Rakesh Batabyal’s works on Communalism in Bengal from Famine to Noakhali (1943-1947) (Sage 2005), Penguin Book of Modern Indian Speeches (Penguin, 2007) JNU The Making of a University (Harper Collins 2014) and The Modern School (1920-2020): A Century of Schooling in India (Amazon Westland, 2020) are significant contributions to the Institutional and Intellectual History of Modern India . The Inaugural India Chair at Tokyo University, Rakesh Batabyal has a diploma in Romanian Language and Civilisation from Bucharest University and contributes to discussions on the contemporary history of East and Central Europe in Europe and India. He organised the centenary conference for Mircea Eliade in 2007 and was invited to the Thirty Years Commemoration of the Solidarity Movement in Poland. He presented a Keynote on Democracy and Media at the XI Annual Conference of the Association of Political History at Stockholm in 2024.