Invited Lectures

1. Invited Lecture Delivered on 23rd March 2022 ICSSR-Eastern Regional Centre Sponsored Two Day Offline International Seminar organised by Department of Political Science, Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri in Collaboration with IQAC from March 22 -23, 2022.

Theme of the Seminar: Strategy and Tactics of Indian National Movement: A Close Look on a few Lesser Known Events/Heroes.

Title of the Lecture Delivered: Lesser Known Narratives: The Struggle for Freedom in the 24 Feudatory States of Odisha, 1930s and Later.  

2. Lectures Delivered on 25.02.2019 at HRDC, Golapbag, Burdwan University [2nd Refresher Course in International Relations held from 06.02.2019 to 26.02.2019].

Title of the Lectures Delivered:

02:15 PM - 03:45 PM: International political economy: Marxist & Neo-Marxist theories
03:45 PM - 05:15 PM: English school

3. Keynote address delivered in the 63rd All India Adult Education Conference held at the University of North Bengal from November 27-29, 2018.

Title of the Address Delivered: The State and Rural Development: The Issue of Poverty Alleviation and Literacy in Independent India.

4. Delivered a special Lecture in the One-day Research Methodology Training Workshop on 16.03.2018 organised by the Department of Economics, University of North Bengal.

Title of the Lecture Delivered: The Importance of Research Question/Questions in Research Methodology

Date: 16.03.2018

Organising Institution: Department of Economics, University of North Bengal, Darjeeling, West Bengal.  

5. Special Lecture Delivered at the Summer School organised by the Department of Political Science on behalf of the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), University of Calcutta, Kolkata on the 19th and 20th of September, 2018.

Title of the Lectures Delivered:
a. Politics of New States: The Kosal Movement in Western Odisha.
b. Evolution of the Indian Party System

6. Key note address delivered in the UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‘Employment Guarantee and Rural Regeneration: An Appraisal’ organized by Tufanganj Mahavidyalay, Tufanganj, Cooch Behar and B.T and Evening College, Cooch Behar held on December 3rd and 4th December, 2015.

Title of the Address: Liberalisation of the Indian Economy, Poverty Alleviation in Rural India and MGNREGA (1991-2001)

7. Participated in the Special Round Table on ‘Super-Election Year in Retrospective: The Democratic Process in South Asia’ organized by South Asia Democratic Forum, Brussels, Belgium at the APISA 8 Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 19-20 September 2014.
Title of the Address: The General Elections 2014 in India

8. Special Lecture delivered at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka in November, 2005 as a part of the Post Doctoral programme. Was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the ICES, Kandy from July 2005 till November 2005.

Title of the Special Lecture delivered: Ethnic Parties in Multi-Party Democracies of South Asia: India and Sri Lanka in a Comparative Perspective.