Biswajit Mohanty is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi and Delhi co-ordinator of NES 2009. He has completed his doctoral research on politics of rehabilitation with the Indravati hydroelectric project in Orissa as a case study. He is currently engaged in a two year UGC sponsored Major Research Project on Empirico-Interpretative study of the General Elections 2009.
Educational Qualifications:
- Ph D, Political Science, University of Delhi
- Politics of Rehabilitation: A Case Study of the Indravati Project
- M Phil, Political Science, University of Delhi
- Displacement and Rights of People: A case Study of the Indravati Project
- M A, Political Science, University of Delhi
- B.A. Political Science, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi
Publications
- Biswajit Mohanty Citizenship, Nationalism and Refugeehood of Rohingyas in Southern Asia Springer (Forthcoming)
- Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) What Swayed the Delhi Voters towards BJP? Economic and Political Weekly, vol 54 no 32, 10 August, Pp 10-12
- Biswajit Mohanty and Shreyas Sardesai (2017) “Mapping BJP Victory through AAP’s Prism,” in edited by Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjay Lodha, Electoral Politics in India: The Resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Delhi, Routledge
- Biswajit Mohanty (2014) Delhi Elections: Mandate for Policy Consonance in Party Competition in Indian States: Electoral Politics in Post-Congress Polity Edited by Suhas Palshikar, K C Suri, and Yogendra Yadav, Oxford, Delhi
- Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) “Ecologic Border and Deterritorialisation” in Nasir Uddin and Nasreen Chowdhory eds. Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia, Singapore, Springer. Pp. 113-132
- Biswajit Mohanty (2016) "Recounting double exception in Kalinganagar"International Journal for Border and Migration Studies International Journal for Border and Migration Studies Vol 2 number 2
- Biswajit Mohanty (2014) Delhi 2014: AAP Mistakes Enabled BJP's Clean Sweep, Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 22, number 2, pp 86-94
- Biswajit Mohanty (2009) "Delhi Elections — The 'Local' Matters", Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 44, No. 39 September 26-October 2, 2009, pp. 174-177
- Biswajit Mohanty (2005) "Beyond Specularity" Journal of Literary and Critical Writings, Vol 18, no 1 Jan-June, pp 99-110
- Biswajit Mohanty (2005) Annotated Bibliography on Governance, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi
News paper articles
- Shreyas Sardesai and Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) “Capital Worry: Pollution” The Indian Express, December 10 https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/capital-worry-pollution-delhi-assembly-elections-aam-aadmi-party-6158923/
- Shreyas Sardesai and Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) “ Delhi Governance Survey: Testing the Twin Pillars of Health and Education ”, The Indian Express, December 11 https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-governance-survey-testing-the-twin-pillars-of-health-and-education-6160608/
- Shreyas Sardesai and Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) “ Bijli, Pani, Road to Polls ” The Indian Express, December 12 https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-governance-survey-bijli-paani-road-to-polls-6162592/
- Shreyas Sardesai and Biswajit Mohanty, (2019) “ Delhi Commuters as Voters”, The Indian Express, December 13 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/delhi-commuters-as-voters-metro-bus-women-6164369/
- Biswajit Mohanty (2019)”Horses for Courses: Choices Differ for Assembly, Lok Sabha in Delhi, the Hindu, May 30 https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha-2019/post-poll-survey-horses-for-courses-choices-differ-for-assembly-lok-sabha-in-delhi/article27298428.ece
- Biswajit Mohanty and Jyoti Mishra, (2015) “Among Factors that Decided one's Vote, CM preference was often the Clincher,” Indian Express, February 12 https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/among-factors-that-decided-ones-vote-cm-preference-was-often-the-clincher/
- Biswajit Mohanty, (2014) Delhi: AAP's Debacle Scripted BJP's Clean Sweep, The Hindu, May 25 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/delhi-aaps-debacle-scripted-bjps-clean-sweep/article6045238.ece
Papers presented and Chair in International Conferences
- Understanding Transitionality Among Climate Migrants, Hugo Conference, University of Liege, Belgium 2016
- Reconceptualising Border, Association of Borderland Studies, University of Vienna, 2018
- Border and Urbanisation: A Case Study of Amritsar City, Association of Borderland Studies, University of Vienna, 2018
- Media Representation of Rohingyas, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 2018
- Belonging and Place: The making of Ecologic Border, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2018
- The Making of Ecologic Border, Association of Borderland Studies, San Diego, 2019
- Portrayal of Rohingya Refugees in the Indian Television, Calcutta Research Group, Nov 25-29, 2019, Kolkata
Chaired
- Session 14A7 titled Border Cities - Cities at Borders , on 14 July 2018, Central European University, Budapest
- Session on Refugees/IDPs in South/South East Asia, Thursday July 26, 2018 in IASFM 2018, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Research Projects
Major Projects
- 2009-11: Major Research Project on Election Studies sponsored by the University of Grants Commission
Minor Projects
- 2013-14: Researched for Liverhulme Project, University of Edinburg, on Comparative Federalism
- 2007-08: Part of Circular Migration Studies team to prepare a scoping report on Orissa and Bihar sponsored by USAID
- 2005-06: As a consultant of Drivers of Change Project in Odisha for GHK International with Professor Richard Slater, University of Birmingham
Fellowship
- 1995-98: ICSSR doctoral fellowship
- 2004-2005: Institute of Lifelong Learning Fellowship, University of Delhi
Research Supervision
Ph D
- Amanpreet Singh: Political Discourses from the Periphery of Electoral Politics: A Case Study of Non-Congress Formations and their Narratives at Margin in Punjab (Awarded 2015)
- Rajeev M: Changing Circumstances of Tibetan Refugees in Nepal 1990-2012 (Awarded 2018)
- Ajit Kumar: Role of Police in the Maintenance of the Rule of Law and Prevention of Crimes in the Delhi Slum Areas: Some Insights from the Indian Experience in Democratic Governance (Submitted 2017)
- Ranjay Kumar Reddy: The Cultural Characterstics of the Contemporary Indian Middle Class (Submitted in 2017)
- Jaganath Kashyap: Role of Self-Help groups in Political Empowerment of Women in Rural India: A Special Reference to Bihar.(Pursuing)
M Phil
- Mushavaari Hassan: An Exploration of Global Refugee Crises: A Case study of Rohingya (Pursuing)
Membership in Academic bodies
- Member American Political Science Association, USA
- Member International Association of Forced Migration, USA
- Member Western Social Sciences Association, USA
- Member Association of Borderland Studies, Vienna
- Delhi Co-ordinator, CSDS-Lokniti National Election Studies, India
