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For those of you who knew this amazing man..
It is with much shock and sadness that I report the sad news of the death of Professor Anjan Ghosh, in Kolkata (Calcutta), last Saturday morning on June 5 2010. Anjan Ghosh, social scientist and public intellectual, worked at the Centre for Studies in the Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). He was known and revered not only for his scholarship but also for his generous warmth, vivacious conversations and forever helpful nature. He had been diagnosed with leukemia only about a month back and died of a heart-attack at the age of 59 leaving behind his elderly mother, wife Sweta, daughter Ragini, and a large number of friends, colleagues, fellow-activists and students who deeply mourn his untimely demise.
Anjanda - as he was popularly known - graduated in political science from St Xavier's College, Calcutta; he completed his MA and MPhil in sociology from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, before joining CSSSC in the early 1980s. He received his doctorate from the University of Michigan in the mid-1990s. He was a legend at the CSSSC and his vision that academia was a collaborative endeavour inspired numerous researchers to approach with for collaboration with him and the Centre.
His research was in the anthropology and history of informal modes of communication in South Asia, in social inequality and violence, in issues of unequal development and in Postcolonial Social Theory. More recently Anjanda worked on questions around rumor and communal violence in South Asia as well as on urban public culture such as Durga Puja. He published, amongst others, in Economic and Political Weekly, Review, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society, Leftcurve, Journal of Southern African Studies, and edited with Partha Chatterjee History and the Present (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002).
Anjanda was, what one would call, a genial conversation loving anthropologist who always managed to boost the morale of students and colleagues by offering fresh perspectives and new bibliographies to whatever topic one was working on. He was an authority on archival resources and knew many parts of West Bengal and Bangladesh like the back of his hand. With all the enthusiasm that informed his own study, he threw his efforts into combining scholarship with real social engagement, but always retained an endearing sense of self-deprecating humour. His incisive commentaries, the vitality of his projects, his forever generous disposition and the mischievous twinkle in his eyes will be deeply missed by the many thousands who were touched by this unique man.
(for a list of his publications, please click: http://www.cssscal.org/Anjan_Ghosh.html)
Annu Jalais
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