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Research Interests:
Theories of History,
Memory and Narrative, The Discourse of Indian Partition, Politics of
Representation of Post-Partition Calcutta, Cultural Lives of Indian Diasporas
Courses Taught:
Enlightenment
Legacies; Refugees and Indian Diaspora; Terror, Surveillance and the Modern
State
SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:
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History, Memory and Nostalgia,
special issue of Margins, Calcutta (edited with Anjan Ghosh), 2001
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Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Space (A Centre for Studies in Social
Sciences Publication. It is based on a selection of papers presented at
the Cultural Studies Workshops organised by the Centre for Studies in
Social Sciences, Calcutta in collaboration with ENRECA of Denmark and
SEPHIS of the Netherlands. It is a volume of nearly 250 pages), 2003
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
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“Life of the Past: Indian Bengali Diaspora and the nostalgia for the
modern” Scottish Church College Journal of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Calcutta, Vol. 2, 2005
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“India: 50 years on”, theme essay of Scottish Church College Journal of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Calcutta, Vol. 1, 2004. [an earlier
version came in
Fifty Years of Indian Development
(edited by P. K. Basu and C. A. Tisdell, University of Queensland Press,
Queensland 1998, 123 - 146)]
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“Bollywood Down Under: Fiji Indian Cultural History and Popular
Assertion” in Floating Lives: the Media and Asian Diasporas (edited by
Stuart Cunningham and John Sinclair, Rowman and Littlefield, USA, 2001,
pp. 136 – 184)
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“Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood: in the tracks of a twice-displaced
community” in Karim H Karim edited, The Media of Diaspora, Routledge,
London, 2003 pp. 21 – 39
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“Chalo Jahaji: Bollywood in Diaspora – in the tracks of indenture to
globalization” in City Flicks, edited by Preben Kaarsholm, Seagull, 2004
(an edition to be brought out by Berg, London, this year)
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“Growing Up Refugee: on memory and locality” History Workshop Journal,
Number 53, 2002, pp. 149 – 179. [This essay is forthcoming in Amit
Chaudhuri (ed) Penguin Anthology of Writings on Calcutta.]
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“From Holocaust to Partition: on History and Memory” in Margins special
issue on “History, Memory and Nostalgia” edited by Manas Ray and Anjan
Ghosh, Calcutta, January – June, 2001
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"Indian Television: an emerging regional power" (co-author: Liz Jacka)
in New Patterns in Global Television (edited by John Sinclair, Stuart
Cunningham and Liz Jacka; Oxford University Press, London, 1995)
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“"Mine is the cinema of strong survivors": The cinema of Gautam Ghosh –
a conversation”, East West Film Journal, East-West Centre, Hawaii,
Vol.8, No.2, 1994, pp 105 – 121
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“Marxism: The Dilemma of Critique” (Economic and Political Weekly,
Mumbai, June 12, 1993)
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"Ethics and Government: setting limits to critique" (Economic and
Political Weekly, Mumbai, September 26, 1992
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