Academics
The Centre is a multi-disciplinary consortium of junior and senior scholars. It runs the Research Training Programme (RTP) for M.Phil. level students. Ph.D. students of the University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University are also associated with it. The Centre has always had a strong faculty, boasting of several very well known and internationally renowned scholars. Some of the former members of its faculty have completed books and novels at the Centre that are extremely well known. For example, Amitav Ghosh completed the writing of his novel In An Antique Land while he was a Fellow of the CSSSC.
The CSSSC has regularly organised and published the R.C.Dutt Memorial Lecture in economics and S.G.Deuskar Lecture in history. Some of the eminent scholars who have been invited to deliver the R.C.Dutt Lecture include (in the order of last speaker first):
- Ravi Kanbur
- Debraj Ray
- Abhijit Banerjee
- Dilip Mookherjee
- Kaushik Basu
- Gita Sen
- Sunanda Sen
- Deepak Nayyar
- Pravin Visaria
- N. Krishnaji
- C.T. Kurien
- Prabhat Patnaik
- Krishna Bhardwaj
Some of the eminent scholars who have delivered the S.G.Deuskar Lecture include:
- Susie Tharu
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Sanjay Subrahmanyam
- Gulammohammed Sheikh
- Veena Das
- Gyanendra Pandey
- Muzaffar Alam
- Sudipta Kaviraj
- K.G. Subramanyam
- Madhav Gadgil
- Tapan Raychaudhuri
- Satish Chandra
- Irfan Habib
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