Dr. Bikramjit De

Articles in Scholarly and Peer Reviewed Journals:

1. Amar Jeejabai, in Joydhaak,Crorepatro, Nabobarsho,14 27 April 2020), Current Issue, Pushyibondhu, Bondhukukur, (webzine), (in Bengali)
2. ‘Audrey Truschke, Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth, (New York, Penguin Viking, 2017)’, in Journal of History, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Vol. 33, 2018-19, pp. 223-231, (e-journal)
3. ‘Anita Inder Singh, The Partition of India (New Delhi: National Book Trust, 2006)’, in Journal of History, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, Vol. 32, 2017-2018, pp. 133–148, (e-journal)
4. ‘The Second World War in Bengal, 1939-1945: New Tasks of the Bureaucracy’, in Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. LX, No. 1, 2018, pp. 71–96
5. ‘Democracy at Crossroads in Bengal’, in Bengal Past and Present, Vol. 136, 2017, pp. 71-100
6. ‘Water management in eastern India: a background to the development of irrigation, flood control and the establishment of Damodar Valley Corporation’, in Calcutta Historical Journal, Vol. 31, Part II, July–December 2015
7. ‘Water management in the age of decolonization: an account of the development of the Ganges and Teesta water dispute’ in the Journal of Indian Law Institute, Vol. 56, No. 3, July–September 2014, pp.348–375
8. ‘The Colonial Government’s Role in the Management of Water: A Brief Historical Account of the Cauvery Water Dispute’ in P. Ishwara Bhat, (ed.), Interstate and International Water Disputes, (Lucknow: Eastern Book Company, 2013), pp. 253–274
9. ‘Imperial Governance and the Challenges of War: Management of Foodsupplies, Bengal, 1943–1944’, Studies in History, February 1, 2006, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp.1–43
10. ‘Abuse of Urdu’, in Economic and Political Weekly, 27 Nov.–3 Dec. 2004, Vol. 39, No. 48, pp.5085–5088
11. ‘India, 1947–2003: The Dangers of Communalism and Urdu Education’, in Bibek Debroy et al., (eds.), The India Mosaic: Searching for an Identity (New Delhi: Academic Foundation, 2003), pp. 111–142
12. ‘Maintenance of Order in Early Wartime Bengal, 1939–1942’ in Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 56, (Calcutta: Indian History Congress, 1996), pp. 646–656

Articles in newspapers:

1. ‘The Vajpayee Mystique is Plural’, in Indian Express, New Delhi, 28 April 1998
2. ‘The ‘Anti-Establishment Factor’, in The Pioneer, New Delhi, 18 April 1998
3. ‘Excess Funds’, in The Pioneer, New Delhi, 8 Dec. 1997
4. ‘Dalit Politics’, in The Pioneer, New Delhi, 21 Oct. 1997

For further reference : https://nujs.academia.edu/BDe

Working President of the Organizing Committee of the 5th All India Legal History Congress organized by the Centre for Studies in Legal History of the WBNUJS in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (An Autonomous Body under the Union Ministry of Culture, Government of India), Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research of the Government of India, New Delhi, the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University School of Law, New Delhi and the Indian Association of Legal History, New Delhi from 22nd to 24th March, 2025.

Assistant Coordinator, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Chair for Bengal Renaissance Studies, NUJS, Kolkata, 2015-2016; organised a seminar

1. Legal History entitled “Rules, Laws and Conventions: The Momentous and the Everyday” at the Department of History of the University of Hyderabad from the 23rd to the 24th of February, 2024. The paper presented, on the 24th of February, 2024, was entitled “The Illegality of the Bengal Famine of 1943: A Reappraisal of Policy”
2. ‘Redefining official priorities in Bengal during the Second World War’, US Consulate General Historical Society, Kolkata internal seminar, American Library, American Centre, Cal., 24 August, 2018
3. ‘The Second World War in Bengal, 1939-45: New Tasks of the Bureaucracy’ USCGHK Historical Society, Lincoln Room American Centre, United States Consulate General, Cal., 26 May, 2017
4. ‘The Bengal Famine of 1943-44’, USCGK Historical Society, Lincoln Room, American Centre, United States Consulate General, Cal., 23 September, 2016
5. ‘Secularism in India since Independence’, in Islamic Law class, Emory University Law School, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 11 November, 2013
6. ‘The British and the Colonial State in Bengal’, South Asia Research Group, Department of History, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 8 October, 2013
7. ‘The Role of Rumours in Bengali politics during the Second World War’, paper presented as PRS Presentation, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, 3 March, 1999

1. “Retracing the Historical Roots of the Indian Legal System: The Story of the WBNUJS Legal History Archive”, a lecture delivered at a session entitled “Plenary Talk” of the 5^th All India Legal History Congress, held by the Centre for Studies in Legal History in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (An Autonomous Body under the Union Ministry of Culture, Government of India), Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Social Science Research of the Government of India, New Delhi, the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University School of Law, New Delhi and the Indian Association of Legal History, New Delhi on 24^th March, 2025.
2. A lecture entitled “Introduction to Bengal’s History, Culture, Tradition, Demography and Social Patterns” to IPS Probationers of 76 RR, West Bengal Cadre at Swami Vivekananda State Police Academy, Barrackpore, West Bengal, 30th October, 2024
3. Moderator of a Plenary Session of the 4th All India Legal History Congress held at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University School of Law, Delhi on 7 December, 2023 where Professor Anindita Mukhopadhyay delivered a talk entitled ‘State, Children and Power’
4. Offered the Vote of Thanks at the end of the inaugural session of the three day conference “4th Legal History Congress at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University School of Law” on 6 December, 2023.
5. Delivered a talk at the Legal History Webinar Series – Webinar 1 of the Tamil Nadu National Law University, Tiruchirapalli, entitled “Colonial Rule and Legal Changes in Eighteenth Century Bengal” on 18 August, 2023.
6. Chaired the VIth session entitled ‘Community and emergence of new legal tradition in 75 years and paradigm shift in customary law’ held by the All India Legal History Congress at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal from 1st to 4th September, 2022.
7. Board of Studies meeting for the review of the syllabus prepared by the Assistant Professor of History at the Tamil Nadu National Law University, Trichy, 24 July, 2022 (Online).
8. Faculty Development programme of the TNNLU, Trichy where I was a Resource Person, 29 July, 2022 (Online).
9. Chaired a session in a one day seminar on ‘The Idea of Justice’ held by the TNNLU, Trichy, 20 August, 2022 (Online)
10. ‘Relevance of Legal History in Indian Legal Studies’, ‘Law, Society and History’, All India Legal History Congress, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 14 – 15 February 14-15, 2020
11. ‘The emergence of women’s rights in the national movement’, Rights of Women, One Day Training Programme, Organised by Women’s Studies Centre and Department of Human Rights and Human Development, Supported by National Human Rights Commission, Kabijanani Sarada Sabhakakshya, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 25 April, 2018
12. ‘The Origin of Indian Nationalism with special reference to the Bengal renaissance’, paper presented at the 1st seminar, entitled ‘Law, Tradition, Social Transformation: Contextualizing the Bengal Renaissance’, Session 3, held under the aegis of the Ashutosh Chair, WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta, 13 – 14 March, 2015
13. ‘Water management in the age of decolonization: an account of the development of the Ganges and Teesta water dispute’ at the 75th (Platinum Jubilee Session) of the Indian History Congress, Section VI: Contemporary India, Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 28- 30 December, 2014
14. ‘Laws Governing Interstate and International Water Disputes’, UGC national seminar, NUJS, Cal., 25 – 26 February, 2012
15. ‘The History of the Hindu Code Bill: A Brief Overview’, National Workshop entitled ‘Law for Women: Historical Tradition and Change’ (‘Meyeder Jonye Ain: Aitihasik Parampara O Bibartan’) organized by Pashchim Banga Itihas Samsad, in conjunction with West Bengal Women’s Commission and Nari Charcha Bidya Kendra, Rabindra Bharati University, Cal., 7 December, 2008
16. ‘The Colonial State and its Officials: Limits on Management, 1939-1945’, paper presented under the ICHR Lecture Series, New Delhi, 7 November, 2008
17. ‘A Suspended Constitution: Swaraj Party and Council Politics, 1923-1926’, paper presented at a Faculty Seminar of the NUJS, Calcutta, 2 July, 2004
18. ‘Indian National Movement and Law: The History Overview’, paper presented at a Faculty Seminar of the NUJS, Calcutta, 1 March, 2004
19. ‘The Idea of India: The Challenges of Communalism and the Development of Urdu Language: Problems and Prospects’, paper presented at a seminar entitled ‘Idea of India’, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Delhi, 10 – 11 May, 2003
20. ‘The Challenges of Communalism and the Development of Urdu: Problems and Prospects’, paper presented as the 5 Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture, India International Centre, New Delhi, 3 May, 2003
21. ‘Entitlement, Economic Structure and Governance: Elements in the Aggravation of the Famine of 1943-44’, paper presented at the weekly seminar of the CHS, SSS, JNU, Delhi, 11 February, 2003
22. ‘Imperial Governance and the Challenges of War: The Great Bengal Famine, 1943-1944’, paper presented at an internal seminar organized by the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Cal., 11 February, 2002
23. ‘Aspects of Society and Politics with Special Reference to the Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca in and after the War Years, 1939-1946’, paper presented at a national seminar organized by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta, 11 March, 1997
24. ‘Establishment of Order in Wartime Bengal, 1939-42’, paper presented at the Indian History Congress, Calcutta, Section: Modern India, 56th Session, Rabindra Bharati University, 28 December, 1995

1. Legal History I
2. Legal History II
3. Advanced Constitutional History
4. Indian Legal and Judicial Systems
5. Law and the Colonial State in India
6. Law and Diplomacy