Sailen Debnath

Sailen Debnath, M.A., Ph.D., Head of the Department of History, Alipurduar College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, has been engrossed in the studies of the history of ideas and intellectual history of India and Europe for the last twenty years. As a Junior Research Fellow he carried out a research work on the Ideological Perspectives of the Indian Nationalist Movement. He has authored several books, namely West Bengal in Doldrums, A Compendium of Gandhism, The Meanings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses and Myths and The Cultural History of North Bengal. He has also edited a book entitled Social and Political Tensions in North Bengal Since 1947 sponsored by the UGC.