Maidul Islam

Biography

Maidul Islam is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Previously, he has taught Political Science at Presidency University, Kolkata and at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He was also a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. As a Clarendon-Hector Pilling-Senior Hulme scholar at Brasenose College, he studied political theory for his doctoral studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. His research interests are in political theory, political ideologies, populism, identity politics, Indian Muslims, contemporary West Bengal and Bangladesh. As a political analyst, he also appears for Bengali news channels and occasionally gives expert opinions on Indian politics, West Bengal politics and terrorism to various national and international media houses. His doctoral thesis at Oxford University has been published as Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Research Interest

Political theory, political ideologies, populism, identity politics, Indian Muslims, contemporary West Bengal and Bangladesh