LOKNITI

Dr. Biswajit Mohanty

Location
Department of Political Science
Deshbandhu College
University of Delhi

Telephone Nos.
College: 26439565
Residence: 011-27306230

Email: mohantyagastya@gmail.com

Biswajit Mohanty is Assisstant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi and Delhi co-ordinator of NES 2009. He has completed his doctoral research on politics of rehabilitation with the Indravati hydroelectric project in Orissa as a case study. He is currently engaged in a two year UGC sponsored Major Research Project on Empirico-Interpretative study of the General Elections 2009.

Research Interest

Biswajit Mohanty works mainly on Land-rights movements in Orissa. He is now associated with a social movement project on Orissa with Martin Rew, Lecturer, The International Development Department, University of Birmingham. He is also part of Delhi Forum, an organization that tries to connect different land- rights movements across the country.

He is a member of PIPFPD (Pakistan-India Forum for Peace and Democracy) that works towards establishing people to people talk for bringing peace in both countries.

Publications

(2000), Vandana Mahajan and Biswajit Mohanty, , A Study to Understand the Community Participation Processes In PEEP, Delhi, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi.

(2005) Bibliography on Governance, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

(2005) ‘Beyond Specularity’, Creative Forum, Volume 18, no.1. January-June, New Delhi.

(2006) ‘Consumer and Law: an interdisciplinary perspective’ www.du.ac.in.

Short-term Research Projects:

(2006), worked as a consultant to the ‘Drivers of Change in Orissa’ Project of GHK International, London.

(2007), consultant to Overseas Development Institute, London/Hyderabad, for a project on Scoping Study on Circular Migration in India and Vietnam.

Current Assignment

As a fellow in Institute of life Long Learning, University of Delhi, he is engaged in creating e-content on Political Science for undergraduate students of the University.

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