Academic Qualifications:

University of Calcutta : PhD in Science (Anthropology)

Research interests:

• Identity as singular, plural, postcolonial, postmodern, post-structural and contested constructs: (i) Urban Bengalis across time (ii) ethnic, (iii) sexual, gendered and queer, (iv) New Indian Middle Class Gender and Sexuality
• Scheduled Tribes and Castes of India; OBCs of India; Minorities and other Disadvantaged Sections in India
• Philosophies (e.g. Ontology, Epistemology and Ethics) and history of anthropology and other social sciences
• Research Methodology
  qualitative and mixed methods;
  interpretive, feminist, critical, reflexive and auto-ethnographic;
  psychoanalytic and social psychological
• Theories of Anthropology and other Social Sciences
• Neoliberalism, Globalization, Space, Power and Culture
• Indian Cities and Politics
• Rural India, Local Governance and Politics
• Social Processes, e.g. Stigmatisation, Marginalisation, Social Exclusion and Inclusion
• Organisational Anthropology

Project:

1. The Local Diversities of Cultural Representations : The Observers, the Observed and the Interpretation: UGC(DSA at the level of phase III )
2. The Local Representations of Diversity and Marginality: The Culture(s) and the Cases: U.G.C. (ASIHSS Programme)
3. The Growing Constructs of Networks, Subcultures and other Social Differentiations of Sexuality and/ or Gender in Local Indian Contexts and Their Relationship with the Issues of Health: UGC-UPE Research Project(as P.I.) (12 lakhs)

Selected publications:

1. 1992. From the Forest to the Market: The Means of Subsistence of the Juang. Journal of Indian Anthropological Society.30: 59--66. (1st Author/Corresponding Author)
2. 1993. Rethinking an Anthropological Study in an Indian University: Journal of the Dept. of Anthropology, vol.1., December, No.1(1st Author/Corresponding Author)
3. 1994. The Sahara Samaj : an Effective Construct of the Sahara Polity : Indian Museum Bulletin :Vol. XXIX. 81--93. (1st Author/Corresponding Author)
4. 1994.The Rationales of Becoming Bahai: a Study of Ideological Integrity: Journal of the Department of Anthropology: C.U. Vol. XXIX. 81--93. (1st Author/Corresponding Author)