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Name: DR. NANDINI BHATTACHARYA

Designation: Associate Professor

Email: nandini70@gmail.com

Academic Qualification

Degree Institute/Board/University Year Class

(with %/ rank)

Madhyamik

Examinations

Board of Secondary Education 1986 1 (75.6%)

Higher Secondary

Examinations

Council of Higher Secondary

Education, West Bengal

1988 1 (74.5%)

B.A. in History Jadavpur University 1991 1 (first)

M.A. in History Jadavpur University 1993 1 (first)

NET in History UGC 1994 JRF

Ph.D.

Thesis Title: “The

Role of Soviet Identity

and Regional Identity

in Central Asia: The

Special Case of

Tajikistan (1970-

1990)”.

Jadavpur University 2003

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List of Scholarships:

(i) National Scholarship from Government of West Bengal Education Directorate Scholarship

and Stipend Section, for high position in the H.S. Examination.

(ii) National Scholarship from Jadavpur University under the National Scholarship Scheme

1991-1992 of the Government of India on the result of her B.A. Final Examination in 1991

of the University.

(iii) National Scholarship from Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource

Development on the result of B.A. Final Examination held in 1991, from Jadavpur

University.

List of Medals:

(i) University Medal awarded for standing first in order of merit in History at B.A.

Examination, 1991, in Jadavpur University.

(ii) University Medal awarded for standing first in order of merit in History at M.A.

Examination, 1993, in Jadavpur University.

(iii) Ratnalekha Ray Memorial Gold-Centred Silver Medal awarded for standing first in order of

merit in History, M.A. Examination, 1993, in Jadavpur University.

(iv)Sipra Burmanray Memorial Bronze Medal for recurring highest marks in the subject

“Russian History” at the M.A. Examination, 1993, in Jadavpur University.

Research projects undertaken and completed earlier:

Title of the Project Duration and

nature of Project

Funding

Authority

Completed/

On Going

Amount

Tracing the Trail of Indo-Tajik

Cultural Links Through Past

and Present: Case Studies of

Various Art Forms

2 Years

( 2013-2015)

Maulana Abul

Kalam Azad

Institute for

Asian Studies,

Completed

And

submitted

for

publication

1,97,000.

00

History of Partition : The

Experience of East Bengal

2 years UGC (Minor

Research Project)

Completed 75,000.0

0

3

(2007-2009)

South Indian Minorities of

Kolkata under the project titled

“Minority Communities in

Kolkata.

1 Year (The specific

portion concerned)

UGC Centre with

Potential for

Excellence

Programme,

Jadavpur

University

Completed

& Published

Total

amount ,

not

known

Development of Soviet Identity

and Regional Identity in Central

Asia 1970-1990

2 years (14.8.2001–

23.9.2003)

UGC Completed

50,000.0

0

Publications:

Books and Monographs :

Duelling Isms : Soviet

and Regional Identity

in Central Asia

Book Shipra Publications 2007

Chapters in Edited Books, Reference Books and Encyclopedias:

Syed Ahmed Khan:

Views on Colonial Rule

and

Modernization(1817-

1898)

Lopamudra Sengupta

ed, Indian Political

Thought and Its

Contemporary

Relevance

Atlantic

Publishers,

New Delhi,

2016

4

Reinventing Culture:

The Tajik Experience of

Post- Soviet Years

Suchandana Chatterjee(

ed) , Image of The

Region in Eurasian

Studies

KW

Publishers,

New Delhi,

2014

Migration And Gender

Issue: The Experience of

Post-Soviet Tajikistan

Anita Sengupta and

Suchandana Chatterjee

(eds.), “Demography &

Migration in Asia

Shipra

Publication,

New Delhi

2011

“Unemployment,

Migration and Social

Security in Tajikistan”,

pp-309-338

Ajay Patnaik and

Anuradha M. Chenoy

(eds.), “Traditional And

Non-Traditional Threats

to CentraAsian Security

”KW

Publishes Pvt.

Ltd, New

Delhi, -

2011

“South Indians in

Kolkata: Experiences in

Cultural Processes

Sipra Mukherjee and

Nilanjana Gupta (eds) ,

Calcutta Mosaic:

Essays and Interviews

On The Minority

Communities of

Calcutta,

Anthem, New

York, New

Delhi, London

, 2009, pp-

210-229.

New Challenges

Towards Nation-States

in Central Asia with the

Advent of Globalization

Ajay Patnaik and

Tulsiram (eds),

“Globalization and

Eurasia

New Delhi,. 2009, pp-

103-123

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Chapter I

Purushottam

Bhattacharya ed “

PrathomMahajuddhher

por Biswa Rajnitir Goti

Prakriti

Paschim

Banga Rajya

Pustak

Parshad

2009

Entries on Iran

Immanuel Ness(ed),

The International

Encyclopedia of

Revolution and Protest:

1500 to the Present,

Wiley-

Blackwell,

USA,

2009

Entries on Tajikistan

Immanuel Ness(ed),

The International

Encyclopedia of

Revolution and Protest:

1500 to the Present,

Wiley-

Blackwell,

USA,

2009

Russia o Purba Europe:

Soviet Kalottar Samasya

o Prabanata” Chapter

Purushottam

Bhattacharya and

Anindyajyoti

Majumdar, eds.

Antarjatik Samparker

Ruprekha

Setu

Prakashani,

April 2007

6

Women Across Asia :

Issues of Identities, Lipi

Ghosh, Ishita

Mukhopadhyay,

Suchandra Chakrabarty

eds,

Between Secular

Teaching and Islamic

Preaching : Confined

Identity of Soviet

Central Asian Women

Gyan

Publishing

House, New

Delhi – 110

002

2006

Forthcoming:

Encyclopedia of

Music and Culture

Tajikistan: Modern

And Contemporary

Performance Practice

SAGE, USA

Encyclopedia of

Music and Culture

Tajikistan: History,

Culture And

Geography Of Music

SAGE, USA

Journals:

‘Tajikistan:

Historic

Windows

Education About

Asia, Vol 18, No

3

Winter

2013, USA

Fazlul Haq: The

Living Paradox

of a Confused

Genre

Journal of

Humanities and

Social Sciences

No. 8

Scottish

Church

College

July 2011

7

Soviet Prachye

Shikshar

Abhibartan:

Sahitye

Pratifalan

Itihas

Prabandhamala,

ISSN 1995-1000

Itihas

Academy,

Dhaka,

Bangladesh

2009-2010

Faint Protests/

Failed Protests?

Some Individual

Encounters of

Communal

Violence

Utkal Historical

Research Journal

Vol XXI

Department of

History, Utkal

University,

Odisha

2008

Soviet Power and

Islam: The

experience of

Central Asia

Contemporary

Central Asia

Vol: VII

Number. 3

Central Asia

Studies

Foundation

New Delhi

December

2003

“Marx, Engels

and Lenin on

Socialism and

Nationalism”

Jadavpur Journal

of International

Relations

Department

of

International

Relations,

Jadavpur

University

2002 –

2003

(2) “Role of

Language and

Religion in the

Identity

Formation of

Central Asia in

the Soviet Period

Jadavpur

University Journal

of History,

Vol.19

Department of

History,

Jadavpur

University,

Kolkata

2001 –

2002

8

“Between Marx

and Muhammad

:The Politics of

Western

Historiography

of Central Asia”

Jadavpur

University Journal

of History,

Vol.15

Department of

History,

Jadavpur

University,

Kolkata

1996 –

1997

Proceeding Volumes:

Perspective Asia

Pacific ,Proceedings

of the Indian

Association for Asian

& Pacific Studies,

seventh Biennial

International

Conference, 2014

Bollywood and

Beyond: The Cultural

Image of India In

Soviet and Post-

Soviet Tajikistan

IAAPS

2016

Perspective Asia

Pacific ,Proceedings

of the Indian

Association for Asian

& Pacific Studies,

sixth Biennial

International

Conference, 2012

Representation of

Gender in Post-Soviet

Tajik Films:

Challenges and

Constraints of a

Society in Transition

IAAPS 2014

Proceedings of the

Indian Association for

Asian & Pacific

Studies, Fifth

Biennial International

Conference, 2010

Tajik Culture in

Transition: Trends in

Post-Soviet Era

IAAPS 2012

Proceeding Volume of

4th Biennial

Conference, 2008

The Tragedy of Sultan

Galiev: A Saga of

Bolshevik Political

IAAPS 2010

9

Pedagogy, Discipline

and Punishment in

Central Asia”IAAPS

Itihas Anusandhan 24,

Proceedings of the

Annual Conference of

Paschim Banga Itihas

Samsad

Sampradayik Dangay

Kshin(Byartha)

Pratibad: Kichhu

Byaktigata Abhgnatar

Samiksha

Paschim Banga Itihas

Samsad

2010

Proceedings of the

Indian Association for

Asian & Pacific

Studies, Third

Biennial International

Conference, 2006.

“Quest for Identities

Post-Soviet Central

Asia”,

IAAPS

2008

Itihas Anusandhan 22

Proceedings of the

Annual Conference of

Paschim Banga Itihas

Samsad

Madhya –Asiya

Sahityer Darpane

Jatisatwar Pratifalan:

Chengiz Aitmatover

Bhumika( Awarded

paper)

Paschim Banga Itihas

Samsad

2008

Proceedings of the

Indian Association for

Asian & Pacific

Studies, Second

Biennial Conference,

September 2004

Perestroika and

Glasnost :

Restructuring or

Destructuring? The

Central Asian

Experience

IAAPS

2006

Proceedings of the

First Biennial

Conference of Indian

Association for Asian

& Pacific Studies,

Kolkata, 2002

Atheistic Propaganda

in Central Asia in the

70s : Different

Dimensions

Pragmatic Publishers 2004

10

Papers Presented:

International Level:

Title of the Paper

Organizers

Date and Place

‘Revival of Miniature

Painting in Post-

Soviet Tajikistan: An

Artistic Renaissance

Heralded By Olim

Kamalov’

Fourth International Colloquium

of SEECHAC

(Société Européenne pour

l’Étude des Civilisations de

l’Himalaya et de l’Asie

Centrale titled ,”Religious

Revivals and Artistic

Renaissance in Central Asia and

the Himalayan Region – Past and

Present” held in collaboration

with Asia and Europe in Global

Context, Cluster of Excellence

IWH, Heidelberg University, 16-

18 November 2015.

“ Indo-Tajik Cultural

Link: A Musical

Journey Through the

Past and Present”

International

Conference on

“Eurasian Politics:

Ideas, Institutions and

External Relations,”

organized by Centre

for Russian and

Central Asian Studies

, School of

International Studies

JNU, New Delhi, held

on 1-2

November,2012.

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Tracing the Evolution

of Post- Soviet

Intellectuals:

Representation

through Films and

Novels

International Seminar

on "Post-Soviet

States: Two Decades

of Transition &

Transformation"

organized by The

Cenrtre for Russian &

Central Asian Studies,

JNU

Jawaharlal Nehru

University, New

Delhi,1-3 November,

2011.

National Level:

Title of the Paper

Theme and Platform

Date and place

Representation of

Women in Post-Soviet

Tajik Films: Imaging

Identities in a State &

Society in Transition

Thinking History, Writing

History: Asian experiences and

Challenges, organised by Netaji

Institute for Asian Studies in

collaboration with Netaji

Research Bureau

On 13-14th April 2017,

Kolkata

‘The Soviet Legacy of

Bollywood Mania: Creative

Adaptation in Contemporary

Cultural Identity of Tajik

Mindscape’

Nation, Identity & the Other in

Colonial and Post-Colonial

Performing Arts: An Asian

Perspective, organised by Dept.

of History, Rishi Bankim

Chandra Evening College,

Naihati, in collaboration with

Indian Association for Asian and

Pacific Studies

14th

December 2016,

Naihati, North 24

Parganas

Miniature Painting as a cultural

identity of Post-Soviet Tajikistan:

An Artistic Revival Movement

by Olim Kamolov

National Level Seminar

sponsored by ICHR ,

‘Exploring Eurasia: Traditions

and Prospects’,

organized by the Department of

History, Women’s Christian

College, Kolkata,11th

November, 2016.

12

‘Recovering the

Heritage Icon of

Sleeping Buddha: An

Archaeological Drive

of Post-Soviet

Tajikistan’ ,

76th Session of Indian

History Congress,

under section,

Countries Other Than

India

Gour Banga

University , Malda,

West Bengal, 27-29

December, 2015.

Tracing The Trial Of

Indo-Tajik Cultural

Links, Through Past

And Present Case

Studies Of Various

Art Forms

Presentation of the

External Fellows,

MAKAIAS

Maulana Abul Kalam

Azad Institute for

Asian Studies, 16-17th

JULY,2015

" Religious Education

and Politicization of

Islam in Post-Soviet

Tajikistan: A Case

Study of Global

Versus Local Islam"

Annual International

Studies Convention

on Power, Resistance

and Justice in the

International System :

Perspectives from the

South”

School of

International Studies,

Jawaharlal Nehru

University, held on

22-23 March, 2015

“Identity and

Insecurity of Life

Portrayed in Post

Soviet Tajik Films

National Conference

on Central Asia and

South Asia: Economic

Developmental and

socio-Cultural

Linkages

Academy of

International Studies,

Jamia Millia Islamia,

New Delhi, on 19th-

20th March,2013

“ Torn between

Hatred and

Harmoney: East

Bengal and the

Experience of

Partition”

47th Annual

Conference of the

Institute of Historical

Studies

Department of

History, Punjab

University,

Chandigarh, on

October 28-30, 2010.

“Fazlul Haq: The

Living Paradox of A

Confused Genre”

“Role of Muslims in

the Freedom Struggle

of India”

Muslim Institute ,held

on 5-7 February,

2010.

“ Soviet Education

and its Evolution in

Central Asia : Some

46th Annual

Conference on

Institute of Historical

LJNJ Mahila

Mahavidyalaya ,

Mumbai, on 9-

13

Literary Reflections” Studies 11October, 2009

“Tagore’s ‘Gora’:

Historicity of

Colonial Mind or

literary reflections”

‘Tagore Nazrul and

Iqbaal’

Muslim Institute on

27-28th February,

2009

“ Madhya Asiayar

Sahitye Shikha o

Sabeki Monobhaber

Tanaporen: Samajer

Bibartan”

24th Session of

Paschim Banga Itihas

Samsad

Hiralal College,

Kolkata, January 24-

26th , 2008.

“ Faint Protests/

Failed Protests?

Some Individual

Encounters of

Communal Violence”

UGC sponsored

National level

conference on

“Voices of Protest:

Articulations in Indian

Politics and Culture,

1919-47”

Bijoy Krishna Girls’

College , Howrah, on

2-3rd April , 2008

“Position of

Nationalism in Soviet

Marxist Experiment”,

65th Session of Indian

History Congress

Rohilkhand

University, Bareli,

Uttaranchal, 28-30

December, 2004

Geographic

Conditions, Religion

and Regionla Politics

in Soviet Tajikistan

61st Session of Indian

History Congress

Department of

History, University of

Calcutta, 2-4 January,

2001

State Level:

Title of Paper "

Theme of

Seminar/Conference

Organizers and

date

Role of History &

Culture in the

Making of

National Identity

of Tajikistan: The

Smallest Republic

of Post- Soviet

Central Asia."

Studying Central Asia:

Past and Present Trends

Department of

History, West

Bengal State

University on

12 April 2016.

Image of India

Through The

The Diverse Impact of

RKSM

14

Cultural Prism of

Tajikistan:

Reflections in

Literature &

Various Art

Forms

Islam on Literature and

Culture: India and

Central Asia

Vivekananda

Vidyabhavan,

Kolkata, 3rd

September,

2014

Material Loss and

Moral

Regeneration:

Survival Stories of

Partition

Experience

Partition of Bengal Department of

English, West

Bengal State

University, 11th

April, 2011

“ Beyond

Domestic Frame:

Single Women in

Ashapurna Devi’s

Novels”

Two day seminar on

Srimati Ashapurna

Devi

Institute of

Historical

Studies,

Kolkata, on

18th- 19th

December,

2009.

“Representation

of Soviet State in

Central Asian

Polity”

UGC Sponsored

Seminar on

‘Representation and

Reality’

Bhairav

Ganguly

College,

Belgharia,

Kolkata, 26th-

27th August,

2004

“Role of

Nationalism in

Marxist Ideology :

Lenin and the

Soviet

Experience”

Beyond Crisis:

Marxism in Changing

Environment

Centre for

Marxian

Studies,

Jadavpur

Unversity ,27-

28th February

2003

Invited Lectures:

International:

Title of the Lecture

Organized by

Venue and date

15

Cultural Face of

Tajikistan : Some

Reflections from an

Indian Perspective

Zeodullo Shahidi

International

Foundation

Shahidi Cultural

Museum, 27th

September, 2013

National:

Title of the Lecture

Organized by

Venue and date

Tajik Cultural Face: A

Journey Through

Literature, Film and

Music

UGC sponsored

Special Winter

School, Department

of Comparative

Literature& Academic

Staff College, JU

Budhadeva Bose

Sabhaghar,

Department of

Comparative

Literature, Jadavpur

University, on 1st

February, 2014

Indo-Tajik Cultural

Links: Some

Reflections from the

Past and Present

UGC sponsored

Special Winter

School, Department

of Comparative

Literature& Academic

Staff College, JU

Budhadeva Bose

Sabhaghar,

Department of

Comparative

Literature, Jadavpur

University, on 1st

February, 2014

Post-Soviet

Immigrant Literature

Over the Last Two

Decades of Transition

Maulana Abul Kalam

Azad Institute of

Asian Studies

Azad Bhawan, Salt

Lake ,December 14,

2012

State Level:

Rediscovering

Identity : Tajikistan’s

Cultural Window

Dimensions of

Culture in the Pre and

Post Soviet Eras:

Divergent Contexts

and Spaces

Department of

History, Women’s

Christian College,

Kolkata, 5th October,

2012