Contact Address:
Office:
Department of Social Studies and Rural Development/
Palli Charcha Kendra (PCK),
Visva-Bharati,
Santiniketan 731 235

Residence:

e-mail: santanu.rakshit@visva-bharati.ac.in / 1969.santanu@gmail.com
Mobile phone no.:

Educational Qualification:

Teaching Experience:
9 years in Mugberia Gangadhar Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal as Lecturer in Economic & Senior Lecturer in Economics (03-05-2000 to 20-05-2009).
2 years as Counsellor for MA Economics in IGNOU, Maulana Azad College Unit, Kolkata.
2 year in Visva-Bharati as Reader, PCK in Economics (as Faculty Member) (from 21-05-2009 till date)

Other Experiences:
Work experiences of four years in West Bengal Civil Services, India, (from 24th June, 1996 to 2nd May, 2000) in districts of Midnapur (erstwhile) and south 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India.

Research Areas:
Agrarian Relations; Economy , Transition and Frictions;
Study of Socio-Economic Differentiation;
Globalisation of market, International Trade and their Impact on Local Structures;
Rethinking Capitalist/Capitalistic Development and Surplus appropriation -emerging debates; .

Representative Publications:
Total publications- 10

• Publication in International (Referred) Journal, Paper Titled-‘Agrarian transition’-diversity in nature, notion and observations—A survey of theoretical expositions and empirical studies with reference to India and West Bengal’, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Elsevier, Science Direct, 2010, Vol-28 No.-4, December-2010, ISSN-0276-5624

• Publication in Referred Journal, Paper Titled-‘Consumption of Food grain and Calorie Deprivation in Rural West Bengal: A Case study of Two Villages in Birbhum District-2010’ Journal of Social Work & Social Development, Vol-1 No.-1, June-2010, ISSN-2229-6468.

• Publication of Paper Titled –“Social Caste, Economic Class and Reservation: A case study in West Bengal” in the Bulletin of Palli Charcha Kendra, Volume VI, Number 1 & 2 , Janurary-December, 2009

• Publication in Referred Journal, PAPER TITLED—“Game theory –A theory of Contradiction” published in “IMAGES”,Vol-2, 2005-06 -Journal Of WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, KOLKATA, INDIA

• Publication of Paper titled- ‘Liberalisation of Indian Economy –A process of subjugation by global capital’---Journal for completion of 4-decades of MGM, .2007-2008

Other Academic Work:
Select list of conferences/seminars/workshops:

International:

• Presented Paper titled-“ Output, Surplus and Poverty vis-à-vis Stressed Commerce-A farm level study of Agrarian West Bengal”. in International Workshop on Technology, institutions and development: Perspectives from economics, anthropology and geography on agrarian change at Max Plank Institute of Economics, Jena, West Germany on 18th and 19th February, 2011.

• Presented Paper titled-“ A Gender based study of Agrarian Workforce Structure in West Bengal in the Current Millennium”. in International Conference on Rural Labourers in Neo-Liberal India at Xavier Institute of Management-Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, organised by York University, Toronto, Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, Dialectical Anthropology, New York and XIMB, Orissa, India, on 18th and 19th December, 2010.

• Presented paper titled ---“Development Economics –Change in Orientation”—in the Workshop—on “Teaching of Development Economics”—17th and 18th , October, 2003, organised by Institute Of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK) and Department of Economics, University of Calcutta.

• Participated in a Seminar on Topic –“Global finance capital and India’s Macroeconomy”—1st March, 2003, organised by Alumni Association of Calcutta University Economics Department (AACUED), Speakers-Mihir Rakshit and V.K Agarwal (World Bank)

National:

• Participated in a Seminar organised by Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati, Topic-“Contemporary Issues in Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development”from 13/3/10 to 15/3/10

• Presented paper titled-“Liberalisation Of Indian Economy –An example of complex hegemony exercised by global capital on 3rd world, Paper presented in the Conference on “Issues In Economic Theory & Policy” Organised By The Department Of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan From 14th to 16th march 2008

• Presented paper titled ---“Social Changes in Post Liberalisation Period—A Case study in West Bengal”-in the Seminar on —“Development of Social Sectors: Issues and Experiences”—30th and 31st March, 2004 organised by DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS WITH RURAL DEVELOPMENT, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY

• Presented paper titled –“ Reservation - now a weak synthesis but the only available reply to Reservation – then” was presented in the Seminar sponsored by UGC on -Reservation and Discrimination in India through Ages-with reference to power, politics and Economics—Mugberia Gangadhar College 0n 8th January, 2008

• Participated in a Seminar on the Topic—“ IPR and WTO related issues” – 20th to 22nd March, 2004, organised by Department of Economics and Politics, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.

• Participated in a Seminar on the Topic—“Industrialisation in West Bengal-A review of past two decades” –23rd November, 2002, organised by Institute of Development Research on Economy and Manpower (I DREAM)

Other Interests / Activities:
Quizzes, Indoor Games-Table Tennis.