Pradip Kumar Bose 

Honorary Professor of Sociology

Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

Research Interests:   

Sociological Theory and Methodology, Sociology of Family

Courses Taught:
 

Theories of Development, Contemporary Sociological Theory
 

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

• Classes in Rural Society: A Sociological Study of Some Bengal Villages. New Delhi : Ajanta Books International, 1984.
   

• Classes and Class Relations among Tribals in Bengal. New Delhi : Ajanta Books  International, 1985.
   

• Computer Programming for Social Science. SAGE Publications, Delhi : 1986.
   

• Badlati Paristhitiman Vyavasayo : Kumbharono Kisso (in  Gujarati).  Surat : Centre for  Social Studies, 1983.
   

• Research Methodology.  New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1995.

• Samayiki: Purono Samayik Patrer Prabandha Sankalan (Selections of Articles on Science and Society from 19th Century Bengali Periodicals). Calcutta: Ananda Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1998.

• Refugees in West Bengal: Institutional Practices and Contested Identities. Calcutta: Calcutta Ressearch Group, 2000.

• Sameeksha O Sandhan: Bhasha, Darshan, Sangeet. Calcutta: Anustup, 2005.

• Health and Society in Bengal: A Selection from Late 19^th-Century Bengali Periodicals. New Delhi: Sage, 2006.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• 'Usury and Exploitation in Rural Society', Frontier, Vol. 9, No. 33, 34 & 35, March - April, 1977.
   

• 'Proletarianization of Agricultural Labourers : A Sociological Study of Some Villages in Bengal'. Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 20, No. 4, January, 1978.
   

• 'Family Structure and Classes in Four Villages'. Man in India, April - June, 1978.
   

• 'Stratification among Scheduled Tribes in Vadodara, Sabarkantha and Dangs Districts of Gujarat'. National Labour Institute Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 5-6, May - June, 1979.
   

• 'Stratification among Tribals in Gujarat'. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 16, No. 16, 1981.
   

• 'Social Mobility and Caste Violence : A Study of Gujarat Riots'. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 16, No. 16, 1981.
   

• 'Production Organisation and Market Relations of Potters of Gujarat'. Man in India, Vol. 62,  No. 3, 1982.
   

• 'The State and Ideology of Social Action'. Working Paper, Seventeenth Indian Sociological Conference, Indian Sociological Society, December 1984.
   

• 'Peasant Production and Capitalist Enterprise'. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 19, No. 40, 1984.
   

• 'Mobility and Conflict : Social Roots of Caste Violence in Bihar'. In Ghanshyam Shah (ed.): Caste, Class Conflict and Reservation.  New Delhi: Ajanta Books International. 1985.
   

• 'Social Strata among the Tribes in Tribal Regions of Bengal'. ICSSR Research Abstracts Quarterly, Vol. 14, No.1-2, 1985.
   

• 'Social Research as Inductive Process', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 21 No. 25-26, 1986.
   

• 'Kulaks on the Rise', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 22, No. 25, 1987.
   

• 'Political Economy of Irrigation : A Note', in Claude Alvares and Ramesh Billorey (ed.),  Damming the Narmada, Malaysia : Third World Network, 1988.
   

• 'Violent Society', The Times of India Sesquicentennial Issue on Society, November - December, 1988.
   

• 'Classes in Modern Sociology', Journal of Sociology, Calcutta University, No. 5, 1989.
   

• 'Dimensions of Agrarian Structure and Change: Issues in Theory'. Sociological Bulletin, Vol.38, No.2, September 1989.
   

• 'Ideology of Social Action', Seminar, No. 367, March 1990.
   

• 'Congress and the Tribal Communities in India' in Ramashray Roy and Richard Sisson (ed.): Diversity and Dominance in Indian Politics, Vol.2 : Division, Deprivation and the Congress.  New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1990.
   

• ‘Transformation of Class Structure in Contemporary Rural India’ in K.L. Sharma and Dipankar Gupta (ed.) Country - Town Nexus : Studies in Social Transformation in Contemporary India. Jaipur : Rawat, 1991.
   

• 'Mobility and Conflict : Social Roots of Caste Violence in Bihar', in Dipankar Gupta (ed.):  Social Stratification, Delhi, Oxford, 1991.
   

• 'Theories of the Capitalist State in the Indian Context' in Laurids S. Lauridsen (ed): Bringing Institutions Back in: Role of Institutions in Civil Society, State and Economy, Denmark: International Development Studies, 1993.
   

• 'Sons of the Nation: Child Rearing in the New Family' in Partha Chatterjee (ed): Texts of Power: Emerging Discipline in Colonial Bengal, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995: Calcutta: Samya Books, 1995.
   

• (With Ghanashyam Shah) Migrant Labour, A Report for the National Commission of Rural Labour, Vol. 2, (Reports of Study Groups), New Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Labour, 1995.
   

• 'A Narrative of Caste: Ghurye on Caste and Race in India' in A.R. Monin (ed): The Legacy of G.S. Ghurye: A Centennial Festschrift, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1996.
   

• 'Partition: Memory Begins Where History Ends' in Ranabir Samaddar (ed): Reflections on Partition in the East, New Delhi: Vikas, 1997.
   

• 'Discourse of Family and Reordering of Domestic Practices of women', in Ranabir Samaddar (ed): Women in Asia: Work, Culture and Politics in South and Central Asia, New Delhi: Vikas, 1997.
   

• 'Reconsttuting Private Life: The Making of the Modern Family in Bengal' in Ghanshyam Shah (ed): Social Transformation in India: Essays in Honour of Professor I.P. Desai, Vol.2, Jaipur: Rawat, 1997.
   

• ‘Problems and Paradoxes of Inductive Social Science’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 2, September 1997.
   

• ‘Trust and the Refugee Experience’, Refugee Watch, No. 5-6, June 1999.
   

• ‘Text of Language – Language of Text : The Postmodern Dilemma’ Margins, February 2000.
   

• ‘Refugees in West Bengal: The State and Contested Identities’, in Pradip Kumar Bose (ed.): Refugees in West Bengal: Institutional Practices and Contested Identities, Calcutta: Calcutta Research Group, 2000.
   

• ‘Partition : Beginning of Memory End of History’, Margins, February 2001.
   

• ‘Anthropology of Reconciliation’, in Ranabir Samaddar and Helmut Reifeld (ed.): Peace as Process : Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution in South Asia, New Delhi: Manohar, 2001.
   

• ‘Anthropology of Reconciliation: A Case for Legal Pluralism’, in Samir Kumar Das (ed.): Peace Processes and Peace Accords. New Delhi: Sage, 2005.
   

• ‘The Birth of the Autonomous Subject?’ in Ranabir Samaddar (ed.): The Politics of Autonomy: Indian Experiences. New Delhi: Sage, 2005.
   

• ‘State, Society and Politics’, in Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed.): Political Sociology. Delhi: Macmillan, 2005.
   

Reviews and Review Articles : 

• 'Change and conflict in India'. Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 1-2, 1979.
   

• 'My struggle : An Autobiography', Frontier, Vol. 15, No. 9, October 1982.
   

• 'Origins of Indian Slavery', Indian Book Chronicle, Vol. 8, No. 24, December 1983.
   

• 'From Left Extremism to Electoral Politics : Naxalite participation in Elections', Frontier, Vol.16, No. 19, December 1983.
   

• 'Regional Chauvinism', The Book Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, July-August 1984.
   

• 'Rural Unrest in India', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1984.
   

• 'Ethnicity and Mobility', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1984.
   

• 'Studies in Economic Analysis and Policy in Retrospect', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1984.
   

• 'Direct Action on Rural Poverty', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 6, December 1984.
   

• 'Land Tenure and Peasant in South India', Indian Bookshelf, Vol. 2, No. 10-11, 1984.
   

• 'Dynamics of Rural Development in Tribal Areas', Social Action, Vol. 35, No. 1, January - March 1985.
   

• 'History of Subaltern Consciousness', Indian Book Chronicle, Vol. 10, No. 12, 1985.
   

• 'Some Aspects of Family in Mahuva', Arthat Vol.4, No. 1-2 1985.
   

• 'Spatial Dimension of Unemployment and Underemployment', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 3, No. 6, December 1986. 
   

• 'Of  Peasants, Migrants and Paupers : Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India', The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1987.
   

• 'Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World', Social Action Book Review Supplement, Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1987.
   

• 'Determinants of Status in India', Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 2, September 1987.
   

• 'Social Class in Urban India', Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1988.
   

• 'Householders in Hindu Culture', The Statesman, November 27, 1988.
   

• 'Social Exchange Theory', Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1989.
   

• ‘Development and Social Justice: Micro Action by Weaker Sections’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 2, September 1989.
   

• 'Development and Social Justice : Micro-Action by Weaker Sections', Sociological Bulletin, Vol.38,No.2, September 1989.
   

• 'Land, Power and People : Rural Elite in Transition', Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1990.
   

• 'Dominance and Mobilisation : Rural Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh, 1930 - 1980', Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol.24, No. 1, 1990.
   

• ‘Beyond Orientalism’, The Calcutta Historical Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, July-December 1995.
   

• ‘Mukher Kathay Itihas’, Baromas, Vol. 18, No. 2, April 1997.
   

• ‘Fictions of Feminist Ethnography’, The Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, April-September 1997.
   

• ‘Everything Official About It’, Biblio, Vol. 4, No. 7-8, July-August 1999.
   

• ‘Nimnabarger Itihas’, Baromas, Vol. 21, No. 1, September-October 1999.
   

• ‘Samaj Rakhar Bhumikai Bipajjanak Pabita’, Desh, Vol. 67, No. 2, August 2000.
   

• ‘Sonar Bangla? Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 49, No. 2, September 2000.
   

• ‘Interrogating Caste’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 2, September 2002.
   

• ‘Psychoanalysis in Colonial India’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2003.
   

• ‘People concerned’, The Telegraph, 2 April 2004.
   

• ‘Ei Itihas Rachanar Sarthakata Kothai?’ Desh, Vol. 71, No. 12, 17 April 2004.
   

• ‘Contextualising Caste: Post-Dumontian Approaches’, Sociological Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 2, May-  August 2005.

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES:

Articles in Bengali 

• 'Krishi Sramik 1975-76 : Ekti Sameeksa', Anushtup, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1980.
   

• 'Benoy Ghoseer Samajtatva'. Lokloukik, Vol. 1, No.4, 1980.
   

• 'Aul Baul Katha'. Lokloukik, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1980.
   

• 'Gram Samaj Arthaneeti' Digangan,  Vol. 2, No. 2 - 8, 1980.
   

• 'Jati Shrenee Evang Satterer Bharatvarsha', Anushtup, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1981.
   

• 'Paschimbanger Adivasi : Arthanaitik Parivartan o Shrenee Vinyas'. Anushtup, Vol. 17, No.  2, 1983.
   

• 'Barta aar Bhan' Baromas, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 1988.
   

• 'Bangladesh : Krishi O Krishak Samaj' Anushtup, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1989.
   

• 'Paschim Bharate Sampradayikata O Sampradayik Danga', Anushtup, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1989.
   

• 'Claude Levy-Strauss-er Mythtatva' Gangeopatra Collection on Myth Sahitya Sanskriti, No. 12, December 1990.
   

• 'Prachin Bharate Matripradhanya : Kimbadantir Punarbichar', Baromas, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1991.
   

• 'Rachanar Bhasa Bhasar Rachana: Prativartata O Uttaradhunik Sankat', Anustup, Oct-Dec. 1992.
   

• 'Antaranga Parivar Bahiranga Samaj’,  Anustup, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1993.
   

• 'Nirman Theke Binirman',  Visvabharati Patrika, New Series 4, April-June 1995.
   

• 'Vimutra Sangeeter Samajik Vyakhya Prasange',  Jogsutra, July-September, 1995.
   

• 'Sangeet O Samaj: Adornor Sangeet Chinta',  Anustup, Vol.30, No.1, 1995.
   

• 'Adarsha Paribare Adarsha Randhanpronali',  Anustup, Vol.32, No.1, 1997.
   

• 'Pujor Kolkatar Vikalpalok',  Baromas, Vol.19, No.10, 1997: reprinted: Kathapat, January 1998.
   

• ‘Unish Satake Bangla Patra-patrikai Bigyan o Samaj’, Samayiki, Calcutta, Ananda Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1998.
   

• ‘Gyaner o Rajniti Aache’, Desh, Vol. 66, No. 6, 23 January 1999.
   

• ‘Bicchinnata’,  ‘Nagorik Samaj’, Dhrubapad, No. 4, 2000.
   

• ‘Gado Gaveer Sangeeter Muchana’, Anustup, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2000.
   

• ‘Jounata o Sanskriti’, Dhrubapad, No. 5, 2001.
   

• ‘Arogya-Niketan: ‘Sankatmay Bartaman’, Kalyanmay Ateet’ in Pradumna Bhattacharya (ed.): Tarasankar : Vyaktitwa O Sahitya, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2001.
   

• ‘Bangla Bhashai Nritatvacharchar Pratham Adhyai’, Parikatha, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2001.
   

• ‘Gyancharchar Bhasha’, Ababhas, Vol. 1, No. 4, January-March 2002. ‘Gyancharchar Bhasa’, in Sandip Bandyopadhyay (ed.) Bangalir Bhasachinta: Eksho Bacharer Bangali Mahaner Sankalan. Calcutta:  Progressive Publishers, 2002.
   

• ‘Paribare Dharma’, Anustup, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2002.
   

• ‘Rashtra-Samaj-Rajniti’ in Satyabrata Chakravarty (ed.), Rashtra Samaj Rajniti, Calcutta: Ekushe, 2002.
   

• ‘Jounata O Sanskriti’ in Sudhir Chakravarty (ed.): Jounata O Sanskriti, Ca;citta: Pustak Bipani, 2002.
   

• ‘Paracharcha Parichoy’, Ekak Matra, Vol. 4, No. 4, January-February 2004.
   

• ‘Paribrajaker Nritatvacharcha’, Bangadarshan, Vol. 5, July-December 2002.
   

• ‘Pujor Kolkatar Bi-Kalpalok’, Baromas, Vol. 26, Sharadiya, 2004.
   

• ‘Rajniti, Bijnan, Samaj’, in Dipak Kumar Das ed.): Rajnitir Tattvakatha. Kolkata: Ekushe, 2005.
   

• ‘Television-e Buddhijeebi’, Ababhas, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, April-September 2005.
   

• ‘Bangali Paribare Swasthabidhi Prachalan’, Anustup, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2005.
   

• ‘Bhasar Pathe: Heidegger-er Darshane Bhasha, Satta, Kabita’, Baromas, Vol. 27, Sharadiya, October 2005.
   

 Articles in Gujarati 

• 'Gujaratna Kumbharo : Utpadan Vyavastha ane Bazar Sambando'. Arthat Vol. 1, No. 3.  Also in Gujaratna Prajapatio : Ek Abhyas. Edited by L.P. Pipalia.
   

• 'Khetvikas ane Khetsambandho'. Arthat, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1985.
   

Articles in Newspapers 

• 'Gujarat Reservation Issue', PTI Feature, August 13, 1985.
   

• 'Gujarat Reservation Stir : A Sociological Prespective', Afternoon Despatch and Courier, August 15, 1985.
   

• 'Gujarat Riots : The Caste Factor'. Nagpur Times, August 22, 1985.
   

• ‘Hourseholders in Hindu Culture’, The Statesman, November 27, 1988.
   

• ‘Do Voters have to Choose Between Greater and Lesser Evils?’, The Asian Age, Monday 29 April 1996.
   

• “‘Knowing the Other’ is a Science, Let’s not Make it Fiction”, The Asian Age, Monday, 1 July 1996.
   

• ‘Tribal Welfare: Merely Pious Rhetoric’, The Asian Age, Monday, 24 March 1997.
   

• ‘Sharajantrer Twatyer Arale Hariye Gache Itihaser Jatilata’, Ananda Bazar Patrika, 17^th January 1998.
   

• ‘Dui Daliya Gantantra Elo Bole ? E Deshe Tar Sambhabona Kam’, Ananda Bazar Patrika, 31^st March 1998.