Mr. Satanik Pal

PhD. Candidate

Satanik Pal, hailing from Kolkata, India, holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of Calcutta and Presidency University, respectively. He earned his Lectureship and Junior Research Fellowship from the Government of India in 2015. Transitioning to academia, he served as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the West Bengal Education Service, resigning in 2020 to pursue his research interests. Currently, he is a Doctoral Candidate in the Comparative Asian Studies Programme at NUS, his focus lies on comparing early modern Bengali and Japanese caste systems, reflected in his published articles. At the core of his drive to conduct research is the desire to demonstrate that humans are essentially similar, regardless of their vast cultural dissimilarities. Particularly, the aspect of caste, a product of colonial orientalism, is something found in complex societies worldwide.