Suvajit Halder

Present Position: Assistant Professor

Department of History, School of Liberal Arts and Cultural Studies

E-mail: suvajit1.halder@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:


  • Ph.D (Submitted) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • M.Phil. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • M.A. in History, Presidency University, Kolkata.

Research Key Areas:


  • Food History.
  • Socio-Cultural history.
  • History of Bengal.
  • History of Modern Bengal.

Experience:


  • Worked as Gust Faculty for Post-Graduate course, in the Department of History, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore in Even Semester.  
  • Worked as Guest Lecturer in the Department of Ancient India and World History, in The Sanskrit College and University, 1 Bankim Chatterjee Street, Kolkata- 700073 from 23/11/2021 to 11/10/2022.

Research Publication (s):


  1. “Bread, Biscuits and Fowl: A Brief History of Caste and Middleclass Dietary Practices in Colonial Bengal”, Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Vol. 78, 2018, ISSN 2249-1937.

Research Projects:


  1. Coordinator of the module on “Food Cultures of Bengal”, Sahapedia, https://www.sahapedia.org/food-cultures-of-bengal
  2. Worked as research assistant for a project titled “The Globalizing Impact of the Second World War on India” for a period of three months from December 2016 to February 2017, under Dr.Indivar Kamtekar.
  3. Worked as research assistant for a book titled State, Power and Legitimacy:The Gupta Kingdom, edited by Kunal Chakrabarti and Kanad Sinha, Primus Books, 2018.