Parikshit Thakur (Ph.d)

About

Dr. Parikshit Thakur (b.1986) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in Dwijendralal College and guest faculty in Post Graduate Department of Political Science, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata. He has been recipient of Charles Wallace India Trust Short Term Research Grant in 2014, completed Research Projects sponsored University Grants Commission(2014-2016) of India and Indian Council of Historical Research . He has published two edited volumes, one monograph, fifteen articles and book chapters and recently working on major research project on blue economy sponsored by Indian Council for Social Science Research . His article titled ‘ Searching ‘Civility’ of the ‘Uncivil’: Mapping the Theoretical Roots of Civil Society and Its Research in India’, Vol 20 No 3, India Review .

Employment

• Dwijendralal College Assistant Professor Stage II
  2016 - 2022
• Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women's College Assistant Professor
  2010 - 2016

Education

• Jadavpur University Phd
  2012 - 2019

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (2)

• The Metropolis and the Methars: The Struggle for Wage of Manual Scavengers in Colonial Calcutta
  Contemporary Voice of Dalit 2023 1 citation DOI: 10.1177/2455328X231198707
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• Searching “civility” of the “uncivil”: mapping the theoretical understanding of civil society and its research in India
  India Review 2021 1 citation DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2020.1855013
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