
Arbeitsschwerpunkte
- Transnational revolutionary networks
- Global fascisms
- The Cold War and decolonization
- Historical theory and the historiography of postcolonialism
- The World Wars and interwar political movements
- The intellectual history of ‘development’ in its late colonial, postcolonial and Cold War contexts
- Political rhetoric and standards of political legitimacy
- Global movements of ideas
- Nationalisms and constructions of identity in the colonial and postcolonial world
- Political economy of imperialism and the post-war Commonwealth
- International connections among socialists
- Sectarian conflicts in colonial South Asia
- Social and intellectual history of South Asia
Projektzugehörigkeit
Studium
1994-1999 | Trinity College, University of Cambridge |
1990-1993 | Presidency College, University of Calcutta |
wissenschaftliche Abschlüsse
1995 | MPhil, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge |
1993 | BA (Honours), History, Presidency College, University of Calcutta First Class, ranked first in the University of Calcutta |
Promotion
1999 | PhD, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Titel: ‘Beyond Economics: Ideas of Developing India, c. 1930-1950’; Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn. Examiners: Professor CA Bayly, Professor Sudipta Kaviraj. |
beruflicher Werdegang
10/2013–03/2014 | Indian Council for Cultural Relations Professor of South Asian History, Institut für Orientalistik, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg |
08/2012–06/2013 | Professor of History, Presidency University, Calcutta |
seit 07/2012 | Senior Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe’, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University |
11/2009–02/2010 | Visiting Professor, Indian Ocean Studies, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi |
SoSe 2009 | Visiting Professor of Intellectual History, Heidelberg University, on the programme ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ |
2008–2012 | Reader in South Asian History, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
2008–2012 | Senior Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
08/2001 | Senior Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
01/2001–05/2001 | Lecturer and Tutor in History, University of Sussex |
2001–2008 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in International History, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
01/2000–07/2001 | Lecturer in History, Department of Cultural Studies, University of East London |
1999–2000 | Tutor in Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies |
01/1997–03/1998 | Lecturer and Tutor in History, University of Sussex |
1996–2011 | Visiting Professor, Presidency College, Calcutta |
1993 | Lecturer in History, St Xavier’s College, Calcutta |
Bibliographie im Aufbau
The Developmental Imagination and India: Cold War Remodellings
im Rahmen des "41st Annual Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium", Oxford/Mississippi, 03.-05.03.2016
At the fuzzy edges of fascism: framing the Volk in India
am "Department of History University of California", Irvine, 08.03.2016
The Developmental Imagination and India: Cold War Remodelings
im Rahmen des "Writing Techonoly Event" an der Universität San Diego, San Diego, 10.03.2016
The history of nationalism in India
im Rahmen des Workshops "History as a Political Category", Delhi, 18.-19.04.2016
Global Fascism?
im Rahmen des Workshops "Begriffsgeschichte as Global Concept and Travelling Theory'", Heidelberg, 20.-21.05.2016
The Violence of the State and of Non-State Actors in India
im Rahmen des Workshops "Modalities of State and Political Violence in British India", Exeter, 15.06.2016
The World in a Grain of Sand: Global Histories and Their Framing
im Rahmen der Tagung "The Contemporary History of Historiography: International Perspectives on the Making of Professional History", London, 16.-18.06.2016
Intellectual Histories and Decentred Biographies: escaping the historiography of Gandhism through the life of Gandhi
im Rahmen des Workshops "After Eurocentrism, Beyond Decentring Themes and Methodologies for an Interdisciplinary History of Ideas", Heidelberg, 01.-02.07.2016
Völkisch nationalism, Indian fascism and Indo-Nazi collaboration
an der Universität Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 30.11.2016
Imagining the volk in India
im Rahmen der Tagung "Nationalism, Empire, Knowledge", Irvine/CA, 29.03-11.04.2017
Inchoate internationalist of fascist middleman? The career of Benoy Kumar Sarkar
im Rahmen der Konferenz "Fascist Brokers: Transnational networking in and beyond Europe", Konstanz, 10.05.-12.05.2017
im Rahmen des "41st Annual Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium", Oxford/Mississippi, 03.-05.03.2016
At the fuzzy edges of fascism: framing the Volk in India
am "Department of History University of California", Irvine, 08.03.2016
The Developmental Imagination and India: Cold War Remodelings
im Rahmen des "Writing Techonoly Event" an der Universität San Diego, San Diego, 10.03.2016
The history of nationalism in India
im Rahmen des Workshops "History as a Political Category", Delhi, 18.-19.04.2016
Global Fascism?
im Rahmen des Workshops "Begriffsgeschichte as Global Concept and Travelling Theory'", Heidelberg, 20.-21.05.2016
The Violence of the State and of Non-State Actors in India
im Rahmen des Workshops "Modalities of State and Political Violence in British India", Exeter, 15.06.2016
The World in a Grain of Sand: Global Histories and Their Framing
im Rahmen der Tagung "The Contemporary History of Historiography: International Perspectives on the Making of Professional History", London, 16.-18.06.2016
Intellectual Histories and Decentred Biographies: escaping the historiography of Gandhism through the life of Gandhi
im Rahmen des Workshops "After Eurocentrism, Beyond Decentring Themes and Methodologies for an Interdisciplinary History of Ideas", Heidelberg, 01.-02.07.2016
Völkisch nationalism, Indian fascism and Indo-Nazi collaboration
an der Universität Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 30.11.2016
Imagining the volk in India
im Rahmen der Tagung "Nationalism, Empire, Knowledge", Irvine/CA, 29.03-11.04.2017
Inchoate internationalist of fascist middleman? The career of Benoy Kumar Sarkar
im Rahmen der Konferenz "Fascist Brokers: Transnational networking in and beyond Europe", Konstanz, 10.05.-12.05.2017