On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, a National Seminar under the title Revisiting Gandhi at 150 was organized at Presidency University by Council for Political Studies in association with the Department of Political Science, Presidency University on 28th January 2020.The texts of the four essays published in this monograph are revised and expanded versions of the original presentations made in the National Seminar and published earlier in Socialist Perspective(official organ of Council for Political Studies).

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A bengali book written by Late Ajit Roy on Gramsci's life and his theory. It was first published in 1989. Now it has been published with two new introduction by Prof. Sobhanlal Duttagupta and Prof. Sourin Bhattacharya. Learn More

২০১১-২১ বিগত এক দশকে বিভিন্ন পত্রপত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত নির্বাচিত প্রবন্ধ ও সাক্ষাৎকারের এই সংকলনটির বিষয়বস্তু বহুমাত্রিক । যে অস্থির ও অশান্ত সময়ের সাক্ষী এই কালপর্ব, তার প্রেক্ষিতে সংস্কৃতি, ইতিহাস, ধর্ম, মার্কসবাদ, সমকালীন সমাজ ও রাজনীতি, কেন্দ্রে ও রাজ্যে রাজনীতির পট পরিবর্তন এরকম অনেক গুরুত্বপূর্ণ বিষয় এই সংকলনের বিষয়বস্তু ৷ চিন্তাশীল পাঠককে এই বই এক নতুন ভাবনার, নতুন দৃষ্টিভঙ্গির সন্ধান দেবে ৷ Learn More

Contents of the book. 1.Rashtrosonghe Kabule 2.Kabuler Songshar 3. Kabuler Samajjibon 4. Afganisthan: Desh o Odibaashi 5.Kabul o poriparsho 6.Prachin Afganisthan 7.Moddhojuger Afganisthan 8.Poshtun jatir Obbhuddoy o Afghan rashtrer gorapotton 9.Rashtronirman o adhunikayoner shuchona 10.Notun juger bhore 11.Unnoyon , Gonotantrik porikkha o Rajtanter oboshan 12. Rashtrobiplob 13. Afganisthaner prothom janogonona 14. Afghan ontordondo o Soviet unioner hastokkhep 15. Kabule amar sesh bochor 16. Jalalabad-Hadda , Bamiyan bhromon o Afganisthaner onnanyo porjotok akarshon 17. Biplpbottor Afganisthan Porishishto-1 Porishishto-2 Tottho shutro Learn More

More people live with electoral democracy in India than in Europe and the US combined. If we are to understand democracy as a form of government, with its successes and failures, its ability to create peace and development or its ability to falter, create division and give rise to majoritarianism, authoritarian leaders or identitarian movements, we need to understand democracy in India. This intellectually engaging collection of articles is a valued contribution to this endeavour because it challenges us to investigate democracy as an ongoing process, its final goal never defined. The collection has profound lessons not just for understanding India’s democracy but for democracy, political legitimacy and societal capacity world-wide. Arild Engelsen Ruud University of Oslo Contents Preface and acknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors Harihar Bhattacharyya: Introduction: Democracy, More Questions, Few Answers Chapter 1 Subrata K Mitra: Citizenship in India: the puzzling resilience of an imported concept Chapter 2 Sudipta Kaviraj: Two Concepts of Democracy and the Left in West Bengal Chapter 3 Sobhanlal Datta Gupta: Revisioning the Left in today's India : Towards an alternative understanding Chapter 4 Surajit Ch. Mukhopadhyay: The Right and the Left: Contemporary India and the crises in Indian Democracy Chapter 5 Kaushik Bhattacharya: Independent Candidates in Lok Sabha Elections Chapter 6 Sumantra Bhattacharya: Political Marketing in India: How Political Parties in India Make Use of the Marketing Tools Chapter 7 Sukanta Bhattacharyya: Limits of Positive Discrimination in India’s Localities: Does it signal a failure of India’s Democracy? Chapter 8 Bibhas Bagchi: For a Radical Democracy: Understanding and Contesting Hierarchies in India Chapter 9 Syeda Layla Khaled: Muslim Women in India: Between Democratic Citizenship and Muslim Identity Chapter 10 Abhisek Karmakar: The Making of India’s Democracy Discourse: Contributions of Dwarakanath Vidyabhusan Chapter 11 Sahon Bhattacharyya:Reappraising the value of the traditional: Indian social ontology beyond the Western episteme Chapter 12 Joyjit Ghosh: Symptomatic Politics, Asymptomatic Media in India Chapter 13 Harihar Bhattacharyya: Indian Democracy’s Civil and Political Society: A critique of Partha Chatterjee Appendices 1. Jyotirmay Bhattacharya: A short Biography of late Kalyan K Bhattacharya 2. Kalyani Bhattacharyya: Kalyan Bhattacharya: A Reminiscence 3. Writings of Kalyan Bhattacharyya: (re-reprinted) a. Sociology of Inequalities: Bankim Chandra’s Essay on Samya (1992) (pp. 85-107) Journal of Socio-Political Studies, Vol 1, 1992. b. Bhudev and Modernity: Nationalism and Beyond (2007) (pp. 30-45) Index Learn More

In this book I have tried to discuss the student movement of West Bengal from 1960 to 1972. In doing so I have mainly focused on the different trends of communist student movements during the said period and at the said time. I have discussed the rise and growth of Chatra Parishad(CP) as an alternative force in the student movement of the sixties of the last century.The period 1960 to 1972 was very eventful in the socio-political and cultural history of West Bengal in general, and during this period, the student movement in the state had been passing through a critical juncture.-Author. Learn More

বইটির প্রথম সংস্করণে (২০২০) ছয়টি বক্তৃতার মাধ্যমে পশ্চিমী মার্কসবাদের স্বরূপ, গ্রামশি, লুকাচ, কর্শ, ফ্রাংকফুর্ট স্কুল এবং হাবেরমাসের তত্ত্বগুলি নির্বাচিত গ্রন্থতালিকা সহ পরিবেশিত হয়েছিল । দ্বিতীয় সংস্করণে (২০২২) পশ্চিমী মার্কসবাদের স্বরূপ, গ্রামশি এবং ফ্রাংকফুর্ট স্কুল বিষয়ক বক্তৃতাগুলির আমূল পরিমার্জন ও পরিবর্ধন করা হয়েছে I প্রয়োজনীয় পরিমার্জন করা হয়েছে অন্য বক্তৃতাগুলির ক্ষেত্রেও I নির্বাচিত গ্রন্থতালিকাতে বেশ কিছু নতুন বই-এর অন্তর্ভুক্তি ঘটেছে । Learn More

First Lecture- Exploring Marx in the Post-Soviet Era: New Frontiers, New Perspectives- by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta. Former Surendra Nath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta. Second Lecture- Capital:Nature of the Text Its Implication for the Present- by Sourin Bhattacharya Former Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University Third Lecture- Marx's Truth: A Historical Reading of his Thought- by Sudipta Kaviraj Professor Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies- Columbia University Learn More