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Name Dr. Dipak K. Midya Designation Professor Department Name ANTHROPOLOGY Office Phone No +91 3222-298 Extn. 394 Email ID dipakmidya@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in dkmidya@gmail.com Fax - Mobile No 9433278378 Personal Website http://vidyasagar.ac.in/dept_of_anthropology/CV_DipakMidya.pdf Address Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded UGC-IUC Post-Doc. Associateship Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 2016 Ph.D. Vidyasagar University 2007 M.Sc. University of Calcutta 1990 Title of the Ph. D. Thesis Dynamics of Socio-psychic Life of an inmigrant ethnic group: a study on the Ho

Career Profile / Teaching Experience Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University since 24.10. 13 Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University from 24.10.10 to 23.10.13 Reader, Dept. of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University from 10.09.10 to 23.10.10 Reader, Dept. of Anthropology, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya from 24.10.07 to 09.09.10 Senior Scale Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Seva-Bharati Mahavidyalaya from 24.10.04 to 23.10.07 Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya affiliated to Vidyasagar University since 24.10.1998 Qualified in UGC-NET JRF and Lectureship in June, 1993

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest Sociocultural Anthropology Ethnic identity Social unrest Tribal problems Maoist violence Indigenous people Reproductive behaviour of tribal and Muslim women

Course/ Subject Taught Sociocultural Anthropology Indian Society and Culture Ethnographic Fieldwork Anthropology of Civilization Ethnicity Research Methodology Development Anthropology Anthropology of Complex Society

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details Menstruation in Adolescent Girls: Myths & Taboos [with M. Ganguly, S.Jana, & A. Ganguly] Acta Biologica Slovenica 67 (2): 1-11 Jul, 2024 UL Press Corresponding Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: https://doi.org/10.14720/abs.67.2.18725 Gender Discrimination in Education among the Muslims: A Case Study in an Indian Village for Identifying the Key Factors [with Md. Mohidul Islam]. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 59 (1): 274-291 Feb, 2024 Sage First Author Impact Factor: 1.03200 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: DOI: 10.1177/00219096221106079 Intersecting Knowledge with Landscape: Indigenous Agriculture, Sustainable Food Production and Response to Climate Change – A Case Study of Chuktia Bhunjia Tribe of Odisha, India [with Bhubaneswar Sabar] Journal of Asian and African Studies, 59 (1): 123-141. Feb, 2024 Sage Co-Author Impact Factor: 1.03200 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: DOI: 10.1177/00219096221099634 Menstrual hygiene among the school-going early adolescent girls (10-14 years): A socio-cultural study in Bankura district, West Bengal, India Acta Biologica Szegediensis, 67 (1): 103-110. Dec, 2023 University of Szeged, Hungary Co-Author Impact Factor: 0.15600 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: Doi: 10.14232/abs.2023.1.103-110 Is Fieldwork loosing its grace? Encontering Western and Indian Experience The Oriental Anthropologist,23(1) 131– 146, 2023 Jun, 2023 Sage Sole Author Impact Factor: 0.22000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: DOI: 10.1177/0972558X221147834 Encountering Illness: Local Knowledge, Institutions and the Science of Healthcare Practices among the Chutkia Bhunjia Tribe of Odisha, India [with Bhubaneswar Sabar] Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58 (7): 1349-1372 May, 2022 Sage Co-Author Impact Factor: 1.03200 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: DOI: 10.1177/00219096221086541 Empowerment of Women through Self Help Group: SHG participants perception about enhancement of their capacity Journal of Indian Anthropological Society, 56: 109-126 2021 IAS First Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: UGC CARE Article's Web Link: How long the tribes will remain 'tribes'? International Bilingual Journal of Culture, Anthropology and Linguistics, 3 (1-2): 8-16. 2021 IBJCAL   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Marginalization within own region: a study on LWE and counter-violence and their impact on tribal life [with Ashim Das] Man in India, 100 (1-2): 107-124 2020 Serial Publications   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Reproductive health of the early married Muslim women in India: a study at Contai, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal [with Bithika Adak] Antrocom Journal of Anthropology, 16 (2): 173-182 2020 Antrocom   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Violent extremism and education: a study in a tribal village of Junglemahal in West Bengal[with Ashim Das] International Journal of Applied Social Science, 5 (12), December (2018): 2140-2150. 2019 SSS   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Secular Trend of Muslim Education in India International Education & Research Journal, 5 (9): 1-6. 2019 The Writers Pub.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Social Exclusion of Ethnic Groups and Extremist Violence: A study in Junglemahal, West Bengal SummerHill IIAS Review, XXIV (2): 35-43 2018 IIAS, Shimla   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Social Exclusion and the Vulnerability to Subversive Activity: Looking into the Ethnic Groups in the Red Corridor of India Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 65(2), 225-236 2016 AnSI (Sage) Sole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/2277436X20160204 Social Exclusion and the Vulnerability to Subversive Activity: Looking into the Ethnic Groups in the Red Corridor of India. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 65 (2): 225-236. ISSN 2277-436X. 2016 Anthropological Survey of India   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Ethnic Fluidity, Boundary Maintenance, and Integration: A Study on the Indigenous People along the Red Corridor in Eastern India. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 48(3): 263-272. ISSN: 0019- 4387 2014 IAS   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Negotiating Ethnic Identity in Tribal Life along the Red Corridor in India. The Indian Journal of Anthropology. 2(1): 41-58. ISSN 2320-3757. 2014 INCAA   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Ethnic Unrest and Political Militancy: A Tale of Junglemahal. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 63(2): 265-285. 2014 Anthropological Survey of India   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Rice-Beer in the Tribal Life The Oriental Anthropologist 3(2): 198-203 2004 Serial Publications, New Delhi (now taken over by Sage) Sole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: DOI:10.1177/0976343020040209 A Study on the Ritual Actions in Ho Festivals. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society 31: 2, pp. 161 – 170. ISSN: 0019- 4387. 1996 IAS   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: The Changing Life of an Inmigrant Ethnic Group in Industrial Setting. Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, 28(1): 55 – 68. ISSN: 0019-4387 1993 IAS   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: National Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details Traditional Political System: Customary Laws and Social Control in a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of Odissa, India [Bhubaneswar Sabar] Man In India, 102 (1-2): 2022:: 97-127 May, 2022 Serials Pubs. Co-Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Poor people, poorer politics Frontier, June 21 2020 Frontier weekly   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Will hierarchy matter? Social Life in post-Covid19 India Frontier, May 23 2020 Frontier weekly   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Education and the Muslim women: study in a Bengal village North Bengal Anthropologist 7: 146-166 2019 Dept. of anthropology, NBU   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Ethnic Boundary, Minority Identity, and the Role of the State Identities, Ethnic Boundaries, and the State, edited by Ajit K. Danda, pp. 125-133. ISBN: 978-93-83088-14-0. 2017 INCAA   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Who cares for Human Rights when Social Unrest turns Violent? The Context of Junglemahal Anthropology and Human Rights, edited by B. Chaudhuri & S. Biswas, pp.45-58.ISBN 978-81-316-0838-8. 2017 Rawat Publications   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Social Exclusion and the Vulnerability to Subversive Activity: Looking into the Ethnic Groups in the Red Corridor of India. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 65 (2): 225-236. ISSN 2277-436X. 2016 Anthropological Survey of India   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Extremist Violence and Life of the Indigenous People inside Red Corridor in India North Bengal Anthropologist, 3: 109-120. ISSN: 2320-8376. 2015 Dept. of Anthropology, NBU   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: The Ho concept of Life and continuity: Reflections from Mortuary Rites. Nrtattv: The Anthropology, 5 (7) & 6 (8): 81-90. ISSN: 2249-9830. 2015 Dept. of Anthropology, Visva-Bharati Univ.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Insurgency Movement and the Nation-State: Role of Welfare Measures Unrest, Insurgency, and Beyond. Edited by A.K.Danda, S. Sengupta and D. G. Danda, pp.223-243. ISBN: 978-93-83088-06-5. 2015 INCAA   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Introduction. Indigenous People in India: Identity, Empowerment and Discontent, edited by D.K. Midya, pp.1-11. 2012 APH Publishing Corporation: New Delhi. ISBN 978-81-313-1439-5.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Assessing the Dying Life: The Lalgarh Context. Maoism in India: Ideology and Ground Reality, edited by Abhijit Guha, pp. 63-89. 2012 INCAA: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-903866-6-2.[Co-authors: S. Shit & C. Bej]   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Ethnicity and its Role in Survival of a Displaced Indigenous People. Dimensions of Anthropological Research in India. Edited by J. Sarkar, A. Basu and A.K. Singh. 2012 The Indian Anthropological Society: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-85525-06-4.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Ethnicity, Migration and Identity Multiplicity: A Study on a Ho. Anthropology of Management. Edited by A.K. Danda & R.K. Das, pp. 71– 80. 2007 INCAA: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-903866-3-8.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: A PTG in Transition: Identification of some Socio-Demographic Indicators. Anthropology of Management. Edited by A.K. Danda & R.K. Das, pp.81-87. 2007 INCAA: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-903866-3-8.[Co-author: A. Dinda   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Human Rights, Indigenous People and Context: The Bhumij Reality. Anthropology and Human Rights in Contemporary Era,Vol. 3, pp.149-159. Edited by B.Chaudhuri and S. Chaudhuri. 2007 InterIndia Publications: New Delhi. ISBN: 81-210-0432-2.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Development, Displacement and Identity Crisis: A Study on the Ho. Indigenous People, Traditional Wisdom and Sustainable Development, Vol. 4, pp.166-175. Edited by B.Chaudhuri and S. Chaudhuri. 2007 InterIndia Publications: New Delhi. ISBN: 81-210-0433-0.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: From Subsistence to Cash Crop Substitution and its Implications for Rural Development: The Case of Kuttiya Khonds of Andhra Pradesh. Perspectives of Rural Development: Problems and Prospects. Edited by Rajat Kanti Das, Arabinda Basu & Abhijit Guha, pp.139-149. 2006 IAS & Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-85525-05-6.[Co-author: A.Dinda]   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Denial of Tribal Right to Livelihood and Emergence of Social Unrest: West Bengal Scenario. Social Unrest. Edited by A.K. Danda, S.B. Chakraborty and A. Basu, pp.135-142. 2006 INCAA: Kolkata. ISBN: 81-903866-1-1.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: A Dynamics of Self and Modernity: Reflections on the Methodology and the People. Journal of the Department of Anthropology (C.U.), 3: 2, pp. 23-29.[Co-author: A.Das] 1996 The Department of Anthropology (C.U.)   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: The Rationales of Becoming Baha’is: A Study of the Ideological Integrity. Journal of the Department of Anthropology (C.U.), 2: 1, pp. 41 – 57.[Co-authors: Das, A., S.S. Bagchi, S. Talukdar 1994 The Department of Anthropology, CU.   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Other Publication Book Published Title of the Book Published by Published on Role Details Anthropology of Music VU Pub. Div. Jan, 2024 Co-Author [edited with S. Bandyopadhyay] Indexing: Others Link: ISBN: 978-81-954650-4-0 The Ho: Ethnicity & Ritual Actions – the case of an indigenous people in India. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing: Germany. ISBN 978-3-8473-2868-1. 2012 Sole Author Indexing: Link: Indigenous People in India: Identity, Empowerment and Discontent. APH Publishing Corporation: New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-313-1439-5. 2012 Sole Author Indexing: Link: Many Faces of Development. INCAA: Kolkata. ISBN 81-903866-4-6. 2012 Second Editor [with R.K. Das] Indexing: Link: Essays in Cultural Anthropology. INCAA & IGRMS: Jhargram. ISBN 81-903866-7-0 2009 Third Editor [with Danda, A. K., R. K. Mutatkar] Indexing: Link: Book Chapter Published Title of the Book Published by Published on Role Details Biographical Account of Indian Anthropologists Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd 02-02-2023 00:00:00 Sole Author Indexing: Book citation index (WoS) Link: ISBN:978-93-5594-168-8

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Amit Maity Livelihood and indebtedness: an ethnographic study of the Bhumij Tribe in West Bengal.   Ongoing 2023 Bhubaneswar Sabar An Ethnoecological Study on the Livelihood and Eco-restoration among the Chuktia Bhunjia tribe of Odisha, India   Ongoing 2023 Subhojit Sen Livelihood and identity: an ethnographic study of the Kalbelias of Rajasthan   Ongoing 2023 Brahamadev Jana Cyber Bullying among the Tribal PG Students of Jhargram and PaschimMedinipur Districts   Ongoing 0 Nandadulal Sahoo Gender inequality among the tribal and non-tribal communities in a village of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal   Ongoing 0 Mousumi Ganguly Reproductive health among the adolescent girls of the Kora and the Bengali caste people: A bio-cultural study in Khatra block of Bankura district, West Bengal, India   Ongoing 0 Sila Jana Education, Elderly Health and Care Giving: A Comparative Study between Tribal and Non-Tribal Elderly People in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India   Ongoing 0 Awarded Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Bithika Adak Effect of early marriage on reproductive health among the Muslim women in Contai, Purba Medinipur , West Bengal.   Awarded 2021 Md. Mohidul Islam Education among the Muslims in Bengal - A Case Study   Awarded 2020 Ashim Das Culture and Politics in the Maoist- affected villages of Junglemahal in Paschim Medinipur District of West Bengal, India.   Awarded 2020

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status Tribal Jan Dhan: An assessment of the impact of PMJDY on the Scheduled Tribes of West Bengal Project Director ICSSR 1200000 1 year 2023 2024 Completed Awareness on Health and Sanitation in Junglemahal Program Coordinator UGC 50000 0 year and 6 months 2016 2017 Completed Extremism at Junglemahal in West Bengal: A Study in search of Socio-Economic Roots of the Violence Principal Investigator ICSSR 1000000 2 year 2016 2018 Completed Ethnic groups and their role in extremist movement in the Junglemahal region Principal investigator UGC-SAP (DRS-I) 50000 5 year 2016 2021 Completed Nature of exclusion and the inclusive policies and the extent of marginality of the ethnic groups in the Junglemahal region Coordinator UGC-SAP (DRS-I) 50000 5 year 2016 2021 Completed Cyber Anthropology: An Exploration on perception and use of Govt. websites by the SC, ST and minority communities in Junglemahal Principal Investigator UGC-SAP (DRS-I) 50000 5 year 2016 2021 Completed Maoist Extremism, Tribal Life and their Survival Strategy within Junjlemahal, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal Principal Investigator UGC (Innovative Research Scheme) 50000 1 year and 6 months 2015 2017 Completed Ethnic Unrest and Political Militancy: An Anthropological Enquiry. PI UGC 50000 2 year 2008 2010 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year Is fieldwork losing its grace? Contextualizing Western and Indian Experience Haldia Government College Webinar 2020 Marginalization within own region: a study on LWE and counter-violence and their impact on the tribal life. New Alipore College, Kolkata -700 053 New Alipore College, Kolkata 2020 Ethnicity: How far is it important now? HRDC,NBU HRDC, NBU 2019 Life in Red Corridor; Contextualizing Ethnic Identity HRDC,NBU HRDC, NBU 2019 Violence and Shattered Trust: a study on the Maoist violence and the counter-strategy in India Subarnarekha Mahavidyalaya,Gopiballavpur Subarnarekha Mahavidyalaya,Gopiballavpur, Jhargram 2019 Social exclusion, Disadvantaged Ethnic Groups, and Extremist violence in the Red Corridor of India. University Department of Anthropology & TRL, Vinobabhave University, Hazaribag Vinobabhave University, Hazaribag 2017 The Ho Concept of Life and Continuity: Reflections from Mortuary Rites Lokosamskriti Charcha Kendra, Rabindra Bharati University Jorasanko Campus, RBU 2013 Indigenous People: Their Identity and Discontent Anthropological Survey of India, Ministry of Culture, Government of India AnSI, Eastern Regional Centre 2013 Key Concepts of Philosophy of Research: Epistemology, Ontology, Induction, Deduction, Methodology and Method (Research Methodology Course sponsored by ICSSR) Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela NIT Rourkela 0 Observation & Interview: Types and the Processes (Research Methodology Course sponsored by ICSSR) Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela, Odisha NIT Rourkela 0 Looking into the Tribes: Need to decolonize their identity construct and development strategy Hyderabad Central University in collaboration with INCAA UoH 0 Resaerch Philosophy, Methods and Methodology [in a Workshop on Research Methodology] A.K.Dasgupta Centre for Planning and Development [A centre sponsored by the NITI AAYOG, Govt. of India], Bisva-Bharati University Online mode 0 Key-note Address at the National Seminar on Concept of Human Rights University Department of Botany and the University Department of Bio-Informatics, Tilka Manji Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur, Bihar. Dept. of Botany, Bhagalpur University 0 Research Problem and Inductive & Deductive Reasoning Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata Online mode 0 Gender Ineqality: Trends, Indian Tribal Situation and the Path Ahead [in the Workshop on "How best to Ensure Gender Equality in Tribal Areas: Role of Youth" during 13-15 March, 2023 Department of Anthropology and Tribal Studies, Maharaja Sriram Chandra BhajaDeo University, Baripada in collaboration with RGNIYD, Ministry of Youth Affairs& Sports, GoI. MSCBU, Baripada 0

Membership of Learned Society  Indian Anthropological Society (IAS) Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA)

Association with Professional Bodies Type of Professional Activity Period United Indian Anthropology Forum (UIAF) since 2020

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser UIAF World Anthropology Congress 0 Governing Council Member & Paper presenter KISS, Bhubaneswar INCAA IAC2023 0 Chaired a Session Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, PuruliaOrganised by the Department of Anthropology, SKBU Concept of Human Rights 0 Key-Note speaker University Department of Botany and the University Department of Bio-Informatics, Tilka Manji Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur Dr. Ambedkar: Relevance Today 0 Chaired a Session Dr. Ambedkar Chair in Anthropology, University of Calcutta. INCAA: Indian Anthropology Congress 2022 0 Round Table speaker UoH, organized by UoH in collaboration with INCAA Research Methodology in Social Science 0 Invited Speaker A. K. Dasgupta Centre for Planning and Development [sponsored by the NITI AAYOG, Govt. of India], Bisva-Bharati University Financial inclusion and digital payment system in Jharkhand 2018 Speaker Indian Statistical Institute (Giridih) and NABARD, Jharkhand International Conference on Indigenous People, Human Security and Sustainable Development: Emerging Challenges in the Present Global Context 2018 Session Proposer and Chair Commission on Human Rights, International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences and the Department of Anthropology, West Bengal State University, Barasat Held @WBSU Indian Tribes: Planning for Integrated and Inclusive development 2017 Session Co-Chair and Paper presenter University Department of Anthropology & RTL, Binobabhave University, Hazaribag Emerging Frontiers of Anthropology 2016 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, Assam University, Diphu campus in collaboration with IGRMS, Bhopal Ethnic Identity and Indigeneity: the People of Junglemahal 2015 Paper presenter and Session Chair Department of History in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, Subarnarekha Mahavidyalaya, Gopiballavpur, Paschim Medinipur Human Variation, Plurality and Diversity: Anthropological Perspectives 2014 Paper presenter INCAA:Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University Anthropology and Human Development: Issues and Challenges 2013 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, Pune University UGC-IUC Post-Doctoral Associateship [2nd Spell] 2013 Paper presenter Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla UGC-IUC Post-Doctoral Associateship [1st Spell] 2012 Paper presenter Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla IUAES Conference on Mega-Urbanisation and Human Rights: emerging Challenges and Opportunities 2011 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, WBSU: Indian Museum INCAA Inter-Congress 2011 Paper presenter Anthropological Survey of India in collaboration with IGRMS Development of Anthropology in Two Distinct Time-Frames: Independent and Post-Independent 2010 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, Ranchi University Proposals for the Restructuring of UG Courses and Evaluation System Reforms 2009 workshop participant Vidyasagar University Indigenous People, Dalit, Minorities and Human Rights 2008 Paper presenter University of Calcutta Approaching Development: Theory and Practice 2007 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University Peace, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution 2006 Paper presenter University of Calcutta and Burdwan University INCAA Inter-Congress on Social Unrest 2005 Paper presenter INCAA:FTC, Jhargram Environmental Issues of Western Part of West Bengal: Problems and Prospects 2004 Paper presenter Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari IUAES Inter-Congress on Mega Urbanisation, Multiethnic Society, Human Rights and Development 2004 Paper presenter University of Calcutta Problems of Sustainable Development: Tribal, Rural and Urban 2003 Paper presenter Jhagram: IAS Indian Anthropology for the 21st Century: The Challenges Ahead 2003 Paper presenter INCAA: NEHU, Shillong Perspectives of Rural Development: Problems and Prospects 2002 Paper presenter Department of Anthropology, VU Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency Post-Congress of World Anthropology Congress, 2023 0 Joint Convener IGRMS, AnSI, ICSSR, VU, CU Hundred Years of Biocultural Studies in Anthropology in Bengal 0 Organizing Secretary Vidyasagar University International Seminar on State, Tribe and Development: Exploring Anthropological Knowledge 2019 Organizing Secretary UGC SAP, AnSI Indian Anthropology Congress (INCAA Congress)on Shaping New India: Role of Anthropology and Anthropologists 2017 Organizing Secretary IGRMS, AnSI, ICSSR, ICHR, ICMR & UGC-Unassigned grant Anthropology of Music 2016 Joint Convener UGC Fieldwork and the Legacy of T.C. Das 2015 Convener UGC and AnSI Development of Teaching and Curricula of Anthropology at UG level 2012 Convener UGC Unassigned Grant Indigenous People in India: Identity, Empowerment and Discontent 2007 Convener UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi. Social Unrest 2005 Local Secretary Dept. of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal, IGRMS, Bhopal Environmental Issues of Western Part of West Bengal: Problems and Prospects 2004 Member, Organising Committee UGC

Awards Award Name Awarded By Year Post-Doctoral Associateship UGC-IUC 2016

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