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Fellow in Political Science
Ph.D. (University
of Cambridge,
UK)
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Centre for
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R-1,
Baishnabghata Patuli Township,
Kolkata - 700
094, India
Tel:
+91 (0)33 2462 7252 / 5794 / 5795
/ 2436 8313 / 7794 / 95
/ 97
Room Extn.: 217
Fax:
+91 (0)33 2462 6183
Email: dwai@cssscal.org
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Research Interests:
Indian Government and Politics, Leftwing Mobilization in Bengal, Democracy
Courses Taught:
Contemporary
Political Theories, Democracy and Development
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS/CHAPTERS IN
EDITED VOLUMES:
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‘Writers’ Buildings and the
reality of decentralized rural power: Some paradoxes in West Bengal’ in Niraja
Gopal Jayal, Amit Prakash & Pradeep Sharma, ed., Local Governance in India:
Decentralisation and Beyond, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2006.
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Interrogating Social Capital,
Co-edited (with Niraja G. Jayal, Sudha Pai and Bishnu N. Mohapatra),Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 2004.
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‘Politics of middleness…’, in
Sugata Bose, Barbara Harriss, Ben Rogaly (eds), Sonar Bangla? Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 1999.
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‘Agrarian reforms and panchayati
raj in West Bengal’ in Ashish Ghosh and Neera Chandhoke (eds.)Grassroots
movement and social change, DCRC, Delhi University Press, 1995, pp. 117-123.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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'Making and Unmaking of Trinamul
Congress', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, Nos. 14 and 15, 3-16 April
2004: pp 1529-1537.
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'Civic community' and its
margins: school teachers in rural West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly,
36, 8, February 24 – March 2, 2001:673-683.
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‘Ominous outcome for the left in
West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 34, 46-7, November 20,
1999:3267-9.
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‘Social capital, redistributive
reforms, panchayati democracy and norms of justice in West Bengal’, Democracy
and Social Capital in Segmented Societies, Department of Government, Uppsala
University, Uppsala.
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‘Tribal-dalit conflict:
electoral politics in Phulbani’, (Co-authored),Economic and Political Weekly,
31, 2 and 3, January 13-20, 1996.
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‘Agrarian reforms and politics
of the left’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Calcutta Session,
1995:665-674.
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‘Limits of legal radicalism:
land reforms and the left front in West Bengal’, Calcutta Historical Review,
16, 1, 1994:57-100.
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
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