Research and Publications
Research
Details of the ongoing projects and projects completed during the last five years
Economics
Prof. Smita Majumdar completed UGC Minor Research Project entitled Economic Reform and its impact on Human Development in India: an Analysis of State Level Data 1991-2001 during 2004-2006. Dr. Suparna Gangopadhyay has completed a UGC Sponsored Project entitled Efficiency Assessment of Derivative Trading in the Liberalised Indian Economic Scenario.
Geography
(a) N.A.B.A.R.D. Project :
Prof. Kaustubh Lahiri worked as a Part Time Lecturer for the Project titled ' Scope of Institutional Credit Flow to Small Scale Industry ' -- under Professor Samar Dutta,Director, Agro--Economics Research Center , Visva Bharati, Santniketan-731235.
( between 1988 to 1991 )
A report was prepared for Bankura District,West Bengal.
(b) Minor Research Project approved & sanctioned by U.G.C.
' Facilitating A Resurgence in Rural Livelihood by Symbiotic Sustainability :
A piolt study for Sagar , Namkhana and Partharpratima Blocks in Sundarban ' From November 2006 onwards.
History
Post-doctoral work is progressing on “Popular Agitation” by Dr. Bratati Hore
Philosophy
(a) Sravanti Bhowmik is engaged in a project of dissemination of lives and works of existential philosophers in Bengali.
(b) She has also been commissioned by Sahitya Samsad, a renowned publishing house, for compiling a Bengali dictionary of philosophical terms and concepts.
Sanskrit
Dr. Samir Mukherjee has completed one Minor Research Project entitled “Folkloric motives in some Vedic Tales”
More to Follow.......
Publications
Publications of the faculty, for the past five years
Bengali
Dr. Lily Dutta: -
An essay titled ‘ Jibon Shilpi Manik Bandyopadhya’ published in Bengali departmental journal of Calcutta University.
Dr. Afroja Khatun : -
(a)Bibhag Purba Bangla upanyas Sahitye Muslim Antapur- Itihas Anusandhan (19) Pg-781, Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad, 2005.
(b)Muslim Bayktigata Aaine Naree: Nirbachito Bangla Upanyaser prekshite- Itihas Anusandhan (20) Pg-636, Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad-2006
Prof. Debjani Basu Sen : -
(a) “ Bakshilpi Asha Purna Devi" Published in Bangla Chotogalpa : Parba – Parbantar [Pg-154]
(b) “ Tridib ar Amit "- Ithihasbrati Naki Itihas Bettya published in Itihas Anushandan 19 (pg-526)
(c) “ Tinti Ayenay Aakee Mukh " published in Ajo Anyeshan magazine. (d0 Rangta alor Buti o Thanda Chand Dueri Bistare Jaladamburu pahad- published in Anyakatha Magazine.
Economics
(a) Prof. Smita Majumdar
1. Gender Disparity in South Asia: A Comparative Study in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Srilanka published in Woman across Asia: Issues of Identities, edited by Lipi Ghosh, Ishita Mukherjee and Suchandra Chakraborty, Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi,2006
2. A Profile of Woman's Health in India in March 2003 in Monon.
3. Poverty in the era of Globalisation: An Overview in press.
(b) Dr Suparna Gangopadhyay
1.Udarnaitik Muldhani Bazaar: Gata Dui Dasaker Khutinati O Ekti Aitihasik Prasanga, Itihaas Anusandhan (20) Paschimbanga Itihaas Sangsad 2006
2.Emergence of financial derivatives in India,in Commerce Education in the New Millenium, Prospects and Challenges , Raja Pearimohan College, 2005.
3.Arthanaitik Unnayan O Narir Adhikar, Itihaas Anusandhan (19), Paschimbanga Itihaas Sangsad 2005.
4.A Sustainibility Analysis of Financial Sector Reform in India for Socio Economic Justice, in World Peace, Problems of Global Understanding and Prospect of Harmony, (ed) Santinath Chattopadhyay, Punthi Pustak, 2005.
English
Dr. Papia Mitra
Books:
Existentialism: A Reader's Guide;(Avantgarde Press, Kolkata, 2002)
William Golding's Lord of the Flies: A Critical Guide (Avatngarde Press, 2004)
Paper:
Colonial Ideology in Tennyson's Ulysses (Monon, Journal of Surendranath Coolege for Women)
Geography
Prof. Kaustubh Lahiri
a) Title 'Plundering of Vegetative Wealth -- Forest as Resources ; A Geographical Evaluation' 1988.
b) Title ' Strategies for Devlopment of Sundarban Region '
c) Title ' The Sundarban Region of West Bengal -- Environmental Problems '.
d) Title ' Livelihood Resurrection through Participatory Planning : Application of Dr T.B.Lahiri's Model '.
e) Title ' Schematic Eradication of Relative Deprivation :Participatory Planning for cohesion Restorating.
f) Title ' South East by North East : Harvesting Prosperity through Look East Policy.'
Journalism and Mass Communication
Prof. Uma Shankar Pandey
a)Right to Information and Print Media at the Crossroads
b)Journalism Education in Calcutta
c)Media Democracy and Human Rights
d)IT in Bengal : A new paradigm for national development
Philosophy
(a) Dr. Madhusree Banerji has published a book on philosophy and has also published a paper in a journal.
(b) Professor Sravanti Bhowmik has published six articles in Bengali periodicals.
(c) Prof. Soma Mitra has published a book on philosophy and has also published a paper in a journal.
Sanskrit
(a) Dr. Papri Roy has pulished one book and one research article in Monon.
(b) Dr. Samir Mukherjee has published one book entitled “Deities in Rig-Vedic Brahmans; a critical study” and one article in Monon.
(c) Dr. Krishnananda Chakraborti has published one book and “Nayaavavavimrasha” in Sanskrit and also published various papers
More to Follow...........
Newsletters
A Newsletter is regularly published from the college where both students and teachers contribute.
Magazine & Departmental Journals
A magazine is brought out by the students union every year. This enables the students to try their hand in writing articles, poems and stories. Journals are brought out by the various departments where the faculty members supervise the writing of papers by the students. This creates interest among the students about the topics they have to study.