Human Rights in the Context of Caste, Class and Gender in India

Sailen Debnath, M.A., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Alipurduar College, has been engrossed in the studies of the history of ideas and intellectual history of India and Europe as well as of the history of Bengal and North Bengal for the last twenty-five years. He has authored pioneering books namely (1) 'The Meanings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Myths', (Rupa & Co, New Delhi.); (2) ‘Secularism: Western and lndian’, (Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi); (3) ‘Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: His Philosophy, Political Thought and Contribution’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (4) ‘Human Rights in the Context of Caste, Class and Gender in India’ (Abhijeet Publications, New Delhi); (5) ‘The Dooars in Historical Transition’, (NL Publications); (6) ‘Essays on Cultural History of North Bengal’, (NL Publications), (7) ‘West Bengal in Doldrums’, (NL Publications), including an edited book, ‘Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal Since 1947’.