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Prof. Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University and grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. He has served as Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Bose was educated at Presidency College, Culcutta and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PH.D. His scholarship has contributed to a deeper understanding of colonial and post-colonial political economy, the relation between rural and urban domains, inter-religion arenas of travel, trade and imagination across the Indian Ocean, and Indian ethical discourses, political philosophy and economic thought.

Prof. Bose has authored 22 books. This includes twelve-volume Collected Works of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, jointly edited with Sisir Kumar Bose.

He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge. In 2015 he was awarded the Rabindra Purskar, the highest literary award of Bengal. He has served as Chair of the Presidency Mentor Group advising on the rejuvenation of Presidency University as a world-class centre of excellence and as a member of the Nalanda Governing Board.

Prof. Sugata Bose served as a Member of Parliament elected to the 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019) representing the Jadavpur Constituency in Bengal and throughout that period as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.