Visva-Bharati Santiniketan 731235 INDIA SELF-STUDY REPORT Part - C Vol. 2 Evaluative Report of the Departments Submitted to National Assessment and Accreditation Council 2014 C O N T E N T S VIDYA-BHAVANA ( INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ) Economics and Politics 1 Philosophy and Religion 39 Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology (A.I.H.C. & A.) 61 Journalism and Mass Communication 71 Geography 89 Anthropology 103 History 113 BHASHA-BHAVANA ( INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE ) Bengali 130 English and Other Modern European Languages (DEOMEL) 151 Sanskrit, Pali & Prakrit 196 Hindi 213 Chinese Language & Culture 236 Japanese 253 Indo-Tibetan Studies 266 Odia 281 Santali 297 Arabic, Persian, Urdu & Islamic Studies 308 Assamese 318 Marathi 326 Tamil 334 PALLI SAMGATHANA VIBHAGA ( INSTITUTE OF RURAL RECONSTRUCTION ) Palli Charcha Kendra 342 Lifelong Learning and Extension 357 Silpa Sadana 376 Social Work 401 Women's Studies Centre 431 Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana 1 Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics 1. Name of the Department : Department of Economics and Politics 2. Year of establishment : 1953 3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university? Yes, Vidya-Bhavana 4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) : a) Ph. D in Economics b) Ph D in Political science c) M Phil in Economics d) MA in Economics e) BA(Hons) in Economics f) BA (subsidiary/ allied) in Economics g) BA (subsidiary/ allied) in Political Science h) BA (subsidiary/ allied) in Integrated Mathematics & Statistics 5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved: Students of BA(Hons) in Economics are required to take Allied or Subsidiary courses in History/ Ancient History/ Mathematics/Statistics/Bengali/English etc from the respective Departments. 6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc.: None 7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons: No 8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit System: Semester with Choice Based Credit System 9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: a) Pranab Kr. Chattopahyay and Sarbajit Sengupta were involved in teaching the MA Optional paper on Finance offered by the Department of Statistics during 2009-2011. b) Pranab Kr. Chattopadhyay was involved in teaching the course on Environmental Studies to BA/BSc students offered by the Department of Environmental Science during 2008-12. Self-Study Report of the Visva-Bharati 2 Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana c) Pranab Kr. Chattopadhyay was involved in teaching the course on Tagore Studies to BA/BSc students offered by Rabindra Bhavana during2008-10. d) Economics Department Faculties are also associated with Ph. D. programmes of other Departments within Visva-Bharati (e.g., Department of Geography) and also with the Departments of other University (e.g., Department of Economics & Department of Commerce of the University of Calcutta) in supervisory capacities 10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/ Associate Professors/ Asst. Professors/ others) : Actual (including CAS Sanctioned Filled & MPS) Professor 2 2 7 Associate Professors 5 5 3 Asst. Professors 13 10 7 Others - - - 11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance: a) Name : Madhusudan Ghosh Qualification : M.A., Ph.D, Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : Agri. Eco; Devt. Eco; Macro Economics; Time-series econometrics, Indian Eco. No. of Years of Experience : 32 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 02 (Ph.D: 1, M.Phil.:1) b) Name : Sarbajit Sengupta Qualification : M.A., Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : Industrial Econ., Micro Econ., International Trade, Econ. of Education. No. of Years of Experience : 24 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. Students guided for the last 4 years : 04 (Ph.D: 4) c) Name : Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay Qualification : M.A., Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Self-Study Report of the Visva-Bharati Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana 3 Specialization : Hist. of Econ. Thought; Econometrics; Environmental economics. No. of Years of Experience : 32 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 15 (Ph.D: 12, M.Phil.:3) d) Name : Mamata Ray Qualification : M.A., Ph.D Designation : Professor (Political Sc.) Specialization : Indian Political Thought No. of Years of Experience : 27 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 01(Ph.D: 1,) e) Name : Sudipta Bhattacharya Qualification : M.Sc., M.Phil, Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : Agril. Economics; Monetary Econ.; Marxian Econ. No. of Years of Experience : 23 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 12 (Ph.D: 11, M.Phil.:1) f) Name : Pranab Basu Qualification : M.A., Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : International trade; Economic thought No. of Years of Experience : 35 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 02 (Ph.D: 2) g) Name : Apurba Kumar Chattopadhyay Qualification : Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : Agril Econ, Devt. Economics, Economics of planning, Environmental economics No. of Years of Experience : 21 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 07 (Ph.D: 6, M.Phil.:1) Self-Study Report of the Visva-Bharati 4 Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana h) Name : Jagabandhu Saha Qualification : M.Stat, Ph.D Designation : Professor (Economics) Specialization : Econometrics, Inventory theory No. of Years of Experience : 25 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : Nil i) Name : Santadas Ghosh Qualification : M.Sc., MCA, Ph.D Designation : Associate Professor (Economics) Specialization : Econometrics, Environmental Economics No. of Years of Experience : 14 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 02 (Ph.D: 1, M.Phil.:1) j) Name : Soumya Chakrabarty Qualification : Ph.D Designation : Associate Professor (Economics) Specialization : Advance Economic Theory, Marxian Economics, Macroeconomics. No. of Years of Experience : 14 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 08 (Ph.D: 5, M.Phil.:3) k) Name : Uttam Kumar Sikdar Qualification : M.Sc., M.Phil Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : Statistics and Econometrics, Devt. Economics, Macroeconomics No. of Years of Experience : 13 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : Nil l) Name : Biswajit Mandal Qualification : M.Sc., M.Phil, Ph.D Designation : Assistant Professor Specialization : International Economics, Devt. Eco; Econometrics No. of Years of Experience : 13 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students Self-Study Report of the Visva-Bharati Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana 5 guided for the last 4 years : 02 (Ph.D: 2) m) Name : Amit Biswas Qualification : M.A., Ph.D Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : International trade, Econometrics No. of Years of Experience : 12 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 02 (Ph.D: 2) n) Name : Soumyadip Chattopadhyay Qualification : M.Sc., Ph.D Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : Econometrics; Urban Economics No. of Years of Experience : 11 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : 06 (Ph.D: 2, M.Phil.: 4) o) Name : Achiransu Acharya Qualification : M.Sc. Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : International Economics; Environment and Resource Economics No. of Years of Experience : 09 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : Nil p) Name : Biswajit Halder Qualification : M.A., M.Phil Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : Indian Economy; Development Economics No. of Years of Experience : 11 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. students guided for the last 4 years : Nil q) Name : Anamika Moktan Qualification : M.A. Designation : Assistant Professor (Economics) Specialization : International trade; Environmental Economics No. of Years of Experience : 04 No. of Ph.D./M.Phil. Students Self-Study Report of the Visva-Bharati 6 Evaluative Report of the Department of Economics and Politics, Vidya-Bhavana guided for the last 4 years : Nil 12. List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, emeritus professors: Adjunct Faculty: a) Professor Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. b) Professor Ramprasad Sengupta, CESP, Jawharalal Nehru University. c) Professor Jack Reardon, Department of Management and Economics, School of Business, Hamline University, USA. d) Antony P. De Costa, Professor of Indian Studies and Research, Asia Research Centre, Copenhegen Business School, Denmark. e) Pinaki Bose, Visiting Fellow, University of Manitoba, Canada. f) Dr. Feisal Abbas, South Asian University, New Delhi. g) Dr. Subrata Mondal, Ambedkar University, New Delhi 13. Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty — programme-wise: 5% 14. Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio: Programmes Students Teachers Student Teacher Ratio BA ((subsidiary) Pol Sc 40 1 40:1 BA (subsidiary) 18 3 6:1 Economics BA (subsidiary) Integrated 21 4 5.25:1 Mathematics & Stat BA