Antu Saha (University of Delhi)

Dr. Antu Saha, PhD
c/o Prof. Subhadra Channa
Department of Anthropology
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007, INDIA

phone: 91/93/1236-5127
email: sahaantu@gmail.com

Desctiption of work:

Dr. Antu Saha did his undergraduate and post graduation from University of 
Delhi and was awarded the doctorate degree by the Department of 
Anthropology in 2007. He received the prestigious Nehru Fellowship 
(awarded by the Indian state) in 2002 for his doctoral research and was 
also selected for ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research) 
doctoral fellowship in the year 2003. Dr. Saha has been participating in 
numerous seminars, both national and international, on border issues and 
syncretic identities and his papers have been highly acclaimed. Presently 
he is associated with the Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi 
as a researcher.

Publication:

Book

Saha, Antu. 2006. "An Anthropologist in FOCUS". In Focus on Children Under
Six: Abridged Report December, 2006. Delhi: Mensa. 

Saha, Antu. 2007. Ethnic Identity and the Religion in the India-Bangladesh
Borderlands. Mellen Press: New York.

Paper Presented

A review of Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life" 
in a research seminar organized by Department Research group, Department 
ofAnthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Date: 11th January 
2007.

An academic paper title, "Border Economy and Ongoing Cultural Continuity: 
A Reference to Indo-Bangla Border" was read in Second Indian 
Anthropological Congress, organized by Indian National Confederation and 
Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA) in Pune Univeristy, Pune, India, 21st 
-23rd February, 2007.

An academic paper title, "Cultural Syncretism and National Identities: A 
Case Study on the border land of Indo-Bangla" was read in an international 
conference on "DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY AND PLURALISM IN SOUTH ASIA" 
organized by Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru 
University, Funded by Ford Foundation in Indian International Centre, New 
Delhi, May 1st -2nd, 2007.