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CURRENT POSITION:
(January to June 2010)
Fulbright
Scholar-in-Residence at the Department of Politics and Policy, School of
Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California,
USA.
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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2009:
“West Bengal:
Permanent Incumbency and Political Stability” in Sandeep Shastri, K C Suri
and Yogendra Yadav (ed.),
Electoral Politics in
Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2009, 326-45.
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2006:
Strengthening Rural Decentralisation, Centre for Studies in Social
Sciences, Calcutta (with Partha Chatterjee, Pranab Kumar Das, Dhrubajyoti
Ghosh, Manabi Majumdar and Surajit Mukhopadhyay).
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2006:
‘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: OUP, Delhi.
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2004:
Interrogating Social Capital Co-edited (with Niraja G. Jayal, Sudha Pai
and Bishnu N. Mohapatra) Sage, New Delhi.
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1999:
‘Politics of middleness: the changing character of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) in Rural West Bengal (1977-1990)’ in Sugata Bose, Barbara
Harriss, Ben Rogaly (eds), Sonar Bangla? Sage, New Delhi.
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1995:
‘Agrarian reforms and panchayati raj in West Bengal’ in Ashish Ghosh and
Neera Chandhoke (eds.), Grassroots movement and social change, DCRC,
Delhi University Press, pp. 117-123.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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2010:
'Left
in the Lurch: The Demise of the World’s Longest Elected Regime?',
Economic
and Political Weekly,
January 16, Volume XLV, No. 3, January 16, 2010: 51-59
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2009: ‘Of
Control and Factions: The Changing “Party-Society” in Rural West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly, 44, 9, February 28 – March 6:59-69.
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2008:
‘Politics of PDS Anger in West Bengal’, Economic and Political Weekly,
43, 5, February 2-8: pp 63-69.
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2004: ‘West
Bengal: Permanent Incumbency and Political Stability’, Economic and
Political Weekly, 39, 51, December 18-24: pp. 5477-83.
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2004:
‘Making and Unmaking of Trinamul Congress’, Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol. 39, April 3-16: pp. 1529-1537.
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2001:
‘“Civic community” and its margins: school teachers in rural West Bengal’,
Economic and Political Weekly, 36, February 24 – March 2: pp.
673-683.
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1999:
‘Ominous outcome for the left in West Bengal’, Economic and Political
Weekly, 34, 46-7, November 20: pp. 3267-9.
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1999:
‘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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1996:
‘Tribal-dalit conflict: electoral politics in Phulbani’, Economic and
Political Weekly, 31 January 13-20.
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1995:
‘Agrarian reforms and politics of the left’, Proceedings of the Indian
History Congress, Calcutta Session, pp. 665-674.
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1994: ‘Limits of legal
radicalism: land reforms and the left front in West Bengal’, Calcutta
Historical Review, 16 (1), pp. 57-100
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES:
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In the name of Democracy
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Making
Development Work: Debates on Democracy and Development in a Rapidly Changing
Global South
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Party-Society, Social Welfare,
Democracy
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