepted.

General Information:

 Webinar Platform: Google Meet. Google Meet link will be shared in due time through e-mail.  E-certificate will be will be issued only after successful submission of feedback. (link for feedback form will be shared after completion of the webinar)  For further queries, e-mail to Bikash Das, (e-mail:- [email protected]) & Contact No.: 9734613791)  Detail programme schedule will soon be made available on the College website (http://www.rbcckandi.in/) as well as on its social-media handles.  The registration fee is non-refundable.  The paper should be in either English or Bengali. (If selected, the final presentation can be made in either of these two languages as well.)  The proposal must be appropriately titled and must clearly indicate how the paper would relate to the theme of the webinar.