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Prof. Pradip Kumar Datta

Prof.
  Professor
     Faculty of Social Sciences, North Campus
 
     
2766 6670
9868206469
     pradip.pk@gmail.com

Educational Qualifications

History

Delhi University

1997

Thesis topic:  Hindu Muslim relations in Bengal in the 1920’s.

History

Delhi University

1984

Subjects:History (Europe, Modern India)

English

Delhi University

1981

Subjects: M.Phil ( 8 areas)

Career Profile

Dept of Political Science (DU)

Reader, Professor

2002 to present

Teaching, supervision

Sri Venkateswara College (DU)

Lecturer, Reader

1988-2002

Teaching

Bhagat Singh College Evening (DU)

Lecturer

1984-88

Teaching

Areas of Specialization / Interest

Dept of Political Science (DU)

Reader, Professor

2002 to present

Teaching, supervision

Sri Venkateswara College (DU)

Lecturer, Reader

1988-2002

Teaching

Bhagat Singh College Evening (DU)

Lecturer

1984-88

Teaching

Subjects Taught

Interpreting India, Themes in Indian Political Thought, Modern Indian Political Thinkers (currently); English Literature (1977-2002 including post-graduate teaching under co-operative scheme); Communal Politics (2000-02 under post-graduate co-operative teaching scheme in the History Dept, DU, M.Phil (joint seminar co-ordinator, 2000-2003)

Publications Profile

Books/Monographs (Authored/Edited)

Datta, Pradip and Ganchil. 2007. Nandigram and other struggles: The emergence of new social movements in India.

Research papers published in Refereed/Peer Reviewed Journals

Datta, Pradip and Ganchil. 2007. The interlocking worlds of the Anglo Boer War in South Africa\India. The Journal of South African History.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION/PRESENTATIONS

“Hindutva and the logic of the competitive self”, Hansraj College, National Seminar, March, 2010

“Revisiting Rabindranath, rethinking the “Global” and its identity antagonisms”, Visva Bharati, “Swadeshi Samaj: Rabindranath Tagore and the Nation”, National Seminar, February, 2010

“Gandhi, Tagore and the Imperial Subject during the Anglo Boer War” National Seminar, Loreto College Calcutta, Feb. 2010

“ Colonial Domination and the logic of  conflictual identities in India”, “The Colonial Question”, National University of Colombia, Bogota, November 2009, International Conference

“The resistant intimacies of inter community love”, Renegotiating intimacies: marriage, sexualities, living practices”, School of Womens Studies, Jadavpur University, National Conference, Dec. 2009.

“Gandhi Today: The Rizwanur movement and the possibilities of Gandhigiri”,Beyond Nationalism: The thought and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, National Conference, March 2009.

“Recovering Hindutva’s interlocutors: Tagore’s critique of Hindutva”, Hindu Nationalist Organisations in Social and Political Context., CPS, JNU, international conference, Nov, 2008.

“Marginal habitations and spectacular presences: Ramkinkar’s Santiniketan and his environmental sculptures”. 20th conference of The International Association of Historians of Asia, JNU. Panel on “Gender Discourse in Asian History: Imaging Feminity and Masculinity”, November, 2008.

“The Anglo Boer War and the interlocking worlds of the South Africa and India”, “South Africa\India; Reimagining the Disciplines” Colloquium. University of Witwatersrand, International conference, May, 2008.

“Toleration, secularism and the problem of common belonging”, Indo French workshop on Indian Secularism and French Laicite, ICSSR and Maison Des Sciences de L’ Homme, Paris, Delhi, March 02-05, 2007.

“New modes of spatial governance in contemporary India”, The ENRECA concluding conference on “Political and cultural institituions of development: reflections and new research directions in Africa and Asia”, Kampala, Uganda, May 28-29, 2007.

“Diaspora, citizenship and the Anglo Boer War.” Presented at workshop on “The visibility of cultures: identity, contact and circulation in the Indian Ocean”, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, January 13-14, 2007,

“Narratives of the past:  the many temporalities of Bhudeb Mukhopadhyaya”,  International Conference on “Narratives of Development”, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, 27-29 March, 2006.

“Interdisciplinarity: Some questions”, UGC sponsored national seminar on “Revaluating the Humanties”: Birbhum Mahavidyalaya, Suri, Birbhum, April 4-5, 2006.

“The Boer war in India”, “South Africa\India: Re-imagining the disciplines, A Colloquium,” University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, May 19-21, 2006.

“Hindutva and the new consumerist culture”, Cultural Studies workshop on “Religiosity, Politics and the Economy of Faith: Interrogating the nexus in contemporary Africa”, Makerere University, Kampala, Aug. 7-9, 2006.

“Ghare Baire and the Swadeshi movement”, Eastern Region Language Centre and Dept of M.I.L,  Delhi University, “Banga bhanga Andolaner Shatabarshipurti ebong Bangla Sahitya”, National Conference, November, 2005.

Awards and distinctions

President, Modern India Section, Paschimbanga Itihas Sansad, 2007

Keynote Address, Colloquium The Bonfire of 1908: Passive Resistance Then and Now, Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2008

Fellow, Charles Wallace India Trust; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta.

Associate, Inter University Centre, IIAS, Shimla

Resource Person, Cultural Studies Workshop (CSSC, Kolkata) in Hyderbad (2006), Panjim (2007), Pune (2008), Shillong (2009), Santiniketan (2010).

 

Association with Professional Bodies

The International Association of Historians of Asia