SRIMANTI SARKAR
Srimanti Sarkar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, West Bengal State University. Previously she has been a full-time Researcher at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Ministry of Culture, Government of India (2012-2015) and has also taught in several colleges in Kolkata (2015-2018). Her areas of research interests are theoretical postulates of Democracy and Democratization in South Asia, Politics in India and India’s Neighbourhood Relations with particular focus on Bangladesh. She has specialized in 'Peace and Conflict Studies' from Kulturstudier (Culture Studies) and Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway and has been a Salzburg Global Fellow participating in the Salzburg Global Seminar at Salzburg, Austria in 2017. She has published articles and book chapters and have presented widely in various national and international seminars and conferences. Her latest publication includes a chapter titled ‘The Genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh: Lessons from History’ in Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh, eds), Routledge: New York, 2021 (DOI:10.4324/9781003146131) and a ‘Book Review’ of Rakshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta (Eds.), Bangladesh: Writings on 1971, Across Borders in Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, Sage Journals. 26(1) 127–130, 2022 (DOI: 10.1177/09735984221098513).
Shantanu Chakrabarti
Shantanu Chakrabarti holds the position of Professor in the Department of History, University of Calcutta, India. He also holds the honorary position of the Convenor of the Academic Committee at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies in the University of Calcutta. He held the position of a Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India (2007-08). He was awarded Bene Merito award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Poland in 2014. He was selected for the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) India Chair at Dublin City University, Ireland in 2016(declined due to other administrative commitments). He is the honorary president of the Association of European Studies in India (AESI). He is currently the Deputy Editor in Chief in the editorial board of Stosunki Międzynarodowe-International Relations, Journal of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw and also a Member in the Advisory Board of the UNISCI (Research Unit on International Security and Cooperation), University of Madrid, Spain.
Madhumita Mazumdar
Madhumita Mazumdar is Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. She has a specialized interest in the social history of science and technology and in colonial and post-colonial histories of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Apart from her publications on social and cultural histories of science in Bengal, she has co-authored a book titled, “New Histories of the Andaman Islands-Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790-2012”, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2016. She has also has an interest in spatial and environmental histories of regions connecting the Bay of Bengal and the Malayan Peninsula.
