10 Facts About Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay was born on 7 July 1952 and is an Indian historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay was awarded a doctorate at the University of Calcutta.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is married to Srilekha Bandyopadhyay and lives in Wellington with his wife.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and was the founding director of the New Zealand India Research Institute.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has taught at the Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, University of Kalyani, and the University of Calcutta.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay was the first recipient of the Charles Wallace Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for South Asian Studies, SOAS University of London.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has held visiting fellowships at the University of Chicago, National University of Singapore, International Institute for Asian Studies, Curtin University, Australian National University and Rabindra Bharati University.

From 2009 to 2010, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay served as the President of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society and currently co-edits its journal, the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies.

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay has been a recipient of a Marsden grant of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Since 2021, the Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Prize has been awarded annually by the Department of History at Victoria University of Wellington to the student submitting the best essay or thesis on an aspect of Indian history or the history of colonialism or nationalism.