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.^[1][2]

Ranabir Samaddar
Born	(1949-09-28) 28 September 1949 (age 76)
Citizenship	Indian
Academic background
Education	B.A, M.A, PhD
Alma mater	Calcutta University
Thesis	Economics, Politics and The Age of Electronics - A Case Study of Automation in the Indian Newspaper Industry
Academic work
Discipline	Political Science
Sub-discipline	Migration, Refugee Studies, Peace Studies, Nationalism, Post-colonial Statehood, Labour Studies

Studies and early career

He completed his B.A. in political science from Presidency College (now Presidency University).^[3] Thereafter, he proceeded to his M.A. and Ph.D from Calcutta University.^[4]

Between 1977 and 1980, he served as a school teacher at the Kishore Bharati Dum Dum School, 24 Paraganas (West Bengal).

He is the founder-editor of the journal, Refugee Watch.

Books

• Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017)
• A Postcolonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis (Singapore: Springer, 2016)
• The Crisis of 1974: The Railway Strike and the Rank and File (Delhi: Primus, 2016)
• Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India (London and New York: Routledge, 2016)
• Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India (London and New York: Routledge, 2016)
• Krishna Living with Alzheimer’s (Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2015)
• Passive Revolution in West Bengal – 1977-2011 (New Delhi: Sage, 2013)
• The Nation Form (New Delhi: Sage, 2012)
• Emergence of the Political Subject (New Delhi: Sage, 2010)
• Politics of Dialogue – Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004)
• In the Time of Nationalism – Political Essays on Bangladesh (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2002)
• A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997 (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2001)
• Marginal Nation – Trans-border Migration from Bangladesh to India (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999)
• Memory, Power, Identity – Politics in Jungle Mahals, West Bengal 1890-1950 (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1997; revised edition, 2013))
• Whose Asia Is It Anyway -- Region and the Nation in South Asia (Calcutta: MaulanaAbulKalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and Pearl Publishers, 1996)
• Workers and Automation -- The Impact of New Technology on the Newspaper Industry (New Delhi: Sage Publications)