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DEPARTMENT
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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS |
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- B.A. Honours
- General Course for students with Honours in Other Arts Subjects.
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PRESENT FACULTY |
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Name of the Teaching staff |
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Highest qualification |
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Specialization |
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Sm.
Kumkum Chattopadhyay |
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Associate
Professor & Head of the Department |
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M.A. (1st Class) |
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International
Relations &
Public Administration |
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Dr. Sima Kundu |
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Associate Professor |
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M.A., Ph.D. |
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Political Theory
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Political Sociology |
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Ms. Moumita Dutta
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Assistant Professor |
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M.A, M.Phil |
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Comparative Politics,
Public Administration |
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Sm. Shampa Dutta |
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Assistant Professor |
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First Class in M.A. |
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Local Govt.& Politics, Political Thought,
Political Theory. |
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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT |
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All the teachers of the Department are engaged in research and
academic activities. Some of them also deliver lectures as resource
persons.
- Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay has completed major part of her UGC Minor
Research Project on 'Rabindranath and Developmental ethos'.
- Sm. Kumkun Chattopadhyay has particilated in a Residential
Sensitivity Awareness Motivation Workshop under the Capacity Building
of Women Managers in the Higher Education Scheme of the UGC organized
by the Women’s Studies Centre, Rabindra Bhawan from 16.03.2010 –
20.03.2010.
- She was a resource person in the UGC Seminar on Rabi Pradarshani
on 05.02.11. at Mahadevananda Mahavidyalaya of Barrackpore.
- She also has two published papers namely: 1) RABINDRANATHER
KRISHICHINTA and “2) RABINDRAJIBANI O RABIJIBANI
- Smt. Piku Dasgupta os doing a project on "Internal Migration of
Poor Women from Rural Marginalisation to Urban Vulnerabilities-a case
Study of Domestic Workers in Kolkata."
- Smt. Piku Dasgupta and Sm. Gargi Mukhopadhyay have attended a
Refresher Course at Jadavpur University on “Global Changes and
Contemporary India” from 04.01.2020 – 27.01.2010.
- Sm. Sima Kundu (Talukder) published a paper on Human Rights and
Working Women in India: A Socio-Psychological Analysis in Socialist
Perspective: 36, No.-3-4-2008-2009.
- Sm. Sima Kundu (Talukdar) contributed a chapter on Ainsabha
(Legislature) in Tulanamulak Rajniti O Tatwa edited by Amitabha Roy
published in 2010 (Progressive Publisher).
- Smt. Piku Dasgupta delivered Special Lectures in Millia – Al –
Ameen College in February 2010.
- Smt. Piku Dasgupta has been nominated as a member of the UG Board
of Studies, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.
- Smt. Piku Dasgupta was a Panelist in a panel Discussion on
“Political Corruption and Governance in India” organized by Loreto
Memorial College on the completion of 30 years of the Political
Science Deptt. Of the college on 07.02.2011.
- She completed a project funded by the Women’s Studies Centre (UGC
Approved) Bethune College.
- Gargi Mukhopadhyay has contributed a chapter on Globalisation and
Terrorism in Ramanuj ganguly and Suparna Pramanik edited Globalisation
in India: Emerging Challenges, publisded in March 2010.
- She has registered for Ph.D. Degree in the Department of
International Relations, Jadavpur University in July, 2010.
- She has attended several UGC seminars and a workshop on Research
Methodology organized by JAIR & CSSR on 10-11th December, 2010.
- The Department of Political Science proudly celebrated its Golden
Jubilee under C.U. on 26.11.2010 and organized a one day seminar on
this occasion. The participants also got a chance of a grand reunion.
Eminent resource persons graced the occasion with their erudition.
- An UGC seminar on “Religion and Popular Culture” was organized by
the Department of Political Science along with the Departments of
English and Philosophy, on 07-08 December, 2010. The seminar was
graced by eminent scholars from national and international
universities.
- The students and teachers of the Department Went to Bandel Church
and Hanseswari Mandir under educational excursion, funded by C.P.E. on
18.01.2011.
All the teachers have publications in various books and journals
to their credit
- Sm. Gargi Mukhopadhyay has contributed a chapter on “Globalisation
in India: New Frontiers and Emerging Challenges” edited by Swapan
Pramanik and Ramanuj Ganguly, PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi,
110001, 2010.
- Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay has published a paper on “Rabindranath
and JagadishChandra in “Puro Pathik,” a Sharadiya Journal of the
Kamarhati Municipalitym 2009.
- Kumkum Chattopadhyay, H.O.D. presented a paper in the
international seminar organized by Women’s Studies Centre, Rabindra
Bharati University on “Women And Tagore-Recreating the Space in the
New Millenium on 28.01.2011.
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PAPIYA (DUTTA) ROY
MEMORIAL LECTURE |
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ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF THE
DEPARTMENT |
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| Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture
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Srabonti Banerjee Memorial Lecture
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- Since 2001, The Department conducts
two endowment lectures each year (since 2001)
- Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture
- Srabonti Banerjee Memorial Lecture
- Renowned Academicians are invited to deliver lectures to enrich
both the students and the teachers. Prof. Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay,
Prof. Mohit Bhattacharya, Prof. Sobhanlal Dutta Gupta, Prof. Rakhahari
Chatterjee, Sri Debesh Das are a few of them.
- This year Dr. Kushanava Chaudhury, a visiting Fellow of Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences and Prof. Sobhablal Dutta Gupta have
deliverer the Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture and Srabanti
Banerjee Memorial Lecture respectively.
- Dr. Kabita Chanda, Department of Bengali, Bethune College and
Sm.Kumkum Chattopadhyay of Department of Political Science, Bethune
College have delivered the Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture and
Srabanti Banerjee Memorial Lecture respectively in 2010
- The Department has a good seminar library and Book Bank to help the
students all through the year.
- Students are encouraged to present seminar papers on topics
related to current affairs and of national and international
relevance.
- News reading sessions are held at regular intervals to help the
students become conversant with local, national and international
news.
- Wall magazines on various political matters are prepared by the
students if the department at regular intervals.
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EXTENSION ACTIVITIES |
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Teachers: Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay publishes her stories,
poems and novels in various magazines.
Her story “Binirman” has won The telegraph Salt Lake Super Souvenir
2009 award as the Best Fiction.
Her story “Moner Majharey” has won The Telegraph Salt Lake Super
Souvenir 2010 award as Fiction.
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