Some of the thrust areas of research in the department are:

  • Political Theory
  • Political Thought – Indian and Western
  • Indian Politics and Government
  • Politics of West Bengal
  • Indian Constitution
  • Foreign Governments
  • International Relations
  • Area Studies
  • Indian Foreign Policy
  • American and Japanese Foreign Policy
  • Comparative Politics
  • Political Sociology
  • Public Administration
  • Migration and Displacement
  • Identity Politics
  • Peace Studies

Faculty members are engaged in research in the following areas:

  • Post Structuralist Critique of Naxalism
  • State and Society: Gandhi and Tagore
  • India-U.S. Relations in the First Decade of the New Century
  • Politics of the Kukis of the North East
  • Internal Conflicts of South Asia
  • India’s Look East Policy: An Appraisal
  • Evolving Regional Security in the Asia Pacific

How to Find Us

Presidency University
(Main Campus)

86/1 College Street
Kolkata 700073

Presidency University
(2nd Campus)

Plot No. DG/02/02,
Premises No. 14-0358, Action Area-ID
New Town
(Near Biswa Bangla Convention Centre)
Kolkata-700156
Contact details Presidency University Students Corner

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