16 Facts About Sugata Bose

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Sugata Bose was born on 7 September 1956 and is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s.

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Sugata Bose is the author most recently of His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Sugata Bose and India's Struggle against Empire and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.

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From 2014 to 2019, Sugata Bose has served as a Member of India's Parliament from the Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal with his party affiliation in Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress.

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In 2001 Sugata Bose was appointed to the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University, a position that had lain vacant for almost two decades, one which had been previously occupied by historians of the Western Hemisphere, but one for which Harvard specifically wanted a historian of South Asia.

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From 2003 to 2010, Sugata Bose headed up the university's South Asia initiative as well as the graduate program in the history department.

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The book has been criticised for its optimistic speculations on what Subhas Sugata Bose might have accomplished had he lived.

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Sugata Bose is the author and editor of books on the economic, social and political history of modern South Asia.

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Sugata Bose was a Trinamool Congress MP at the 16th Lok Sabha, representing the Jadavpur constituency.

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In January 2012, Sugata Bose joined New Yorker editor David Remnick, former New York Times editor Joseph Lelyveld and journalist Peter Popham at the sixth Jaipur Literature Festival in a panel on the challenges of biographical writing.

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Sugata Bose has been active in researching, speaking, and publishing on Rabindranath Tagore, contributing to projects across different media.

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In 2007, Krishna and Sugata Bose co-edited Purabi: the East in its Feminine Gender, a book and CD of Tagore's poetry and music.

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Sugata Bose has produced a four-CD set of Tagore's songs written outside of India as Visva Yatri Rabindranath, and has lectured widely on Tagore in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Beyond his work at Harvard and Tufts, Sugata Bose has helped steer two major projects advancing higher education in India.

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Since 2007, Sugata Bose has been a member of the Government of India's Nalanda Mentor Group, which seeks to establish an international university on the site of the ancient University of Nalanda in Bihar.

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Since 2011, Sugata Bose has served as chairman of the Presidency College Mentor Group, which seeks to revitalise the 194-year-old Kolkata college.

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Sugata Bose served on the Social Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009, and the Humanities jury in 2015 and 2016.