Sugata Bose

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 taught at Tufts University until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard 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, 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).

Sugata Bose
Bose in 2015
Born (1956-09-07) 7 September 1956
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta (B.A.)
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Occupation(s)Historian; Member of parliament from Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal
EmployerHarvard University
Notable workA Hundred Horizons, His Majesty's Opponent
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
SpouseAyesha Jalal
Parent(s)Krishna Bose, Sisir Kumar Bose
Websitewww.sugatabose.com
Sugata Bose
Member of Parliament
for Jadavpur
In office
2014–2019
Preceded byKabir Suman
Succeeded byMimi Chakraborty

From 2014 to 2019, 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 (TMC).

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