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Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya is an Indian political scientist. [1] He is a professor at Centre for Political Studies,Jawaharlal Nehru University. [2]
Dwaipayan did his PhD on Agrarian reforms and the politics of the left in West Bengal from University of Cambridge. [3] [4]
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]
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]
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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