| Recent Significant Publicatons |
• "On Craft Technique : Tribal Blacksmiths of Colonial Eastern India" Accepted for publication in Vijay Kumar Thakur (ed.). Science, Technology and Medicine in Indian History Essays in Honour of Dr. Devendra Kumar Singh, (Patna. 2000). pp. 217-252
• "Tribal Society in Transition : A Study of the Primitive Blacksmiths in Early Colonial Eastern India", in S.C. Padhy and S.K. Panda (ed.). Society Culture and Polity in Eastern India. (Berhampore University, 1999), pp. 92-102
• "Aupanibeshik BanglarKarigar Samaj : Utpadaner Samajik Sangathan", in Lakashruti, (Journal of the Centre for Folk and Tribal Culture,Information & Culture Affairs Department, Government of West Bengal). Vol. 15. (Calcutta, September, 1999) pp. 12-22
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| Sponsored Research Projects (Completed in last 5 years) |
• "Social Root of Craft Technique : A Monograph on the Blacksmith's Craft in Eastern India: 18th to 20th Centuries" sponsored by Indian National Science Academy. New Delhi November, 2000-2003.
• "Monograph on the Brass and bell-metal Workers of Bengal", under the National Project entitled 'Village Artisans and Science' sponsored by the National Institution of Science. Technology and Development Studies. New Delhi, 1999-2001.
• "Tribal Blacksmiths of Colonial Eastern India" sponsored by the Indian Council of Historical Research. New Delhi, 1996-1999. |
| Award / Prize / National Recognition |
Associated as a Resource Person with
• The Department of History of Science and Technology. Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
• Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalay, Bhopal.
• The National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi.
• The Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
• The History of Science Programme of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |