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NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)

  • National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)- Jadavpur University is accredited for the fourth cycle with grade A+ and CGPA 3.46 on a scale of four Point
  • 2nd in State Public University Category, 9th in University Category, 12th in Engineering Category, 18th in Pharmacy Category, 21st in Research Category and 17th in Overall Category.
  • NBA Accreditation: UG-CSE and UG-ETCE for the academic years 2024-25 to 2029-30 & UG-IT, UG-IEE, UG-PE for the academic years 2023-24 to 2025-26
  • NBA Accredited Programs
  • NIRF India Ranking 2023: 4th in 'University', 10th in 'Engineering', 19th in 'Research', 18th in 'Pharmacy' and 13th in 'Overall' category
  • National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) reaccredited Jadavpur University for the third cycle with grade A and CGPA 3.68 on a scale of 4
  • QS World University Rankings Asia 2022: Second highest ranked State University in India, Asian rank 162
  • Times (Asia University) Rankings 2021: Ranked in 201-250 band
  • Times World Universities Rankings 2022: Ranked in the 801-1000 band

Prof.

Suchetana Chattopadhyay

Department : Department of History

Designation : Professor

Additional Roles and Responsibilities :

  • Joint Coordinator, Centre For Marxian Studies, JU

E-Mail: suchetana.chattopadhyay@jadavpuruniversity.in

Office Phone Number: 03324146962

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About

Suchetana Chattopadhyay is Professor of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She studied at Jadavpur University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and has contributed articles in various anthologies and journals, including South Asia Research and History Workshop Journal. She is the author of An Early Communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913-1929 (2011) and Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal (2018). She joined Department of History, Jadavpur University in 2005.

Subjects Taught

    Modern Bengal, World History, Modern Europe, Historiography

Research Interests

    Communism in India; Urban Social History; Muslim Intellectuals and Workers; Working Class Movements; First World War; Twentieth Century Calcutta; Colonial Surveillance; Empire and Violence; Imperialism and Race; Indian political activists Abroad.

Notable Activities

    Interviewed on research by Frontline (2020) https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/origins-of-communist-party-of-india-in-tashkent/article32952125.ece    Visiting Professor, FMSH, Paris (2014)    Recipient, Research grant from Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, UK (April 2013-March 2014.)    Recipient, Research grant from Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, UK (17 December 2010 to 15 January 2011).    Recipient, Research grant from Charles Wallace India Trust, UK (1 July to 30 August, 2007).    Recipient, Felix Scholarship (1999-2002) to pursue doctoral research at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.    Selected for National Scholarship (1995) offered by Government of India for Masters Level Education.    Editor, Journal of History 2013-2019    Visiting Fellow, Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London (2007).    Visiting Fellow, Centre for Study of South Asia and India, Paris (2009).    Hermes Post-Doctoral Fellow at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’homme, Paris (2009)    Visiting Fellow, City Institute, York University, Canada (2020)    Visiting Scholar, Society for Social and Economic Research, Delhi (2024).    Departmental and University Representative, South Asia Open Archives (2024-30).    Joint Coordinator, Centre for European Studies (2010-2013)     Member, Faculty Council of Arts (2010-2012)    Life Member, Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad, Kolkata    Life Member, Asiatic Society, Kolkata    Life Member, Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata    Life Member, Bangiya Sahitya Parishat, Kolkata    Life Member, Indian History Congress    Membre de Association des Amis, Maison des Sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris, France.

Notable Achievements

    Recipient of Muzaffar Ahmad Memorial Prize 2020    Recipient of University Gold Medal (MA in History, JU 1997)    Recipient of Ratnalekha Ray Memorial Gold Medal (MA in History, JU 1997)

Journal Papers Published

  ‘Towards Communism: 1917 and the Muhajirs from India adrift in Central Asia’, Social Scientist, Volume 47 Numbers 7-8 July-August 2019, pp.3-30 ISSN 0970-0293   Workers and militant labour activists from Punjab in Bengal (1921-1934)’, Socialist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2018) (Special Issue: The Ghadar Movement), pp.97-113. ISSN 1918-2821.   From the Printed Sphere to Secret Societies: local responses to the voyage of Komagata Maru and Sikh revolutionaries in Bengal (1914-1916), Quarterly Review of Historical Studies, April-September 2018 (No.1-2), pp.88-107. ISSN 0033-5800.   Suchetana Chattopadhyay, An Early Communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta 1913-1929 (2011) translated into Tamil by Adhivaragan and published from Chennai by Bharathi Puthakalayam (December 2021). ISBN 00017999   Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal, Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, 2018. ISBN 9788193401583 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/voices-of-komagata-maru/9788193401583   ‘Via Kabul’, Anne Garland Mahler and Paolo Capuzzo (eds.), The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters, pp. 125-146, Routledge, New York 2022. ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0367724855 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0367724856   ‘Impression of Ships: Calcutta during the 1910s’, Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora (eds.), Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination, Vol.1 (Delhi, Primus 2019), pp.161-184 ISSN 978-93-5290-786-1   ‘The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, Wartime Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta’, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Davina Bhandar, Renisa Mawani and Satwinder Kaur (eds.), Unmooring the Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories (Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press: Vancouver 2019), pp.56-75 ISSN 978-0-7748-6066-6   ‘War-time in an imperial city: the apocalyptic mood in Calcutta (1914-1918)’, Roger D. Long and Ian Talbot (eds.), India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment, (Routledge: New York & London 2018), pp.79-99. ISBN 9781138558588 (Hardback). E-ISBN 9781315151373.   From London to Calcutta: the ‘Bolshevik’ outsider and imperial surveillance, 1917-1921’, Ezra Rashkow, Sanjukta Ghosh and Upal Chakrabarti (eds.), Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India: Essays in Honour of Peter Robb, (Routledge: New York & London, 2018), pp.232-247. ISBN 978-1-138-10412-9 (Hardback). E-ISBN 978-1-315-10405-8.   ‘Closely observed ships’, Anjali Gera Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo (eds.), Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru, (Routledge: New York & London), 2017, pp.203-222. ISBN 13-978-1-138-70190-8.   ‘Closely observed ships’, Anjali Gera Roy and Ajaya K. Sahoo (eds.), Diasporas and Transnationalisms: The Journey of the Komagata Maru, Routledge: New York & London, 2017, pp.203-222. ISBN 13-978-1-138-70190-8.   Vijay Prashad (ed,), ‘Being Naren Bhattacharji’, Communist Histories, Volume 1, LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2016, pp.29-71.ISBN 978-93-80118-33-8.   ‘Closely Observed Ships’, South Asian Diaspora, Volume 8 Number 2 September 2016 (Special Issue), Routledge, pp. 203-222. ISSN 19438192.   ‘Jihad at wartime?’, South Asian History and Culture Volume 7 Number 2 (Special Issue), Taylor & Francis, April 2016, pp. 155-174. ISSN 19472498. E-ISSN 19472501.   ‘The Myth of the Outsider: from Whitehall to Elysium Row, 1917-21’, Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, Issue 6 (Special Issue), Lawrence & Wishart, London 2014. pp.105-123. ISSN: 1758-6437. ISBN: 9781909831032.   ‘Fear, Scarcity and Repression in Kolkata during the First World War’ in Syed Jaffar Ahmed (ed.), Challenges of History Writing in South Asia: Special Volume in Honour of Dr. Mubarak Ali, Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi & Pakistan Labour Trust, Karachi, 2013, pp.321-355. ISBN 978-969-8791-43-8.   ‘War, Migration and Alienation: the Remaking of Muzaffar Ahmad’, History Workshop Journal, Volume 64 Issue 1, Oxford University Press, 2007.   ‘The Bolshevik Menace: Colonial Surveillance and the Origins of Socialist Politics in Calcutta’, South Asia Research, Volume 26 Issue 2, Sage Publications, 2006.   ‘Talking Bolshevism: Muzaffar Ahmad and the first socialist nucleus among the urban intelligentsia in the early nineteen-twenties’, Jadavpur University Journal of History, Calcutta, Volume XXI: 2003-2004.   'Nau Abaditi Hindustan mein Jang, Hijrat aur Begangi' (‘War, Migration and Alienation’), Tareekh, Lahore: Sanjh Publications, Volume 36 (3): 2008. (Translated by Dr. Saulat Nagi into Urdu.)   Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers from Punjab in Bengal, Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, 2018. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/voices-of-komagata-maru/9788193401583   An early communist: Muzaffar Ahmad in Calcutta, 1913-1929, Tulika Publishers, New Delhi, 2011. Paperback edition published in 2012. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/an-early-communist/9788189487935 Translated into Telugu by Satyaranjan Koduru and published by Prajashakti Press, Hyderabad in 2013.
  • National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)– Jadavpur University is accredited for the fourth cycle with grade A+ and CGPA 3.46 on a scale of four Point
  • 2nd in State Public University Category, 9th in University Category, 12th in Engineering Category, 18th in Pharmacy Category, 21st in Research Category and 17th in Overall Category.
  • NBA Accreditation: UG-CSE and UG-ETCE for the academic years 2024-25 to 2029-30 & UG-IT, UG-IEE, UG-PE for the academic years 2023-24 to 2025-26
  • NBA Accredited Programs
  • NIRF India Ranking 2023: 4th in ‘University’, 10th in ‘Engineering’, 19th in ‘Research’, 18th in ‘Pharmacy’ and 13th in ‘Overall’ category
  • National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) reaccredited Jadavpur University for the third cycle with grade A and CGPA 3.68 on a scale of 4
  • QS World University Rankings Asia 2022: Second highest ranked State University in India, Asian rank 162
  • Times (Asia University) Rankings 2021: Ranked in 201-250 band
  • Times World Universities Rankings 2022: Ranked in the 801-1000 band

NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)