About The Resource Person

• Dr. Binayak Sundas
  Binayak Sundas graduated with Honours in history from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University in 2007. He went on to do his post graduation from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2010 and in 2012 he submitted his M. Phil dissertation “Socio-religious developments in Nepal, 13th-19th centuries” in the same Centre. He completed his PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2018. His PhD was entitled “Soldier, Labourer, Agriculturist: Gurkhas in the Northeast frontier, 19th and early 20th centuries” Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Himalayan Studies, an interdisciplinary department focusing on research on the Himalayan region at the University of North Bengal, Siliguri.
• Dr. Amrita Mondal
  Amrita Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of North Bengal. She has received both MPhil and PhD degrees from Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been awarded the prestigious CWIT grant to visit the UK. She has extensively published articles in reputed national and international journals. Her areas of interests are modern Indian history, economic aspect of colonial rule, social and cultural transformation of the nineteenth and twentieth-century Bengal, popular and print culture, history of consumption.
• Dr. Dipty Subba
  Dipty Subba is presently an Assistant Professor and Head in the Department of Education, Southfield College, Darjeeling. She has completed her Education from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal. She has been teaching at the Undergraduate Level for the last 9 years. She has been awarded Ph.D in Education on the theme ‘Democratic Values in Education’. Her areas of interest and research include Value Education, Gender studies, Educational Technology and Management, Women Education, Current trends in Education and Educational Psychology. She has contributed as many as 28 research papers and articles to various National and International Journals and as Book Chapters.
• Dr. Binayak Roy
  Binayak Roy teaches at the Department of English, University of North Bengal. His research interests include The Indian English Novel, Postcolonial Literature, Literary Theory and the Cinema of Satyajit Ray. He has done his Ph.D on the novels of Amitav Ghosh. His papers have been published in journals like Postcolonial Text, South Asian Review, Asiatic, Nordic Journal of English Studies, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, Asian Cinema Journal, Film International, Crossroads, etc. His article “Exploring the Orient from within: Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke” (Postcolonial Text. Vol 9, No. 1, 2014) was included in The Years’ Work of English Studies published by Oxford University Press, 2016.