Prof.
Debashish
Banerji

Debashish Banerji, PhD is Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophy and Culture and Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also the program chair in the East‐West Psychology department. Professor Banerji obtained his PhD in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles on the topic of art and nationalism in India by focusing on the life and work of the artist Abanindranath Tagore, one of the founders of modern Indian art. He served as Professor of Indian Studies and Dean of Academics at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles. He has taught as adjunct faculty in Art History at the Pasadena City College, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Irvine. From 2005‐2009, he was the Director of the International Center for Integral Studies in New Delhi, India, an online graduate academic institution which he took through accreditation under the Indira Gandhi National Open University system. From 1992‐2006, Banerji served as the president of the East‐West Cultural Center, Los Angeles, an institution dedicated to academic research and presentation of Indian philosophy and culture in the US. He is presently the Executive Director of Nalanda International based in Los Angeles. Banerji has curated a number of exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art. He has edited a book on the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and is the author of two books: The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (Sage, 2010) and Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformational Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (DK Printworld and Nalanda International, 2012).