Sugata Bose
Sugata Bose | |
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Bose in 2015 | |
| Born | 7 September 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta (B.A.) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Occupations | Historian at Harvard University; Member of parliament from Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal (2014-2019) |
| Employer | Harvard University |
| Notable work | A Hundred Horizons, His Majesty's Opponent |
| Political party | Trinamool Congress |
| Spouse | Ayesha Jalal |
| Parent(s) | Krishna Bose, Sisir Kumar Bose |
| Website | www |
Sugata Bose | |
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| Member of Parliament for Jadavpur | |
| In office 16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Kabir Suman |
| Succeeded by | Mimi Chakraborty |
Sugata Bose (born 7 September 1956) is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose is the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at 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. Before taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001, he was a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of History and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Bose is also the director of the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata, India, a research center and archives devoted to the life and work of Bose's great uncle, the Indian nationalist, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose is the author most recently of His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (2011) and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006).
From 2014 to 2019, Bose served as a Member of Parliament (MP) of India, elected to 16th Lok Sabha from the Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal. He was also a Member of the Standing Committee on External Affairs during his tenure as the Member of the Parliament of India.