Review A fine, nuanced book ... evokes in the reader just the right mix of emotion and regret that Bose's brilliant but truncated life deserves' (Hindustan Times)'...an achievement that will evoke the admiration and envy of any historian-biographer' (Telegraph) About the Author Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D and was later a Fellow of St. Catharine's College. Before taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001, he was Professor of History and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Bose was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge. Bose, who is the grandson of Netaji's brother Sarat Chandra Bose, is the author of many books including Peasant Labour and Colonial Capitaland the much acclaimed A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Golden Empire. He has also made documentary films on South Asian history and politics and published recordings of his translations of Tagore.
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