Mahanirban Calcutta Research group

Rajat Kanti Sur is a Researcher and Programme Associate at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He earned his PhD from the Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. His areas of interest are Social History, Urban Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Performance Studies. He published in both Bengali and English. Some of his articles were published in reputed journals and edited books. Rajat’s current work is based on the Social Security Policies for the Women Migrant Workers in Colonial and Post-Colonial Calcutta (1881-1951).

Negotiating for Security: Migrant Women Workers in Colonial Calcutta (1881-1951)

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Debashree Chakraborty is a Researcher at Calcutta Research Group. She has previously worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Assam University. She has also worked as a Research Associate in an ICSSR sponsored Major Research Project and has taught at the Department of English, Gurucharan College, Silchar. For her Ph.D thesis, she has worked on Climate Fiction. Apart from environmental humanities, her research interests include the intersections of climate change, migration, partition in cultural studies.

All that Climate Change Does: Maheshabeel and the 2022 Silchar Flood

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