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'''Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya''' is an Indian political scientist.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya|url=https://www.epw.in/author/dwaipayan-bhattacharyya|access-date=2021-05-11|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|pages=7–8|language=en}}</ref> He is a professor at [[Centre for Political Studies]], [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya|url=https://www.jnu.ac.in/content/dwaipayan|url-status=live|access-date=10 May 2021|website=Jawaharlal Nehru University}}</ref>

== Education ==
Dwaipayan did his PhD on ''Agrarian reforms and the politics of the left in West Bengal'' from [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Agrarian reforms and the policts of the left in West Bengal.|url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283948|publisher=University of Cambridge|date=1993|degree=Ph.D.|first=Dwaipayan|last=Bhattacharyya}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-05|title=Bhattacharyya, Dwaipayan|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/dwaipayan-bhattacharyya|access-date=2021-05-11|website=SAGE Publications Inc|language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya taught political science at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (from1994-2002 and 2016–present) and at [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] (2002-2015).<ref name=":0" /> He specialises in Indian politics, Left politics, analysis of power and institutions, and social hierarchies.<ref name=":0" /> He has held visiting positions at [[Claremont University]], USA; [[Massey University]], New Zealand; and [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen University]], Germany.<ref name=":2" />

He had collaborated with various projects including, ‘''Democracy and Social Capital in Segmented Societies''’ with SIDA and [[Uppsala University]], Sweden during 1996–99, ''‘Political Ethnography of West Bengal Villages''’, ''‘Understanding Political Changes in Rural West Bengal’'' with [[Indian Statistical Institute]], Kolkata and [[Boston University]], USA during 2005 and 2012–13, ‘''Embedding Poor People’s Voices in Local Governance''’, with [[University of Sheffield]], United Kingdom and [[Centre for Development Studies]], Kerala during 2008–09.<ref name=":0" /> From 2016 onwards, he is the member of the International Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP), a consortium of seven Indian and German partners, funded by the [[Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany)|German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)]].<ref name=":0" />

He theorised West Bengal's unique history of affiliation to political parties and polarisation along party lines. He coined the term “party society” in this context<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Whither West Bengal?|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/6/comment/whither-west-bengal.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=56|issue=6|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=West Bengal: The BJP's New Frontier|url=https://www.asiamediacentre.org.nz/opinion/west-bengal/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=www.asiamediacentre.org.nz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Ishan|date=2021-05-11|title=Bengal woke up and chose violence at birth. TMC is no exception to that norm|url=https://theprint.in/opinion/bengal-woke-up-and-chose-violence-at-birth-tmc-is-no-exception-to-that-norm/655968/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=West Bengal's Landscape Is Shifting from 'Party Society' to 'Caste Politics'|url=https://thewire.in/politics/west-bengals-landscape-shift-party-society-caste-politics|access-date=2021-05-11|website=The Wire}}</ref> He argues that politics in west Bengal spins not on caste, religious or ethnic associations, but on their absorption within this or that political party.<ref name=":1" />

== Awards & Honours ==

* Nehru Trust for Cambridge University Fellowship<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last=Bhattacharyya|first=Dwaipayan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbCvAQAACAAJ|title=Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India|date=2016-03-05|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-316-18252-9|language=en}}</ref>
* Fulbright Fellowship (Scholar-in-Residence)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />
* British Chevening Fellowship<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" />
*Churchill College Honorary Fellowship<ref name=":3" />
*DAAD Fellowship<ref name=":3" />

== Key Publications ==

=== Books ===
1) ''Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India'' (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press) 2016.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Bhattacharyya|first=Dwaipayan|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/government-as-practice/DC253A808690F68F04FE5DB2F52AC8BE|title=Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-10226-2|series=South Asia in the Social Sciences|location=Cambridge}}</ref>

2) Interrogating Social Capital: The Indian Experience (edited with Niraja G. Jayal, Sudha Pai and Bishnu N. Mohapatra), (New Delhi, Sage), 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-05|title=Interrogating Social Capital|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interrogating-social-capital/book227270|access-date=2021-05-11|website=SAGE Publications Inc|language=en}}</ref>

=== Book Chapters ===

* 'Left in the Lurch: The Demise of the World's Longest Elected Regime? (with an Epilogue)', in Sudha Pai (ed.) ''Handbook of Politics in Indian States: Region, Parties and Economic Reforms'', (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2013.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Left in the Lurch: The Demise of the World's Longest Elected Regime?|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2010/03/special-articles/left-lurch-demise-worlds-longest-elected-regime.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|pages=7–8}}</ref>
* ‘Party-society, its Consolidation and Crisis: Understanding Political Change in West Bengal’, in Anjan Ghosh, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Janaki Nair (ed.), ''Theorizing the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee'' (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2011, 226- 250.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Theorizing the Present Essays for Partha Chatterjee|url=https://india.oup.com/product/theorizing-the-present--essays-for-partha-chatterjee-9780198071631?|access-date=2021-05-11|website=india.oup.com}}</ref>
* ‘West Bengal: Permanent Incumbency and Political Stability’ in Sandeep Shastri, K C Suri and Yogendra Yadav (ed.), ''Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond'' (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2009, 326–45.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Shastri|first1=Sandeep|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1kdAQAAMAAJ|title=Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond|last2=Suri|first2=K. C.|last3=Yadav|first3=Yogendra|date=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-806329-2|language=en}}</ref>
* ‘Politics of middleness: the changing character of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Rural West Bengal (1977-1990)’ in Sugata Bose, Barbara Harriss, Ben Rogaly (eds), ''Sonar Bangla?'' ''Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh'' (New Delhi: Sage),1999.
* ‘How to Govern the Poor? The Role of Social Policies in Economic Transformation’, in Nandini Gooptu and Jonathan Parry (ed.s), Persistence of Poverty in India, Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2014, 370–431.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Persistence of Poverty in India|url=https://www.routledge.com/Persistence-of-Poverty-in-India/Gooptu-Parry/p/book/9781138099661|access-date=2021-05-11|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}</ref>
* Social Policy in India: Education Reform and Employment Guarantee in a Rapidly Changing Economy’, in Samir Kumar Das (ed.) ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations: Political Science: Volume – 1 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2012, 111–144.
* Strengthening Rural Decentralisation, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (with Partha Chatterjee, Pranab Kumar Das, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Manabi Majumdar and Surajit Mukhopadhyay) 2006.
* ‘Writers’ Buildings and the reality of decentralized rural power: some paradoxes in West Bengal’ in Niraja Gopal Jayal, Amit Prakash & Pradeep Sharma, ed., Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and Beyond (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2006.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jayal|first1=Niraja Gopal|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/local-governance-in-india-9780195692969?cc=at&lang=en|title=Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond|last2=Prakash|first2=Amit|last3=Sharma|first3=Pradeep K.|date=2007-12-06|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-569296-9|series=Oxford India Paperbacks|location=Oxford, New York}}</ref>
* ‘Agrarian reforms and panchayati raj in West Bengal’ in Ashish Ghosh and Neera Chandhoke (eds.), Grassroots movement and social change (DCRC, Delhi University Press), 1995, 117–123.

=== Journal Articles ===
He has multiple publications in peer reviewed international and national journals including ''Journal of Development Studies, [[Economic and Political Weekly]], Calcutta Historical Review'' etc.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=ORISSA-Tribal-Dalit Conflict-Electoral Politics in Phulbani|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/1996/2-3/special-articles/orissa-tribal-dalit-conflict-electoral-politics-phulbani.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=31|issue=–1|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Making and Unmaking of Trinamul Congress|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2004/14-15/special-articles/making-and-unmaking-trinamul-congress.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=West Bengal : Permanent Incumbency and Political Stability|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2004/51/special-articles/west-bengal-permanent-incumbency-and-political-stability.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Politics of PDS Anger in West Bengal|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2008/05/special-articles/politics-pds-anger-west-bengal.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=Of Control and Factions: The Changing 'Party-Society' in Rural West Bengal|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2009/09/local-government-rural-west-bengal-special-issues-specials/control-and-factions|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=West Bengal Panchayat Elections|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2013/37/commentary/west-bengal-panchayat-elections.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=48|issue=37|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=The Singur Movement|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/45/book-reviews/singur-movement.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=55|issue=45|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

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