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Episode Synopsis "West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 with Prof. Sarthak Bagchi"
In this episode of GV360 Weekly we will be talking to Prof. Sarthak Bagchi, an expert in Indian Politics on West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021. West Bengal is one of the states in the East India. Prof. Bagchi will speak about the West Bengal elections while giving a historical context as well as how the intersections like caste, class, and religion will come to play in deciding the result of the elections. From Indian National Congress (INC) to Left Alliance to Trinamool Congress (TMC) and now perhaps rising power in the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Prof. Bagchi will walk us through the politics of West Bengal in great detail. Prof. Sarthak Bagchi's bio Prof. Sarthak Bagchi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. He teaches courses on Democracy, Indian Political Processes and India's democratic transformation. His research is primarily focused on clientelism and patronage politics, comparative politics, Indian state politics, Populism, Informal Politics and Identity Politics. He also writes on politics for general audiences in The Wire, The Indian Express and The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy and appears as a political commentator for television news channel, NDTV india. He has also worked as a journalist with TV news channel, News X, before entering academics. He has previously worked with KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Leiden and Göttingen University, Germany as researcher and post-doctoral researcher respectively. For his doctoral research he worked at the Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University where he conducted a comparative study of patronage politics in the Indian states of Bihar and Maharashtra.
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