Aritra Chakraborty

Assistant Professor and Head of the Department

B.Sc Geography (Calcutta, 2002)

M.A. Geography (J.N.U, 2004)

M.Phil (J.N.U, 2007)

P.hD (Calcutta, 2017)

After my masters in JNU with regional development as my specialization, I did my M.Phil. in urbanisation, and was appointed in erstwhile Presidency College in 2006. Then I joined in Presidency University in 2014. I completed my PhD in the fields of electoral Geography in 2017. 

I did my M.Phil on urban infrastructure. I also attended many seminars and conferences where I presented papers on languages, railway infrastructure, politics, ethnicity and urbanisation. My PhD was on electoral geography of West Bengal. Presently I'm working on political geography, urban geography as well as in the fields of social geography. 

I have reasonable administrative experience. Ranging from duties of various committees in administration (like admission, examination coordinator, election commissioner, board of studies etc.)

For the past eighteen years I'm teaching undergraduate and post graduate students. Presently I teach Cartography, Regional Planning and Development and Political Geography in undergraduate level and courses like Urbanization, Social Geography, Political Economy and Geopolitics in post graduate level. I also teach quantitative techniques and statistics in both undergraduate as well as post graduate levels.

Previously I also used to teach Geotectonics, Philosophy of Geography, Soil Geography, Population Geography and Climatology in UG and PG levels.

I'm interested to supervise students on regional and urban planning as well as in issues of development studies. I'm also very much interested to supervise in the fields of social and political geography as well as geopolitics and political economy. 

Currently I have three PhD students, all of them are registered in Presidency University:

1. Chandrasekhar Sarkar (Title: “Implementation of Multidimensional Poverty Reduction Programmes in Rural Areas of North 24 Parganas and Puruliya Districts.)

2. Soumyajit Halder (Title: Ethnicizing Politics and Politicising Ethnicity: A Study of Matua and Rajbangsi Community in West Bengal)

3. Suteertha Samanta (Title: Electoral Dynamics of Rural Areas of South-Western West Bengal Between 2019 and 2024)

1. Memeber, Regional Science Association of India Kolkata 07-10-2008 - Till Date

2. Member Geographical Society of India Kolkata 11-01-2008 - Till date

1.       Chakraborty, A. (2012). Structural epistemology and its perspectives in Geography. Geographical Review of India, 74(2)

2.       Chakraborty, A. (2013). Nature of linguistic diversity and language concentration in India. Indian Journal of Regional Science. 45(2)

3.       Chakraborty, A. (2015). Analysis of railway infrastructure in India. Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, 1(2)

4.       Karmakar, D., Chakraborty, A. & Roychowdhury, K. (2019). Land use, planning and management an integrated planning approach around Highland Park, Kolkata. International Journal of Integrated Research and Development, 2

5.       Chakraborty, A. (2019). Delimitation of wards in Kolkata municipal areas: A voter population approach. Indian Journal of Regional Science, , Article . 

6.       Dey,Chaitali. & Chakraborty, A. (2019). Water logging problem of South Dumdum municipal area. Geographical Review of India, 81(3)

7.       Chakraborty, A. (2020). Fall of the invincible: Last days of the Left Front in West Bengal. Lambert Academic Publishing

8.       Sarkar,C.S. & Chakraborty,A. (2021). Historical trend of cyclone over the Bay of Bengal and people’s perception about coping with cyclone in Kakdwip block of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, 12(7), Article . doi:https://www.tojqi.net/index.php/journal/article/view/4214

9.       Sarkar, C.S. & Chakraborty, A (2021). Comparative study of male female disparity in literacy of Purulia and North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. Psychology and Education, 58(2), Article. doi:http://psychologyandeducation.net/pae/index.php/pae/article/view/1055

10.   Sarkar,C.S. and Chakraborty,A. (2021). Community Perception about Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies in Kakdwip Block of the Indian Sundarban Region. International Journal of Aquatic Science, 12(2), Article. doi:http://www.journal-aquaticscience.com/article_136522.html

11.   Sarkar, C.S. & Chakraborty, A. (2021). Block-level socio-economic development status in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Annals of R.S.C.B, 25(6), Article. doi:https://annalsofrscb.ro/index.php/journal/article/view/8084

12.   Sarkar, C.S. & Chakraborty, A. (2021). Block-level socio-economic deprivation and development status in Purulia district of West Bengal. Wesleyan Journal of Research, 14(3)

13.   Sarkar, C.S. & Chakraborty, A. (2022). Analysis of temperature and rainfall trend in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal (1988-2017). International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 12(9), Article. doi:https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0922.php?rp=P12912412

14.   Chakraborty,A. (2022). Evolution of a Political Landscape-Revolution to Consolidation and Beyond. In S.Bandyopadhyay (Eds.), Kolkata – The Colonial City in Transition; Reflections in Geographies of Urban India (pp. 127-145). New York: Routledge.

15.   Samanta, S. & Chakraborty, A. (2024). Empowering women through welfare schemes of Government of West Bengal: A study of Manteswar block in West Bengal. South India Journal of Social Sciences, 22(1), 82-93. doi: https://doi.org/10.62656/SIJSS.v22i1.188