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).