Bidyut Chakra Party

Bidyut Chakrabarty (* 1958 ) is an Indian political scientist .

Life

Chakrabarty studied at Calcutta University (MA 1978) and the London School of Economics (Ph.D. 1985). In London he was Thomas Nossiter's research assistant . From 1985 to 1986 he was a reader at Bharati Vidyapeeth University and from 1986 to 1987 Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. He was then a visiting professor and fellow at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He then became a reader at the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute in Allahabad and the University of Delhi . From 1994 to 1995 he was at the Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge worked. In 1995 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Hull . In 1998 he became professor of political science at the University of Delhi, later dean of the social science faculty and head of the local institute for political science. Further visiting professorships led him to the University of Melbourne , the National University of Singapore and the University of Hamburg . He has also been the East India Project Coordinator for the European Union since 2008 . He is the author of numerous essays and books, including on Maoism and India.

The partition of Bengal and Assam . Routledge, London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-415-32889-6 .
Edited with Mohit Bhattacharya: Administrative change and innovation . Oxford University Press, Delhi et al. 2005, ISBN 0-19-567327-1 .
Forging power: coalition politics in India . Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2006, ISBN 0-19-567676-9 .
Indian politics and society since independence . Routledge, London et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-415-40868-4 .
Edited with Mohit Bhattacharya: The Governance discourse: a reader . Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-569664-6 .
with Rajat Kumar Kujur: Maoism in India: reincarnation of ultra-left wing extremism in the twenty-first century . Routledge, Abingdon 2010, ISBN 978-0-415-54486-3 .