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Research Interests:
Historical Cartography and Urban Morphology of Calcutta, Environmental
Degradation, Displacement and Development in the East Calcutta Wetlands,
Plantations in the Brahmaputra Valley under Colonialism
Courses Taught:
Practical
Aspects of Thesis Writing, Geographical Perspectives on Society ,
Envisioning the City , Use of Maps
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
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‘Plantation Labour in the
Brahmaputra Valley: Regional Enclaves in a Colonial Context’, in Gwyn Campbell
(Ed), ‘Abolition and its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean, Africa and Asia’,
Routledge, London, 2005.
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Shahar Bhinna Chokhe Dekha:
Unish Shataker Shahar Nirdeshika’, (in Bengali) (Viewing theCity Differently:
The Directories of Nineteenth Century Calcutta), in Abdul Momin Chowdhury and
Fakrul Alam (ed) Banglar Itihas O Sanskritite Nagar, Centre for Advanced
Research in the Humanities, Dhaka University, Dhaka, 1996.
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‘A City Away from Home: the
Mapping of Calcutta’, in Partha Chatterjee (ed) Texts of Power: Emerging
Disciplines in Colonial Bengal, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,
1995; Samya Books, Calcutta, 1995.
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‘Industrialisation in the
Brahmaputra Valley, 1881-1921’, in J.B.Bhattacharjee (ed) Studies in the
Economic History of North East India, Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, 1994.
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‘Coming of Tea in the
Brahmaputra Valley: Changes in the Pattern of Trade’, in J.B. Bhattacharjee
[ed.], Studies in the Economic History of North East India, Har-Anand
Publications New Delhi 1994.
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‘Making of Maps of the city of
Calcutta: Urban Cartography in a Colonial Context’, in Sunil Munsi et al (eds)
Calcutta: Land and People, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta and
the Geographical Society of India, Calcutta, 1993.
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‘Wasteland Colonization Policy
and Peasantisation of Ex-Plantation Labour in the Brahmaputra Valley’, in S.
Karotemprel and B. Dutta Roy (eds.) Tea Garden Labourers of North East India,
Vendrame Institute, Shillong, 1993.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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‘Shahar Kolkata: Binirman o
Nirman’, Baromas, Kolkata, October 2005
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‘Evictions in Calcutta: Creating
the Spaces of ‘Modernity’, City 4, City Press, Karachi, September 2003.
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'Population Reorganisation and
Employment Generation in a Plantation Economy: Brahmaputra Valley, 1881-1921',
The Journal of Historical Research, Dibrugarh University, March 1999.
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‘Kalikatar Manachitra: Upadan,
Samasya’, Sambhabana (in Bengali) (Maps of Calcutta: Sources, Problems,
Possibilities), Kaushiki, January 1995.
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‘Urban Centres in the Spatial
Structure of the Brahmaputra Valley under Colonialism’, Proceedings of the
North East India History Association, Shillong, 1995.
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‘Survey, Mapping and
Colonisation of the Brahmaputra Valley’, Proceedings of the North East India
History Association, Shillong 1994.
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The Assembly Poll in Assam: An
Analysis of its Background and Implications’, Economic and Political Weekly,
May 11, 1985.
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‘Plantation Economy and the Land
Tenure System in the Brahmaputra Valley, 1839-1914”, Economic and Political
Weekly, July 16, 1983.
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‘The Formation of a Transport
Network in an export-oriented economy: Brahmaputra valley 1839-1914’,
Geographical Review of India, March 1982.
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER
ARTICLES:
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‘Genesis of a Neighbourhood: The
Mapping of Bhabanipur’, Occasional Paper 175,Centre for studies in Social
Sciences, Calcutta, March 2003.
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