Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public
Samir Kumar Das, Bishnupriya Basak
1 849 kr
1 849 kr
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Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata. Previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of North Bengal, Dean of Arts of the University of Calcutta and Postdoctoral Fellow (2005) of the Social Science Research Council (South Asia Program), he is Coordinator of the University Grants Commission-Departmental Research Support (UGC-DRS) Programme (Phases II & III) on ‘Democratic Governance: Comparative Perspectives’. He served as Visiting Fellow at the European Academy, Bolzano, Italy (2008), Adjunct Professor of Government at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (2014), Visiting Professor of the North East India Studies Programme at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in 2015, and at the University of Paris 13 under Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite in 2016 among many of his assignments. He specializes in and writes on issues of ethnicity, identity, security, migration, rights and justice and has contributed over 190 research papers to highly esteemed national and international journals and edited volumes. Besides, he has been Regular Reviewer of some of the top journals, publishing houses and research bodies including Minority Rights International (London), EU-India Social Science and Humanities Platform (Lubljana) and European Research Council (Brussels).Bishnupriya Basak is Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, University of Calcutta. She has been Recipient of many grants and awards, chiefly, Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in the UK, awarded by the Nehru Trust for Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2001), a short-term award from the Maison de l’Orient Mediterraneen Jean Pouilloux, Lyon, France (2001), the UK Travel Award from the Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2009), a short-term grant from Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), Paris (2009), and a researchgrant from Society of Antiquaries of London (2015). She was also nominated by ICCR as a member of the Indian delegation that visited Vietnam in 2005 and remained Honorary Lecturer of University College London, 2010–2014. Her specialization is in Bengal prehistory but she also researches extensively on archaeological theory, heritage studies and issues of historiography in Indian archaeology. She has more than thirty published papers to her credit, as well as a monograph and two (co) edited volumes. She is on the editorial board of peer-reviewed journals like Public Archaeology and has been nominated as the Sectional President, Archaeology of 81st Session of the Indian History Congress, 2020.
“The volume is a constantly interesting, deeply invested, and multiply inflected engagement with the making of the goddess in art heritage.” (Bhagya Casaba Somashekar, Postcolonial Text, Vol. 18 (1-2), 2023)“The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public is a collection of articles authored by various scholars is an ethnographic study … . There is diversity in terms of the aspects the contributors have identified for the work, implying that the festival is not monolithic in nature. The concepts and the problems related to the specific issue of the book have been exhaustively investigated … .” (Oly Roy, The Book Review, Vol. 46 (12), December, 2022)“The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of public festivals … .” (Roma Chatterji, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Vol. 56 (3), 2021)
Samir Kumar Das, Bishnupriya Basak
1 849 kr