[2] Bandyopadhyay was born on 26 December 1962[3] to a Bengali Brahmin family[3] in a village namely 'Batanal' in Hooghly District in the State of West Bengal, India.

His father Late Ram Sankar Banerjee was the headmaster of a government sponsored school in West Bengal.

Dr. Bandyopadhyay has written 13 books and monographs on different subjects and the list includes 'Folk Religion and Mass Culture in Rural Bengal—Tradition and Transformation' (2007), 'Ancestral Cult of Bengal: A Comparative Study' (2011), 'Itihaser Aloy Samakalin Biswa—1945-2013' (in Bengali)[5] etc.

He has been nominated as the honorary member of the presidential board of scientific committee of the prestigious international esd conference.

[2] His recent book is entitled Jihad and Global Terrorism: Ongoing Islam Phobia and Its Coherent Responses which is published in the year of 2015.