Nationalism Home and the World: Students' Edition [Paperback]

Sugata Boseis the Gardiner professor of history at Harvard University. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD 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 and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge.

Bose, who is Netaji's brother Sarat Chandra Bose's grandson, is the author of many books, includingPeasant Labour and Colonial Capitaland the much-acclaimedThe Nation as Mother and Other Visions of NationhoodandA Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. He has also made documentary films on South Asian history and politics and published recordings of his translations of Tagore.

• Author Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), sometimes referred to as the "Bard of Bengal," was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
• Introduction writer Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University. Bose has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute.