April 2020 MAIDUL ISLAM BA (Calcutta), MA (JNU), MPhil (JNU), DPhil (Oxon)

Present Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Institutional Address: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata-700094, India.

E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Homepage: http://cssscal.org/faculty_maidul_islam.php

Date of Birth: 5th February, 1980

Place of Birth: Kolkata

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Married

Nationality: Indian

University Education

2007-2012: DPhil in Politics, Brasenose College and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Result: Pass and Awarded. Thesis: Limits of Islamism: Ideological Articulations of Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh.

2005-2007: MPhil in Political Science, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Result: 1st Class; FGPA: 7.69/9 [85.44%] Dissertation: Understanding Political Islam in India: Ideology and Organisation of Jamaat-e- Islami Hind.

2003-2005: MA in Political Science, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Result: 1st Class; FGPA: 6.81/9 [75.66%].

2000-2003: BA (Honours) in Political Science, Presidency College, University of Calcutta. Result: Upper 2nd Class; 55.62%. Subsidiary Subjects: Economics & History. Compulsory Subjects: English, Bengali, Environmental Studies.

School Education

Higher Secondary (2000): First Division from Andrews High School, Calcutta, 2000. Result: WBCHSE Arts: 61.40%

1 Secondary (1998): First Division from South Point High School, Calcutta, 1998. Result: WBBSE (Madhyamik): 61.37%

Areas of Research Interest: Political Theory, Political Economy, Populism, Indian Politics, Indian Muslims, Cinema, Contemporary West Bengal and Bangladesh, Political Ideologies.

Professional Career

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata [December 2013—February 2016]

Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla [February 2013—December 2013]

Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences [August 2012—February 2013]

Scholarships, Grants and Awards

Fellowship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2013

Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University, 2013

Hulme Completion Grant, Brasenose College, Oxford, 2011

Departmental Studentship, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2010-2011

Clarendon Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2007-2010

Hector Pilling Scholarship, Brasenose College, Oxford, 2007-2010

Senior Hulme Scholarship, Brasenose College, Oxford, 2009-2011

Graduate Research Grant, Brasenose College, Oxford, 2009

Rai Bahadur Jogendranath Ghosh Overseas Scholarship, University of Calcutta, 2007

UGC-National Eligibility Test for Lectureship in India, 2005

Netaji Subhas Chandra Basu Prize, Presidency College, Kolkata, 2002

Academic Publications:

Books

(2019) Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

(2015) Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. [Nomination: Association of Asian Studies Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Cambridge University Press in 2016].

2 Book Chapters

(Forthcoming) ‘Indian Muslims, Ambedkar and the Possibilities of Progressive Politics’, in Arun Banerjee (ed.), Prabuddha Bharat: Understanding Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Passage of Time (Kolkata: Asiatic Society).

(Forthcoming) ‘The Elusive Yet Necessary Idea of Justice’, in Gopal Guru and Albeena Shakil (eds), Sphere of Injustice. New Delhi: Routledge.

(Forthcoming in Bengali) ‘Protinidhimulok Gonotontro Ebong Poschimbonge Rashtriyo Lokbader Prokriti’ [Representative Democracy and Nature of State Populism in West Bengal] in Sibaji Pratim Basu and Rajat Ray (ed.), Populism: Bharote Jonopriyotabadi Rajnitir Utthan [Populism: The Rise of Populist Politics in India] (Kolkata: Sampark Publications).

(2019) ‘Fortunes of Radicalism: Indian Maoists and the Dead End of Politics’, in Mubashar Hasan, Kenji Isezaki and Sameer Yasir (eds.), Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implication. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 27-52.

(2018) ‘Big National Parties in West Bengal: An Exceptional Outcast?’ in Mujibur Rehman (ed.), Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 279-296.

(2015) ‘Indian Muslims and the Radical Democratic Project’ in Subhoranjan Dasgupta (ed.), Democratic Governance and Politics of the Left in South Asia. New Delhi: Aakar Books, pp. 70- 89.

(2015) ‘Ernesto Laclau: The Quintessential Theorist of Populism’, in Pradip Basu (ed.), Social Thinkers of Modern Times (Kolkata: Setu Prakashani, 2015), pp. 77-91.

Journal Articles

(2017) ‘Umma and the Dilemma of Muslim Belonging in Modern South Asia.’ St. Antony’s International Review, 12 (2). pp. 26-43.

(2017) with Rajarshi Ghose. ‘Struggle in the Path of Islam: Three Moments’, Seminar, No. 691. pp. 31-36.

(2016) ‘Avatar: A Cinema Speaking about Extractive Capitalism and Contemporary Imperialism’, Socialist Perspective: A Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences, 44 (1-2). pp. 5-27 [Backlog issue published in 2018].

(2016) ‘Crisis of Islamist Extremism in Contemporary Bangladesh.’ Economic and Political Weekly, 51 (40). pp. 25-29.

(2012) ‘Metaphysics of Islam: A Critical Inquiry.’ Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, 19 (1-2). pp. 171-200 [Backlog issue published in 2015].

(2012) ‘Rethinking the Muslim Question in Post-Colonial India.’ Social Scientist, 40 (7-8). pp.

3 61-84.

(2011) ‘Flawed Idea of Justice.’ Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (32). pp. 116-121.

(2009) ‘Posing the Muslim Question in India: A Leftwing Perspective.’ Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, No. 6. pp. 66-79.

(2007) ‘Imagining Indian Muslims: Looking Through the Lens of Bollywood Cinema.’ Indian Journal of Human Development, 1 (2). pp. 403-422.

(2007) ‘The Plight of Indian Muslims: Some Missing Links in Sachar Committee Report and a Possible Alternative Model of Affirmative Action.’ Social Action, 57 (3). pp. 244-259.

(2006) ‘Postmodernized Cultural Globalisation: Threatening Folk Culture(s) in India.’ Social Scientist, 34 (9-10). pp. 48-71.

Occasional Papers/Working Papers

(2015) Public Protests and Political Dissent in Our Times. UGC-DRS Occasional Paper Series: Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta.

(2009) Mapping the Socio-Economic Status of Indian Muslims: A Factual Analysis. Working Paper Series I, Vol. 1, No. 2, Programme for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (PSDE), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Book Reviews (Note: Titles of the review essays are given by editors of Journals and Newspapers)

(2019) “The idea of a ‘New India’,” review of Re-forming India: The Nation Today edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal (Penguin/Viking, 2019), The Hindu, June 01.

(2019) ‘Sociology of Religion and Social Movements—A Dialogue’, review of Faith and Social Movements: Religious Reform in Contemporary India by Anindita Chakrabarti (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Book Review, Vol. 43, No. 3 (March Issue), pp. 7-8.

(2018) ‘Crisis in the Free World’, review of Democracy Under Threat by Sunil Munshi (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017), The Telegraph, Kolkata, June 08.

(2017) ‘Take a right turn from here’, review of The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce (London: Little Brown, 2017), The Telegraph, Kolkata, November 24.

(2016) ‘কতটা জনিয় িছল পািকান আোলন’, review of Creating A New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India’ by Venkat Dhulipala (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Anandabazar Patrika, October 15.

4 (2015) ‘মার াচীন ও নবীন ইিতহাস’, review of Mecca: The Sacred City by Ziadduddin Sardar (New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2014) Anandabazar Patrika, July 18.

Contribution in Encyclopaedias, Source Books, Indexes

‘Haj’ and ‘Hello-ji’, in Rukmini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza (eds.), Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury.

Contribution in University Study Material

(May and June 2016) ‘Module III, Comparative Politics: Recent Perspective’, in Postgraduate Political Science Study Material for Paper V: Comparative Politics, Netaji Subhash Open University (Both English and Bangla Version).

(2015-2016) ‘Poverty Alleviation’ and ‘Language Politics in India’ in Paper IV: Indian Government and Politics, Key Resource Person for MHRD project on UGC sponsored Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMMRC), Kolkata.

Other Publications:

Selected Writings in Newspapers, Magazines, Blogs and Online Portals (Note: Titles of the essays are given by editors of Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs)

(2019) ‘ধমিনরেপতা ছেড় অতঃপর রাধেমর পেথ?’ Ei Samay, December 17.

(2019) ‘লাকবাদ কােক বেল?’, Arekrakam, 7 (19-20), October Special Issue, pp. 77-82.

(2019) ‘এনআরিস তািলকাছুটেদর িনেয় কী করেব সরকার?’, Indian Express Bangla, September 17.

(2019) ‘ভয়ই তেব এখন জনগণমন জেয়র হািতয়ার?’, Ei Samay, August 29.

(2019) ‘দল গৗণ, বিেকিক রাজনীিত এখন মুখ’, Indian Express Bangla, August 13.

(2019) ‘বাংলায় িবেজিপ উান’, Indian Express Bangla, July 16.

(2019) ‘২০১৯ লাকসভা িনবাচন এবং িবক রাজনীিতর খাঁজ’, Arekrakam, 7 (12), June 16-30, pp. 25-29.

(2019) ‘মাদীর জেয় কংেেসর অবদানও িক খুব কম’, Ei Samay, June 03.

(2019) ‘আাসী চাের বথ কংেস’, Ei Samay, May 24.

5 (2019) ‘The regional aims to become the new national: The Trinamool in West Bengal’, Asia Dialogue: The Online Magazine of the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, April 18.

(2019) ‘Muslim Minorities and the Consolidation of Trinamool in West Bengal’, South Asia Notes: SOAS South Asia Institute Scholars on the Indian Elections 2019, April 17.

(2019) ‘দড় দশক আেগ িবেরাধীরা সফল, আর এ বার?’, Ei Samay, March 28.

(2018) ‘কংেেসর িজত নািক িবেজিপর হার, সটাই ’, Ei Samay, December 24.

(2018) ‘কন তৃণমূল এত ভাট পায়, ভেবেছন কমেরড?’, Ei Samay, July 19.

(2018) ‘অতঃপর আিলক দলিলই ভিবষেতর িনয়া?’, Ei Samay, June 12.

(2018) অেশাক িমর ৃিতেত: ‘পাতের ঊেধ আেদাপা রাজৈনিতক মানুষ’, Ei Samay, May 07.

(2018) ‘ হল, কংেস জাট গড়েত কতটা উৎসুক’, Ei Samay, March 20.

(2018) ‘বামপীরা হেতাদম, তৃণমূলই এখন নব-বাম?’, Ei Samay, February 07.

(2017) “অবেশেষ মাদীর ‘আে িদন’ িচের মুেখ?”, Ei Samay, December 21.

(2017) ‘Why Indian Muslims had to wait so many decades for the ban on triple talaq?’, WION, August 25.

(2017) ‘বল নাগিরক সমাজ, ফেল পাই একমা ভরসা’, Ei Samay, May 30.

(2017) ‘আেটর দশেকর বাম = হাল আমেলর তৃণমূল?’, Ei Samay, January 10.

(2016) ‘িশের নয়, িশায়েনর িবক পথ খাঁজা জির’, Ei Samay, September 14.

(2016) ‘Can We Speak In/With Silence’? Alochona (Dialogue), August 26.

(2016) ‘বােমরাই বামপায় নই, জােটর কী দাষ?’, Ei Samay, July 19.

(2016) ‘The Construct of Islamic Terror’, The Indian Express, July 16.

(2016) ‘সিেণ বাংলােদশ, মৗলবাদীরা িবচিলত’, Ei Samay, July 12.

(2016) ‘Islamists and their Refracted Anger’, The Hindu, July 07.

(2016) ‘বাংলােদশ ও মৗলবাদ’, Arekrakam, 4 (13), July 1-15, pp. 21-23.

(2016) ‘মতাদেশই সমসা, সংগঠন চাা হেব কী কের?’, Ei Samay, May 30.

6 (2016) ‘পিরবতন না তাবতন, কী আেছ ভিবতেব?’, Ei Samay, April 21.

(2016) ‘লুেনকথা’, Arekrakam, 4 (6), March 16-31, pp. 48-51.

(2016) ‘সিহুতা নয় সমানািধকার চাই’, Deshkaal Bhabna, 7 (15), March 5, pp. 24-25.

(2016) ‘শষ হেরর জােটর ডােক বািজমাত হেব িক?’, Ei Samay, February 16.

(2016) “গণতে ‘সহ করা’র টা আসেছ কী ভােব?”, Ei Samay, January 07.

(2015) ‘রসায়ন আেছ, পাগিণতও আেছ’, Anandabazar Patrika, November 10.

(2015) ‘ক কী খােব, তােত রাের কী’, Anandabazar Patrika, October 29.

(2015) ‘কী খাব, তা সাদািয়ক শিই বেল দেব?’, Ei Samay, October 29.

(2015) ‘এই িহংসার িপছেন য অথনীিত’, Anandabazar Patrika, October 08.

(2015) ‘িসেডি মশ মৃতুর িদেক এেগাে’, Anandabazar Patrika, September 16.

(2015) with Garga Chattopadhyay. ‘বেড়া দলিলর আালেন থমেক রাজনীিত, রাজবাসীর দনিন সমসা িনেয় কউ ভােব?’, Ei Samay, September 14.

(2015) ‘Between Nation-State and Ummah’s Appeal: The Contradictions of Islamism in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, OXPOL: The Oxford University Politics Blog, April 20.

(2015) ‘Limits of Islamism in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, Alochona (Dialogue), April 18.

(2015) ‘মৗলবাদী হানায় কারও াণ গেল বাঝা যায়, িবােসর িভি ভুর হেয়েছ’ ও ‘াধীন নয় মানুষ হেত চাওয়া মানুষেলা...’, Editorial page essay in two parts, Ei Samay, April 06-07.

(2015) ‘ধময় মৗলবাদ ও সাসবাদ’, Arekrakam, 3 (2). January, 16-31 January. pp. 30-33.

(2015) ‘বাংলায় সাদািয়ক রাজনীিতর িভি’, Sramajibi Bhasha, 5 (4). pp. 12-14.

(2014) ‘উয়ন, অিধকার আর জীিবকার পিরবেত এখন তক হেব অনুেবশ িনেয়?’, Ei Samay, December 22.

(2014) তপন রায়েচৗধুরীর ৃিতেত: ‘এক ছাো সুখৃিত’, Ei Samay, December 22.

(2014) ‘দশজুেড়ই উপিনবাচেন প িকছুটা িফেক িক, পিমবে তার উো ছিব কন?’, Ei Samay, September 24.

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(2014) ‘ভােট িহুের থেক মাদী সফলতর তাই অথনীিতর ে আরএসএস নীরব?’, Ei Samay, August 07.

(2014) ‘২০১৪ িনবাচনী ফলাফল ও বামপার গিতকৃিত’, Arekrakam, 2 (11). June, 1-15. pp. 26-28.

(2014) ‘রােজ ফর জিম হারাল বাম’, Ei Samay, May 17.

(2014) ‘পিরবতন?’, Ei Samay, May 14.

(2014) ‘দিলত মুখমী হেলই সব সমসার সমাধান?’ ও ‘সংরণ কানও িবশলকরণী নয়’, Editorial page essay in two parts, Ei Samay March 25-26.

(2013) “কংেস-িবেজিপর বাইের তৃতীয় িবক হেয় উঠেত পারেব ‘আপ’?”, Ei Samay, December 3.

(2013) ‘বামের ভাট পাঁচ বছর ধেরই কমেছ: কংেস-তৃণমূল ভাট ভােগ তােদর কী লাভ?’, Ei Samay, September 4.

(2013) ‘Lumpen Living, High Thinking: Bengal’s Ominous Political Trends.’ Frontier, 45 (49), June 16-22. pp. 7-10.

(2011) with Subhashini Ali. ‘Status of Muslims in West Bengal’, The Hindu, April 14.

(2010) ‘The Limits of Indian Secularism’, The Bengal Post, October 8.

(2009) ‘Nandigram in the Digital Domain: Spaces they Occupy’, Five Issues, Nos. 3 & 4 (December), pp. 261-277, edited by Gopika Jadeja under the theme-based issue, A Performance- Publishing Interface.

(2007) ‘Censored JNU/(un)sensor Politics: Body/Bawdy, Love/Lust, Us versus Them: The Struggle Against Censorship, Struggles for Democratic Space’, Five Issues, No. 2 (April), pp. 68-95, edited by Gopika Jadeja under the theme-based issue, Indian Performance Texts: Content And Modernity.

(2007) ‘Dialogue with an (un)acknowledged intellectual: reminiscences on Marxist sexuality’, Voices: a little magazine from JNU, Vol. 4 (January), pp. 5-8.

(2007) ‘Saddam’s Pre-Determined Execution and Dynamics of Imperialism,’ People’s Democracy, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 07).

Part of Ongoing Institutional Project Mellon Supranational Project on Decolonization, the Disciplines, and the University funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for 5 years (January 2019—December 2023). Total Project Value: $1.5 million; Total Funds Allotted to CSSSC for the entire project: $2,68,263.

8 Teaching Experience

Courses Taught

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta [March 2016 onwards] Parts of courses in the MPhil Course Work: (1) Rethinking Political Theory [Semester 2: 2016 onwards] (2) Interrogating Political Economy: An Interdisciplinary Approach [Semester 1: 2018] (3) Research Methods in Social Sciences [Semester 1: 2017 onwards] (4) Modernity and the Making of the Social [Semester 1: 2016] (5) Vocabulary of the Social Sciences [Semester 1: 2016] (6) Biopolitics, Ethics and Subjectivation [Semester 2: 2016]

Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata [Guest Faculty: August 2016—December 2016]

MA: Advanced Political Theory

Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata [January 2014—January 2016]

Undergraduate (BA Major) Full paper: Foundations in Political Theory [Semester 1]

Parts of undergraduate (BA Major) courses: (1) Liberal Political Thought [Semester 2] (2) Marxist Political Theory [Semester 4] (3) Emerging Issues in Political Science [Semester 6] (4) Western Political Thinkers: Locke, Mill and Marx [GenEd Course: Semester 2]

Parts of postgraduate (MA) courses: (1) Contemporary Debates in Political Theory [Semester 1] (2) Contemporary Debates in Marxism [Semester 1] (3) Studies in Comparative Politics [Semester 2: Taught only for one semester]

TISS (Tuljapur) [August 2012—February 2013]

MASW (Master of Arts in Social Work) (1) Concept, History and Theories of Development [Semester 1] (2) State, Democracy and Polity [Semester 2] (3) Social Aspects of Poverty and Theories of Social Justice [Semester 2]

BASS (Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences) (1) Introduction to Political Science [Semester 2]

9 Supervision and Thesis Evaluation

MPhil Supervision: Awarded

1) Judaline Torcato, Making a World of a Difference: Justice in the Thought of Iris Marion Young (CSSSC: 2017) 2) Pushan Sarkar, Making of an Urban Working-Class: A Case Study of Calcutta Tramways, 1873-1948 (CSSSC: 2017) 3) Biswajit Prasad Hazam, The Transformation of the Party Organization and Political Representation in West Bengal: An Analysis of Left Front to Trinamool Congress through Elections (CSSSC: 2018)

Current MPhil Students:

1) Ahana Chakrabarti, Who is a Citizen?: Examining the Citizenship Discourse in India (CSSSC: Tentative Title)

Current PhD Students:

1. Adwitya Thapa, Statehood and the Darjeeling Hills: Implication for West Bengal Politics (CSSSC: Confirmed PhD title) 2. Ayan Das, Populism and Governance: A Study of West Bengal Politics from 1991-2016 (CSSSC: Confirmed PhD Title) 3. Dhritiman Chakraborty, Dilemmas of Postcolonial Development: An Enquiry into the Politics of Two Dissident Movements (CSSSC: Submitted) 4. Dwaipayan Banerjee, Contrasting Modes of Working Class Movements in India Since 1980 (CSSSC: Confirmed PhD title)

Thesis Evaluation:

External Examiner, PhD, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2018)

External Examiner, MPhil in Social Sciences, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2015)

External Examiner, JRF to SRF promotion, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2014)

Referee for Journals Theory and Society, Modern Asian Studies, Studies in Indian Politics, Social Semiotics, Development in Practice, Rethinking Marxism, Nations and Nationalism, Economic and Political Weekly, History and Sociology of South Asia, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Kalyani Journal of Political Studies, Socialist Perspective: A Quarterly Journal of Social Sciences.

10 Referee for Book Manuscripts and Research Monographs Book Manuscript (Routledge, London), Book Manuscript (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), Book Manuscript (Routledge, New Delhi), Book Manuscript (Sage Publications, New Delhi), Book Manuscript (Springer), Research Monograph (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka).

Membership in Professional Bodies Association for Political Theory Council for Political Studies West Bengal Political Science Association

Interviews (Note: Titles of the Interviews are given by editors of Newspapers)

(2019) ‘Mamata will be a very decisive player’, Deccan Herald. May 12.

(2019) ‘There has been a distinct political articulation of Moditva, a Right-wing populism’, The Telegraph, Kolkata. March 31.

(2019) ‘Post-Sachar Report, Condition of Indian Muslims Unchanged’, The Wire (thewire.in). February 20.

(2017) ‘So, what about Malda?’ The Telegraph, Kolkata. July 16.

(2016) ‘Not Tolerance but need Equal Rights’, Samakal, Dhaka. February 26.

(2016) ‘Jamaat is certainly not anti-capitalist’, Dhaka Tribune. February 05.

(2016) ‘Jamaat has accepted modernisation’, Dhaka Tribune. February 04.

(2015) ‘Cartoons caricaturing Muslims are not new’, The Telegraph, Kolkata. February 08.

Academic Papers/Talks in Seminars, Conferences and Workshops

Panel Discussant: Paul Wallace (ed.), India’s 2019 Elections: The Hindutva Wave and Indian Nationalism (New Delhi: Sage, 2020), Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata (18 January 2020).

‘Manobadhikar: Desh Kaal Shomaj’ (Human Rights: Country, Time and Society), Malda Women’s College (10 December 2019).

Panel Discussant: Rakhahari Chatterjee and Partha Pratim Bose (eds.), West Bengal under the Left 1977-2011 (London: Routledge, 2019), Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (20 November 2019).

11 ‘Citizenship Debates and Rightwing Populism: Majoritarian Political Rhetoric in Contemporary India’, Two-day National Seminar on Citizenship in Contemporary Times, sponsored by ICSSR- ERC and organised by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (19-20 November 2019).

‘Representation of Bengali Muslims in Bangla Films in Contemporary West Bengal’, Two Day International Conference on Bengali Muslims at the Crossroads: Possibilities and Challenges, organized by the Bengali Academia for Social Empowerment (BASE) and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aliah University (16-17 November 2019)

‘Electoral Democracy and State Populism in India’, Annual Conference of the Association for Political Theory, University of California, Irvine (24-26 October 2019).

‘Populism and Populist Politics in Contemporary India’, Krea University, Sri City (09 October 2019).

‘Populism and Populist Governance: An Indian Perspective’, Methodology Workshop on Development Policy Research, Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan (27 September 2019).

‘Triple Talaq Bill and Reforming the Muslim Personal Law in India’, in Two-day International Conference on Making Sense of Muslim Personal Laws in Post-Independence India, supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research and jointly organised by Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad and CSDS, New Delhi (Hyderabad: 20-21 September 2019).

‘Electoral Democracy and the Nature of State Populism in West Bengal’, in an international conference on Populism and Populist Politics in South Asia, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata (31 August and 01 September 2019).

‘Politics of the Discipline: The State of Political Science at Calcutta and Dhaka Universities, 1948-1977’, First Symposium of Mellon Supranational Project on Decolonisation, Disciplines, and the University funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (30 March 2019).

‘Indian Muslims after Liberalization’, Book Talk at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, Sonipat (15 March 2019).

‘Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization’, Book Conversation with Shruti Kapila at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi (14 March 2019).

‘Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization’, Book talk at the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (14 March 2019).

‘Indian Muslims in an era of Financial Liberalization’, Book talk at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (13 March 2019).

12 ‘Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization’, Book talk at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi (12 March 2019).

‘Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization’, Book talk at Janki Devi Memorial College, New Delhi (11 March 2019).

‘International Politics and the Structural Trends of World History’, Closing Address of a conference on International Relations and International Politics organised by Tillotoma Foundation, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (15 February 2019).

‘Who talks about Human Rights?’, Refresher Course on The U.N. and the Global Perspectives of Human Rights (Inter-disciplinary) under the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, (13 November 2018). ‘Populism, State and the Logic of Governance II: Leftwing Versus Rightwing Modes of Populism’, Special Summer School on Social Studies for College and University Teachers, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta (06 September 2018).

‘Populism, State and the Logic of Governance I: A Theoretical Exposition’, Special Summer School on Social Studies for College and University Teachers, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta (13 September 2018).

‘Indian Muslim(s) After Liberalisation’, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (22 June 2018).

‘Secularism without Tolerance’, UGC-CPE Sponsored National Conference on Secularism: Current Trends, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah (16 March 2018).

‘Land Acquisition and Notes on Combined Accumulation of Capital in Contemporary India’, in Capital in the East, International Conference to Commemorate 150th year of the Publication of Karl Marx’s Capital (Volume One), Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata (30-31 January 2018).

‘Big National Parties in West Bengal: An Exceptional Outcast?’ in International Workshop on Political Economy of Sub-National Regions: Comparative Studies of Indian States, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (12 January 2018).

‘Is Corruption Democratised in India? Observations from Politics and Development’ Panel Discussant in International Workshop on Political Economy of Sub-National Regions: Comparative Studies of Indian States, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (11 January 2018).

‘How to Defend Independent Media?’ Panel discussant on Regional and Social Media in the Seventh Anjan Ghosh Memorial Seminar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (16 September 2017).

13 ‘Research Training Seminar,’ Key Resource Person for PhD Students, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (26 May 2017).

‘The Empire of Neoliberalism’, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (16 March 2017).

‘No to Tolerance, Yes to Equal Rights: Analysing the Contemporary Indian Debates on the Right to Life and Liberty’, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka (06 March 2017).

‘Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Phase of Imperialism’ at the one day National seminar on Post-Globalisation, Empire and Identities, Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal (17 February 2017).

‘Between Heard and Hurt: The Paradox of Free Speech’, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (20 January 2017).

‘The Legacy of the Left’, Panel Discussant at the 10th Jaipur Literature Festival (19 January 2017).

‘Conceptualising Tolerance: From Liberal Silence to Authoritarian Silencing of Democratic Value of Equality’, Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts, Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan (19 November 2016).

‘The Changing Nature of Representative Democracy: From Party Centric Mobilisation to Leader Centric Mobilisation’ at the one day seminar on Representation and Democratic Politics, Sixth Anjan Ghosh Memorial Seminar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (26 September 2016).

‘Women and Politics: Paradoxes of Representation’, at the UGC sponsored national seminar on Women Empowerment: A Third World Perspective, Sivanath Sastri College, Kolkata (05 September, 2016).

‘Indian Muslim(s), Ambedkar and the Radical Democratic Politics’, at the national seminar on Prabuddha Bharat: Understanding Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Passage of Time, Asiatic Society, Kolkata (27 August 2016).

‘Can we speak in/with silence’? Department of Media Studies and Journalism, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, Dhaka (20 August 2016).

‘Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, Book Talk at University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, Dhaka (07 April 2016).

‘The Islamist Party and Comparative Analysis of Jamaat-e-Islami in India and Bangladesh’, Book Talk at Bangladesh Institute of Social Research, Dhaka (02 April 2016).

14 ‘The Illiberal Idea of Tolerance in Liberal Democracy’, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (18 March 2016).

‘Muslims in Bengal: Development and Empowerment’, organized by Independent Journalist Society, Rotary Sadan, Calcutta (06 March 2016).

‘Antagonism and Agonism: Conceptual Relevance in International Politics’, in UGC-HRDC Refresher Course on “INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS: RECENT TRENDS”, Jadavpur University (01-22 February 2016).

‘Dissent, Democracy and Public Policy’ in the ONGC Panel on Human Values, Democracy and Public Policy at the Second International Conference on Contemporary Debates in Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (16 January 2016).

‘Culture/Religion and Governance’, at the one day seminar on Governing India: Present Challenges and Future Prospects, organized by Manicktala Social Action Research Centre in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta (08 January 2016).

‘Women, Democracy and Human Rights in South Asia’ in Celebrating South Asian Women’s Day for Peace, Democracy, Justice and Human Rights, organised by SWAYAM, Panel Discussant, Rotary Sadan, Kolkata (30 November 2015).

‘On Human Rights’, Rani Dhanya Kumari College, Jiaganj, Murshidabad, seminar financed by UGC (26 November 2015).

‘Politics, Rules and Marginality: The Logic of Power and the People’, Department of Political Science, Scottish Church College, Kolkata (05 October 2015).

‘Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, Book Talk at Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (01 October 2015).

‘Can Islamism Offer an Alternative Political Economy System’? Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat (30 September 2015).

‘Research Training Seminar,’ Key Resource Person for PhD Students, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (14 August 2015).

‘Between Onuprobesh (Infiltration), Obhibashon (Immigration) and Shoronarthi (Refugee): Examining the Political Rhetoric of BJP on Citizenship in Contemporary West Bengal’, South Asia Day, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (28 May 2015).

‘Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, Book Talk in South Asia Day, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (28 May 2015).

15 ‘The Realignment of Political Forces in Indian Democracy: Some Latest Trends’, Democracy and Federalism in India: Some Latest Trends, A Tri-University Seminar supported by UGC, involving Departments of Political Science of Calcutta University and Presidency University, and Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University; Presidency University, Kolkata (27 March 2015).

‘The Elusive yet Necessary Idea of Justice’, National Seminar on Is There an Adequate Theory of Justice, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (20-21 March 2015).

‘New Frontiers of Research in the Contemporary World,’ Key Resource Person for PhD Research Students, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (13 March 2015).

‘Indian Politics in Bollywood Cinema’, Loreto College, Kolkata (6 February 2015).

‘Inequality and Disadvantaged Communities: Lessons from the India Exclusion Report 2013- 14’, Panel Discussant, Rotary Sadan, Kolkata (27 January 2015).

‘Regional Political Parties and Indian Democracy’, Seminar organized by Presidency Alumni Association, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (18 December 2014).

‘Ascendancy of Right in Contemporary Indian Politics’, Department of Political Science, Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College, Kolkata (12 December 2014).

‘Two Forms of Protests and Two Ethics of Dissent in Our Times’, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (12 November 2014).

‘Political Behaviour of Religious Minorities in West Bengal’, ICSSR sponsored conference on Elections 2014: Implications for Dalits and Minorities in India, Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minority Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (2-3 September 2014).

‘Moditva’s rise to power: Signposts from the postcolonial populist democracy in India’, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (27 June 2014).

‘Critical Perspectives in Politics and Economics’, Special Lecture Series of Jadavpur University Heterodox Economics Association, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University (April 2014).

‘Ernesto Laclau and the Possibility of Postmodern Politics’, UGC sponsored conference titled The Postmodern Paradigm in Philosophy under the Special Assistance Programme (SAP) at the Department of Philosophy, North Bengal University (13-14 February 2014).

‘Public Protests and Political Dissent in Our Times’, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (07 February 2014).

‘Indian Muslims and the Radical Democratic Project’, International Conference on Democracies in South Asia and the Role of the Left, organised by Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata and sponsored by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin (Kolkata: 20-22 November 2013).

16 ‘Imag(in)ing Indian Muslims in Post-Liberalization Hindi Cinema’, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (24 October 2013).

‘Indian Muslim(s) in the Globalized World’, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (16 May 2013).

‘Public Protests and Political Dissent in Indian Democracy’, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta (21 March 2013).

‘On Identity’, National Workshop for Research students on Marginalisation and Resistance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Tuljapur Campus), Maharashtra (03 February 2013).

‘Avatar: A Cinema Speaking about Empire’, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Tuljapur Campus), Maharashtra (27 August 2012).

‘Rethinking Muslim Question in Post-Colonial India’, National Seminar on Minorities and the Margins: Colonial Encounter and Post-Colonial Discourses, Programme for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (JNU, New Delhi, 17—18 February 2011).

‘Political Ontology of Islamism’, Centre for Political Ideologies, University of Oxford (25 November 2010).

‘Critical Perspectives on Amartya Sen’s Idea of Justice’, Department of Economics and Politics, Viswa Bharati, Shantiniketan (04 September 2010).

‘The Death and Life of Civilization’, Association for Baha’I Studies-Baha’I International Politics and Law Special Interest Group (ABS-BIPOLIG) One day Conference on Building Civilisation, Kellogg College, Oxford (06 February 2010).

‘Religion and Political Ideology: Towards Morphology of Islamism’, Centre for Political Ideologies, University of Oxford (21 January 2010).

‘Morphology of Islamism: Limits of Ideological Articulations of Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh’, Graduate Research in Progress Seminar, Nuffield College, Oxford (13 November 2009).

‘Morphology of Islamism: Ideologisation of Religion in a Globalized India’, Global Congress on World’s Religions after September 11—An Asian Perspective, organized by Centre for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi & Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Canada (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 17—19 January 2009).

‘Religion, Modernity and Politics of Nationalism: The Experience of the Islamic World’, Brasenose College, Oxford (30 April 2008).

‘Construction of Islamism: Ideologisation of a Religion’, Centre for Political Ideologies, University of Oxford (07 February 2008).

17 ‘Indian Muslims under the Regime of Cultural Globalisation: Looking Through the Lens of Bollywood Cinema’, Department of History, Presidency College, Kolkata (22 September 2007).

‘Nationalism and Islam: In Search of a Subaltern Maududi’, 12th Cultural Studies Workshop jointly organised by Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta (CSSSC), South South Exchange Programme in the History of Development (SEPHIS, Netherlands), Ford Foundation (India) and ENRECA (DANIDA, Copenhagen) (Hyderabad, 28 January—02 February 2007).

‘Political Islam in an age of Imperialism and Terrorism’, Annual Academic Seminar of Calcutta Presidency College Alumni Association (Delhi Chapter), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (02 September 2006).

‘Verdict 2004: From Identities to Issues and Interests?’, UGC sponsored LeftWord International Young Scholar’s Seminar, jointly organised by LeftWord Books and Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 04—06 April, 2006).

Visiting Appointments

Guest Faculty, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (August— December 2016). Course Taught: ADVANCED POLITICAL THEORY (Postgraduate course).

Invitee Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Presidency College, Kolkata (December 2005). Course Taught: INDIAN POLITICS (Undergraduate course).

Administrative Responsibilities

Convenor, Seminar Committee, CSSSC (2019—)

Member, PhD Sub-Committee, CSSSC (2016—)

Invited Member, MPhil Sub-Committee, CSSSC (2016—)

Convenor, Equal Opportunity Office Preparatory Committee, CSSSC (2018—)

Convenor, Committee to Initiate Paid Training Courses, CSSSC (2018-19)

Member, Library Committee, CSSSC (2017-18)

Member, CAS Sub-Committee, CSSSC (2016-2017)

Member, Service Book Sub-Committee, CSSSC (2016—)

Member, Cultural Studies Workshop Sub-Committee, CSSSC (2016-2017)

Teacher-in-charge of Sports, Presidency University, Kolkata (2014—2015)

Convenor, Seminar Committee, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (2014—2016)

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Convenor, Admissions Review Sub-Committee, Presidency University Kolkata (2014)

Member, Presidency Undergraduate Admission Test Sub-Committee (External centre: Jalpaiguri) [2014]

Guest Editor, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. XIX, No. 1 & 2 (2012: Backlog issue published in 2015) [Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla]

Co-convenor, National Seminar on India’s Political Economy in Transition: The Crisis of Governance, Democracy and Development (Jointly organised by Department of Political Science at Goa University, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and Indian Council of Social Science Research): Goa University, 21-22 December, 2013.

Project Associate, Programme for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2006—2007). Helped to prepare an Empirical field based study: ‘Caste and Community-Based Labour Market Discrimination: A Pilot Study in Noida’, Working Paper Series I, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), Programme for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (PSDE), School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Principal Investigator: Dr. Praveen K. Jha, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, JNU.

Languages and Technical Skills Fluent in English, Bengali and Hindi. Excellent communication skills in Urdu. Well versed in MS Word, Excel, Endnote (bibliographic), Turnitin and Grammarly.

Professional Expertise Occasional appearance as a political analyst in several Bengali and English news channels and All India Radio. Gives expert opinions on Indian and West Bengal politics to several national and international media houses.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of the Presidency Alumni Team winning the Udayan Mukherjee Memorial Debate (19th January 2016).

Member of the Best Institution (Presidency University) in the First Sudhangshu Dasgupta Inter- institutional Memorial Debate (12th September 2014).

Captain of the winning Presidency alumni team in the Past vs Present Cricket match (17th January 2015).

Captain of the winning Presidency alumni team in the Past vs Present Cricket match (18th January 2014).

Leader of the Presidency Alumni Team winning the Udayan Mukherjee Memorial Debate (17th January 2014).

19 Upper and Middle Order Batsman, Brasenose College (Oxford) 1st XI Cricket Team (2010): unbeatable Division Three Champions, Oxford College League 2010.

Middle Order Batsman, Oxford University Graduate Team (2010).

Upper Order Batsman, Brasenose College (Oxford) 1st XI Cricket Team (2008) winning Steve Stuart Memorial Cup against Jesus College, Cambridge (26th April 2008).

Life Member, OXFORD UNION (October 2007 onwards).

Member of Runners-Up Team, Inter School Annual Cricket Competitions, JNU (2004-05).

Champion, Inter Hostel Chess Championship, JNU (2004 & 2005).

Runner-Up, Inter Hostel Debate Competition, JNU (2004).

Cricket Captain, Presidency College, Kolkata (2002-03).

Captain of Champion Team, Inter Department Cricket Tournament, Presidency College, Kolkata (2001).

Debater in Live Yuba Utsab in All India Radio, Calcutta, 12th January 2001.

Academic references can be provided when requested.

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