Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
📍 4F1, AB2
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Research Area
Urban studies, Contemporary History, Infrastructure Studies
Research Interests
My earlier and ongoing research projects explore themes in informality, infrastructure technologies, urban history and governmentality studies in late-colonial and postcolonial India. I work on the trajectories of capitalist accumulation and urbanization in twentieth century Calcutta, economic informality, postcolonial statecraft and its relationship with knowledge, social policy, rent and tenancy relations in South Asian cities, and mass political formation under popular sovereignty.
2024 : Visiting Professor, CeMIS, University of Goettingen, Germany.
2021 - 2022: Professor (w2) of State and Democracy, CeMIS, University of Goettingen, Germany.
2019 : Visiting Professor, CeMIS, University of Goettingen, Germany.
2014 - 2024 : Coordinator and module fellow, TM3, International centre for Advanced studies, new Delhi, funded by BMBF (Ministry of education), germany: https://micasmp.hypotheses.org/tm3-critiques-and-renewals-of-democracy
2013 - 2016 : Assistant Professor in History, centre for Studies in Social Sciences, calcutta
2012 - 2013 : Postdoctoral Fellow, State and Democracy, CeMIS, University of Goettingen, Germany.
2010 - 2012 : Research Associate/Postdoctoral associate, NIAS, Bangalore.
2006 - 2010 : PhD, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2003 - 2005 : MA, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2000 - 2003 : BA, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2022 : Elected ‘Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London’ (FRHistS):
2022 : Elected ‘Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of England and Ireland’ (FRAI):
2021 : Best Teacher Award, IISER Mohali.
2005 : University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at the M.A. Examination in History, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
2005 : Ratnalekha Roy Memorial Gold Medal for standing first in History, the Master of Arts Examination, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 2005
2003 : University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit in the B.A. Examination in History, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 2003.
2003 : Uma Charan Sen Memorial Gold Medal for securing highest marks in Bachelor of Arts in History, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 2003.
2003 : National Scholarship issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, National Scholarship Scheme 2003-04 for standing first in Bachelor of Arts Examination in History at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
Ghosh, S., & Bandyopadhyay, R. (2024). Labour segmentation in NCR Delhi’s automobile sector: A political response of capital to labour struggles. Third World Quarterly, 45(8), 1382–1397. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2024.2327457
Bandyopadhyay, R. (2022). Streets in motion: The making of infrastructure, property, and political culture in twentieth-century Calcutta (Ser. Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Monograph]: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109208
Bandyopadhyay, R., Banerjee, P. and Samaddar, R. (2021) India’s migrant workers and the pandemic, Routledge & CRC Press. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Indias-Migrant-Workers- and-the-Pandemic/Bandyopadhyay-Banerjee-Samaddar/p/book/9781032158921
BANDYOPADHYAY, R. (2015) ‘Institutionalizing informality: The hawkers’ question in post-colonial Calcutta’, Modern Asian Studies, 50(2), pp. 675–717. doi:10.1017/s0026749x1400064x.
Bandyopadhyay, R. (2017). Obstruction: Counter-pedestrianism and trajectories of an infrastructure public. DECISION, 44(2), 121–132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-017-0155-7