Subrata K. Mitra

Subrata Kumar Mitra (born 16 June 1949 in Orissa India, naturalized French) was Director and Research Professor at the Institute for South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore till May 20, 2018. Currently Emeritus at the University of Heidelberg. Subrata Mitra is Professor Emeritus of Political Science of South Asia at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Heidelberg. He was previously Head of the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute (University of Heidelberg) and was elected the South Asia Institute’s director for a term from 2002 to 2004. Professor Mitra previously taught at the University of Hull (England), University of Nottingham and University of California, Berkeley. He has also held appointments at the Indian Council for Social Science Research (New Delhi), as well as at the Institut Français d’Opinion Public (Paris). Professor Mitra is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi) and from 2002 until 2006 he was the President of the joint Research Committee on Political Sociology of the International Political Science Association and the International Sociological Association. In 2004, Mitra was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his commitment to promoting cultural exchange between France and Germany.