Anjan Ghosh

Fellow in Political Science

Ph.D. (University of Michigan, USA)

Research Interests:

Questions of Social Inequality, Identity and Social Conflict, Informal Modes of Communication, Postcolonial Social Theory
 

Courses Taught:
 

Contemporary Sociological Theory
 

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Books/Chapters in Edited Volumes

• ‘'Will to Hate’: Gujarat and the Violence of Identity’, in M.N.Karna ed. Democracy, Pluralism and Conflict, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 2006.

•  ‘Social Stratification and Politics’, in S.Chakrabarty ed. Political Sociology, Delhi, Macmillan, 2005.

•  ‘Communications and Popular Culture in India’, in Yogendra Singh ed: Social Sciences: Communication, Anthropology and Sociology, New Delhi, 2005

• History and the Present (with Partha Chatterjee)(eds), New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2002

• `Ethnonationalism: a conceptual clarification', Radharaman Chakrabarti & Arun Ghosh, (eds.) Ethnonationalism: Indian Experience, Netaji Institute of Asian Studies Publication Series II, Calcutta, Chatterjee Publishers, 1991,27‑33.

• `Rural‑Urban Nexus and Labour Mobilization in the Raniganj‑Jharia Coalfields', K.L. Sharma & Dipankar Gupta, (eds). Country ‑ Town Nexus: Studies in Social Transformation in Contemporary India, Jaipur, Rawat Publications, 1991, 193‑203.

• `Indian Planning and Regional Disparity in Growth', (with D. Banerjee), A.K. Bagchi, ed. Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning, Calcutta, Oxford University Press, 1988, 104‑165.

• 'Environmental Impact of Coal Mining in Eastern India', S.C. Joshi & G.  Bhattacharya, (eds). Mining and Environment in India, Nainital, Himalayan Research Group, 1988 43‑51

• Collaborated with P.N. Mukherjee and others in From Left Extremism to Electoral Politics, New Delhi, Manohar, 1983.

•  ‘Nationality Question in Jharkhand', (with N.Sengupta), N. Sengupta, ed. Fourth World Dynamics : Jharkhand, New Delhi, Authors Guild, 1982, 231‑254.

• 'Transforming the rural Poor : issues and  problems', P. Mathur, ed. Technological Developments: Management of Rural Change, Department of Humanities and  Social Sciences, I.I.T. Delhi , 1978 ,39‑48.

        Journal Articles

• Durga Puja : a Consuming Passion, Seminar-559, March, 2006.

• Can the Subaltern Speak? A Retro Vision, Leftcurve, No. 29. 2005

• Assertive Religious Identities: a conference report, EPW: 39: 13: March 27,2004: 1385-1388.

• Historical Anthropology of Surajit Sinha, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society: 38: 2-3: 2003 – 111-115

• Iraq: Media Challenge, EPW: 38:20: May 17-23: 2003 – 1933-34.

• Spaces of Recognition, Italian translation of the abovementioned article in Afriche e Orienti, III: 2: June 2001.

• For-bearance or the Violence of Memory: Noakhali, Bengal, 1946, Margins; February 2001: 42-49

• Margins, With Manas Ray edited February 2001, a special issue on "Of History Memory Nostalgia"

• Spaces of Recognition, Puja and Power in Contemporary Calcutta, Journal of Southern African Studies, 23:2:June, 2000,289-99.

• Re‑viewing Anthropology and Colonialism, Journal of Indian Anthropological Society : 31:3: 1997:231‑234

• Symbolic Speech: Towards an Anthropology of Gossip', Journal of Indian Anthropological Society: 31:3:251‑256 1997).

• The Problem ‑ Cultural Studies, Seminar ‑ 446, October, 1996 12‑15.

• A Nation of Frozen Identities: Can we afford it? The Asian Age, 1996,July 1.

• Ethnicity, Nationalism and Communalism', Frontier, August 1992, 1,8‑12.

• ‘The Stricture of Structure or the Appropriation of Anthropological Theory', Review  (journal of the Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY, Binghampton), 23,1, Winter, 1991, 55‑75.

• Shadows of Bhagalpur', Frontier, XXIII, 6‑8 Autumn Number, 1990,Sept.22‑Oct.6. ‘The Problem ‑ Politics of the State', Seminar 1990 367, March

• The Changing Terms of Political Discourse in India', Frontier, XXII 1989  8‑10 Autumn    Number, October.

• Civil Liberties, Uncivil State', Seminar ‑ 355, 1989 March.

• Whither Indian Sociology?', Other Sociology,  1, 2, Jan. 1989

• Indian Sociology, a rejoinder', Social Scientist ‑ 180, May. 1988

• Is untouchability on the wane in south India?', Mainstream, 26,10. 1987

• Does the Indian State speak for the Hindus', The Statesman, Calcutta, August 27. 1987

• Labour Relations: Puppet on a String', Business Standard (Eastern India: a special survey), July 7, 1987.21‑25.

• Peoples Power in the Philippines', EPW, XXI, 36, Sept.6, 1986, 1609‑10.

• The rise of Gorkha Nationalism', Frontier, XIX, 8‑10 Autumn Number, Oct. 11‑25, 1986 36‑42.

• For a transformation of dissent', Lokayan Bulletin, IV, I, 1986,72‑75.

• Class Structure in Rural Bengal', EPW, XX, 33, Aug.17, 1985 1386‑7.

• The Vicious Circle; politics of communalism', Frontier, 50, 51, 52, August 3, 1985,10, 17.

• The Closing Circle: aspects of communalism in India', Frontier, 17, 6‑8 Autumn Number, Sept.‑Oct. 1984, 34‑37.

• Dynamics of Industrial Change', EPW, XVIII, 41, Oct.8, 1983,1747‑49.

• The Working Class', Seminar ‑ 254, October 1980, 33‑37.

• Caste Collisions', Seminar ‑ 250, 1980 June, 26‑28.

• The Seventh Indian', Seminar ‑ 243, November,1979, 26‑28.

• Caste Idiom for Class Conflict', EPW, XIV, 5‑6, Feb.3‑10, 1979, 184‑5.

•  Reproducing the "Images of Man”: Sociology and the Indian Situation', Teaching Politics (Delhi), V, 1‑2, 197916‑24.

• The Quest for Indian Intellectuals', Economic and Political Weekly (henceforth EPW), XIII, 38, September 23. 1978

Book Reviews

• `University Presses: A Lost Heritage', The Book Review, XVI, 1992, 5,26.           

• Review of ‘Dishonoured by History: “Criminal Tribes” and British Colonial Policy’, by Meena Radhakrishna, in Studies in History : 21 : 1 (n.s.) 2005 : 122-124.

• Review of ‘Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay’, by Thomas Blom Hansen, in American Ethnologist: 30: 3: August,2003: 465-466.

• Review of David Owen (ed.) 'Sociology after Postmodernism', in Contributions to Indian Sociology (N.S.): 35:1: March, 2001

• Review of ‘Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille’, ed. by Ramchandra Guha and Jonathan Parry, in The Statesman, May 29. 2000

• Review of `The Illegitimacy of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Self’, by Ashis Nandy, Sociological Bulletin, 45,2, Sept., 1996,262‑264.

• ‘Continuity and Change in Rural West Bengal', by G.K. Lieten in The Journal of Developing Areas, 29, 2, January, 1995 303‑305.

• Review of `Dalit Movement in Maharashtra', by P.G. Jogdand, Sociological Bulletin, 44, 1, March, 1995,111‑112.

• Review of `Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India', ed. by     Owen M. Lynch, Indian Journal of Social Work : LIII, 4, October,1992, 721‑22.

• Review of `Imperialism and Medicine in Bengal: A Socio‑historical Perspective', by Poonam Bala, Sociological Bulletin, 40, 1‑2, Mar‑Sept.,1991 184‑85.

• Review of `Social Movements in India', by Ghanshyam Shah, Frontier, XXIII, 39, May 11.1991

• Review of `India's Social Crisis', by Arun Bose, Sociological Bulletin, 38, 2, Sept.1989

• Review of `Concepts of Person : Kinship, Caste and Marriage in India', by A. Oster, L. Fruzzetti & S. Barnett, Social Action Book Review Supplement, I, 2, April,1984, 77‑79.

• Review of `Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India' by Ranajit  Guha, IBC, VIII, 18, Sept.16,1983,305‑6.

•  Review of `Equality and Inequality: Theory and Practice’, ed. by A. Beteille,  Frontier,  XV, 48,1983, July 16.

• Review of `Trade Unionism: Myth and Reality', by K. Mamkoottam, and `Work, Union and Community', by U. Ramaswamy, IBC, VIII, 18, April 16,1983, 156‑58.

• Review of `Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization in Third World Countries', ed. by H. Safa, Frontier, XV, 16, Dec.4, 1982,13‑15.

• Review of `Industry and Labour’, by E.A. and Uma Ramaswamy, Contributions to   Indian Sociology (NS), XVI, 2,1982, 298‑300.

• Review of `Studies in Socialist Pedagogy', eds. T.N. Norton & Bertell Ollman, Journal of Higher Education, VIII, 1, Monsoon, 1982, 120‑26.

• Review of `Subaltern Studies‑I', ed. by Ranajit Guha, IBC, VII, 10, May 16,1982, 180‑83.

•  Review of `The Social Framework of an Indian Factory', by N.R. Sheth, IBC, VII, 6, March 16, 1982,119‑20.

• Review of `Ritual and Religion among Muslims in India', ed.  by Imtiaz Ahmad, Indian Historical Review, VIII, 1‑2, 1985,254‑56.

•  Review of `Caste Dynamics among the Bengali Hindus', by J. Sharma, Sociological Bulletin, 30, 1, March 1981, 96‑99.

•  Review of `Doctors and Society', by T.N. Madan, IBC, VI, 5, March 1, 1981 99‑101.

•  Review of `Challenges of Modernisation', ed. By M. Barnabas, EPW, XV, 28, July    18, 1980,1177.

•  Review of `Jhagrapur : poor peasants and women in a village in Bangladesh', by J.  Arens   & J. Van Bourden, Frontier, XII, 29, March 15. 1980

•  Review of `The Worker and His Union', by E.A. Ramaswamy, Sociological Bulletin, 27, 1, March. 1978

•  Review of `Autobiography of Dayanand Saraswati', ed. by K.C. Yadav, Indian Book Chronicle (henceforth IBC), I,8, April 16, 1976, 118‑119.

•  Review of `Arya Dharm : Hindu Consciousness in the 19th century', by Kenneth Jones, IBC, I, 21, Nov.1, 1976, 333‑34.

• Review of `Six Essays in Comparative Sociology',  by A. Beteille, Frontier, VIII, 17,   August 30, 1975, 12‑13.

• 'Empowering the Ecologically Handicapped' in Wilderness and Humanity: The Global Issue (eds) Vance G Martin & M A Parthasarathy, Fulcrum Publishing, 2001, pp 40-43.

Working Papers and other Articles

• `Notes on Approaches to the study of Institutions in Social Anthropology: the case of India', J. Martinussen, ed. Selected Approaches to the Study of Institutions in Development, Occasional Paper No.1, International Development Studies, Roskilde University Centre, Roskilde, 1990,Denmark, 65‑69.