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).
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Bose in 2015 | |
| Born | 7 September 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta (B.A.) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian; Member of parliament from Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal |
| Employer | Harvard University |
| Notable work | A Hundred Horizons, His Majesty's Opponent |
| Political party | All India 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 2014–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Kabir Suman |
| Succeeded by | Mimi 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).