Professor Suranjan Das, is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Adamas University Kolkata, which he joined on 01 June 2023 after serving Jadavpur University as Vice-Chancellor from 16th July, 2015 to 31st May 2023. He was earlier Professor of History at the University of Calcutta and served the same University as its ViceChancellor for the period between 2008 and 2015. Professor Das is also Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. A graduate of Presidency College, Kolkata, Professor Das has a distinguished academic record -- securing First Class First positions in BA (History Honours) and MA (History) of the University of Calcutta and D.Phil. degree of Oxford University. He specialises in South Asian History and Politics, especially identity politics, socio-cultural transformation and nationbuilding. He has authored six monographs, co-authored four books, co-edited six volumes, edited two volumes, and published thirty-four articles in refereed journals and edited volumes, which are widely cited. He has been associated with research projects funded by such international bodies as the British Council, Wellcome Trust, Leverhume Foundation and Frederick Stiftung. He was a recipient of the USIS International Visitorship Programme. He successfully completed prestigious collaborative projects with two British institutions: one with King’s College London, on ‘Mapping Domestic Drivers of Indian Foreign Policy’ and the other with the University of Hull on ‘From Periphery to the Centre: Federalization of the Indian Foreign Policy Making process’. Professor Das was a Distinguished Fellow, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, Honorary Professor at the Hull University, a Visiting Professor of the British Academy in 2000 and a Visiting Scholar, among others at the Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme (Paris), Mershon Centre of Ohio State University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign and the Oxford Brookes University. He was President of Modern India Section of the Indian History Congress (2003) and the General President of the Punjab History Congress for the 2014 session. He is a recipient of many national and international awards and fellowships. Professor Das has served in policy formulation bodies concerned with higher education in India like the University Grants Commission, and Indian Council of Historical Research. He was ViceChairman, Board of Trustees of Indian Museum, Kolkata, member of the Executive Committee of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, member of the Governing Council, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, member of the Executive Council of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bengaluru, and member of the Executive Council of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. He is a member of the Higher Education Council of West Bengal.