Publications of Dr. Suhrita Saha

Publications of Dr. Suhrita Saha

Book

Globalisation and Hindu Nationalism in West Bengal: 1991-2001 (Kolkata: Readers Service, 2012) ISBN No 9788187891529

Articles:

Article in conference and symposium:

Impact of the New Economic Policy (1991) in India: A Socio-Political Analysis’, in New Economic Policy: Its Impact and Alternatives (Khalisani Mahavidyalaya Publication: 1999), pp. 55-67. UGC sponsored National Seminar on Globalisation held at Khalisani Mahavidyalaya, University of Burdwan in April 1999.

Articles in Journals

1.  ‘Benoy Kumar Sarkar: A Tryst with Destiny’, Sociological Bulletin, vol. 62, no. 1 (Jan.-April 2013), pp. 4-22.

2.  ‘Globalisation and Mall Culture in a Metropolis’, Jadavpur University Journal of Sociology, vol. 6 (2013), pp. 21-31.

3.  Education in India: Learning and Unlearning, Proceedings of International Conference on Education and Information Technology, 21-3 October, 2015, World Congress of Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2015), vol. 1, pp. 343-47.

Book Reviews:

Journal

1. Javeed Alam, Living with Modernity (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 49, no. 2 (2000), pp. 327-9.

2.  Zoya Hasan (ed.), Politics and State in India (Sage), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 51, no. 2 (2002), pp. 318-20.

3.  Lancy Lobo, Globalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Christians in India (Rawat), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 52, no. 2 (2003), pp. 302-3.

4.  Vivek Kumar, Dalit Leadership in India (Kalpaz), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 53, no. 2 (2004), pp. 301-3.

5.  T.K. Oommen, Crisis and Contention in Indian Society (New Delhi: Sage, 2005), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 55, no. 3 (2006), pp. 509-11.

6.  Satish Saberwal, Spirals of Contention (New Delhi: Routledge, 2008), Sociological Bulletin, vol. 58, no. 2 (2009), pp. 284-6.

7.  Asoke Basu, The Rise of Civil Society in Bengal, Sociological Bulletin, vol. 63, no. 1 (2014), pp. 148-49.

Newspapers

1.  Veena Das et. al. (eds.), Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Essays in Honour of T.N. Madan (Sage: Delhi), Telegraph, 1.12.2000.

2.  Purnima Mankekar, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: Television, Nationhood and Women in Modern India (Oxford), Telegraph, 29.12.2000.

3.  Yves Thoravani, The Cinemas of India (1896-2000), Macmillan, Telegraph, 2.2.2001.

4.  Yogendra Singh, Culture Change in India: Identity and Globalization (Rawat), Telegraph, 2.3.2001.

5.  Dipankar Gupta, Culture, Space and the Nation- State (Sage), Telegraph, 13.4.2001.

6.  Suvir Kaul (ed.), The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India (Permanent Black), Telegraph, 25.5.2001.

7.  Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss, Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (Oxford), Telegraph, 23.6.2001.

8.  Prafull Goradia, The Saffron Book (Contemporary Target), Telegraph, 20.7.2001.

9.  Rajendra Singh, Social Movements, Old and New: A Post- Modernist Critique (Sage), Telegraph, 7.9.2001.

10.  Badri Narayan Tewari, Documenting Dissent: Contesting Fables, Contested Memories and Dalit Political Discourse (IIAS), Telegraph, 21.9.2001.

11.  S.K.Chakraborty and P. Bhattacharya (eds.), Leadership and Power: Ethical Explorations (Oxford), Telegraph, 5.10.2001.

12.  Meena Radhakrishna, Dishonoured By History: “Criminal Tribes” and British Colonial Policy (Oxford), Telegraph, 23.11.2001.

13.  Andre Beteille, Sociology: Essays on Approach and Method (Oxford), Telegraph, 1.2.2002.

14.  H.N. Bali, India’s Wounded Polity: The Whips and Scorns of Time from Independence To the turn of the Century (Om Publications), Telegraph, 28.2.2002.

15.  Arun K. Jana and Bhupen Sarmah (eds.), Class, Ideology and Political Parties in India (South Asian Publishers), Telegraph, 28.6.2002.

16.  T.K.Oommen, Pluralism, Equality and Identity: Comparative Studies (Oxford), Telegraph, 27.9.2002.

17.  Sangeeta Kamat, Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India (Oxford), Telegraph, 1.11.2002.

18.  Upendra Baxi, The Future of Human Rights (Oxford), Telegraph, 3.1.2003.

19.  Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen M. Erndl (eds.), Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses (Oxford), Telegraph, 21.2.2003.

20.  Ghanshyam Shah (ed.), Caste and Democratic Politics in India (Permanent Black), Telegraph, 28.3.2003.

21.  Manu Bhagavan, Southern Spaces: Princes, Education and Empire in Colonial India (Oxford), Telegraph, 6.6.2003.

22.  G.K. Leiten, Power, Politics and Rural Development: Essays on India (Manohar), Telegraph, 18.7.2003.

23.  Rowena Robinson and Sathinathan Clarke (eds.), Religious Conversion in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings (Oxford), Telegraph, 19.9.2003.

24.  Sebastian C.H. Kim, In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India (Oxford), Telegraph, 24.10.2003.

25.  Antony Copley (ed.), Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender and Sampraday (Oxford), Telegraph, 19.12.2003.

26.  S.C. Dube, The Kamars (Oxford), Telegraph, 30.1.2004.

27.  P.R. Chari, M. Joseph & S. Chandran (eds.), Missing Boundaries: Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Internally Displaced Persons in South Asia (Manohar), Telegraph, 9.4.2004.

28.  Rob Jenkins (ed.), Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics across India’s States (Oxford), Telegraph, 28.5.2004.

29.  Rosa Maria Perez, Kings and Untouchables: A Study of the Caste System in Western India (Chronicle), Telegraph, 25.6.2004.

30.  Malini Bhattacharya (ed.), Globalisation: Perspectives in Women’s Studies (Tulika), Telegraph, 13.8.2004.

31.  Ved Kumari, The Juvenile Justice System in India: From Welfare to Rights (Oxford), Telegraph, 1.10.2004.

32.  Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton (eds.), Culture and Public Action (Permanent Black), Telegraph, 3.12.2004.

33.  Rafiq Zakaria, Indian Muslims: Where have They gone Wrong? (Popular and Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan), Telegraph, 14.1.2005.

34.  Manoranjan Mohanty (ed.), Class, Caste, Gender (Sage), Telegraph, 11.3.2005.

35.  Carey Anthony Watt, Serving the Nation: Cultures of Service, Association, and Citizenship in Colonial India (Oxford), Telegraph, 6.5.2005.

36.  Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Refugees and the State: Practice of Asylum and Care in India, 1947-2000 (Sage), Telegraph, 22.7.2005.

37.  Rajeev Bhargava and Helmut Reifeld (eds.), Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship: Dialogues and Perceptions (Sage), Telegraph, 30.9.2005.

38.  Amarjeet Sinha, India, Democracy and Well Being: An Inquiry into the Persistence of Poverty in a Dynamic Democracy (Rupa), Telegraph, 2.12.2005.

39.  Darryl D’Monte, Ripping the Fabric: The Decline of Mumbai and its Mills (Oxford), Telegraph, 3.2.2006.

40.  Johanna Brenner, Women and the Politics of Class, Aakar, Telegraph, 7.4.2006.

41.  Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (ed.), Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water, Stree, Telegraph, 2.6.2006.

42.  Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon (eds.), In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India (New Delhi: Oxford), Telegraph, 11.8.2006.

43.  Dipankar Gupta (ed.), Anti-Utopia: Essential Writings of Andre Beteille (New Delhi: Oxford), Telegraph, 3.11.2006.

44.  Badri Narayan, Women heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India: Culture, Identity and Politics (Sage), Telegraph, 9.2.2007.

45.  K.N. Panikkar, Colonialism, Culture and Resistance (New Delhi: Oxford), Telegraph, 18.5.2007.

46.  Rana P. Behal and Marcel Vander Lindel, India’s Labouring Poor: Historical Studies, c. 1600-2000 (New Delhi: Foundation), Telegraph, 13.10.2007.

47.  Sudha Pai (ed.), Political Process in Uttar Pradesh: Identity, Economic Reforms and Governance (New Delhi: Pearson Longman), Telegraph, 3.8.2007.

48.  Sonia Shah, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients (New Delhi: Pearson), Telegraph, 28.8.08.

Seminars Presented

1. ‘Leisure patterns revisited in the age of globalisation: the cases of West Bengal’ at the Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 10.9.2004.

2. ‘Untouchability Revisited’ in a seminar on Untouchability at Don Bosco School, Higher Secondary Class on 6th August 2011.

3. ‘Gender Issues in Bengal, Conference on Equal Opportunity at KSMV, Burdwan University, 5 March 2014.

4. ‘Interrogating Domestic Inequality’, International Sociological Association, XVIII, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 2014.

5. ‘Barbie in India: A Study of Effects of Barbie in Psychological and Social Health’, Psychological and Behavioral Science Panel, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Vienna, June 2016.

6. ‘Social Thought of Benoy Kumar Sarkar: Heritage not Inherited’, Conference on The Past Before Us: Heritage and History in South Asia, SOAS, UK, 5-6 Sept. 2016.

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