Professor Suranjan Das is Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta, and Honorary Director, Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. His publications include Communal Riots in Bengal,1905-1947;Kashmir and Sindh: Nation- Building, Ethnicity and Regional Politics in South Asia; Indo-Uzbek Relations: Past, Present and Future etc. He had been to major institutions of higher learning in Europe and the USA on visiting assignments. He was a British Academy Visiting Professor in January-February 2000.