Prof. Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of History and Director of the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University
Prof. Bose was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and books on modern economic, social and political history. His books include Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics (1986), South Asia and World Capitalism (1990), Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital (1993), Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India (1994), Nationalism, Democracy and Development (1997), Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (1998, 2004), and A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006). Prof. Bose served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and is the founding Director of Harvard's South Asia Initiative. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and delivered the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge. During 2008 he gave the Rajendranath Das Lecture at Berkeley, the keynote lecture at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, and the Gustav Pollak Lecture at Harvard's Kennedy School.