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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সমাজমনস্ক বাঙালির কাছে শোভনলাল দত্তগুপ্ত একটি অতি পরিচিত নাম। প্রাবন্ধিক, মার্কসীয় তত্ত্বের বিশেষজ্ঞ, সমাজচিন্তক হিসেবে তাঁর সামগ্রিক ভাবনাচিন্তাকে কালের দর্পণে: সমাজ, ইতিহাস, সংস্কৃতি শীর্ষক এই সাক্ষাৎকারে তুলে ধরা হয়েছে। শৈশব থেকে বর্তমান সময় পর্যন্ত সাতটি দশক জুড়ে এই কালপর্বের প্রথম ভাগে আছে তাঁর ব্যক্তি জীবন, তাঁর ছোটবেলা, ছাত্রজীবন, শিক্ষকতা ও গবেষণার কথা। দ্বিতীয় পর্বটি বিষয়ভিত্তিক: রাজনৈতিক তত্ত্ব, মার্কসবাদ, উত্তর -আধুনিকতা, বামপন্থার সংকট, ধর্ম, চলচ্চিত্র, সঙ্গীত ইত্যাদি। শোভনলাল দত্তগুপ্ত-র দার্শনিক চিন্তার বৃহৎ প্রেক্ষিতের একটি রূপরেখা উঠে এসেছে এই সাক্ষাৎকারে যা পাঠককে সাহায্য করবে তাঁর বিভিন্ন লেখাপত্র পড়া ও বোঝার ক্ষেত্রে। Learn More

CONTENTS 1. RadharamanChakrabarty : Re-Visiting the Raja. 2. SobhanlalDatta Gupta, Rammohun Roy and his Quest for Modernity: Revisiting his Interpreters 3. ParthaPratimBasu, Rammohun Roy: A Path breaking Inquiry into the Colonial Economy 4. ShibashisChatterjee and RudrasekharBasu, The Domestic and the ‘Global’: The Dual Registers of Rammohun’s Liberalism 5. ImankalyanLahiri and ParthaPratimBasu, Rammohun Roy and the Unitarians: An Enduring Connect 6. Parikshit Thakur, Re-viewing Rammohun Roy’s Idea of Tolerance Editor: Partha Pratim Basu Contributors RadharamanChakrabarty: Former Vice chancellor, NetajiSubhas Open University, Kolkata SobhanlalDatta Gupta, Former Surendranath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta ParthaPratimBasu, Professor of International Relations, Jadavpur University ShibashisChatterjee, Professor of International Relations, Jadavpur University ImankalyanLahiri, Associate Professor of International Relations, Jadavpur University RudrasekharBasu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chapra Govt. College, Nadia, West Bengal Parikshit Thakur, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dwijendralal College, Krishnanagar, West Bengal Learn More

Supriya Roy has worked in Rabindra-Bhavana, the Tagore Memorial Museum, Archives and Research Centre of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan as a librarian and archivist for three decades. The Content Writer of Multimedia Encyclopedia on Tagore, her publications include, Rabindra-Bhavana Uttarayana: an introduction, Tagoreana in the Modern Review, Makers of a Mission; she has been series editor for the Tagore Travelogues for Visva-Bharati and has edited: Letters from a Sojourner in Europe; Journey to Persia and Iraq: 1932; Letters from Java: Rabindranath Tagore’s Tour of Southeast Asia and Talks in Japan, A Home in Urbana, and The Diaries of Rathindranath Tagore. With Sushobhan Adhikary, she has written Rabindranath Tagore: His World of Art.

Smt.Roy has curated exhibitions on Rabindranath in various places. In 2007, she organized a permanent gallery on the life and works of Rabindranath in Mauritius. In 2011, she curated an exhibition on Rabindranath in Kuala Lumpur. Other (ICCR) exhibitions which have travelled all over the world are: Rabindranath Tagore and the Romance of Travel, Rabindranath Tagore: Pilgrimages to the East and Rabindranath Tagore: An Encounter with Japan.

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This is the first English translation of a historic document, secretly prepared in 1932 by M .N.Ryutin (1890-1937), a veteran Bolshevik, and his colleagues, under the aegis of the Union of Marxists- Leninists, an “Organization for the Defence of Marxism-Leninism”. The documents , which is a devastating critique of the Stalinist model of Soviet socialism and highlights the importance of restoration of Leninist norms in Soviet political life, is believed to have been clandestinely circulated inside the Bolshevik Party as an alternative understanding of the problems of socialism in the USSR. With the arrest and subsequent execution of Ryutin in 1937, the document went into oblivion, as it was confiscated by the Soviet authorities. After lying hidden in the Soviet archives for decades it was in 1990 that the full text of this document was published for the first time in Izvestiya TsK KPSS ( Nos.8-12) under the authority of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Learn More

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