Biswajit Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3722909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Biswajit Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Biswajit |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Burdwan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8617-8250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paradoxes of Development
India’s ambitious claim to development presents a profound challenge: can the traditional state-led model truly bridge the gap between lofty promises and on-the-ground realities? While alternative development paradigms—such as gender-sensitive, eco-centric, and culturally rooted approaches—have illuminated the stark disparities that persist across regions and communities, the urgent need to champion grassroots empowerment and safeguard the rights…
Rural child health in India
Politics of Manufacturing Consent in a Post-Truth Society
This article critically examines how human life today is faced with issues of dishonesty and deception. Using the concept of post-truth in analyzing and understanding the context of change in a global society under neo-liberalism, it focuses on the way powerful people, groups, political parties, and media now take recourse to strategies such as falsification, manipulation, or deception to influence and control the human mind. Those involved in do…
Urbanisation in West Bengal
The present work intends to study the recent processes of urbanisation of West Bengal by measuring some selected indices: like level of urbanisation, decadal growth of urban population, rate of urbanisation, pace of urbanisation and urban growth, contribution of growth in urban population to total growth and rural-urban displacement. It is a meso-level study, and 19 districts of the state have been selected as units of study. Using Principal Comp…
Child Marriage, Society and the Law
There is a silent complicity in child marriage in India and many rural and backward communities treat it as normal. The Government has recently amended the law to prohibit such marriage. Even though the legal framework is not bereft of problems, field data do not suggest any reduction in the incidence of child marriage. For socioeconomic reasons, the practice continues unabated. This article, based on field experiences in the Malda district of We…
Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence in India
Cultural Changes and Challenges in the Era of Globalization
Contemporary globalization has produced many changes in our economy, society, culture, and politics. To many, the quality of resilience that Indian culture had shown earlier is slowly diminishing now. But, this article argues that globalization is not a unidirectional process and there are several contrary trajectories, which have generated opposite reactions. Hence, along with homogenization of certain aspects of Indian culture, globalization ha…
Early Marriage of Girls in Contemporary Bengal
The problem of early marriage of girls constitutes a part of India’s social tradition since time immemorial and it continues to prevail due to a combination of traditional and modern factors. In West Bengal too, the complicity to child marriage continues silently even though the issue drew the attention of Bengal social reformers in the 19th Century. Despite legal and administrative interventions, rural stakeholders remain authoritarian and patri…
Child Marriage, Community, and Adolescent Girls
Marrying daughters early constitutes a part of social tradition in India and in the Malda district of West Bengal the practice is rampant though people at large know that it is illegal. Authoritarian and patriarchal social structure does not allow any free space to adolescent girls belonging particularly to certain sections who assign different reasons for the continuation of the practice. Ironically, impending gender and social issues do not fin…
Trafficking in women and children in India
Trafficking in women and children is one of the worst abuses of human rights. But it is very difficult to estimate the scale of the phenomenon as trafficking is closely related to child labour, bonded labour, child marriage, kidnapping and abduction and prostitution even though these phenomena can exist also independent of trafficking. This paper has attempted to analyse the nature, causes, modes and volume of trafficking in a country that has re…
NGOs, Civil Society and Social Reconstruction in Contemporary India
The decline or retreat of the state as well as the triumph of the market today is accompanied by increasing attention to Civil Society Organizations. There is a newfound expectation that NGOs or the ‘third’ sector is better placed as compared to the other stakeholders to provide leadership for social reconstruction in the developing world in particular. This article seeks to critically review the role of the NGO sector in India using empirical ev…
Ethnicity and Insurgency in Tripura
This paper examines the genesis, growth and continuance of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura, a much-troubled state in North-East India. It is argued that the problems of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura have much to do with modern politico-economic processes than with mere ethnic group identities. It is suggested that ethnicity is neither static nor a pre-determined object, but a situational construct. Though based on some real life experie…
Organising Unorganised Workers
This paper 1 focuses on the problems and prospects of mobilizing workers in the 'unorganised sector' of Indian industry. Till recently, it used to be considered difficult, if not impossible, for trade unions to mobilise workers in the 'unorganised sector' for collective action. The small size of industrial units, intimate and informal work relationships, dispersal of industrial units over, a large area and workers' low level of education were con…
Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence in India
Cultural Changes and Challenges in the Era of Globalization
Contemporary globalization has produced many changes in our economy, society, culture, and politics. To many, the quality of resilience that Indian culture had shown earlier is slowly diminishing now. But, this article argues that globalization is not a unidirectional process and there are several contrary trajectories, which have generated opposite reactions. Hence, along with homogenization of certain aspects of Indian culture, globalization ha…
Child Marriage, Society and the Law
There is a silent complicity in child marriage in India and many rural and backward communities treat it as normal. The Government has recently amended the law to prohibit such marriage. Even though the legal framework is not bereft of problems, field data do not suggest any reduction in the incidence of child marriage. For socioeconomic reasons, the practice continues unabated. This article, based on field experiences in the Malda district of We…
NGOs, Civil Society and Social Reconstruction in Contemporary India
The decline or retreat of the state as well as the triumph of the market today is accompanied by increasing attention to Civil Society Organizations. There is a newfound expectation that NGOs or the ‘third’ sector is better placed as compared to the other stakeholders to provide leadership for social reconstruction in the developing world in particular. This article seeks to critically review the role of the NGO sector in India using empirical ev…
Trafficking in women and children in India
Trafficking in women and children is one of the worst abuses of human rights. But it is very difficult to estimate the scale of the phenomenon as trafficking is closely related to child labour, bonded labour, child marriage, kidnapping and abduction and prostitution even though these phenomena can exist also independent of trafficking. This paper has attempted to analyse the nature, causes, modes and volume of trafficking in a country that has re…
Politics of Manufacturing Consent in a Post-Truth Society
This article critically examines how human life today is faced with issues of dishonesty and deception. Using the concept of post-truth in analyzing and understanding the context of change in a global society under neo-liberalism, it focuses on the way powerful people, groups, political parties, and media now take recourse to strategies such as falsification, manipulation, or deception to influence and control the human mind. Those involved in do…
Ethnicity and Insurgency in Tripura
This paper examines the genesis, growth and continuance of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura, a much-troubled state in North-East India. It is argued that the problems of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura have much to do with modern politico-economic processes than with mere ethnic group identities. It is suggested that ethnicity is neither static nor a pre-determined object, but a situational construct. Though based on some real life experie…
Urbanisation in West Bengal
The present work intends to study the recent processes of urbanisation of West Bengal by measuring some selected indices: like level of urbanisation, decadal growth of urban population, rate of urbanisation, pace of urbanisation and urban growth, contribution of growth in urban population to total growth and rural-urban displacement. It is a meso-level study, and 19 districts of the state have been selected as units of study. Using Principal Comp…
Child Marriage, Community, and Adolescent Girls
Marrying daughters early constitutes a part of social tradition in India and in the Malda district of West Bengal the practice is rampant though people at large know that it is illegal. Authoritarian and patriarchal social structure does not allow any free space to adolescent girls belonging particularly to certain sections who assign different reasons for the continuation of the practice. Ironically, impending gender and social issues do not fin…
Early Marriage of Girls in Contemporary Bengal
The problem of early marriage of girls constitutes a part of India’s social tradition since time immemorial and it continues to prevail due to a combination of traditional and modern factors. In West Bengal too, the complicity to child marriage continues silently even though the issue drew the attention of Bengal social reformers in the 19th Century. Despite legal and administrative interventions, rural stakeholders remain authoritarian and patri…
Organising Unorganised Workers
This paper 1 focuses on the problems and prospects of mobilizing workers in the 'unorganised sector' of Indian industry. Till recently, it used to be considered difficult, if not impossible, for trade unions to mobilise workers in the 'unorganised sector' for collective action. The small size of industrial units, intimate and informal work relationships, dispersal of industrial units over, a large area and workers' low level of education were con…
Ethnicity and Insurgency in Tripura
This paper examines the genesis, growth and continuance of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura, a much-troubled state in North-East India. It is argued that the problems of ethnicity and insurgency in Tripura have much to do with modern politico-economic processes than with mere ethnic group identities. It is suggested that ethnicity is neither static nor a pre-determined object, but a situational construct. Though based on some real life experie…
Trafficking in women and children in India
Trafficking in women and children is one of the worst abuses of human rights. But it is very difficult to estimate the scale of the phenomenon as trafficking is closely related to child labour, bonded labour, child marriage, kidnapping and abduction and prostitution even though these phenomena can exist also independent of trafficking. This paper has attempted to analyse the nature, causes, modes and volume of trafficking in a country that has re…
NGOs, Civil Society and Social Reconstruction in Contemporary India
The decline or retreat of the state as well as the triumph of the market today is accompanied by increasing attention to Civil Society Organizations. There is a newfound expectation that NGOs or the ‘third’ sector is better placed as compared to the other stakeholders to provide leadership for social reconstruction in the developing world in particular. This article seeks to critically review the role of the NGO sector in India using empirical ev…
Child Marriage, Society and the Law
There is a silent complicity in child marriage in India and many rural and backward communities treat it as normal. The Government has recently amended the law to prohibit such marriage. Even though the legal framework is not bereft of problems, field data do not suggest any reduction in the incidence of child marriage. For socioeconomic reasons, the practice continues unabated. This article, based on field experiences in the Malda district of We…
Legal Protection Against Domestic Violence in India
Cultural Changes and Challenges in the Era of Globalization
Contemporary globalization has produced many changes in our economy, society, culture, and politics. To many, the quality of resilience that Indian culture had shown earlier is slowly diminishing now. But, this article argues that globalization is not a unidirectional process and there are several contrary trajectories, which have generated opposite reactions. Hence, along with homogenization of certain aspects of Indian culture, globalization ha…
Early Marriage of Girls in Contemporary Bengal
The problem of early marriage of girls constitutes a part of India’s social tradition since time immemorial and it continues to prevail due to a combination of traditional and modern factors. In West Bengal too, the complicity to child marriage continues silently even though the issue drew the attention of Bengal social reformers in the 19th Century. Despite legal and administrative interventions, rural stakeholders remain authoritarian and patri…
Child Marriage, Community, and Adolescent Girls
Marrying daughters early constitutes a part of social tradition in India and in the Malda district of West Bengal the practice is rampant though people at large know that it is illegal. Authoritarian and patriarchal social structure does not allow any free space to adolescent girls belonging particularly to certain sections who assign different reasons for the continuation of the practice. Ironically, impending gender and social issues do not fin…
Urbanisation in West Bengal
The present work intends to study the recent processes of urbanisation of West Bengal by measuring some selected indices: like level of urbanisation, decadal growth of urban population, rate of urbanisation, pace of urbanisation and urban growth, contribution of growth in urban population to total growth and rural-urban displacement. It is a meso-level study, and 19 districts of the state have been selected as units of study. Using Principal Comp…
Politics of Manufacturing Consent in a Post-Truth Society
This article critically examines how human life today is faced with issues of dishonesty and deception. Using the concept of post-truth in analyzing and understanding the context of change in a global society under neo-liberalism, it focuses on the way powerful people, groups, political parties, and media now take recourse to strategies such as falsification, manipulation, or deception to influence and control the human mind. Those involved in do…
Rural child health in India
Paradoxes of Development
India’s ambitious claim to development presents a profound challenge: can the traditional state-led model truly bridge the gap between lofty promises and on-the-ground realities? While alternative development paradigms—such as gender-sensitive, eco-centric, and culturally rooted approaches—have illuminated the stark disparities that persist across regions and communities, the urgent need to champion grassroots empowerment and safeguard the rights…
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