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Sugata Bose

How BK Sarkar’s visits to Japan and China helped him critique the West with his Young Asia theory

An excerpt from ‘Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century,’ by Sugata Bose.

Sugata Bose
· Feb 26, 2024 · 08:30 am
How nationalists devised the idea of equating India with a mother

The motherland was not meant to be metaphorical but a real, feminised figure.

Sugata Bose
· Aug 18, 2017 · 08:30 am
Declassification of all Netaji files is the only way to stop propagation of fantasies as fact

These files do not contain anything of real substance about Netaji and could only reveal a few dishonourable things done by some senior officials in post-Independence governments, writes his grand nephew.

Sugata Bose
· Sep 24, 2015 · 09:15 am

When India had no choice but to accept that Subhas Chandra Bose was dead

An excerpt from Bose’s great-nephew Sugata Bose’s definitive account of his life.

Sugata Bose
· Sep 22, 2015 · 08:30 am