CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON RESEARCH ABSTRACTS
POPULAR MOVEMENTS IN BIHAR AND BENGAL
Organised by
Calcutta Research Group (CRG)
In collaboration with
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS)
Date 6 March 2017 || Venue: Swabhumi, Sabhaghar 1, Kolkata Programme Schedule
10.30 am -10.45 am Registration and Tea
10.45 am -11.00 am Introduction by Paula Banerjee (Director, CRG and Professor, University of Calcutta)
11.00 am -01.30 pm Presentations on the Research Abstracts and Expert Comments Chair: Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty (Historian and Member, CRG)
11.00 am - 11.10 am: Popular Politics, Upsurge and the Revolt in the Sixties and Seventies of the Last Century by Ranabir Samaddar and Sucharita Sengupta
11.10 am - 11.20 am: Discussant: Mallarika Sinha Roy (Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
11.20 am -11.30 am: The Cultural-Creative Dimension of the Naxalite Movement by Subharanjan Dasgupta
11.30 am -11.40 pm: Discussant: Sandip Bandyopadhyay (Activist and Researcher)
11.40 am - 11.50 am: Popular Movements in the Districts of Bengal, Birbhum, Nadia and Midnapore, 1950s-1970s by Atig Ghosh and Anwesha Sengupta
11.50 am - 12.00 pm: Discussant: Kumar Rana (Commentator and Associated with Pratichi)
12.00 pm -12.10 pm: First Five Years of Left Front Rule in West Bengal by Atig Ghosh,
12.10 pm -12.20 pm: Discussant: Dwaipayan Bhattacharya (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
12.20 pm -12.40 pm: Backward Classes Movements led by Karpuri Thakur by Manish Kumar Jha &
Mithilesh Kumar
12.40 pm -01.00 pm: Discussants: Pushpendra Kumar Singh (Professor and Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna) and Amit Prakash (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru
University)
01.00 pm - 01.30 pm: General Discussion 01.30 pm -02.30 pm Lunch
02.30 pm – 04.00 pm Discussion on the Project by Experts followed by a General Discussion Speakers: Amit Prakash, Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, Mallarika Sinha Roy Moderator: Pushpendra Kumar Singh
04.00 pm Vote of Thanks by Priya Singh
