Sugata Bose

Who is Sugata Bose?

Sugata Bose is an Indian historian whose fields of study are South Asian- and Indian Ocean-history. Bose taught at Tufts University from the mid-1980s until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. Bose is also the Director of the Nataji Research Bureau in Kolkata, India, a research center and archives devoted to the life and work of Bose's great uncle, the Indian nationalist, Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose is the author most recently of His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.