Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya

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Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya
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Notable worksGovernment as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya is an Indian political scientist. [1] He is a professor at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. [2]

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Education

Dwaipayan did his PhD on Agrarian reforms and the politics of the left in West Bengal from University of Cambridge. [3] [4]

Career

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya taught political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University (from1994-2002 and 2016–present) and at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (2002-2015). [2] He specialises in Indian politics, Left politics, analysis of power and institutions, and social hierarchies. [2] He has held visiting positions at Claremont University, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; and Göttingen University, Germany. [5]

He had collaborated with various projects including, ‘Democracy and Social Capital in Segmented Societies’ with SIDA and Uppsala University, Sweden during 1996–99, ‘Political Ethnography of West Bengal Villages’, ‘Understanding Political Changes in Rural West Bengal’ with Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Boston University, USA during 2005 and 2012–13, ‘Embedding Poor People’s Voices in Local Governance’, with University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and Centre for Development Studies, Kerala during 2008–09. [2] From 2016 onwards, he is the member of the International Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP), a consortium of seven Indian and German partners, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). [2]

He theorised West Bengal's unique history of affiliation to political parties and polarisation along party lines. He coined the term “party society” in this context [6] [7] [8] [9] He argues that politics in west Bengal spins not on caste, religious or ethnic associations, but on their absorption within this or that political party. [6]

Awards and honours

Key Publications

Books

1) Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press) 2016. [5]

2) Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience (edited with Niraja Gopal Jayal, Sudha Pai and Bishnu N. Mohapatra), (New Delhi, Sage), 2004. [11]

Book chapters

Journal articles

He has multiple publications in peer reviewed international and national journals including Journal of Development Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Calcutta Historical Review etc. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya". Jawaharlal Nehru University. Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan (1993). Agrarian reforms and the policts of the left in West Bengal (Ph.D. thesis). University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ "Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan". SAGE Publications Inc. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan (2016). Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India. South Asia in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-10226-2.
  6. 1 2 "Whither West Bengal?". Economic and Political Weekly. 56 (6): 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "West Bengal: The BJP's New Frontier". www.asiamediacentre.org.nz. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  8. ↑ Mukherjee, Ishan (11 May 2021). "Bengal woke up and chose violence at birth. TMC is no exception to that norm". ThePrint. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "West Bengal's Landscape Is Shifting from 'Party Society' to 'Caste Politics'". The Wire. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan (5 March 2016). Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-18252-9.
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  12. ↑ "Left in the Lurch: The Demise of the World's Longest Elected Regime?". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015.
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  17. ↑ "ORISSA-Tribal-Dalit Conflict-Electoral Politics in Phulbani". Economic and Political Weekly. 31 (–1): 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  18. ↑ "Making and Unmaking of Trinamul Congress". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  19. ↑ "West Bengal : Permanent Incumbency and Political Stability". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  20. ↑ "Politics of PDS Anger in West Bengal". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  21. ↑ "Of Control and Factions: The Changing 'Party-Society' in Rural West Bengal". Economic and Political Weekly: 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  22. ↑ "West Bengal Panchayat Elections". Economic and Political Weekly. 48 (37): 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  23. ↑ "The Singur Movement". Economic and Political Weekly. 55 (45): 7–8. 5 June 2015.
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