Bose's field of specialization is modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His books include His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) and A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.) In A Hundred Horizons, Bose crosses area studies and disciplinary frontiers as he bridges the domains of political economy and culture. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997.

Selected Publications

• His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011)
• A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire Harvard University Press (2006)
• Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy with Ayesha Jalal (2004, 2011)
• Nationalism, Democracy and Development with Ayesha Jalal (1997)
• Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India (1994)
• Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital in The New Cambridge History of India series
  (1993)
• South Asia and World Capitalism (1990)
• Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics in Cambridge University Press (1986)

Contact Info

Center for Government and International Studies-South Building

Room S436

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

sbose@fas.harvard.edu

617.384.7683

 

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