CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: SUGATA NANDI
Address: BJ 69, SALT LAKE, SECTOR II, KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA, PIN
700091.
Current Cell: +91 9007222796
Email: [email protected]
Nationality: Indian.
Date of Birth – 25/11/1973, Sex – Male.
Marital Status: Married.
Educational Qualifications:
1. 1990
Secondary Examination (West Bengal Board for Secondary
Education) from Patha Bhavan School, Calcutta .
2. 1992
Higher Secondary Examination (West Bengal Council for Higher
Secondary Examination) from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta.
3. 1992-1995
B.A. (Honours in History) from Presidency College,
University of Calcutta.
4. 1995-1997
M.A.in Modern Indian History from Centre for Historical
Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
India [hereafter CHS, SSS, JNU].
5. June 1998
National Eligibility Test.
6. 1997-1999
Master of Philosophy in Modern Indian History
(dissertation submitted in July 1999 and degree awarded 2002) from CHS,
SSS, JNU. Dissertation written under the supervision of Prof. Sabyasachi
Bhattacharya.
7. March 2015
PhD awarded by the CHS, SSS, JNU. Thesis written under
supervision of Prof. Radhika Singha.
Teaching experience:
1. August 2001 - March 2007
Lecturer in History, Krishnagar Government
College, Krishnagar, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal, India.
2. March 2007 - June 2009
Kolkata, India.
Lecturer in History, Presidency College,
3. June 2009 - till date
Assistant Professor, Department of History,
West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata.
Research experience, dissertation and thesis and papers presented till
date:
1. M.Phil dissertation, CHS, SSS, JNU (1999) – title – Communal Politics
and Crime: Calcutta 1946-47.
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2. PhD thesis, CHS, SSS, JNU (2014) – title – Crime Politics and the Law
in Colonial Calcutta, 1918-47: Goondas, City Politics and Police
Surveillance in Colonial Calcutta.
3. Final report of University Grants Commission, India, minor research
project (2006) titled- Disciplining the Unruly Streets: Disorder,
Criminality and Police Administration in Calcutta, 1918-28.
4. SARAI – Centre for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India
[hereafter CSDS] student fellowship paper (2006) – A Criminal Riot?
Goondas and the Riot of Calcutta August 1946.
5. SARAI – CSDS Research fellowship paper (2007) – Eventful Adolescence,
Memorable Youth: The Politics of Personal Reminisce in Calcutta,
1947-67.
6. Paper presented at Conference of International Association of
Historians of Asia, JNU, New Delhi, (2008) – Constructing the
Criminal: Politics of Social Imaginary of the Goonda.
7. Paper presented at Colloquium of Jackson School of International
Studies, University of Washington, USA (2012) – ‘Fabricating
Extraordinary Criminality’.
8. Paper presented at Annual Spring Symposium, Centre for South Asia
Studies, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, USA (2012) -‘Whose City?
Police surveillance, marginality and migration in twentieth century
colonial Calcutta’.
9. Paper presented at the Conference on Legal Histories of the British
Empire, National University of Singapore (2012) – title – Inventing
Extraordinary Criminality: A study of Criminalization by the Calcutta
Goondas Act.
10.
Paper presented at the Summer Programme (workshop) on World
Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts, IIAS, University of Leiden,
the Netherlands (2012)- Migrant Miscreants? Migration, state and the
urban poor in twentieth century colonial India.
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Paper presented at the International Conference on World Wide
Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts (2012)- Undesirable Outsiders:
urban violence and the construction of the migrant in colonial
Calcutta 1907-1926’.
12.
Paper presented at Workshop on Spaces of Law organized by
University of Plymouth and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Calcutta, Kolkata (2012) - The Laws of Rule: Police power and mass
politics in Calcutta, 1916-1928.
13.
Paper presented at International conference in the Department
of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, in March 2014 on
‘Criminal Class in Colonial Calcutta?’.
14.
Paper presented at the twelfth European Association of Urban
History Conference, Lisbon, Portugal (2014) – A Resilient Bazaar:
Failure of Colonial Planning and Policing in a Calcutta
Neighbourhood, 1900-26.
15.
Paper presented at fourth Conference of Asian Borderlands
Research Network, Hong Kong (2014)- Home and Here: the border and a
family in Bengal, 1930-2000.
16.
Paper presented at the annual International Conference of
Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi
(2015) – Lawful State, Unlawful Relations: Interrogating a crime of
passion in a policeman’s novel.
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Awards, Fellowships etc:
1. University Grants Commission, India, Minor Research Fellowship, March
2004- March 2006.
2. SARAI-CSDS Students’ Research Fellowship, February – October 2006.
3. SARAI-CSDS Research Fellowship, February – December 2007.
4. Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral and Professional Research Fellowship,
October 2011- June 2012.
5. Travel grant and sponsorship from National University of Singapore
for participation in Legal Histories of the British Empire
Conference, July 2012.
6. Travel grant and sponsorship to attend Summer Programme (workshop) on
World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts, August-September, 2012,
from IIAS, Leiden, the Netherlands.
7. Travel grant from Fondacao Oriente, Portugal to attend twelfth
European Association of Urban History Conference.
8. Travel grant and sponsorship from City University of Hong Kong to
attend fourth Conference of Asian Borderlands Research Network.
Publications:
1. Banerjee, D. Sarakar et. al. edited Combating Disaster:
Perspectives in the New Millenium, ACB Publications, Kolkata, 2005.
2. ‘Constructing the Criminal: Politics of Social Imaginary of the
Goonda’, in Social Scientist, Volume 38, nos. 3-4, March-April
2010.
3. ‘Inventing Extraordinary Criminality: Study of Criminalization by
the Calcutta Goondas Act’, in Legal Histories of the British
Empire: Laws, engagements and legacies ed. by J. McLaren and S.
Dorsett, Routledge, New York, London, 2014.
4. ‘The Goondas of Colonial Calcutta: Genesis and a Brief History,
1900-1947’, in K. Jaishankar edited Handook of South Asian
Criminology, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, USA. (Forthcoming)
5. Book Review in Soccer and Society, vol.15 no. 4, July 2014 of
Snob’s Law: Criminalizing football fans in an age of intolerance,
Glasgow, Take a Liberty Press, 2012, pp.627-628.
6. Chapter titled Insurrectionary City: police, public and disorder in
Calcutta, 1920-47 in Urvi Mukherjee and Suchandra Ghosh edited
volume on Urban History of India, from Orient Blackswan, India.
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