Sad to hear of the passing of Sumit Sarkar, one of India’s greatest historians. It was an honor to meet him when I visited Kolkata and Delhi in 2008. He was a brilliant, gentle, altogether lovely man. The world is poorer today.
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Sumit Sarkar: The Historian Who Changed Modern India
Historian Sumit Sarkar taught generations to question neat narratives, recover subaltern voices and connect class, caste and power in modern India.