Ranabir Samaddar
Ranabir Samaddar is an Indian political scientist. He holds the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. He was a PRIO Global Fellow from 2014–2017.
Studies and early career
He completed his B.A. in political science from Presidency College. Thereafter, he proceeded to his M.A. and Ph.D from Calcutta University.Between 1977 and 1980, he served as a school teacher at the Kishore Bharati Dum Dum School, 24 Paraganas.
He is the founder-editor of the journal, Refugee Watch.
Books
- Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age
- A Postcolonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis
- The Crisis of 1974: The Railway Strike and the Rank and File
- Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India
- Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India
- Krishna Living with Alzheimer’s
- Passive Revolution in West Bengal – 1977-2011
- The Nation Form
- Emergence of the Political Subject
- Politics of Dialogue – Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace
- In the Time of Nationalism – Political Essays on Bangladesh
- A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997
- Marginal Nation – Trans-border Migration from Bangladesh to India
- Memory, Power, Identity – Politics in Jungle Mahals, West Bengal 1890-1950 )
- Whose Asia Is It Anyway -- Region and the Nation in South Asia
- ''Workers and Automation -- The Impact of New Technology on the Newspaper Industry''