Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

New Publications

Asia after Europe

Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century

A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.

The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of Asia. Asia after Europe is a bold new interpretation of the period, focusing on the conflicting and overlapping ways in which Asians have conceived their bonds and their roles in the world. Tracking the circulation of ideas and people across colonial and national borders, Sugata Bose explores developments in Asian thought, art, and politics that defied Euro-American models and defined Asianness as a locus of solidarity for all humanity.

His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire

Sugata Bose, his Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Biography

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.

All Publications

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy 4th Edition.

Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, Modern South Asia provides a challenging insight for those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries.

Oceanic Islam: Muslim Universalism and European Imperialism

The Indian Ocean interregional arena is a space of vital economic and strategic importance characterized by specialized flows of capital and labor, skills and services, and ideas and culture. Islam in particular and religiously informed universalism in general once signified cosmopolitanism across this wide realm.