Tushar Kanti Barua

Tushar Kanti Barua (born October 31, 1935 in Chittagong ) is a Bengali anthropologist . His research focus is on the society, culture and politics of the Indian subcontinent .

Life

In 1965 he received his doctorate from the University of Florence under Paolo Graziosi . The topic of his dissertation was The Cultural Relations between the Tribes of Hindukush and those of Chitral .

In 1976 he received his doctorate again, this time at the University of Zurich with a dissertation on Political Elite in Bangladesh .

Scientific officer and lecturer, Seminar for Ethnology, South Asian Institute, University of Heidelberg, West Germany (1967-68)
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA (1971–72)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chair, Anthropology of Socio-Cultural Change, San José State University, California, USA (1968–74), absent from San José State University from 1972 to 1974 as visiting professor of social anthropology (ethnological seminar), university from Zurich, Switzerland
Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology (Ethnological Seminar), University of Zurich, Switzerland (1975–2002). He also taught political sociology of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Institute for Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2000–2002)
Visiting professor: Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli (1983); Storia Politica del Subcontinental Indiano, Università di Catania, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche (1990); Centro Ettore Majorana for Scientific Culture (March 19-25, 1990), Erice, Palermo
Visiting professor: Università degli Studi di Cassino, Department of Anthropology, Facoltà di Magistero, for some lectures on the relationship between "Symbolism and Power" (February 4-7, 1991)

Political elite in Bangladesh. A Socio-Anthropological and Historical Analysis of the Processes of their Formation. (1978, European university publications - Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology - Volume 4, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Las Vegas: Peter Lang Publishing, 354 pages)