Asian Studies (A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF ASIAN AFFAIRS)

From 1983

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NETAJI INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN STUDIES (A Social Science Research Institute, sponsored by the Government of West Bengal in its Higher Education Department)

Address: Sarat Bose Bhavan, 1 Woodburn Park, Kolkata - 700020, West Bengal, India Website: www.nias.org.in

Vols. XXXV (January 2017-December 2017), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Sarvani Gooptu, ‘Crossing the Threshold into the World: Travel Narratives by Bengali

Women in the 20th Century’

b) Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, ‘Claims-Making, Connections and Contests over the Trans-

Himalayan ‘Shared Heritage’ of ‘Gorkha’ in South Asia’

c) Vivek Mishra, ‘Changing Shades of India’s Multilateralism’

d) Supreeta Mehta, ‘Diplomacy Through the Ages: A Case Study’

e) Nandini Bhattacharya, ‘Indo-Tajik Cultural Link: A Musical Journey Through the Past and

Present’

f) Karubaki Datta & Deepika Chettri, ‘Change and Continuity: Preserving the Cultural Heritage

of Tibet in Era of Diaspora’

Vols. XXXIV (January 2016-December 2016), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri, ‘Rama the Culture – Hero and his Human Face’

b) Sarvani Gooptu, ‘Mapping Asia for Children: Pedagogy and Nationalism in Sandesh (1913-

1926)’

c) Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, ‘Localisation of the Gospel, Cultural Revivals and Christianity:

Colonial Encounter in South Asia and the Zo Hnahthlak’

d) Susmita Mukherjee, ‘Burma-Bengal Connectivity: Bengali Revolutionaries Carving a Space in

Burma to Strike at British Colonial Oppression at Home’

e) Tridib Chakraborti, ‘Mahatma Gandhi: The Relentless Peacemaker of Human Civilization’

f) Purusottam Bhattacharya, ‘Brexit: Implications for India’

g) Vivek Mishra, ‘Implications for Asia of Donald Trump’s Victory’

h) Sandip Halder, ‘Landslide in Darjeeling Hill Areas: A Study of Some Selected Areas in

Kurseong’

Vols. XXXII-XXXIII (January 2014-December 2015), Nos. 1 & 2

a) S. K. Chatterjee, ‘Migration and Infiltration in the Indian Context’

b) Surojit Sen Gupta, ‘A Study of Panchayati Raj Institution and its Developmental Activities in

Tripura – An Overview’

c) L. N. Satpati, ‘Hydro-Geomorphic Concerns for Urban and Transport Planning in West

Bengal’

d) Lopamudra Ganguly, ‘Water Conservation in India: An Ancient Concept to Future Practice’

e) Rajat Halder, ‘Population Growth and Related Problems in North 24 Parganas District, West

Bengal’

f) Moumita Ghosh, ‘Development and Marginalization – A Case Study’

g) Shalmoli Bhattacharya, ‘Gender Discrimination and Harassment at Place of Work’

h) Book review by Palash Chandra Coomar, for Manis Kumar Raha (ed.), North East India: The

Human Landscape, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2014

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for R. K. Das Chowdhury, Socio-Economic Scenario of the

North East India, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2013

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for K. C. Kabra, Economic Growth of Mizoram: Role of

Business and Industry, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2008

Vol. XXXI (July -December 2013), No. 2

a) D. N. Bose, ‘In Search of INA Heroes in South East Asia-October 2012’

b) Ananda Bhattacharyya, ‘Sitaram’s Autobiography: A Tale of Loyalty’

c) Anjali Ghosh, ‘India’s ‘Look-East Policy’ and Emerging Prospects for West Bengal: An

Introduction’

d) Indrita Saha & Ashis Sarkar, ‘Disparity in Development of Mouzas of Binpur-I Block, West

Bengal – A Geoinformatics Approach’

e) Mamata Desai, ‘Disaster Management – Indian Scenario’

f) Abhijit Das, ‘A Systematic Review of Groundwater Arsenic Pollution Problem in Two Asian

Countries: Bangladesh and India’

g) Arpita Bose, ‘History of the Chinese in Calcutta – An Overview (1781-1950)’

h) Prosenjit Mukherjee, ‘Emerging Changes of Seasonal Tenancy Relations during Boro

Cultivation in West Bengal Agriculture since 1990s: A Study of Reverse Tenancy’

i) Sandip Halder, ‘Urban Poor: A Study on Livelihood Situation of some Underprivileged

Groups of Slum in KMC Area’

j) Aparna Banerjee & Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya, ‘A Comparative Study between the Trade

Performance of the Ports of Australia and India’

k) Subir K. Kole, ‘Are Development and Cultural Preservation Compatible Objectives? An

Inquiry into the Public Health Care in India’

l) Anwesha Haldar, ‘State of Solar Energy Development in the Sundarban Region: A Micro-level

Study in Gosaba, West Bengal

m) Naparajit Mukherjee, ‘A Note on the Khaksar Movement in India’

n) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for H. S. Pomeroy, The Ethics of Marriage, Logos Press,

New Delhi, 2013

o) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Vineeta Menon (ed.), Environment and Tribes in

India: Resource Conflicts and Adaptation, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New

Delhi, 2012

p) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Gautam Kumar Bera, Religion and Society in

Sovereign Tripura, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2012

Vol. XXXI (January -June 2013), No. 1

a) Purusottam Bhattacharya, ‘Political Relations Between India and the European Union:

Convergences and Divergences on some Major Contemporary International Issues:

Afghanistan and the Arab Spring’

b) Sarajit Kumar Chatterjee, ‘Role of Caste in the Indian Polity’

c) Apurba Kr. Mukhopadhyay, ‘Trajectories of India’s Developmentalist State: From

Decolonization to Recolonization (?)’

d) Mahua Bardhan, ‘Present Scenario of a Tribal Community in West Bengal: A Case Study of

Endangered Primitive Tribe ToTo in Jalpaiguri District’

e) Aparna Banerjee and Uttam Kumar Bhattacharya, ‘Ports and Urbanization in Colonial India’

f) Ajay Debnath, ‘Integrated Model of Weather Warning System for Vulnerable Areas: A Case

Study of Gosaba C. D. Block in the Sundarban Region’

g) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for M. S. Mahendrakumar, Audio-Visual Anthropology,

Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2013

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Pranjal Boruah, Healthcare Practices Among the AO

Nagas: Socio-Cultural Study of Nagaland, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New

Delhi, 2012

Vol. XXX (July - December 2012), No. 2

a) Prabir Kr. De, ‘Urbanization in West Bengal: Post-Colonial Development’

b) Manis Kumar Raha, ‘Agony and Ecstasy: Expression of Sentiments Through Tribal Songs’

c) L. N. Satpati, ‘Eco-Tourism: Prospect of Development in West Bengal’

d) Debajyoti Banerjee, ‘The Politics of Reading: Some Controversies’

e) Surojit Sen Gupta, ‘Vocational Education and Vocational Guidance – The Need of the Present

Day Society’

f) Sujit Mandal & Ramkrishna Maiti, ‘As Assessment of Human Intervention Induced Slope

Instability: A Case Study of the Shiv-Khola Watershed of Kurseong Sub-division, Darjiling

Himalaya’

g) Anuj Kanchan Datta Roy, ‘Questioning Human Rights of Women in Tripura’

h) Book review by Debnarayan Modak, for Mohit Bhattacharya, Subhas Chandra Bose As city

Manager, K. P. Bagchi & Co., Kolkata, 2012.

i) Book review by Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti, for Falguni Chakrabarty, Adaptation of the Santals

to the Hill-Forest Environment, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for M. V. Rao, Persistence and Change in Tribal India,

Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2012

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Bhagyalaxmi Mahapatra, Development of a Primitive

Tribe, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2011

l) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for S. A. Azeez Saheb, B. Francis Kulirani & K. K. Misra

(eds.), Cultural Pluralism: The Indian Scenario, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New

Delhi, 2012

Vol. XXX (January -June 2012), No. 1

a) Anirban Banerjee, ‘The Contribution of Reverend Lal Behari Das to the Study of Bengali

Folklore’

b) Anindya Batabyal, ‘Stapled Visas and Sino-Indian Bilateral Ties’

c) Pradipta Dubey & Atonu Chatterjee, ‘Marketing the Products of Self Help Group: A Study of

North 24 Parganas, West Bengal’

d) Yaqoob Ul Hassan, ‘Balochistan: Now and Then’

e) Susanta Pramanik & Sandip Halder, ‘Analysis of Geo-Hydrophysical Characteristics of

Aquifers of Balasore-Bhadrak Coastal Zone – A Case Study’

f) Debasree De, ‘Evaluating Forest Rights Act of 2006’

g) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Komol Singh, Economy of a Primitive Tribal Village in

Manipur, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for K. E. Rajpramukh, Tribal Health in Eastern Ghats

Centre, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2012

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for K. N. Jena and Habu Dhan Tripura, Life and

Customary Laws of Tripura Tribes, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2009

Vol. XXIX (July - December 2011), No. 2

a) Jyotiskona Barik, Pranabes Sanyal & Sugata Hazra, ‘Sustainable Development of Algal

Culture in Relation to Socio-Economy in Sundarbans’

b) Moumita Moitra Maiti, ‘Social Consequences of Water Scarcity in Darjeeling, West Bengal’

c) S. K. Biswas, ‘Status of Tribal Women in Andaman & Nicobar Islands’

d) Samhita Chaudhuri, ‘Rain Water Harvesting as a Measure for Water Resource Management

in Hilly Towns: A Key Towards Sustainable Urban Development in India’

e) Apurba Kr. Mukhopadhyay, ‘Coffee House in a Paddy Field’: In Search of a Utopian Civil

Society?’

f) L. N. Satpati, ‘Chinese Hegemony in Geopolitics of the Himalayan Region’

g) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘The Naxalite Movement: A Detached Observation’

h) Mahuya Roy Karmakar, ‘Domestic Violence and Dowry Dismissive Attitudes Towards

Women in India’

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Nemthianngai Guite, Indigenous Medicine and

Health Care Among Paite Tribe of Manipur, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New

Delhi, 2011

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Ashim Kumar Adhikary, The Tribal Situation in India:

Structure, Change and Continuity, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2009

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Bhagyalaxmi Mahapatra, Ethnic Dances and Music of

Western Orissa: An Anthropological Study Towards Promoting Eco-Tourism, Concept

Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2011

l) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Goutam Kumar & K. Jose, Ethno-Social Mobility in

North-East India, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2010

Vol. XXIX (January – June 2011), No. 1

a) James Mayall, ‘The Impact of China and India on International Society’

b) Nikhilesh Das, ‘Economic Growth and Social Responsibility’

c) Surojit Sen Gupta, ‘Urban Scene in North-East India’

d) Atonu Chatterjee, ‘Microcredit in India – The God that Failed?’

e) Sudeepta Ghose, ‘Rethinking the Battle of Plassey: Prologue and Epilogue’

f) Rahi Soren and Parthiba Basu, ‘Ecological Resilience along a Forest Fire Gradient in the Dry

Deciduous Forest of Bankura, West Bengal, India

g) Mun Mun Nandy, ‘Changing Patterns of Livelihood: A Case Study of the Santhal Community

of Selected Wards of Bansberia Municipality, Hooghly District’

h) Manis Kumar Raha, ‘Edward Westermarck and The Institution of Marriage’

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for P. K. Sanjeev Reddy & P. C. Sekhar Reddy, Peace and

Development in North East: A Virtuous Spiral, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2007

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Rup Kumar Burman, Contested Regionalism, Abhijeet

Publications, New Delhi, 2007

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Gaya Pandey, Bio-Cultural Evolution, Concept

Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2010

l) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Asoka Kumar Sen, Representing Tribe: The Ho of

Singhbhum under Colonial Rule, Concept Publishing Company (Pvt.) Ltd., New Delhi, 2011

Vol. XXVIII (July - December 2010), No. 2

a) Naparajit Mukherjee, ‘Netaji – Certain Untold and Startling Facts’ b) Shantanu Chakrabarti, ‘Securitizing South Asia: Quest for a Broader Regional Comprehensive

Peace Building Agenda’ c) Apurba Kumar Mukhopadhyay, ‘State and Civil Society: Dialogue Between the Deaf and the

Dumb in India’ d) Sanjay Kumar Pradhan, ‘Socio-Economic Problems of the People of Indian Origin in Post-

Apartheid South Africa: An Analysis’ e) Md. Abdullah Al-Masum & Dr. Noor Shakirah Mat Akhir, ‘Environmental Education in

Bangladesh: Policy, Awareness and Movement (1974-2009)’ f) Biraj Kanti Mondal & Sukla Bhaduri, ‘Effect of Tiger Prawn Seeds Collection on the

Ecosystem of Indian Sundarban’ g) Soumyajit Chowdhury, Pranabes Sanyal, Sugata Hazra and Joydeep Mukherjee, ‘Ecological

Contributions of Fiddler Crabs Towards the Sustenance of Sundarban Mangroves: A Biotic Influence in Disaster Management’

h) Book review by Kingshuk Chatterjee, for Debnarayan Modak (ed.), Terrorism: Concepts and Problems, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata, 2009

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Usha Sharma, Festivals in Indian Society (in two volumes), Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2008

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for H. N. Hutchinson, Marriage Rites, Customs and Ceremonies of the World, Logos Press, New Delhi, 2009

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Asha Mishra and Chittaranjan Kumar Pati (ed.), Tribal Movements in Jharkhand 1857-2007, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2010

Vol. XXVIII (January – June 2010), No. 1

a) Aswini K. Ray, ‘Democracy in the 21st Century: A Non-Western View’

b) Rakhahari Chatterji, ‘Lok Sabha Elections, 2009 and Beyond’

c) Apurba Kr. Mukhopadhyay, ‘Parliamentary Communism in India: Some Paradoxes and

Puzzles’

d) Prabir De, ‘Self-Help Group in West Bengal: Towards Participation, Governance and Human

Rights’

e) Surojit Sen Gupta, ‘Environmental Education in Tripura’

f) Saptarshi Mitra, ‘Urban Settlements in West Bengal: Twentieth Century and After’

g) Geetanjali Dutta, ‘Gender Inequality in India: An Analysis’

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for T. B. Subba, Joseph Puthen Pwakal and Shaji Joseph

Puykunnel (eds.), Christianity and Change in North-East India, Concept Publishing Company

Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2009

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Swapan K. Biswas, Colonization and Rehabilitations

in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi, 2009

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for M. Romesh Singh, Tribal Development in 21st

Century: An Experience from Manipur, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2006

Vol. XXVII (July - December 2009), No. 2

a) Ashis Sarkar, ‘Particulate Pollution Scenario- An Environmental Analysis’

b) Mitrajit Chatterjee, ‘Integrated Waste Management – The Need of the Hour (with special

reference to West Bengal)’

c) Priyank Pravin Patel, ‘Estimation of Land Surface Temperature from Landsat Thermal Images

Towards Urban Heat Island Mapping of Kolkata’

d) Sabyasachi Bose, ‘Hydro-Power Potentials in Nepal: The Biggest Hope for Future Economic

Development and Indo-Nepal Co-operations’

e) Mun Mun Nandy, ‘Urban Sprawl and Urban Planning in East Kolkata: A Study of Selected

Wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation’

f) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Y. P. Singh (eds.), Indian Villages: 2020 (two

volumes), Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006

g) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Bimal J. Deb, Keya Sen Gupta and B. Datta Ray (eds.),

Globalisation and North East India, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2008

h) Book review by Mamata Desai, for Alf Hornborg & Carole L. Crumley (eds.), The World

System and the Earth System – Global Socio-environmental Change and Sustainability since

the Neolithic, PHL Learning Private Limited, New Delhi

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for J. R. Subba, History Culture and Customs of Sikkim,

Gyan Publishing House, New Delhi, 2008

Vol. XXVII (January – June 2009), No. 1

a) Pradip Bose, ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s Social Philosophy and Socio-Economic Ideas’

b) Nikhilesh Das, ‘Environmental Management – A Concept’

c) Prabir Kr. De, ‘Environmental Agenda in SAARC Countries’

d) Alok Dutta, ‘India and Disarmament’

e) Md. Ayub Mallick, ‘Review of Electoral Politics in West Bengal, 1952-87: Growing Influence

of the Left Forces and Disintegration of Congress’s Dominance’

f) Apurba Kr. Mukhopadhyay, ‘The Boat is Rocked but not Upturned: Revisiting Marxist Parties

of West Bengal’

g) Soma Kundu, ‘Roles of Different Financial Avenues to Meet Healthcare Expenditure in Rural

India’

h) Ranjit Sen, ‘Higher Education: A Change in Perspective’

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Kamal K. Misra (ed.), Anthropology New Global Order

and Other Essays, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2005

j) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for N. K. Panda, Policies, Programmes and Strategies for

Tribal Development, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2008

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Prem Singh Jina, Ladakh Buddhist Culture and

Tradition, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2006

Vol. XXVI (July - December 2008), No. 2

a) Sanjay Kumar Pradhan, ‘Iranian Nuclear Dilemma and the United States’

b) Manis Kumar Raha, ‘Safeguards and Facilities for Indian Tribes: Past and Present’

c) Mamata Desai, ‘Issues of Livelihood Development in the Coastal Regions of West Bengal’

d) P. K. Sikdar, ‘Indian Coastal Zone: Regulation or Management’

e) Anway Mukhopadhyay, ‘The Enormous Symbolic Potentials of the Kali-Cult’

f) Salma Sultana, ‘Sustainable Agricultural Development and Natural Resource Management in

Mahanadi and Balason Basin, Darjeeling, West Bengal’

g) Ratna Saha, ‘The Hill Kharias and their Environment’

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for G. R. Madan, India and the West: A Cultural Contrast,

Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 2004

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for R. E. S. Tanner, Contemporary Social Science

Research, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2008

Vol. XXVI (January – June 2008), No. 1

a) In Memorium: Professor Basudeb Chattopadhyay

b) Chitra Ghosh, ‘A Pilgrimage to Moirang, Manipur’

c) Amarjit Singh, ‘Muslim Communal Politics and Partition of India: A Historiographic Resume’

d) Sanhita Mukherjee, ‘Landlords, the Imperial Power and National Awakening: The Role of the

Kandi Raj Family’

e) Ajanta Biswas, ‘The Communist Challenge in Indonesia: From a Historical Hindsight’

f) Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee & Sameer Suryakant Patil, ‘India and China – Forging a New

Vision for Asia’

g) Book review by Pijushkanti Saha, for Manis Kumar Raha and Mamata Desai, The Rising Sun,

ABC Publications, Kolkata, 2008

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Karen Malone (ed.), An Anthropological Exploration

of Young People’s Use of Space, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for R. E. S. Tanner, Cross-Cultural Opinion and

Consequences, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Vol. XXV (July - December 2007), No. 2

a) Jayantanuj Bandyopadhyay, ‘Building a Democratic World Order: The Missing Foundation

for Globalisation with Justice’

b) Chitra Ghosh, ‘Subhas Chandra Bose – His Ideas in Building Modern India’

c) Purusottam Bhattacharya, ‘In the Pursuit of Multilateralism: India and Europe in the 21st

Century’

d) Animesh Roy, ‘Paradigmatic Change in Cropping Pattern and Net Return from the Major

Crops in West Bengal’

e) Prashasti Bhattacharyya, ‘The Crime Component of Kolkata’s Social Environment: A Brief

Study’

f) Madhuchanda Ghosh, ‘India-Japan: A Roadmap for Cultural Cooperation’

g) Madhuri Bose, ‘Towards a Revival of the Bose Legacy’

h) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Chittaranjan Dash, Social Ecology and Demographic

Structure of Bhotias: Narrative and Discourses, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New

Delhi, 2006

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Chittaranjan Kumar Paty (ed.), Forest Government

and Tribe, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2007

Vol. XXV (January – June 2007), No. 1 [Special Issue]

Introduction by Haraprasad Ray

I) The Chinese Scenario

a) Xue Keqiao, ‘Economic Globalisation and Chinese Culture’

b) Wang Shuying, ‘A Survey of the Chinese Family System’

c) Liu Jian, ‘Traditional Culture and Modernization in China’

d) Huang Xinchuan, ‘The Essentials and Prospects of China’s Traditional Culture’

II) India-China Cultural Interface

e) Liu Jian, ‘Rabindranath Tagore in China’

f) Huang Xinchuan, ‘Lokayata and its Influence in China’

g) Ji Xianlin, ‘On the Oldest Chinese Transliterations of the Name of Buddha’

h) Haraprasad Ray, ‘Dimensions of Chinese Studies in India’

i) Haraprasad Ray, ‘India Through Chinese Eyes’

Vol. XXIV (January – December 2006), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Deb Kumar Bose, ‘The Role of Netaji in India’s Freedom Movement’

b) Manas Ray and Suparna Tat, ‘A Study on the Nature and Structure of Ritual Language of the

Bauls of Birbhum, West Bengal’

c) V. Bijukumar, ‘Centralised Planning and Decentralised Debates in India’

d) Salma Sultana, ‘Morphometric Analysis and Prioritization of Mahandanda Watershed of

Darjeeling District Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques’

e) Paulami Sahu, ‘Hydrogeology of the Quaternary Aquifer in and Around East Calcutta

Wetlands, West Bengal, India’

f) Rajarshi Mitra, ‘Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): Its Usefulness in Mangrove

Forest Cover Assessment’

g) Mohammed Ali Chowdhury, ‘Arakan and its Physical Geography: A Probing into its Origin’

h) Sanjay Kumar Pradhan and Geetanjali Dutta, ‘Status of Women in Independent Uzbekistan’

i) Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee, ‘Panchayats Revisited: The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled

Tribes in the Panchayat Politics of West Bengal in the Post-reservation Era’

j) Shubhrajit Sen, ‘India in the United Nations Security Council: Beijing’s Guidelines’

k) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for S. N. Chaudhury, Dalit and Tribal: Leadership in

Panchayat, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

l) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Usha Sharma, Marriage in Indian Society: From

Tradition to Modernity, Mittal Publications (Vol. I + II), New Delhi

Special Silver Jubilee Volume (1981-2006)

Manish Kumar Rah, Debashis Chatterjee, Mamata Desai (eds.), India: People and Environment

a) Preface by Suranjan Das

b) Ajit K. Danda, ‘Socio-Political Unrests: Selected Methodological Issues’

c) Rajat Kanti Das, ‘Tribal Cultures in India: Meaning and Practice’

d) Manis Kumar Raha, ‘Transformation and Development of the Indian Tribes: Dreams and

Realities’

e) Sarajit Kumar Chatterjee, ‘Caste in Historical Perspective – Indian Scenario’

f) Chitra Ghosh, ‘Women and Education in India in the Last 25 Years and the Vision of the

Future’

g) Vikal Tripathy & Ranjan Gupta, ‘Tibetan Diaspora in India: Some Anthropo-Demographic

Observations’

h) Prithvish Nag, ‘Spatial Pattern of Ageing India’

i) Ananda Deb Mukhopadhyay, ‘Disaster Management and Indian Scenario’

j) Ajit Banerjee, ‘Deforestation, Forest Degradation and Responses’

k) Subrata Sinha, ‘Twenty five Years of Land Use: Change With Environmental Impact’

l) Mamata Desai & Salma Sultana, ‘Management, Utilization and Conservation of Water

Resource: Indian Scenario’

m) P. K. Sikdar & Surajit Chakraborty, ‘Groundwater Resource of India and West Bengal with

Special Emphasis on Vulnerability Analysis Using GIS in English Bazar Block, Malda District,

West Bengal’

n) Sri B. D. Pande, Sri Jyoti Basu & Prof. Sambhu Ghosh, ‘Messages Published in the Asian

Studies, Vol. I, No. 1, 1983’

Vol. XXIII (January – December 2005), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Anisuzzaman, ‘A Participant’s Account of the Rin Revolt in 1946’

b) Ananda Deb Mukhopadhyay, ‘Tsunami Its Impact on the Ecosystem and Mitigation’

c) A. K. Ghosh, ‘Asian Biodiversity Conservation’

d) Samar Bagchi, ‘All About Water’

e) Salma Sultana, ‘Identification and Selection of Suitable Site for Solid Waste Disposal Using

Remote Sensing and GIS’

f) S. B. Roy, ‘Monitoring of Joint Forest Management for Sustainability as a System’

g) Mamata Desai, ‘A Journey to Toronto – Canada’

h) Subrata Sinha, ‘Standoff Over Tribal Rights Bill’

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Padmaja Sen (ed.), Changing Tribal Life: A Socio-

Philosophical Perspective, Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Vol. XXII (January – December 2004), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Gautam Chattopadhyay, ‘Bengal: Electoral Politics, Freedom Struggle and Bose Brothers’

b) Girish Chandra Maiti, ‘The Exploits of the INA on the Battle Front’

c) Chitta Ranjan Misra, ‘M. K. Gandhi’s Stand on the Unity and Sovereignty of Bengal 1947’

d) Alok Dutta, ‘Liberation of Goa a Success Story of India’s Non-Aligned Foreign Policy’

e) Rajarshi Dasgupta, ‘Representations of Communalism: A Study of Recent Print Media

Reports in Bangladesh’

f) Md. Abdullah Al-Masum, ‘Bangladeshi Migrant Labourers in Overseas: A Case Study of

Middle East (1971-1992)’

g) Ajanta Biswas, ‘Some Issues in the Writing of Urban History of Modern India’

h) Book review by Sabyasachi Chatterjee, for Narendra K. Sehgal, Satpal Sangwan and Subodh

Mahanti (ed.), Uncharted Terrains: Essays on Science Popularisation in Pre-Independence

India, Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi

Vol. XXI (January – December 2003), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Vina Mazumdar, ‘Origin and Background of Women’s Studies in India – 1970-1986’

b) Girish Chandra Maiti, ‘Decisive Role of the INA in India’s Freedom’

c) Gouri Sankar Nag, ‘Role of Trade Unions in the Changing Global Scenario’

d) Amal Das, ‘Ambedkar’s Thought and Contributions as a Labour Leader in Colonial India’

e) Kaushik Roy, ‘Beyond Kargil: Indian Military Policy for the New Millennium’

f) Bakul Chandra Chakma, ‘Patrick J. Hurley and the Chinese Communist-Nationalist Conflict,

1944, 1945’

g) Prasenjit Maiti, ‘Communist ‘Good Governance’ in a Postcolonial Democracy: Interrogating

Left Front Rule in West Bengal, 1977-96’

h) Nitis Das Gupta, ‘Life and Philosophy of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay – The Forgotten

Colossus of India’

i) Book review by Manis Kumar Raha, for Bijitendra Mohan Mitra, Codification of Tribal

Customary Laws, Indian Anthropological Society, 2003

j) Book review by Ashis Guha, for Nirban Basu, Politics and Protest 1937-47 – A Comparative

Study of Four Major Industries in Bengal, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata, 2002

Vol. XX (July – December 2002), No. 2 [special volume on Disaster Management]

a) D. K. Sinha, ‘Whither Contours of Natural Disaster Management?’

b) Nikhilesh Das, ‘An Approach to Disaster Management System’

c) Pijush Kanti Saha, ‘Critical Status of Water on Earth’s Surface’

d) S. P. Sinha Roy, ‘An Insight to Water Related Disasters’

e) Subhash Santra, ‘Industrial Disaster and Environmental Consequences’

f) Mamata Desai, ‘Landslide Hazards in the Darjeeling Hill Areas-Probable Causes and

Mitigation Measures’

g) Ajit Kumar Danda, ‘A Note on Disaster Management: Earthquake’

h) Prateeti Chakravarty, ‘Road Accidents in Konkata – Points to Ponder’

i) Book Review by Manis Kumar Raha, for S. G. Deogaonkar and S. S. Deogaonkar, Native

Americans and Native Indians, Concept Publishing Co., New Delhi

j) Book Review by Dilip Kumar Sinha, Some Aspects of Natural Disaster Management, Institute

of Rural Development Natural Disaster and Environmental Management, Kolkata

Vol. XX (January –June 2002), No. 1

a) J. B. Bhattacharjee, ‘Netaji, INA and the Freedom Movement in North East India’

b) Anindya Batabyal, ‘Impact of Globalisation on South-East Asia: An Empirical Stock-Taking’

c) Ramkrishna Chatterjee, ‘Modest of Labour Control in Tea Plantation in Colonial Assam’

d) Md. Abdullah Al-Masum, ‘Women Labourers in Bangladesh: A Perspective of Garments

Industries 1980-2000’

e) Ayub Mallick, ‘Agricultural Underdevelopment in Post-Independent India’

f) Debamitra Mitra, ‘Some Aspects of Bhutanese Refugee Problem’

g) Supti Raha, ‘Growth and Progress of the Hosiery Industry in Bengal 1920-1947’

h) Alok Datta, ‘Demand for New International Economic Order and Non-Aligned India Under

Nehru’

i) Bela Duttagupta, ‘Of one of the Ocean-born’

j) Book Review by Mohammed B. Alam, for Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India:

From the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,

1999

Vol. XIX (July – December 2001), No. 2

a) B. C. Upreti, ‘Nepal: In Search of Good Governance’

b) Mohammed Ali Chowdhury, ‘The Maghs: In Search of an Identity’

c) Srelata Chatterjee, ‘The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bengal 1930-1934’

d) Dalia Chakrabarti, ‘Culture in Clerks’ Politics’

e) Bipasha Raha, ‘Tagore on Agrarian Resuscitation: The First Phase’

f) Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, ‘Anatomy of Records Management’

Vol. XIX (January –June 2001), No. 1 [Special Number of Ecology and Environment]

a) A. K. Ghosh, ‘Status of Environment in West Bengal’

b) Pranabes Sanyal, ‘Calcutta’s Air Pollution’

c) Tarak Mohan Das, ‘The Dam – Its Past, Present and Future’

d) Ashis Sarkar, ‘Save our Earth: An Ecosaga of Humans’

e) Dhrubojyoti Ghosh, ‘Peace with Nature – Long Live the Rich’

f) Mamata Desai & Sanghamitra Adhya, ‘The Problems and Prospects of Tourism at Digha’

g) Manis Kumar Raha, ‘The Tribes of Andamans: Their Struggle for Existence’

h) Tapas Ghatak, ‘Darjeeling Landslides – A Geoplanning Exercise Through Geographical

Information System for Future Development’

i) Book Review by Manis Kumar Raha, for M. K. Bhasin and S. L. Malik (eds.), Contemporary

Studies in Human Ecology’, Kamal Raj Enterprises, Delhi, 1998

Vol. XVIII (January –December 2000), Nos. 1 & 2

a) Barun De, ‘Some Geopolitical Elements in the Relevance of Central Asia for India Today’

b) Rabindra Sen, ‘Indonesia’s Vietnam Policy 1975-78’

c) M. Amin Wakman, ‘The Current Political Crisis in Afghanistan’

d) Mark Harrison, ‘How Colonial was ‘Colonial Medicine’? Public Health and Medicine in British

India Reconsidered’

e) Crispin Bates, ‘Community, Conflict and the Dilemmas of Identity among South Asians in

Diaspora’

f) Kaushik Roy, ‘Good Governance versus Bad Governance in South Asia: Civil-Military

Relations in India and Pakistan: 1947-2000’

g) Subrata Bose, ‘Sarat and Subhas – Comrades-in-arms in the Quest for Freedom’

h) Haraprasad Ray, ‘Trade Routes from Northeast India and Bangladesh to South and

Southwest China: Some Suggestions for an Integrated Economic Development of the Region’

Vol. XVII (July – December 1999), No. 2

a) Asok Mukhopadhyay, ‘Subhas Chandra on Socialism’

b) Kaushik Roy, ‘Netaji’s Military Strategy’

c) Chitra Ghosh, ‘Subhas Chandra Bose – Modernism in His Vision of the Future’

d) Pramod Mehra, ‘A Note of the Declassified I.N.A. Documents from the Ministry of Defence’

e) Pranab Kumar Chatterjee, ‘Subhas Chandra Bose as Viewed from State Archives Records’

f) John Lourduswamy, ‘Science and Nationalism in Bengal, c. 1870-1930’

g) Zhou Gang, ‘Sino-Indian Relations’

Vol. XVII (January –June 1999), No. 1

a) Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta, ‘Afghanistan (1979-1998)’

b) Hari Shankar Vasudevan, ‘Revolution and Transition in Russia 1988-1991’

c) Dhruba Gupta, “We have Fought a Thousand Years” ‘Nationalism’ in Pre-modern Vietnam: A

Linear Narrative’

d) Prasenjit Maiti, ‘Indo-Pak Relations: The Need for Hospitality’

Vol. XVI (July – December 1998), No. 2

a) R. K. Dasgupta, ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Story of an Ideal in Action’

b) Dipankar Sinha, ‘Communication for Liberalisation in India: The Take-Off Stage’

c) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘Global Environmental Politics: Towards New Theoretical Challenge in

International Relations’

d) Mun Mun Majumdar, ‘Cambodia in Australian Policy Since 1970’

e) Shibashis Chatterjee, ‘The Third World Economic Insecurity in the Post Cold War Era’

f)

Vol. XVI (January –June 1998), No. 1

a) Saleem Kidwai, ‘US and Kashmir Issue’

b) Debarati Das Roy, ‘Experiments with Democracy in Nepal: A Complicated Process’

c) Mamata Desai, ‘The Mangrove Wetlands of Sundarbans – Harmony Between Development

and Conservation’

d) Aloka Ray, ‘Noise Pollution in Calcutta’

Vol. XV (July – December 1997), No. 2

a) Amartya Mukhopadhyay, ‘India’s Political Cultures: A Constructivist Viewpoint’

b) Bipattaran Ghosh, ‘Tamil Separatism in Sri Lanka: A Post Independence Phenomenon?’

c) Basudeb Chattopadhya, ‘Changing Inter-Racial Relationship in Nineteenth Century Calcutta’

d) S. K. Banerjee, ‘Tribal Language: An Appraisal’

Vol. XV (January –June 1997), No. 1

a) Annapurna Nautiyal, ‘India, Pakistan and the United States in the Post Cold War Era’

b) Sumita Sen, ‘The Ganga Water Treaty – From Uncertainty Towards Stability’

c) Lipi Ghosh, ‘Democracy in Myanmar Politics – A Study of Its Constitutional History’

d) M. S. Andronov, ‘Language Relationship in Dravidian’

Vol. XIV (July – December 1996), No. 2

a) Alshuwaikhat, Habib M. and Aleem Mohammed, ‘Socio-economic Impacts of Urban Life on

South Asian Rural Expatriates Working in Saudi Arabia’

b) Manasi De, ‘Demographic Set-up of South-East Asia’

c) Debamitra Mitra, ‘Ethnic Issues in Bhutan’

d) M. S. Andronov, ‘Language Relationship in Dravidian’

e) Shibashis Chatterjee, ‘The U. N. System: A Critical Appraisal’

f) Apurba Kumar Mukhopadhyay, ‘History From Below?’

Vol. XIV (January –June 1996), No. 1

a) Dipankar Sinha, ‘Designing Double-Think: A Critical Note on the World Summit for Social

Development’

b) Kishore N. Bagchi, ‘Double Standard Double Issue: Security Assurances of the NPT and the

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty’

c) Prasanta Sen Gupta and Sanghamitra Lahiri, ‘Containment Enterprise in the South Asian

Subcontinent: From Harry S. Truman to George Bush’

d) Dr. (Mrs.) Ismat Mehdi, ‘Resistance Literature in Palestine’

Vol. XIII (July – December 1995), No. 2

a) R. Chakrabarti, ‘A Second United Front of the Third World’

b) Sumita Sen, ‘Contemporary Refugee Problems: A View from the Third World’

c) Annapurna Nautiyal, ‘Kashmir Issue: The International Perspective’

d) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘From Decision to Theory: A Case Study of the Brown Amendment in

the United States’

e) Swapan Kumar Banerjee, ‘Tibeto-Burman Languages of India and their Characteristics’

Vol. XIII (January –June 1995), No. 1

a) R. R. Ramachandani, ‘India and Francophone Africa: A Study in Economic and Political

Relations’

b) R. Chakrabarti, ‘Structured Images in Foreign Relations: India and Some of Her South Asian

Neighbours’

c) Bipattaran Ghosh, ‘SAARC: Some Major Impediments to its Success’

d) Prasanta Barman, ‘Arabic-Vis-à-vis Sanskrit’

e) Review article by R. Chakrabarti, for Upendra Baxi and Bhikhu Parekh (eds.), Crisis and

Change in Contemporary India, Sage, New Delhi & London, 1995.

Vol. XII (July – December 1994), No. 2

a) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Bhutan’

b) A. Z. Hilali, ‘Regionalism in South Asia: A Case Study of SAARC’

c) Utpal Ghosh, ‘The Politics of the CPI during the Quit India Movement’

Vol. XII (January –June 1994), No. 1

a) R. Chakrabarti, ‘Post Cold War International Relations: Some Observations’

b) Bipattaran Ghosh, ‘Politics of Environment’

c) Sumita Sen, ‘The EEZ and Coastal Zones of India: Need for a Comprehensive Regulation’

d) Subhash Chandra Chatterjee, ‘Japan’s Policy Towards India’s Independence During Second

World War’

e) J. Prabhakar Rao, ‘Computational Linguistics and Language Formalization’

Vol. XI (July – December 1993), No. 2

a) Prasanta Sen Gupta, ‘China’s Foreign Policy Behaviour Mao’s Cognitive Map’

b) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘The State in Relation to Local Capital: Nature of Class Formation in

Bhutan’

c) Arun Ghosh, ‘Remo Phonology’

d) Apurba Kr. Mukhopadhyay, ‘Understanding Rural Society Towards a Cross-Cultural

Perspective’

Vol. XI (January –June 1993), No. 1

a) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘Political Institutionalization and Ethnic Problems in Bhutan: Dilemmas

of a Dynastic State’

b) Radharaman Chakrabarti, ‘Religion and Interstate Relations in Asia Today’

c) Arun Ghosh, ‘Language Environment and Language Behaviour: A Case of South Munda’

d) Aparna Roy, ‘Towards a Reconceptualization of Modernity’

e) Swapan K. Banerjee, ‘Segmental Phonology of Assamese’

f) Book Review by R. Chakrabarti, for Satish Chandra, et. al., The Indian Ocean: Explorations in

History, Commerce and Politics, Sage, New Delhi, 1992

Vol. X (January – December 1992)

a) R. Chakrabarti, ‘The State of Democracy Today: Some Perspectives in Asian Context’

b) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘The Question of State-Autonomy and Regime Transformations in the

Third World’

c) Anup Sinha, ‘Development the New Agenda in a Changing Global Scenario’

d) Sanjay Chandra, ‘Use of Mineral Resources in the Asian Context’

e) Subrata Sinha, Natural Resources Mapping with People’s Participation’

f) Dipankar Gupta, ‘The State and Ethnicity in India’

g) Arun Ghosh, ‘State Vs Minority Instability in Reverse’

h) Book Review by Arun Ghosh, for Urmila Phadnis, Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia,

Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1990

Vol. IX (October – December 1991), No. 4

a) Hamid Barforoush, ‘The Strategy of Rural Industrialisation in Iran’

b) M. Chandra and Chhaya Satpute, ‘Indian Joint Ventures in ASEAN an Appraisal’

c) Jyotirmoy Banerjee, ‘US-Soviet Strategic Rivalry in the Pacific’

d) Dipanjan Chatterjee, ‘The Ratchet Effect in the Soviet Enterprise: A Principal-Agent Model

with X-Inefficiency’

e) Ashim Kumar Mukhopadhyay, ‘Eugene Lafont Sj: The Father of Science in Bengal’

f) Book Review by Apurba Kumar Mukhopadhyay, for Prafulla K. Chakrabarti, The Marginal

Men, Lumiere books, Kalyani, 1990

Vol. IX (July – September 1991), No. 3 [Special Number on Gulf Crisis II]

a) Arun Kumar Banerjee, ‘One Nation, Many States: Building Coalitions in the Quicksands of

Arabia’

b) Ranabir Samaddar, ‘East Ward Ho Once again the White Man’s Burden’

c) Om Prakash Mishra, ‘United Nations and Iraqi Aggression: Managing the Dilemma Between

Responsibility and Authority’

d) R. Chakrabarti, ‘Soviet Foreign Policy 1917-1990’

Vol. IX (April – June 1991), No. 2

a) M. S. Agwani, ‘Some Highlights’

b) R. Chakrabarti, ‘U. S. Policy in the Gulf Crisis: Continuity or Break?’

c) K. R. Singh, ‘Changing International Environment and Regional Stability in West Bengal’

d) Sumita Sen and Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘Reestablishing Hegemony in the Third World – Gulf

Crisis: A Case Study’

Vol. IX (January – March 1991), No. 1

a) W. Lawrence, S. Prabhakar and M. Suresh Babu, ‘The Indo-Pac Ballistic Missile Race’

b) Bipat Taran Ghosh, ‘Rural Development Policy in Bangladesh: A Review’

c) M. Ezhilarsi, ‘The Formation of Malaysia: India’s Stand’

d) Prabhat Datta, ‘Problems of Nationalities in the USSR’

e) Ujjwal K. Chowdhury, ‘February 1991 – General Election in Bangladesh’

f) Review by Arun Ghosh, for Shree Krishan (ed.), Linguistic Traits Across Language Boundaries,

Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, 1990

Vol. VIII (October – December 1990), No. 4

a) Apurba K. Mukhopadhyay, ‘ Perestroika, Glasnost and search for a Theory of Socialist

Practice’

b) Shah Abdul Qayyum, ‘Suppression of Human Rights in Israel’

c) R. Chakrabarti, ‘Till the Dust Settles: A Review of the Kuwait Crisis’

d) S. K. Banerjee, ‘Phonological Typology of Tibeto-Burman Family of Languages’

e) Gautam Kumar Basu and Samita Sen, ‘Cooperation and Conflict in the Asia-Pacific’

Vol. VIII (July – September 1990), No. 3

a) Kankana Sengupta, ‘Planning and Development in Nepal’

b) Samik K. Ray, ‘Didayi Marriage System’

c) Ranabir Samaddar, ‘Culture as a Critical Factor in Indian Foreign Policy’

d) Arun Ghosh, ‘Widowhood in Tribal India’

e) Book Review by Dilip K. Kar, for Y. Krishan, Audit in India’s Democracy, New Delhi, 1990

Vol. VIII (April – June 1990), No. 2

a) Gautam Kumar Basu, ‘The State, Military Interventions and Redemocratization in the Third

World’

b) R. Chakraborti, ‘Foreign Policy Strains of National Coalition Government’

c) Tridib Chakraborty, ‘India and Vietnam: A New Dimension in South-South Economic

Cooperation’

d) A. K. Roy, ‘Quality Problems in Groundwater Development’

e) Sunita Chandra, ‘Water Resource as a Base for Haldia’s Development’

Vol. VIII (January – March 1990), No. 1

a) H. S. Ananthanarayana, ‘The Changing Face of Tense in Indo-Aryan’

b) Subhadra Kumar Sen, ‘Suniti Kumar Chatterji’s Contribution to Linguistics’

c) M. K. A. Siddiqui, ‘Some Linguistic Minorities in Calcutta’

d) Atindra Mohan Goon, ‘Changing Demographic Profile of Calcutta’

e) Dipanjan Chatterjee, ‘An Examination of the Changing Nature of Soviet Industry and Labour

Force in the 1930s’

f) Rakhahari Chatterji, ‘Nation-Building in Bangladesh and Indo-Bangladesh Relations’

Vol. VII (October – December 1989), No. 4

a) Ranabir Samaddar, ‘India’s Foreign Policy: A Hitherto Ignored Aspect’

b) Tanmay Kanjilal, ‘Outside Interference in South Asia and the Perception of India Pakistan

and Nepal’

c) S. Antony Norbert, ‘Urban Places and Economic Potential in Sri Lanka’

d) Samik Kumar Ray, ‘Language Choice of the Chinese People of Calcutta’

e) Rakha Krishna De, ‘Caste and Economy – A Case Study of a Burdwan Village’

Vol. VII (July – September 1989), No. 3 [Symposium Number : Winds of Change in the Socialist

World]

a) Dr. R. Chakrabarti: Welcome Address

b) Professor S. Nurul Hassan: Inaugural Address

c) Professor Sibnarayan Ray: Winds of Change in the Socialist World

d) Bhabatosh Datta: Address of the Chairperson

e) Jayanta Kumar Ray: Some Aspects of Socialist Renewal in the Soviet Union

f) Sobhanlal Datta Gupta: Perestroika and Destalinisation: Its Implications for Revolutionary

Strategy

g) Rakhal Datta: Reforms in the Industrial Management System of the People’s Republic of

China after 1978: Their Nature and Significance

h) Biplab Dasgupta: Observations on Winds of Change in the Socialist World

Vol. VII (April – June 1989), No. 2

a) A. K. Ray, ‘Constraints of Economic Development A Study on Manipur Hills’

b) Dipankar Sinha, ‘The State in Third World Urbanization: Background and Strategy in the

Indian Context’

c) Rakha Krishna De, ‘Habitat Pattern of Tribal People in Indian Villages’

d) Arun Ghosh, ‘South Munda Tribes: A Profile’

e) Chandidas Mukhopadhyay, ‘Crime and Criminals among the Kharias of Purulia’

f) M. Lal Goel, ‘Asian Americans’

Vol. VII (January –March 1989), No. 1

a) Fazal Mahmood, ‘Formation of the Gulf Cooperation Council: A Geo-Political Appraisal’

b) Swapan Seth, ‘Changing Demographic Scene in Bangladesh 1951-1981’

c) P. Sahadevan, ‘Aspects of Sinhalese-Tamils Ethnic Perceptions’

d) Prasanta Sen Gupta, ‘Asom Gana Parishad’s Accession to Power in Assam: Problems and

Prospects’

Vol. VI (October 1988) [Special Number on ‘Four Decades of Indian Planning Development

Strategies]

a) Dilip K. Kar, ‘A Retrospection on Nehru-Mahalanobis Model of Planned Development

b) Dhires Bhattachayya, ‘Development Strategies for the Next Decade’

c) Mihir K. Rakshit, ‘Savings, Investment and Financing of Development Plans’

d) Sugata Marjit, ‘Export Strategy and Transfer of Technology’

Vol. VI (October – December 1988), No. 4

a) Narendra Kumar Dash, ‘Education in Ancient South Asia as Known from Panini’

b) B. P. Mahapatra, ‘The Domain of Colours: An Ethnolinguistic Study’

c) Panchanan Mohanty, ‘Are there Diphthongs in Oriya?’

d) Alaka Tapaswi, ‘The Early References of Indian Religious Settlement in Java’

e) Uma Viswakumar, ‘National Identity Through Language – The Case of Malaysia’

f) Indira Ramanathan, ‘Ethnic Chinese Minorities and Problems of National Integration in

Malaysia’

Vol. VI (July – September 1988), No. 3

a) Arun Kumar Banerji, ‘Domestic and External Sources of Threats to Security: Problems of

Security of the Arab States in the Persian Gulf’

b) Prasanta Ray, ‘Undevelopment of Conflict and Post-Colonial State in India’

c) R. Chakrabarti, ‘India’s Foreign Economic Policies: A Transitional Perspective’

d) Purusottam Bhattacharya, ‘India and Western Europe: Evolution of a Framework for Co-

operation’

e) Saroj Pathak, ‘India and the Kampuchean Problems’

f) Tabassum Iqbal, ‘SAARC – A Need of Time & India’s Response Towards’

g) Pradip Sarbadhikari, ‘The Changing Structure of International Relations’

Vol. VI (April – June 1988), No. 2

a) Rakhakrishna De, ‘Santal Tribal Polity: An Enquiry’

b) Asok Kumar Ray, ‘Tradition and Modernity: Thadou-Kuki Leadership in Manipur’

c) Tapan Kumar Som, ‘Changing Traditional Authority Structure: A Case of the Tripura Riangs’

d) Pradip Basu, ‘The Naga Problem: An Overview’

e) Arun Ghosh, ‘The Challenge of Nationality Formation: Salience of the Jharkhand Movement’

Vol. V (October – December 1987), No. 4

a) Peter Della Santina, ‘Buddhism in Singapore: Past and Present’

b) Pramod K. Mishra, ‘Internal Compulsions in Japan’s Foreign Policy’

c) Banani Banerjee, ‘Export-Oriented Industries in India and Pakistan: A Comparative Study’

d) Arun Ghosh, ‘Numerals in the Austroasiatic Languages’

Vol. V (July – September 1987), No. 3

a) Jeanne-Marie Claydon, ‘International Trade in Banking Services in India’

b) Subash Chandra Nayak, ‘Indian Aid Diplomacy in Nepal’

c) G. P. Ramachandra, ‘Some Security Issues in Malaysian Foreign Policy’

Vol. V (April – June 1987), No. 2

a) Pradip Sarbadhikari, ‘The Context of Canadian Politics and Foreign Policy and the

Immigration Question’

b) Pramod K. Mishra, ‘American Response to Twentieth Century Colonialism’

c) Chitra Ghosh, ‘Rural Backwardness and Strategies of Development in the Third World’

d) Tanmay Kanjilal, ‘The US Interests in the Sino-Indian Rapprochement’

e) Arun Ghosh, ‘Culture Change in Central India: An Ethnolinguistic Approach’

Vol. V (January –March 1987), No. 1

a) Dr. P. P. Mishra, ‘Islam in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of Southern Thailand’

b) Dr. A. K. Basu, ‘A Study of Environment of Deposition of Mussoorie Phosphorite, India’

c) Dr. Satchidananda Dhar, ‘Khalistan: A Far Cry From the Sikh Religion’

d) G. P. Ramachandra, ‘Understanding Terrorism’

e) Keka Bose, ‘A Case Study of the Participation of Students and Workers in Mass Movements

(February, 1946) as an Aftermath of the RIN Mutiny’

Vol. IV (October – December 1986), No. 4

a) Chitra Ghosh, ‘The Second Sex’

b) Alaka Tapaswi, ‘Popularity of the Rama-legend in South-east Asia’

c) Dr. Sankarananda Mukherji, ‘Al-Chiki: An Experiment in Ethnicity’

d) Dr. Arun Kumar Banerji, ‘The Quest for a Philosophy: Nehru and India’s Foreign Policy of

Non-alignment’

e) Arun Ghosh, ‘Lignuistic Situation in Munda-Indo-Aryan Contact Area’

f) Professor Pramod K. Mishra, ‘Trauma of Nation-Building in South Asia: The Case of Sri Lanka’

Vol. IV (July – September 1986), No. 3

a) Dr. Pramod K. Mishra, ‘India’s Chairmanship of NAM’

b) Dr. Parmanand, ‘China’s Nepal Policy’

c) Dr. G. P. Ramachandra, ‘International Terrorism – A Case Study of the Korean Airliner

Intrusion and the Rangoon Explosion’

d) Dr. S. B. Mukherjee, ‘Age Composition in South and South East Asian Countries’

e) A. K. Basu, ‘Ecological Considerations in Developmental Activities’

f) R. Chakrabarti, ‘South and Southeast Asia in Transition’

Vol. IV (April – June 1986), No. 2 [Symposium Volume on ‘Ethnicity in the Asian Context’]

a) J. B. Ganguly, ‘Tripura Tribals and Mainstream Tripura Politics’

b) Nirmal K. Sah, ‘A Tribe in Transition: Bhotiyas of Uttarakhand’

c) B. Ramakrishna Reddy, ‘Language and Ethnic Identity: A Case Study of the Kondh Tribals’

d) Dr. Bidyut Chakraborty, ‘Communalism in Indian Politics’

e) Samarjit Kar, ‘Ethnicity and Modernisation’

f) Prasanta Ray, ‘Conflict Socialization as a Conceptual Perspective for Ethnic Studies’

g) Dr. S. B. Mukherjee, ‘An Ethnic Map of South and South East Asia’

Vol. IV (January – March 1986), No. 1

a) Theme paper for Symposium held in January 1986 on ‘The Problem of Ethnicity in the Asian

Context’

b) Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay, ‘Ethnicity and Identity: Bases of Conflict in India’

c) Dr. Biplab Dasgupta, ‘In Search of National Identity’

d) Kalyan Chakrabartty, ‘Ethnicity, Group Identity and Social Choice in a Transitional Economy’

e) Dr. S. K. Chaube, ‘Ethnicity and Nationality: A Theoretical Prelude’

f) Arun Ghosh, ‘Racial Synthesis and the Ethnic Crisis of Tribal India’

g) Dr. Syed Anwar Husain, ‘Insurgency in the Chittagong Hill Tracts: Problem of Ethnic

Minorities in Bangladesh’

h) Dr. Arun Kumar Banerjee, ‘Ethnic Issues in Intra-Commonwealth Relations: Being Racialist at

Home and Multi-Racialist Abroad’

Vol. III (January – June 1985), Nos. 1 & 2

a) S. B. Mukherjee, ‘Quest for Resources: Problems of Access & Management – A Report’

b) Sunil Kumar Munsi, ‘Material Resources: Problems of Disparity and Use’

c) P. R. Chandra, ‘Marine Non-Living Resources: A Review’

d) Ranen Sen, ‘Growth and Exhaustible Resources, the Case of Developing Countries: A Review’

e) Gopal C. Bhar, ‘Contemporary Trends in Laser Research in India and its Technological &

Social Uses’

f) Dr. T. B. Lahiri, ‘Human Face of Resource Development’

g) Mamata Desai, ‘Urban Population and Ecological Balance: A Study on Sikkim Himalayas’

h) Devashis Chatterjee, ‘Information: The Critical Resource’

Vol. II (October – December 1984), No. 4

NA

Vol. II (July – September 1984), No. 3

NA

Vol. II (April – June 1984), No. 2

a) Santi Kumar Ghosh, ‘Towards a Strategy of Economic Development’

b) Manas Bhattacharya, ‘India’s Trade with South Asian Countries: Measuring the Level of

Significance’

c) Neela Mukherjee, ‘Pakistan’s Balance of Payments – A Review of Current Account: Period

1973-1982’

d) T. Dasgupta and S. K. Bandyopadhyay, ‘Offshore Mineral Occurrences and Their Present

Jurisdictional Status and Significance: An Analysis’

e) G. P. Ramachandra, ‘Superpower Military Facilities in Southeast Asia and Australasia’

f) Asis Kumar Majumdar, ‘South East Asia Between India and China’

Vol. II (January – March 1984), No. 1

a) Ramashray Roy, ‘Development: Concept and Critique’

b) Lily Mukhopadhyay, ‘Foreign Policy of the Indian Dominion as Reflected in the Constituent

Assembly Debates (1947-1949)’

c) Chitra Ghosh, ‘Unequal Partners in Development’

d) Geraldine Forbes, ‘Mothers and Sisters: Feminism and Nationalism in the Thought of Subhas

Chandra Bose’

e) Prabin Kumar Guha, ‘The Overseas Chinese in South-East Asia’

f) Information: Social Science Documentation Centre, Delhi

Vol. I (October – December 1983), No. 4

a) Chitra Ghosh, ‘The Changing Status of Women in India and the ASEAN Countries – A

Reflection’

b) Prakash Chandra Adhikary, ‘Bangladesh’s Trade with India and Pakistan – A Politico-

economic Review’

c) Ranen Sen & Sankar Ray, ‘Mineral Policy and Resource Diplomacy: The Indian Linkages’

d) Mamata Desai, ‘Socio-demographic Profiles of the Ethnics of Sikkim’

e) Book review by G. P. Ramachandra, for Devendra Kaushik, The Indian Ocean: A Strategic

Dimension’, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

f) Satchidananda Dhar, ‘Tantra, a Spiritual Link Among Asian Countries’

Vol. I (July – September 1983), No. 3

a) N. K. Sarkar, ‘The Socio Economic Roots of Dictatorship in South-East Asia’

b) Asish K. Roy, ‘The Pathogenesis of Praetorianism in Asia: An Overview’

c) Nirmal Bose, ‘On the Social and Political Philosophies of M. K. Gandhi, M. N. Roy and S. C.

Bose’

d) G. P. Ramachandra, ‘Kampuchea – An Unnecessary Crisis’

e) Karunakar Gupta, ‘The Sino-Indian Border Deadlock’

f) K. R. Chakravarthi, ‘Political Changes in Sikkim’

Vol. I (April – June 1983), No. 2

a) Vishal Singh, ‘Regional Cooperation in Southern Asia: A Proposal’

b) Indra Nath Mukherjee, ‘South Asian Regional Cooperation: An Analysis of Convergence and

Divergence in Responses of Constituent States’

c) Girijesh Pant, ‘The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation: Association of South-East

Asian Nations’

d) Jyotirmoy Banerjee, ‘Regional Cooperation in South and South-East Asia: A Comparative

Perspective’

e) R. Chakrabarti, ‘South-South Cooperation: Some Basic Considerations’

f) A. K. Sen Gupta, ‘The Pattern and Consequences of Private Foreign Investment in Less

Developed Countries’

g) Review by Arun Kumar Banerji, Politics and Economics: Economic Dimensions of India’s

Foreign Policy

Vol. I (January – March 1983), No. 1

a) Radharaman Chakravarty, ‘The Outlook for Area Study’

b) Mamata Desai, ‘Changing Ecological and Political Aspects of the Ethnics of Sikkim’

c) G. P. Ramachandra, ‘Malaysia Before and After 1969’

d) Sankari Prasad Basu, ‘Subhas Chandra Bose and National Planning’

e) Karunakar Gupta, ‘Reminiscences of K.P.S. Menon’