Liberalism and Minority Cultures (Critique of Liberal theory of Minority Rights); Minoritarian Interventions in Major Language or National Communities

Colonialism and Nationalism in India (B.A. Hons.)

Indian Political Thinkers (M. A. Final year : part of the Compulsory paper)

Democracy and Human Rights in India (M. A. 1^st  Year: Optional Paper)

Presented the Paper : ‘Minority Cultures  and Border Thinking: The Janajati Question in East Himalayas’  at the Department of South Asian Studies, AAKH Campus, University of Vienna,  June 29, 2011.

Presented the paper: ‘From Caste to Tribe: Matwali Mongoloids in East Himalayas’ in the National Seminar on Power in Modern India: Discourses and Practices (24-26 March 2010) Organised by Centre for Politcal Studies, JNU.

Presented the paper titled “Voices from the Margins: Matwali Mongoloids and the Caste Nepali Culture in East Himalayas” at the Workshop on Marginality, Memory and History’ convened by Professor Gyan Pandey, Department of History, Emory University (USA) in collaboration with CSSSC  10^th  August 2010

Presented a paper titled ‘Minoritization and Subalternization: Kirati Mongoloids and the deconstruction of Caste Nepali Culture in Darjeeling and Sikkim’ at a two-day National Workshop on Minority Cultures         organized by CSSSC on 25-26^th June 2009.

Made a presentation on “Politics  of Minoritisation”  at  CSSSC-NRTT Annual Workshop for Post –Doctoral  Scholars 2009. The theme for the National Workshop was ‘Inequality and Difference’(Jan.4-9, 2009, Calcutta) 

Presented the paper “The Zidane Effect: Accepting Europe’s Hyphenated Identity?” at the EU Seminar on Minorities in India and EU, 16 March, 2007, New Delhi.

Presented the paper “Minority Identity, Majoritarianism and the Political Response in India and the West” at an International Workshop on “Globalization: Contemporary Discourses and Texts” organised jointly by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and The British Academy, at NMML in March 2002

Presented Faculty Seminar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, on January 2, 2009. The title of my presentation was “Muslims in a Western Democracy: Europe’s Dilemma with Difference

Made a presentation on “Democracy and Group Conflicts in South Asia” in a Top level international seminar on Peace and Security, at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden May 3-11, 2005.

Presented a seminar “Events and Emotions: Current Course in Political Islam in Bangladesh” in a day long workshop on ‘Politics in Bengal’ at the   International Development Centre, University of Oxford, U.K. May 13 2005

Presented the Group paper  on “Inter-group conflicts and the Role of State” at Advanced International Programme on Conflict Resolution, organised by the Department of Peace  and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, April-May, 1999.

Also presented seminars on doctoral and post-doctoral research at various national and international Centres for higher research like the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, University of Dortmund, (Germany), and NMML Teen Murti House, India International Centre, Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi) and Centre  for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. 

Religious Majoritarianism in Contemporary South Asia: With special reference to India and Bangladesh, NMML, New Delhi

Islamisation or Islamophobia: A study of Political Islam in Bangladesh (in collabration with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi) under their Research Programme ‘Varities of Islam in the Subcontinent’

Dialogues with Islam in European and South Asian Perspective—A joint Project of DAAD, New Delhi and University of Erfurt, Germany. 3 months visiting scholarship to Germany, between Nov.2005-Jan. 2006 My research engagement with Western liberal democracies’ discomfort with the cultural difference, and the subsequent political and social discourse in Europe on the need for integration of religious and cultural minorities in the mainstream of Judeo-Christian culture had earned me an invitation from the European Parliament and Commission at Brussels

Represented India in the delegation of ‘Young Leaders’, to observe legislative and executive functioning of the enlarged EU and its efforts in dealing with pluralism in May 2007

Minority Identity and  Managing Inter Group Differences In  Plural Societies: A study of Political Response Towards Anti-Minority Campaign In India and West, Funded by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, Germany, 2000.

Academic consultancy for the Sigma Research Institute, Mannheim, Germany for their Project: Social Milieu Research in India. Presentations made in Mannheim May 2007.

Represented India as the only Indian  in the delegation that visited European Commission in summer 2007. The visit came under EUVP (European Union Visitor’s Programme) to observe the legislative and executive functioning of the enlarged European Union and its efforts in dealing with pluralism

DAAD Visiting Fellow (German Academic Exchange Programme) to Germany from November 2005 - February 2006, to take part in the project, Dialogue with Islam

Diploma on Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1999.Awarded UGC Research Fellowship (5 years scholarship grant) from the University Grants Commission of India for doctoral studies. 1992

MEMBER,  Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Library, New Delhi ;  India International Centre Library, New Delhi.

Countries Visited

Sweden, U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Bangladesh, and Nepal. 

Public Service / University Service / Consulting Activity

Taught M.Phil Course and supervised M.Phil dissertation at the CSSSC, an ICSSR institute in Calcutta

Current Member of  number of Departmental Committees at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Delhi

Formerly member of the editorial Board of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Journal, Contemporary India