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Jayanta Kumar Ray
Jayanta Kumar Ray (born 9 December 1934) is one of India’s leading social scientists, covering a vast ground of research from rural development to foreign policy, while writing on a number of countries, viz. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Thailand. He has provided an insightful analysis of such major issues as those of the relative role of violence and nonviolence in decolonisation, civil-military relations, internal colonialism, myths and realities in foreign policy, as also assessments of the state of good governance in some countries gaining freedom from Western colonial rule. He is well-known for his trenchant reviews of the use of terrorism as an instrument of foreign policy by a few ex-colonial countries. Education and Career Educated at the University of Calcutta, Ray served at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He served at the University of Calcutta as Centenary Professor of International Relations from 1977 to 2000, and as Director, Centre for South East Asian Studies from 1978 to 1991. Subsequently, he served at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (Ministry of Culture, Government of India), Kolkata, as Vice Chairman, Executive Council, from 1998 to 2003, and as Chairman from 2005 to 2010. Presently, he is Honorary Professor at the Department of History and at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Calcutta University. Significantly, this list of assignments is a testimony to Ray’s unique transdiciplinary and multi-country orientation, which is also amply reflected in his publications noted below. Awards and Honours National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, 2006 Eminent Teacher Award by the University of Calcutta, 2014 National Research Professor, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2015 Publications Books 1. Transfer of Power in Indonesia 1942-49, Manaktalas, Bombay, 1967 2. Security in the Missile Age, Allied, Bombay, 1967 3. Democracy and Nationalism on Trial: A Study of East Pakistan, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 1968 4. Portraits of Thai Politics, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1972 5. Public Policy and Global Reality, Radiant, New Delhi, 1977 6. Administrators in a Mixed Polity, Macmillan, New Delhi, 1981 7. Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Deedar in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Comilla, 1983 8. Organizing Villagers for Self-Reliance: A Study of Gonoshasthya Kendra in Bangladesh, Orient Longman, Calcutta, 1986 9. To Chase a Miracle: A Study of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, The University Press Ltd., Dhaka, 1987 10. Inside Bureaucracy: Bangladesh (Co-author: Muntassir Mamoon), Papyrus, Calcutta, 1987 11. Centre-State Financial Relations in India (Co-author: Hiroshi Sato), Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1987 12. An Uncertain Beginning: Perspectives on Parliamentary Democracy in Bangladesh (Co-author: Hassan Uzzaman), Naya Prakash, Calcutta, 1992 13. Civil Society in Bangladesh: Resilience and Retreat (Co-author: Muntassir Mamoon), Firma KLM, Calcutta, 1996 14. The Goondas: Towards a Reconstruction of the Calcutta Underworld (Co-author: Suranjan Das), Firma KLM, Calcutta, 1997 15. India-Nepal Cooperation Broadening Measures (edited by B.K. Jahangir and Jayanta Kumar Ray), K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1997 16. India-Bangladesh Cooperation Broadening Measures (edited by B.K. Jahangir and Jayanta Kumar Ray), K.P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1997 17. India : In Search of Good Governance, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and K.P. Bagchi & Co., Calcutta, 2001 18. Promotion of Trade and Investment in Eastern South Asia Subregion (edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray and Prabir De), Bookwell, New Delhi, 2003 19. India and China in an Era of Globalization (edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray and Prabir De), Bookwell, New Delhi, 2005 20. India’s International Relations 1700 – 2000 (Edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray), Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, 2006 21. Essays on Politics and Governance (Edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray and Muntassir Mamoon), Towards Freedom, Kolkata, 2007 22. Northeast India: Administrative Reforms & Economic Development (Edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray and Rakhee Bhattacharya), Har-Anand, New Delhi, 2008. 23. Development Dynamics in North East India (Edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray & Rakhee Bhattacharya), Anshah, Delhi, 2008. 24. Interpreting the Indian Diaspora: Lessons from History and Contemporary Politics (Edited by Jayanta Kumar Ray), Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi, 2009. 25. India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-2007, Routledge, New Delhi, 2011. 26. India and Bangladesh: Current Perspectives (with Muntassir Mamoon), Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, University of Calcutta, 2011. 27. India Myanmar Connectivity (with Prabir De), New Delhi: Knowledge World, 2013. 28. Cross-Border Terrorism: Focus On Pakistan (in Press).

Articles (a selection)

“Administrative Restructuring and Development”, Asian Affairs (Dhaka), June 1981, pp. 134-57.

“Technology Transfer: Some Aspects of Bangladesh Experience”, The Calcutta Historical Journal, July-December 1982, pp. 1-53.

“Self-Reliant Development : Prospects in Bangladesh”, in Kenneth Ballhatchet and David Taylor, eds, Changing South Asia : Development and Welfare, published for Centre for South Asian Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, by Asia Research Service, Hong Kong, 1984

“Foreign Aid, Domestic Administration and the Rural Poor: A Study of Thailand”, The Journal of Social Studies, Dhaka, No.26, October 1984, pp.76-103.

“Issues in India-Bangladesh Relations”, in Satish Kumar (ed), Yearbook of India’s Foreign Policy 1987/88, Sage, New Delhi, 1988, pp.95-105.

“Some Aspects of Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR”, in Samir Dasgupta (ed), Aspects of Socialist Renewal in the Soviet Union, Center for Soviet Studies, Calcutta, 1989.

“Economic Reforms in China and the USSR : Lessons for India”, a paper presented in 1989 at a National Seminar organized by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.

“Field Work for Development Studies: Despair and Delight”, in Ranjit Chaudhuri (ed). Conflict Development and NGOs : Witnessing People’s Experience towards Development and Human Values, Best Books, Calcutta, 1989. “Two Cultures and One Cult: Reflections on Public Administration in Contemporary India”, The Indian Journal of Public Administration (New Delhi), Vol.36, No.3, July-September 1990. “Islamic Fundamentalism in Bangladesh”, South Asian Studies (Jaipur), Silver Jubilee Issue, January-December 1990 (co-author: Muntassir Mamoon).

“Research on Countries other than India: A Quest and a Testimony”, Address of the Sectional President: Countries other than India, Indian History Congress, Fifty-fourth session, 1993.

“Anti-Public Administration in India”, Indian Journal of Public Administration, (New Delhi), July-September 1994, pp.297-304. “Current Political Problems and Remedies”, Indian Journal of Public Administration, (New Delhi), July-September 1995, pp.441-450. “India’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era : Can it be Reconstructed to build a South-Asian Community ?” in P.K.Mishra, ed, Aspects of Indian History and Historiography, Kaveri Books, New Delhi, 1996.

Towards an Optimum Management of Himalayan Waters, Occasional Paper 1, Peace Studies Group, Department of History, University of Calcutta, 1998. “The Agra Summit”, India Quarterly, April-June 2001, pp.17-28. “Clash and Dialogue of Cultures”, in Gopal Krishna, ed., The Vitality of India, CRRID, Chandigarh, 2004. Professor Jayanta Kumar Ray 08:27, 24 September 2015 (UTC)