CV: Professor Bidyut Chakrabarty

Bidyut Chakrabarty

Head of the Department of Political Science
University of Delhi , India

Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Delhi

Professor in Political Science

Department of Political Science
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

Email: Bidyut@polscience.du.ac.in

Educational Qualifications:

MA (Calcutta University), PhD (London School Economics), 1985

Teaching Assignments:

1) London School of Economics, September, 1983 - June, 1985 (as a research assistant to Professor Thomas Nossiter of the department of Government).

2) Reader, Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, July, 1985 – October, 1986

3) Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, October, 1986 – January, 1987

4) Visiting Professor, Iowa University, Iowa city, USA, January, 1987 – June, 1987

5) Fellow, Department of History, Iowa University, July, 1987 – August, 1988

6) Reader, GB Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, UP, September, 1988 - March, 1991

7) Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, March, 1991 - March, 1994

8) Academic Staff Fellow. South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, March, 1994 - January, 1995, & Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge

9) Visiting Professor, Department of Politics, Hull University, Hull, UK, January, 1995 - June, 1995

10) Reader, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, June, 1995 – July, 1998.

11) Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, July, 1998 onwards

12) Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, May-June, 2005

13) Visiting Professor, South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, September-October, 2006

14) Consultant to a project on Maoism and Governance in India, Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore

List of Publications

Books:

1) Bidyut Chakrabarty , Subhas Chandra Bose and Middle Class Radicalism, 1928-40 , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, IB Tauris, London, St. Martin Press, New York, 1990

2) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed), Secularism and Indian Polity , Segment, New Delhi, 1990

3) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed), Centre-State Relations in India , Segment, New Delhi, 1990

4) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed), Whither India’s Democracy , K. P. Bagchi & Co, Calcutta, 1993.

5) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Local Politics and Indian Nationalism, 1919-44 , Manohar , New Delhi, 1997.

6) Bidyut Chakrabarty et. al. Social Movements in India , K. P Bagchi & Co. Calcutta, 1999

7) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Biplabi: the Journal of the 1942 Open Rebellion, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi and K. P. Bagchi & Co, Kolkata, 2002.

8) Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya (ed.), Public Administration: a Reader , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003

9) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed), Communal Identity in India : Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003.

10) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Politics of Accommodation and Confrontation : the Second Partition of Bengal , (Modern India series), Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, New Delhi, 2003

11) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed.), Social and Political Thought in Modern India , IGNOU, New Delhi, 2004

12) Bidyut Chakrabarty, The partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-47 : Contour of Freedom, RoutledgeCurzon, London & New York, 2004

13) Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya (ed.), Administrative Reforms: Innovation and Change , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005

14) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Forging Power: Coalition Politics in India, , Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006

15) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi , Routledge, London & New York, 2006

16) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Reinventing Public Administration: the Indian Experience , Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2007

17) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Gandhi: a historical biography , Roli Books, New Delhi, 2007

18) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian Politics and Society since Independence: events, processes and ideology , Routledge, London (forthcoming)

19) Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed.), Governance and Administration: a reader , Oxford University Press, New Delhi (forthcoming)

20) Bidyut Chakrabarty, Indian government and politics , Sage, New Delhi (forthcoming)

Articles:

1. ‘Recent institutional changes in China’, The Calcutta Review, The University of Calcutta, VI, 1, July - September, 1980

2. ‘Peasantry and Bengal Congress, 1928-38’, South Asia Research, SOAS, London, 8, 1, 1985.

3. ‘Subaltern militancy, 1928-31 and the Indian National Congress: an argument in Bengal working class movement’, in Zillur Khan et. al. Tradition and Individual Talent, Wisconsin, USA, 1988

4. ‘The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the 1987 West Bengal state assembly election’, Asian Society and Thought, New York, 18, 2, 1988

5. ‘The communal award of 1932 and its implications in Bengal’, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge, 23, 2, 1989.

6. ‘Jawaharlal Nehru and planning, 1938-41’, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge, 26, 2, 1992.

7. ‘Political mobilization in the localities: the Quit India movement in Midnapur’, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge, 26, 4, 1992.

8. ‘The 1947 united Bengal movement: a thesis without a synthesis’, Indian Economic and Historical Review, New Delhi, 30, 4, 1993

9. ‘The Mahatma at the grassroots: the praxis of non violence’, Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, 19, 3, 1997

10. ‘Foundations of Indian political thought; a review’, Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge, 28, 2, 1994.

11. ‘India at the crossroads: the tenth general elections’, Teaching Politics, Delhi, 17, 1 & 2, 1991.

12. ‘Defiance and confrontation: the 1942 Quit India movement in Midnapur’, Social Scientist, New Delhi, 20, 7 & 8, 1992

13. ‘Social classes and social consciousness in Bengal, 1928-40’, in Sirajul Islam et. al. The History of Bangladesh, Vol. III, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, 1992

14. ‘Rural masses and the colonial state: the anti-British struggle in Midnapur, 1921-34’, South Asia, Australia, New Series, Vol. XIX, No. 2, !996

15. ‘Articulation of protest at the grassroots : Biplabi amd the 1942 civil rebellion’, The Calcutta Historical Journal, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Vol XVII, No. 1, 1995

16.’Intellectual imbroglio and the 1947 Great Divide of the subcontinent of India, Social Scientist, 23, 7- 9, July -September, 1995

17. ‘Subhas Chandra Bose, the Indian National Army and the axis powers, 1941-45’, in M. C. Gupta and Jaytilak Guha Roy , Subhas Bose : the man and his mission, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, 1999.

18. “Roots” of Indian nationalism: the contemporary agenda’ in M. P. Singh et. al. Ideologies and Institutions in Indian Politics, New Delhi, 1998.

19. ‘Political elites in South Asia: dilemmas and constraints’, Encounter, vol. 2, no. 2, 1998

20. ‘The 1998 Elections in West Bengal: the dwindling of the Left Front(?)’, Economic and Political Weekly , vol. xxxiii no 50 December 12 - 18, 1998.

21. ‘The changing contours of Indian federalism: stress and strains’ in D. D. Khanna and Gert W Kueck (ed.), Principles, Power and Politics, Macmillan, New Delhi, 1999

22. ‘Cracks in the left bastion : the 1999 parliamentary elections in West Bengal’, Indian Social Science Review, Sage, New Delhi, Vol. 3, no. 1, 2001

23. ‘Parliamentary Federalism in India: a political compromise or a constitutional evolution?”, Contemporary India, Nehru memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2002

24. ‘Tryst with destiny: India in the first fifty years’, Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, Vol. 22, no. 1, January - March, 2000.

25. ‘The “hut” and “axe”: the1947 Sylhet referendum’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, New Delhi, 39 (4), 2002

26. ‘Third Front in India : a political maze or an ideological oasis (?)’ in Ajay Mehra et. al Political Parties in India, Sage, New Delhi, 2003

27. ‘Religion, colonialism and modernity : relocating “self” and “collectivity”, Gandhi Marg, 24 (3), 2003

28. ‘Fluidity or compartments: Hindus, Muslims and partition’ in Bidyut Chakrabarty (ed), Communal Identity in India: its construction and articulation in the twentieth century, Oxford University Press, 2003

29. ‘An alternative to partition : the 1947 United Bengal Scheme’, South Asia, Australia, xxvi, 2, 2003

30. ‘Parliamentary federalism in India : constitutional inputs and the process of imagining’, Indian Social Science Review, Sage, New Delhi, 5, 1, 2003

31. ‘Gandhi’s writings in Harijan : a plan of action or mere philosophical moorings’, Gandhi Marg, 25, 2, 2003

32. ‘Voluntary Associations and Development: the Indian Experience’, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. L (1), January-March, 2004

33. ‘Jawaharlal Nehru and administrative reconstruction: a blind imitation or a creative response (?)’, South Asia, Australia, April, 2006.

34. ‘Radicalism in modern Indian social and political thought: nationalist creativity in the colonial era’ in VR Mehta and Thomas Pantham (ed.), Political Ideas in modern India : thematic explorations, Sage, New Delhi, 2006

35. ‘The Left Front and the 2006 Assembly Elections in West Bengal: continuity or a trendsetter (?)’, Economic and Political Weekly, 12 August, 2006

36) ‘Relocating nationhood and development: South Asian experience, Indian Historical Review, Vol. 23 (2), 2006

36. ‘The idea of Swaraj: from Lajpat Rai to Subhas Chandra Bose’ in Sabyasachi Bhattarcharya (ed.), Nationalist Political Thought in modern India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (forthcoming)

37) ‘Parliamentary Federalism in India’, in Subhas Kashyap (ed.), History of Indian’s polity, governance and constitutional culture, PHISPC, New Delhi (forthcoming)

Sidst opdateret af Bente Faurby 03.09.2007