Kingshuk Chatterjee

Professor, Department of History, Calcutta University

Contributions

Pezeshkian as President: What Might this Mean for Iran and India

July 15, 2024 Kingshuk Chatterjee

Election for the presidency of the Islamic Republic in Iran has brought into limelight the unlikely figure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who beat the arch-conservative Saeed Jalili in the run-off held on 5th July 2024. Winning by a good nine percentage poin...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, Ebrahim Raisi, Reformist bloc, Hijab laws, 2022 protests, Saeed Jalili

Iran in the Wake of the Death of Ebrahim Raisi

May 27, 2024 Kingshuk Chatterjee

The death of Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent President of Iran, in a tragic accident has lent to feverish speculation as to what could its repercussions be. The general consensus that is emerging seems to be that having made little original contributio...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, West Asia, Article, IRGC, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Mohammad Mokhber

रायसी का राष्ट्रपति बनना और इसके निहितार्थ

August 20, 2021 Kingshuk Chatterjee

इस्लामिक गणराज्य ईरान में राष्ट्रपति पद के लिए हुए चुनाव के परिणाम के बारे में ज्यादातर लोग पह�...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, भारत, चीन, अफगानिस्तान, अमेरिका, तालिबान, दोहा समझौता, इस्लामाबाद

The Raisi Presidency in Iran and its Implications

July 05, 2021 Kingshuk Chatterjee

It is much too early to make out straight away what the well-predicted election of Ebrahim Raisi, the incumbent Chief of Iranian Judiciary, to the Presidency of Islamic Republic of Iran is likely to bode for Iran and the world. Since his election to...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, JCPOA, USA, New Delhi, IRGC, Ebrahim Raisi, Khamenei, resistance economy