Administration
It is financed primarily by grants from the ICSSR, New Delhi, the Government of India, and the Government of West Bengal. It has full academic autonomy. The present Chairman of the Board of Governors is Professor Amitava Bose, Professor and Former Director Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. The other members of the Board include the Director, Member Secretary of the ICSSR, Higher Education Secretary of the Government of West Bengal, Vice-Chancellors of premier universities of West Bengal, especially the University of Calcutta, one eminent academic and senior Professors of the Centre. The present Director is Professor Sugata Marjit. The Registrar is the head of the administration.
Some of the eminent former chairmen of the Centre were Prof. Bhabatosh Dutta, Padma Vibhushan who has been mentioned earlier, Prof. Andre Béteille, Padma Bhushan, former Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, and Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, former Chairman, Indian Council for Historical Research, Delhi and Professor (retd.), Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The Directors of the Centre have been some of the most eminent academics of modern India. Most of them have been ex-officio advisers to the Government of India or the Government of West Bengal.
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