Mahanirban Calcutta Research group

Shatabdi Das is Researcher at the Calcutta Research Group (CRG). She was Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, in Austria, in April 2022, under the ‘Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration’. She is currently doing research on urban and environmental issues and climate crisis. She has previously worked as Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Economic Studies, University of Calcutta and has also taught Geography at PG level in Sarsuna College, Kolkata (affiliated to the University of Calcutta). Shatabdi has been working with CRG since 2018 on research projects on migration studies, borderlands, displacement, environment and climate change. She was awarded Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Calcutta in 2020. Her Doctoral thesis is on ‘the impact of industrial and urban development on the environment of Asansol-Durgapur Planning Area’.

Ghost Towns of Bengal

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Rituparna Datta is a Researcher at Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata. Her research interests focus on migration and mobilities in colonial and postcolonial India. Her ongoing doctoral research from Centre for Informal Sector and Labour studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University looks into the health and wellbeing of coolie labour in the indentured mobilities through a gendered lens.

Calcutta: A [Sub]Alter[n] Biography of a City 1947-51

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Shyamalendu Majumdar  is the Director of Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He was Associate Professor in Sivanath Sastri College and taught Political Science there since 1985. He is particularly interested in conducting research on forced migration and he had successfully completed his research on the problems and politics of internal displacement of the Reangs in Mizoram. His article on this was published in Refugee Watch Journal. He is deeply involved in carrying on research in the trends of political theatre in Bengal. Simultaneously he is focussing on the socio- political dimensions of the problems of the vagrancy in-flows to the urban areas in post-Independent India. He is a member of Calcutta Research Group.

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