Pradip Basu
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Pradip Basu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Inner-party ideological struggles (1953-1967) leading to Naxalite Movement (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof. Partha Chatterjee |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Science |
| Sub-discipline | Naxalism, post- structuralism, postcolonialism, feminism, Ambedkarism and resistance theories of Adivasis, Minorities and environmentalists. |
Pradip Basu (Bengali: প্রদীপ বসু; born 1957, Kolkata, India) is an Indian Bangali (Bengali)political scientist. He retired as the Academic Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, former Head and Professor of political science at the Presidency University, Kolkata.[1]
He was a Research Scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) from 1984 to 1985, and then a Doctoral Teacher Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) from 1988 to 1991. He earned his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Partha Chatterjee on inner-party ideological struggles leading to Naxalism. He taught at the University of Kalyani, before moving on to teach at the Scottish Church College (affiliated to Calcutta University), later as a Guest Faculty in the Post Graduate Deptt. of Political Science at the University of Calcutta. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Guest Faculty in the Post Graduate Deptt. of Philosophy at the University of Calcutta. He is the founder and former chief editor of the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is an annually published refereed journal published by the Scottish Church College. Its advisory board includes Amartya Sen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakraborty, Ashis Nandy, Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, and others.[2][3] He was the founder-convener of Samaj-o-Chinta, an academic seminar society in Kolkata which conducted monthly seminars in Bengali, from 1991 to 2006.[1]
