Thirty Oral History interviews
By April 2010, we have pledged to record, transcribe and annotate thirty
original oral history interviews with leading intellectuals from West Bengal
and Bangladesh who entered college, or came of age, in South Asia's era of
decolonization.
Scholars and intellectuals interviewed for this project thus far include:
- A.F.M Salahuddin Ahmed (b. 1925, Faridpur, present-day Bangladesh). Retired professor of History, Dhaka University. Interviewed on July 22, 2010.
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Sufia Ahmed (b. 1932, Faridpur, present-day Bangladesh). National Retired professor, historian. Interviewed on October 26, 2009.
- Anissuzaman (b. 1937, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Retired professor of Bengali, educationalist. Interviewed on October 25, 2009.
- Amiya Bagchi (b. 1936, Jadupur, present-day West Bengal). Director of Institute for Development Studies, Kolkata. Interviewed January 11, 2010.
- Andre Beteille (b. 1934, Chandannagar, present-day West Bengal). Attended St. Xavier’s School, Kolkata; Retired professor of Sociology, Delhi University). Interview recorded on August 14, 2009.
- Krishna Bose (b. 1930, Dhaka, present-day Bangladesh). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired Retired professor of English at City College of Kolkata; former Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs in India. Interview recorded on August 9, 2009.
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). University Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Interviewed on August 25, 2010.
- Satyesh Chakrabarty (b. 1931, Comilla, present-day Bangladesh). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired professor of Geography, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata; Director, Indian Institute of Port Management. Interview recorded on August 22, 2009.
- Barid Barun Chatterjee (b. 1925, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired director, Indian Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata. Interview recorded July 20, 2007.
- Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri (b. 1934, Silimpur, Dhaka District, present-day Bangladesh). Retired professor of History, Cuttington University, Suacoco,
Liberia. Interviewed on December 8, 2009.
- Sunil Das (b. 1943, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended Ashutosh College, Kolkata; Member of the ‘Little Theater Group’; President, Sangbarta Group Theater. Interview recorded August 25, 2009
- Alokeranjan Dasgupta (b. 1933, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Poet, Author, retired professor of Literature, Heidelberg University.
Interviewed on January 13, 2010.
- Uma Dasgupta (b. 1942, Mymensingh, present-day Bangladesh). Retired
professor of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Interviewed on January
10, 2010.
- Amlan Datta (b. 1924, Comilla, present-day Bangladesh). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; former Vice Chancellor, Visva Bharati University. Interview recorded December 20, 2007.
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Kamal Datta (b. 1938, Shimla, present-day Himachal Pradesh). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired professor of Physics, Delhi University. Interview recorded August 20, 2009.
- Barun De (b. 1932, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired professor of History, Indian Institute for Management; founding Director of the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; founding Director of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies. Interview recorded December 16, 2007.
- Nabaneeta Dev Sen (b. 1938, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Poet, author,
retired professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Interviewed January 10, 2010.
- Sankha Ghosh (b. 1932, Chandpur, Dhaka District, present-day Bangladesh).
Poet, Author, professor of Literature. Interviewed on January 12, 2010.
- Jharna Gourlay (b. 1936, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Retired
Production Director for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Interviewed
January 8, 2010.
- Ranajit Guha (b. 1923, Barisal, present-day Bangladesh). Attended Presidency College; Retired reader in History, Sussex University; Founding scholar of Subaltern Studies Collective; Interview recorded July 29, 2009.
- Purushottoma Lal (b. 1938, Kapurthala, present-day Punjab). Publisher, professor of Literature. Interviewed January 12, 2010.
- Partha Mitter (b. 1938, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata; Retired reader in Art History, Sussex University. Interview recorded June 18, 2006.
- Sibnarayan Ray (b. 1921, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended City College, Kolkata and University of Kolkata. Founding director of Department of Oriental Studies at Melbourne University. Interview recorded December 12, 2007.
- Tapan Raychaudhuri (b. 1926, Barsial, present-day Bangladesh). Interview recorded June 19, 2009. Retired reader of South Asian History, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University.
- Prasanta Ray (b. 1943, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Attended Presidency College, Kolkata. Retired professor of Sociology, and founding member of the department, Presidency College. Interview recorded August 12, 2009.
- Amartya Sen (b. 1933, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Professor of Economics and Philosophy. Nobel Laureate. Interviewed February 1, 2010.
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Swarajbrata Sengupta (b. 1935, Krittipasha, present-day Bangladesh). Retired professor of English, Presidency College. Interview recorded August 22, 2009.
- Rehman Sobhan (b. 135, Kolkata, present-day West Bengal). Professor of Economics, Director of Center for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka. Interviewed on September 2, 2010
- Badruddin Umar (b. 1931, Burdwan, present-day West Bengal). Son of Muslim League leader Abul Hashim; writer, academic, political activist. Interviewed on October 25, 2009.
