Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya

Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya contributed to Quest, the journal of ideas sponsored by the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, appearing in 5 issues of the archive’s run (No. 32 (JAN./MAR. 1962 (front cover dates the issue ‘winter 1961-‘62’) to No. 40 (No. , JAN./MAR. 1964 (contents page); cover dates the same issue ‘winter 1963-64’; price rupees 1.25)).

Quest’s contributor note in No. 32 (JAN./MAR. 1962 (front cover dates the issue ‘winter 1961-‘62’), p. 93 reads:

Prof. J. BANDYOPADHYAYA is a professor of International Relations, Jadavpur University.

Quest’s contributor note in No. 37 (APRIL/JUNE 1963 (contents page); cover dated ‘spring 1963’), p. 111 reads:

JAYANTANUJA BANDYOPADHYAYA left an important post in the Foreign Service of the Union Government to join politics as a member of the Praja Socialist Party and to join Jadavpur University as a lecturer in the department of International Relations. He has almost completed his doctoral thesis on the impact of international communism on Indian politics.