Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose সুগত বসু
Sugata Bose speaks at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 30 April 2011
Native name	Sugata Bose
Born	(1956-09-07) 7 September 1956 (age 60) Kolkata, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata University of Cambridge
Occupation	Historian
Employer	Harvard University
Notable work	A Hundred Horizons, His Majesty's Opponent
Parent(s)	Krishna Bose, Sisir Kumar Bose www.sugatabose.com

Krishna Bose, Sisir Kumar Bose

Sugata Bose (Bengali: সুগত বসু; 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).

Since 2014, Bose has served as a Member of India's Parliament from the Jadavpur Constituency in West Bengal.

Sugata Bose was born in Calcutta, India. After studying at Presidency College, Kolkata, Bose subsequently completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge before being named a Fellow of St. Catharine's College at Cambridge.

The grandnephew of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose and grandson of nationalist Sarat Chandra Bose, Bose is the son of former Trinamool Congress parliamentarian Krishna Bose and paediatrician Sisir Kumar Bose. Bose's brother, Sumantra Bose, teaches at the London School of Economics; his sister, Sarmila Bose, is a researcher at Oxford University.