Sugata Nandi

Lecturer ,

Department of History,
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
E-mail: largestriver@hotmail.com

Research:

Ph.D. (ongoing) on “Crime, Politics and the Law: Goondas in City Politics and Police Surveillance in Calcutta, 1918-1947” at the Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Areas of Interest :

History of Criminality, Urban History, Marginality in History, History of Modern Europe

Major Publications:

Articles:

1. “Constructing the Criminal: Politics of Social Imaginary of the Goonda 1919-23”, Social Scientist, Vol. 38, Nos. 3-4 (March-April 2010): 37-54.
2. “Politics of Personal Reminisce: Historical memory of Calcutta, 1947-67”, Sarai, CSDS website: www.sarai.net (2008).
3. “A Criminal Riot: Calcutta Riot of August 1946 and the Goondas”, Sarai, CSDS website: www.sarai.net (2006).
4. “For Sake of Abettor City: Early Activities of the Calcutta Improvement Trust”, in Combating Disaster, ed. D. Sarkar et. al. Calcutta, 2006.
5. “Riot Orifins and Criminality: August 1946 riot and discourse of goondaism in Calcutta”, Sarai, CSDS website: www.sarai.net (2006)