Priyankar Dey is a Research & Programme Assistant at CRG. He did his BA and MA from the Presidency College and University of Calcutta respectively and completed his M.Phil in Social Sciences from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has taught history at the Serampore College and the West Bengal State University. Besides migration and displacement, Priyankar’s research interests also include histories of science, technology, medicine and public health; objects and commodities; political economy and economic history of colonial and post-colonial India. At CRG, his ongoing research work tries to explore questions of public health and politics in post-partition Bengal.