Sugata Bose (Harvard University)
Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs and the head of the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University. His main areas of research are modern South Asia and the history of the Indian Ocean region. Among his many publications are Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (Routledge, 2004; with Ayesha Jalal), and Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947 (1986). His current project, titled Empire and Culture on the Indian Ocean Rim, will soon be published by Harvard University Press. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1997.