Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya

Fellow in Political Science

Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, UK)

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R-1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township,
Kolkata - 700 094, India
 
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Email: dwai@cssscal.org

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:

  • ‘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.

  • Interrogating Social Capital, Co-edited (with Niraja G. Jayal, Sudha Pai and Bishnu N. Mohapatra),Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2004.

  • ‘Politics of middleness…’, in Sugata Bose, Barbara Harriss, Ben Rogaly (eds), Sonar Bangla? Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1999.

  • ‘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:

  • 'Making and Unmaking of Trinamul Congress', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, Nos. 14 and 15, 3-16 April 2004: pp 1529-1537.

  • 'Civic community' and its margins: school teachers in rural West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 36, 8, February 24 – March 2, 2001:673-683.

  • ‘Ominous outcome for the left in West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 34, 46-7, November 20, 1999:3267-9.

  • ‘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.

  • ‘Tribal-dalit conflict: electoral politics in Phulbani’, (Co-authored),Economic and Political Weekly, 31, 2 and 3, January 13-20, 1996.

  • ‘Agrarian reforms and politics of the left’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Calcutta Session, 1995:665-674.

  • ‘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 ARTICLES:

 

Last Updated On: 28/08/2007

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