Some of the thrust areas of research in the department are:

• Political Theory
• Political Thought – Indian and Western
• Indian Politics and Government
• Politics of West Bengal
• Indian Constitution
• Foreign Governments
• International Relations
• Area Studies
• Indian Foreign Policy
• American and Japanese Foreign Policy
• Comparative Politics
• Political Sociology
• Public Administration
• Migration and Displacement
• Identity Politics
• Peace Studies

Faculty members are engaged in research in the following areas:

• Post Structuralist Critique of Naxalism
• State and Society: Gandhi and Tagore
• India-U.S. Relations in the First Decade of the New Century
• Politics of the Kukis of the North East
• Internal Conflicts of South Asia
• India’s Look East Policy: An Appraisal
• Evolving Regional Security in the Asia Pacific