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Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Prior to taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001, Bose was a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of History and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Bose was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D. His many books include Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (with Ayesha Jalal, 5^th edition 2022), A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006), His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (2011, 10^th anniversary edition 2022), The Nation as Mother and other visions of nationhood (2017) and  Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (2024). He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.

Sugata Bose served as a Member of Parliament in India elected to the 16^th Lok Sabha (2014-2019) representing the Jadavpur constituency in Bengal and throughout that period as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.