Curriculum Vitae

Name: Anjan Kumar Chakrabarti

Position: Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta.

E-mail: aceco@caluniv.ac.in and chakanjan@hotmail.com

Educational Qualifications

B.Sc. (Economics), St.Xavier‟s College, University of Calcutta.

M.Sc. (Economics), University of Calcutta

Ph.D. (Economics), University of California, Riverside

Award

(1) Dr V K R V Rao Prize in Social Science Research in Economics for the

year 2008 awarded by Indian Council of Social Science Research,

Government of India and ISEC, Bangalore.

(2) Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Award for 1995-96 given by Phi Beta Kappa

Alumni in Southern California (Alpha Association).

Teaching Experience

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Marxian Economics, Indian Economics,

Development Economics, History of Economic Ideas, Financial Economics and Gender

Studies.

Presently Teaching: Macroeconomics, Economics of Marx, Political Economy of

Development.

Areas of Research Interest

Political Economy,Development Economics, Indian Economics, History of Economic

Ideas and Political Philosophy.

Published Books

The Indian Economy in Transition: Globalization, Capitalism and Development.

(with Anup Kumar Dhar and ByasdebDasgupta). Cambridge University Press:

Cambridge. 2016.

World of the Third and Global Capitalism (with Anup Dhar and Stephen Cullenberg).

World View Press: New Delhi. 2012.

Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of the

Third (with Anup Dhar). Routledge: London and New York. 2009.

Kothopokothane Marx o Rabindranath: Unnoin O Bikalpo (A Conversation Between

Marx and Rabindranath: Development and Alternative) (with Anup Dhar). 2008.

Ganchil: Kolkata.

Transition and Development in India (with Stephen Cullenberg). Routledge: New

York. 2003.

Margin of the Margin: A Profile of an Unrepentant Post-Colonial Collaborator (with

AjitChaudhury and Dipankar Das). Anustup: Calcutta. 2000.

Published Edited Books

‘Capital’ in the East: Reflections on Marx. (edited with Achin Chakraborty, Byasdeb

Dasgupta and Samita Sen). Springer Nature. 2019. (forthcoming, December 14, 2019)

Development on Trial:Shrinking Space for the Periphery (edited with SunandaSen).

Orient Blackswan. 2013.

Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective (edited with Sarmila

Banerjee). Springer: New Delhi. 2013.

Monograph

Class Trouble (with Stephen Cullenberg &Anup Kumar Dhar). 2007. Sanhati:

Kolkata.

Guest Editor for Special Journal Issue

Guest editor of the double issue Marxism and Spirituality for the journal Rethinking

Marxism VOL 26 (3), 2016.

Guest editor of the issue Of Development Critique and Beyond for the journal

Margins VOL1, No. II, August 2001.

Articles in Edited Volumes

“India's Transition from State to Private Capitalism: Towards a Complex of

Minority Might of the Capitalist and Majority Might of Hindu Nationalist” (with Anup

Dhar and Sayonee Majumdar) in New Frontiers of Globalization Research - Theories,

Processes and Perspectives from theGlobal North and Global South, Ino Rossi (Eds.).

Springer Nature. 2020. (Forthcoming).

“Class and Social Needs: A Marxian Approach to Poverty” in ‘No Poverty’ as a

Sustainable Development Goal: Understanding Poverty’s Causal Mechanisms edited by

Raju J Das, Pankaj Kumar and Deepak Mishra. Brill: Studies in Critical Social Sciences.

(2020) (Forthcoming).

“Rethinking the Left Field in West Bengal: Beyond Statism, Vanguardism and

Violence” in State of Democracy in India: Essays on Life and Politics in Contemporary

Times, Manas Roy edited, Primus Books: New Delhi. 2020. (Forthcoming)

“Diversity in Economics: An Examination and Defense of Heterodox Approach”

(with Soumik Sarkar) in Research Methodology for Social Sciences, Volume 1.Acharyya,

R, and N. Bhattacharya, Eds. UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Jadavpur

University, and Routledge India.(Forthcoming).

“An Examination of Indian State in the Post-Planning Period” (with Soumik

Sarkar) inChanging Contexts and Shifting Roles: New Perspectives on the Indian State.

Anthony P. D‟Costa and Achin Chakraborty (ed.) Springer. 2019

“Praxis in world of the third contexts: beyond third wordism and development

studies”(with Anup Dhar) in Postdevelopment in Practice: Beyond Third Worldism and

Development Studies. Klein, E and C.E. Morrero (ed.). Routledge. 2019.

“Indian Economy in Transition: The New Order of Things” in Quarter Century of

Liberalisation in India, Editors: Economic and Political Weekly, Oxford University

Press. 2018.

“The Post-Globalization Particularity of Imperialism: A Dialogue between

Nikolai Bukharin and AiméCésaire” in The Changing Face of Imperialism: Colonies to

Contemporary Capitalism. Cristina Marcuzzo and Sunanda Sen (ed.). Routledge. 2018.

“Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique” (with

Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar) in Marxism without Guarantees: Economics,

Knowledge, and Class. Edited by Ted Burczak, Rob Garnett, and Ric McIntyre.

Routledge, 2017.

“Rabindranath Tagore and „The Future of an Illusion‟” (with Anup Dhar) in

Rabindranath Tagore on Economy, Politics and Society – Contemporary Discourses.

Sebak Jana (ed.) 2017. Dey Book Concern: Kolkata.

“Historical Materialism”: A Critical Assessment” in Contemporary Readings in

Marxism: A Critical Introduction (ed. Ravi Kumar). Aakar Books: New Delhi. 2016.

“Post-Classical Marxian Critique of Political Economy” in Contemporary Readings I

in Marxism: A Critical Introduction (ed. Ravi Kumar). Aakar Books: New Delhi. 2016.

„Has the US Economic Crisis Laid the Foundation of a Left

Movement?‟Provincialising American Studies after 9/11: A Third World Perspective (ed.

AnindyaPurakayastha). Authors Press, Delhi in 2014.

“Disinterring the National Commissions on Labour Report: A Marxist Perspective”

(with ByasdebDasgupta) in Development on Trial: Shrinking Space for the Periphery

(edited by AnjanChakrabarti and SunandaSen). Orient Blackswan Private Limited. 2013.

“Rethinking and Theorizing the Indian State in the context of New Economic Map”

(with Anup Dhar) in Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective

(edited by AnjanChakrabarti and SarmilaBanerjee). Springer: New Delhi. 2013

“The Political Economy of Mental Health in India” (with Anup Dhar and Pratiksha

Banerjee) in Sarmila Banerjee and AnjanChakrabarti (ed.). Development and

Sustainability: India in a Global Context. Springer: New Delhi. 2013.

“Rethinking the Falling Rate of Profit and the Crisis of Capitalism” in Non-

mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy: Finance and Labor, edited by

ByasdebDasgupta. Routledge: London. 2013.

“Individual, Cooperation and Collective: A Tagorean Interpretation of Ethical

Economy” (with Anup Dhar) in Rabindra-charcha: Nob Prekhite (Tagore Study in New

Perspective) (Vol. II), edited by SanatKumar Naskar and Chanda Roy. 2011. Published

by University of Calcutta.

“Orientalism and Transition in India in the Era of Globalization” (with Stephen

Cullenberg and Anup Kumar Dhar) in Immigration and Migration, Social Change, and

Cultural Transformation, edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch,

2007, Macmillan Palgrave.

“Pricing of new economy stocks: A Comparison of USA and India”, (with G.

Chakrabarti and A. Sarkar) in International Finance and Accounting (ed. Bhabatosh

Banerjee, Jita Bhattacharyya, and Arun Kumar Basu edited), 2007, Department of

Commerce, University of Calcutta.

“Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors in

India and Kenya,” (with Stephen Cullenberg and MwangiwaGithinji), in Human

Development in the Era of Globalization, (ed. James Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg,

PrasantaPattanaik, Robert Pollin), 2006. Edgar Elgar.

“Development and Class Transition in India: A New Perspective” (with Stephen

Cullenberg). 2001. In Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Political Economy. Ed.

Kathy Gibson, Julie Graham, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff. Duke University

Press.

Handbook and Encyclopedia

“Transition” in Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. Routledge, David M.

Brennan, David Kristjanson-Gural, Catherine P. Mulder, Erik K. Olsen , 2017.

“Economic Development” in Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics. David M.

Brennan, David Kristjanson-Gural, Catherine P. Mulder, Erik K. Olsen , Routledge.

2017.

Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)

“Beyond the Prism of Rural to Urban and Voluntary-Involuntary in India: A Class

Focused Theory of Migration”, Journal of Labor and Society John Wiley and

sons.(forthcoming),

“Karl Marx: Ak PrathomikPorichoy” (Karl Marx: A Preliminary Intrduction) (with

Soumik Sarkar) in AntorjatikPathshala, Vol VII: Issue 3. 2018.

“Wither the Political? Marx meets Ambedkar at Sriniketan” (with Anup Dhar),

Economic and Political Weekly. 2017. Vol. 52, No. 19.

“Marxism as Asketic, Spirituality as Phronetic: Rethinking Praxis” (with Anup Dhar),

2016, Rethinking Marxism, 28:3-4, 563-583.Taylor and Francis.

“Crossing Materialism and Religion: An Interview on Marxism and Spirituality with

the Fourteenth Dalai Lama” (with Anup Dhar and SerapKayatekin). 2016. Rethinking

Marxism Vol. 28, Iss. 3-4.Taylor and Francis.

“The Indian Economy in Transition: The New Order of Things”. 2016. Economic and

Political Weekly, Vol. 51, No 29.

“(Ün)doing Marxism from Outside” (with Anup Dhar). 2016. Rethinking Marxism.

28 (2). Taylor and Francis.

“The Question before the Communist Horizon.” (with Anup Dhar). 2015. Rethinking

Marxism 27 (3). Taylor and Francis.

“A Post-colonial Critique of Economic Dualism and its Politics”. 2015. Journal of

Contemporary Thought. Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara ( India ) and the

Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas,

Denton (USA), in collaboration with

the International Lincoln Center at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (USA

Winter.

“Crude Steel Industry under Globalization, Concentration and Dominance of China.”

(with Tiyas Mallick) 2014. SURVEY. A Journal of Management and Social Welfare,

Vol. 54, No 3 & 4. The Indian Institute of Social Welfare &

Business Management (IISWBM).

“The Althusser-Lacan Correspondence: Grundrisse for Psycho-Social Studies?

(withAnup Dhar). 2014. Psychotherapy and Politics International. 12 (3). John Wiley

and Sons.

“The Sociological ImaginationofDhurjati Prasad Mukerji: Beyond Hermeneutics and

Positivism” (with DebarshiTalukdar). 2014. Economic and Political Weekly.Vol -

XLIX No. 9, March 01.

“Social Funds, Poverty Management and Subjectification: Beyond the World Bank

Approach” (with Anup Dhar). 2013. Cambridge Journal of Economics. Oxford

Journals 37 (5). advance access: doi: 10.1093/cje/bes077, first published online:

February 28, 2013.

“Interrogating Inclusive Development in India's Transition Process” (with Anup

Dhar). 2012. "Collegium Antropologicum. Published jointly by Croatian

Anthropological Society, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatian

Association of Medical Anthropology, Commission on Medical Anthropology and

Epidemiology of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological

Sciences. Vol.36 No.4 December 2012.

“Indian Communist Movement at Crossroads: A Marxian Assessment”. 2012.

Rethinking Marxism. Taylor and Francis 24 (3). Taylor and Francis.

“Gravel in the Shoe: Nationalism and World of the Third” (with Anup Dhar). 2012.

Rethinking Marxism 24(1). Taylor and Francis.

“Making and Unmaking of (In)formal Sector”.CriticalSociology. 2010, Vol 36 (3).

Sage publications.

'Dynamics of Emerging India's Banking Sector Assets: A Simple Model' (with S

Mallik, A Sarkar, KK Ray and TD Chaudhury), Journal of Asset Management,

2010, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp 62–70. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer.

“Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)Colonial formation

of the Small Scale Sector in India” (with Ajit Chaudhury and Stephen Cullenberg).

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2009, 33 (6). Oxford Journals.

“Rethinking Poverty: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty Eradication” (with

Stephen Cullenberg and Anup Dhar), Rethinking Marxism, 2008 ((4) (special issue).

Taylor and Francis.

“Development, Capitalism and Socialism: A Marxian Encounter with Rabindranath

Tagore on the „Co-operative Principles” (with Anup Dhar). Rethinking Marxism,

2008, 20 (3). Taylor and Francis.

“Labor, Class and Economy: Rethinking Trade Union Struggle” (with Anup Dhar),

Economic and Political Weekly, 2008 (May 31st), Vol. XLIII No 22.

“Disinterring the National Commissions on Labour Report: A Marxist Perspective”

(with ByasdebDasgupta). Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLII No. 21, 2007.

“Children‟s Working World through the Lens of Class” (with Anup Dhar). Journal of

Social and Economic Development, 2007, Vol. 9 No 2.

“Marxian Development versus Bourgeois Development: What is to be Done?”

(withAnup Dhar) in Other Voice (February), 2007.

“A Mathematical Statistical Model for Emerging Stock Markets” (with

SoumitraMallik, AmitavaSarkar, Kalyan K Ray and TamalDattaChaudhury), Journal

of Asset Management, 2007, Volume 7, Issue 5, pp 335–346(January). Palgrave

Macmillan, Springer.

“Revisiting Transition and Development in India,” (with Stephen Cullenberg),

Rethinking Marxism, 2007 (January). Taylor and Francis.

“Modernism and the Lacanian Real” (with Anup Dhar) in Journal of Humanities and

Social Sciences – 2006, No 3.

“Imperialism in the Age of Empire: Global Capitalist Hegemony and the Foreclosure

of Class” in Other Voice (January), 2005.

“Transition and Development: A Marxian Critique of the Subaltern Studies” (with

Stephen Cullenberg). 2001. Vol1, No II, Margins (August).

“Class and Need: Towards a Post-Modern Development Economics.” 2001. Vol1, No

II, Margins (August).

“Mutual Funds Industry in India: An In-depth Look into the Problems of Credibility,

Risk and Brand” (with Harsh Rungta). 2000. ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance 6 (2).

“Philosophy in Economics: A Crash Course Type Encounter.” 2000. Margins

(February).

The Market Economy and Marxist Economists: Through the Lens of a Housewife

(with AjitChaudhury). 2000. Rethinking Marxism Volume 12, No. 2. Taylor and

Francis.

“Confronting the Indian Modes of Production Debate: An Unhappy Encounter of a

Third Kind.” 1998. ArthaVijnana XL (2), June.

“Can the Sa(va)ge Speak? (withAjitChaudhury). 1996/97. Rethinking Marxism 9 (2).

Taylor and Francis.

Book Review

1. Review of “The Politics of Imperialism and Counterstrategies” by Pratyush Chandra,

AnuradhaGhosh and Ravi Kumar in Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Science,

Vol 1, No 3, 2005.

2. Review of “Doing Development Research” by Vandana Desai and Robert Potter in

Journal of Social and Economic Development. Vol. 9, January-June No 1, 2007.

3. Review of “GlobalisationAn Anti-Text: A Local View” by PranabKantiBasu in

Economic and Political Weekly. 27th February-5

th March, 2010.

4. “Market System of Capitalism on Trial”, a review of Michael Perelman‟s book “The

Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by

Stunting Workers”. 2014. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol - XLIX No. 11, March 15.

5. Review of “The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist

Transition” byAnthony D/Costa and Achin Chakraborty in Journal of South Asian

Development. Forthcoming,

Peer Reviewed Proceedings, Conference Volume and Foreword

“Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy: A Comparison of USA and

India” (with Chakrabarti, G. and Sarkar, A.), 16th National Scientific Conference of

Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems, PARMA, 21-23

June 2007, available at http://hdl.handle.net/1889/906.

“Are New Economy Stocks Independent of Economy? A Comparison of USA and

India”, Conference volume of the 5th International Conference on Accounting and

Finance Transition, University of Greenwich Business School, London, 12-14 July

2007, available athttp://en.scientificcommons.org/34630517, (with G. Chakrabarti and

A. Sarkar)

“Foreword” in Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes: An Empirical Analysis by

GagariChakrabarti and Chirakalpa Sen. Springer. 2012.

Member of Editorial Board

Co-editor of Arthaniti: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Publisher: Sage Publication.

(from 2018 inwards)

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board: MARXISM 21. Publisher: Institute for Social

Sciences of Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. (from 2018 onwards)

Member of the Editorial Board: Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture

and Society. Publisher: Taylor and Francis. (from 2016 to 2019)

Reviewer

Books and Journals: Taylor and Francis, Sage publications, Orient Blackswan, Springer-

Nature, Oxford University Press and John Wiley and Sons.

Academic Membership and Affiliations

Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA)

Project

Indian Council of Social Science Research

Topic: Class and Caste: In Need of a Theoretical and Empirical Re-Examination.

Duration: April 2014-2016.

Indian Council of Social Science Research

Topic: A Multi-Dimensional Study of Imperial Order and Its Journey towards

Neoliberal Imperialism under Globalization.

Duration: April 2012 to April 2014.

Planning Commission, Government of India

Topic: Financial Fragility, Asset Bubbles, Capital Structure and the Rate of Economic

Growth: A Study of the Indian Economy, 1970-2000.

Duration: August 2000- June 2001.

Fellow

1. Sir Ratan Tata Trust Fellowship, Indian Institute of Social and Economic

Change (Bangalore)

Topic: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment of Pension

Funds in India

Duration: December 2008-April 2009

2. DRS Fellow, UGC, KalyaniUniversity

Duration: May 2009

Academic Member

Convener of the Ph.D. Research Advisory Committee in Economics, Calcutta

University

Current Member of the Advisory Board of Economics Department, St.

Xavier‟s College.

Former Member of the M. Phil Committee in Economics, Calcutta University

Secretary and Member of the Governing Body, Indian Institute of

Development Studies, Kolkata. (2014-18)

Former Member of the Advisory Board of Rabindranath Tagore Centre for

Studies in Human Development, Indian Institute of Development Studies,

Kolkata.(2014-18)

Former Member of the Undergraduate Board of Studies in Economics,

Calcutta University (2013-2017).

Former Member of Higher Degree Committee of Economics Department,

RabindraBharati University.

Former Chairperson (2009-2013), Undergraduate Board of Studies in

Economics, Calcutta University.

Former Member of the Undergraduate Board of Studies in Economics, St.

Xavier‟s College (Autonomous), Calcutta University for the period 2005-08.

Former Member of the Academic Committee for Postgraduate (Applied

Economics), Presidency College/University, 2009-12.

Some Major Conferences and Talks (Participated and/or conference papers

accepted and discussed)

Commentator on a Paper at the American Economic Association Conference (Los

Angeles), 1992-93.

“Global Order and the New Economic Policy in India: The (Post)Colonial

formation of the Small Scale Sector in India” at University of Leeds, UK for a

conference on Postcoloniality (June 2002)

“Class Transition in the Age of Globalization: Examples from the Rural Sectors

in India and Kenya.” (with Stephen Cullenberg, and MwangiwaGithinji).

Organized by Political Economy Research Institute on Egalitarian Development

in the Era of Globalizationat University of MassachusettsAmherst (in April 2004).

“Global Capital and Reserve Army of Labour.” Organized by the Indo Dutch

Program on Alternative Development on Political Economy of Development in

the Age of Globalisation” (December, 2004) at Kolkata.

“Disinterring National Commissions of Labour Report.” Organized by Indo Dutch

Program on “Globalization, Labor, Flexibility and Security” organized by the

Academy of Third World Studies, JamiaMilliaIslamia New Delhi (March, 2006)

“Poverty and Post-Developmentalism: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty

Eradication” (with Stephen Cullenberg). Organised by AESA held at University

of Massachusetts, Amherst (October 2006).

“A Class Theory of Globalisation”,conferenceorganized by Department of

Sociology, Calcutta University 2007 (January)

“Poverty and Post-Developmentalism: Class and Ethical Dimensions of Poverty

Eradication” (with Stephen Cullenberg). Organised by ICPAE to be held at

IowaUniversity (July 2007).

“Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy: A Comparison of

USA and India” (with Sarkar, A. and G. Chakrabarti) in 16th National Scientific

Conference of Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic

Systems, PARMA, 21-23 June 2007

“Are the New Economy Stocks Independent of the Economy?Comparison of

USA and India” (with Chakrabarti, G. and A. Sarkar) in 5th International

Conference on Accounting and Finance in Transition, University of Greenwich

Business School, London., 12-14 July 2007

“New Economy Stocks: Initiation of a New Rule across the Globe”, (with Sarkar,

A. and Chakrabarti, G.) in 15th

World Congress of International Economic

Association, Turkey, June, 2008.

“The Methodological Problem of Integration in Economics: A Preliminary

Examination of the Individual” in a conference organized by Centre for

Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with Sir Ratan Tata

Trust. (June 23 2009)

“Cooperation versus Collective in Rabindranath Tagore” in “Rabindracharcha:

NabaPrekhite,” Bengali Department of CalcuttaUniversity (March 25, 2010).

“Individual, Cooperation and Collective: A Tagorean Interpretation of Ethical

Economy” in Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (October 25, 2010).

“Beyond Heteronormativity: Class inside Household” in the UGC Sponsored

National Conference on Women and Spaces: Engendering and Regendering

Identities organized by Vidyasagar Evening College in collaboration with

Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark (29th-30th August, 2011).

“Interrogating Inclusive Development in India‟s Transition Process” in an

international workshop on “Anthropology of Transition and Tradition” held in

Hvar, Croatia organized by The Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York; Institute of

Anthropological Research, Zagreb; School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science,

Loughborough and Croatia Anthropological Society. (September 12th

– 14th

,

2012).

Three talks on „Emerging Trends in the Indian Macroeconomic Scenario‟ and

„Role of Planning Role of Planning‟ in a conference "Basic Economic Concepts"

organized by Centre for Economics & Finance, Administrative Staff College of

India (ASCI), Hyderabad. (May20-21, 2013).

Participated in book discussion on “World of the Third and Global Capitalism”

organized by Rethinking Marxism in a conference titled „Surplus, Solidarity and

Sufficiency‟, held at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (September 19-22,

2013).

“India in Transition: Neo-liberalism, Capitalism and Development” in a National

Conference on „India’s Political Economy in Transition: The Crisis of

Governance, Democracy and Development‟ organized by Department of Political

Science Goa University, Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla and Indian

Council for Social Science Rese

arch, New Delhi, held at Goa University, India (21-22nd December 2013).

Lectures on „The Critique of Political Economy‟ and „The transition and Mode of

Production Debates‟ in„Summer School on Marxism‟ organized jointly by

Department of Sociology, South Asian University and Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung

(Germany) held in Ranikhet (Uttarakhand) from 1st June to 9

th June, 2014.

“Economic Dualism and the Category of the 'Informal'” in an International

Conference on “Re-Imagining Theory: Towards New Horizons in the Humanities

and the Social Sciences” organized jointly by Centre in Forum on Contemporary

Theory, Baroda and International Lincoln Centre for American

Studies, Louisiana State University in Shreveport ,USA, held at the International

Centre at Goa, 21-24 December 2014.

“Ïmperialism in the era of Neoliberal Globalization” in an International

Conference on Ïmperialism: Old and New organized by Jamia MilliaIslamia

University held at India International Centre, New Delhi, 9-10 February, 2015.

“Prelude to a Critique of the Political Economy of Resource” in a national

conference on Resource Conflict, Democracy and Federalism: The South Asian

Context organized by the Political Science Department of University of Calcutta,

23-24, March 2015.

Keynote lecture, “Rethinking Transition: Beyond Determinism and

Postmodernism” for the Advanced Workshop on Social Theory on March 26-28,

2015 at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai organized by The Centre

for Social Theory, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social

Sciences, Mumbai.

Lectures on „The Critique of Political Economy‟ and „The Transition and Mode of

Production Debates‟ in „Summer School on Marxism‟ organized jointly by

Department of Sociology, South Asian University and Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung

(Germany) held at Ramnagarah (Uttarakhand) from 8-17 July, 2015.

“Economic Development: Dualism” for Re-Imagining Economic Developmenton

23-24 July, 2015 at the Jadavpur University organized by the Institute of New

Economic Thinking, YSL Group.

“From Rural to Agriculture under Capitalist Development: Some Philosophical

and Historical Notes” in Rural Impoverishment and Agrarian struggles organized

by PalliCharcha Kendra (Department of Rural Studies) Visvsa-Bharati University

from 20-31 March, 2016.

Lecture at the Political Economy of Development workshop organized by

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University,

New Delhi & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - South Asia3rd September, 2016.

Two lectures in “Postcolonial Economy in Transition: Globalization and

Development” and “Capital in the Twenty first Century and Rethinking

Marxism”in short term course on Cultures of Undesiring: The Language of

Postcolonial agency and the Global Capital, held at Department of Humanities

and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, 13-20 March, 2017.

Speaker for a conference organized by Association of Social and Economic

Change to be held at University of California, Riverside, USA, 19/04/2017 to

23/04/2017.

Valedictory Address for the conference on Condition of Plantation Labour in

North Bengal Tea Zone, UGC SAP-DRS II Sponsored National Seminar and

organized by Department of Sociology, University of North Bengal, 29-30th

August 2017

Three Lectures on Class focused Theory, Development and Transition,

Development and Social Needsat the “Two-Week Capacity Building Programme

for Faculty Members in Social Sciences” organized by Giri Institute of

Development Studies (GIDS) sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science

Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi22

May − 04 June, 2017.

Presented a paper Class and Need: A Theoretical Examination of Development

and was chairperson at a conference on Contemporary Capitalism and the

Revolutionary Possibilities 150 Years after Capitaland 100 Years after Russian

Revolution at India International Centre, New Delhi, 2-3 November 2017

Three Lectures Marxist Epistemologies, Different Schools of Marxism, Advanced

Capitalism under Globalisation, On Capitalist Development at Residential

Workshop: Summer School on Marxism-2017 Module- II: “Doing Marxism

Today” organized by Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, South

Asian University, New Delhi & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - South Asia, Dates:

(09 days) 3rd to 12th June, 2017

Seminar Talk on The Shadowy Presence of Ricardo on Marx's Value Theory at

the conference on International Trade, Specialization and Growth - David Ricardo

and Contemporary Perspectives, Co-organized by CSSSC and Centre for

Advanced Studies, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University Venue:

Department of Economics, Gallery Room, Jadavpur University, 28th – 29th

December 2017

Talk on Political Economy of India in the Globalised Era for the International

Conference on “Sustainable Development and North East India in the Globalised

Era” organized by Federation of Government College Teachers‟ Associations,

Manipur (FEGOCTA) in partnership D.M. College of Arts, Imphal, G. P.

Women‟s College, Imphal and Institute of Bio resources and Sustainable

Development, Imphal, Manipur (a national institute under Department of Bio-

technology, Government of India) on 29-30 December, 2017.

Two lectures on Research Methodology and Primitive Accumulation for a Ten

day capacity building program organized by Giri Institute of Development

Studies, Lucknow, February 17, 2018.

Talk on The Shadowy Presence of Ricardo in Marx’s Value Theory for National

Conference on Issues in Economic Development organized by Department of

Economics, Kalyani University, March 15th

, 2018.

Keynote talk on World of the Third: Beyond the Global and Local for the seminar

Dis-Orders in Politics: Global and Local organized by Department of Political

Science, University of Calcutta, 27th March, 2018.

Talk in a seminar organized by Department of Philosophy, University of

Calcutta on the bicentennial birth celebration of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar

and Karl Marx on March 26, 2019.

Panelist on a discussion on „Universal Basic Income‟ held on 27th March, 2019

in an international conference on the theme “Contemporary Issues in

Development” as part of 10Th

ECONference organized by Burdwan

University.