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DIRECTOR & SECRETARY
He has taught, researched and guided research in many institutions and universities including Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Cambridge(UK), University of Bristol(UK), Cornell University(USA), Trent University(Canada), Roskilde University(Denmark) and Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He was formerly Reserve Bank of India Professor of Economics and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is currently a member of the State Planning Board, Government of West Bengal and was recently Chairman of a committee appointed by the Government of West Bengal to report on the finances of the government during the Tenth Five Year Plan period. He has acted at several times as external collaborator and consultant for the ILO,UNCTAD and UNDIESA. He acted as the official historian of The State Bank of India until 1997. His books include Private Investment in India 1900-1939 (1972), The Political Economy of Underdevelopment (1982), a four-volume history of the State Bank of India (1987-97) starting with the Evolution of the State Bank of India, Part I and II (1987), and Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and the Republic of Korea (1987),Capital and Labour Re-defined: India and the Third World (Tulika, New Delhi and Anthem Press, London, 2002).His latest book is The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century (New Delhi, Regency Publications 2004). His research interests include finance, human development issues and other aspects of development and the prospects of democracy in globalising world. His latest book is The Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital (Lanham, Maryland, USA, Rowman and Littlefield).
Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay, Assistant Secretary A Ph.D. in History from Calcutta University, Dr. Ramkrishna Chattopadhyay's subject for doctoral dissertation was 'Labour-Capital Relations in South and South East Asia'. He has also guided and completed the following academic projects: 'Oral Testimonies on Subhas Chandra Bose from INA Activists' (funded by ICHR); 'Orality and Marginality in Post- colonial Calcutta' (funded by Sephis and in collaboration with Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad); 'Linguistic and Cultural Heritage in North Bengal' (funded by Department of Education, Government of West Bengal).
Dr. Chattopadhyay has edited a volume on the Gujarat carnage titled Communalism Condemned: Gujarat Genocide (2002); jointly edited the History of West Bengal College and University Teachers' Association (2002) and edited the Indian History Congress proceedings held in Bhopal in 2001. His forthcoming publication is a monograph on 'Perspective of Labour Laws in Colonial Plantation System in India.' He has presented papers in many national and international seminars, which include, among others, his presentations at the International Seminar on Labour History, Noida; Northeast History Association Conference, Agartala, 2002; Indian History Congress, Amritsar, 2002. At IDSK, Dr. Chattopadhyay is deeply involved in the academic programmes of the Institute, which include coordination of workshops on field studies. He is also attached to the Netaji Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. |