Apurba Kundu (University of Bradford)

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Dr. Apurba Kundu                               
Lecturer in South Asian Area Studies 
Department of Social and Economic Studies 
University of Bradford 
Bradford BD7 1DP  
UNITED KINGDOM 

phone: +44-(0)1274-38-5046
fax:   +44-(0)1274-38-5295 
email: a.kundu@bradford.ac.uk
url:   http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/ses/acadak.htm

Qualifications: BA Leeds, MA Johns Hopkins, PhD London (LSE)

Research interests: 

- Third World/South Asian Politics
- South Asian Diaspora
- Civil-Military Relations and Coup Prediction Theory
- History and Development of the Indian Armed Forces
- Media and Ethnic Minorities
- Information Technology
- My full curriculum vitae is on the web (but available by request only).

Recent seminar presentations: 

- 'Why No Coup d'etat in India? The Views of Indian Commissioned
Officers', British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference
(BCHE, Bath) 11-13 April 1997. 

- 'Hinduism versus Islam as a Factor in Precipitating a Military Coup
d'etat: The Views of Indian Commissioned Officers', Doctoral Colloquium,
Sudasien-Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat (Heidelberg) 14 November
1996. 

- 'Indian Officers and the Emergency, 1975-77', Political Studies
Association Annual Conference (University of Glasgow) 10-12 April 1996. 

Recent publications: 

- MILITARISM IN INDIA: THE ARMED FORCES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN CONSENSUS
(London: I.B. Tauris, forthcoming Spring 1998).

- 'Commissioned Officers in India and the Emergency, 1975-1977',
CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL STUDIES 1996: VOLUME 1 (Belfast: The Political
Studies Association of the United Kingdom, 1996). 

- ERaM Programme Bibliographies: 'Books, 1990 to Today' and 'Articles,
1990 to Today', ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 5:2&3, 1995; and
NATION OF IMMIGRANTS: RESOURCE AND REFERENCE LIST (North Bay, Ontario: The
Canadian Centre for Social Justice) June 1996. 

Other: 

- Convenor, ERaM (Ethnicity, Racism and the Media) Programme

- Editor, SASRF (South Asian Social Researchers' Forum) NEWSLETTER

- Managing Editor, CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA

- Member: 
   Amnesty International British Section
   Amnesty International Urgent Action Network 
   Association for Asian Studies
   British Association of South Asian Studies   
   Institute for Commonwealth Studies
   Steering Committee, South Asian Social Researchers' Forum 

- Occasional contemporary fiction reviewer, TELEGRAPH & ARGUS (Bradford).

- WWW Information Provider/Webmaster for:
   British Association of South Asian Studies
   Contemporary South Asia: 'Book Received'
   ERaM (Ethnicity, Racism and the Media) Programme
   Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Unit
   South Asian Social Researchers' Forum
   University of Bradford Department of Social and Economic Studies