# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sumit-sarkar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:09:25.448Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sumit-sarkar"
name: "Sumit Sarkar"
slug: "sumit-sarkar"
description: "Sumit Sarkar is one of the foremost historians of modern India. He is a Marxist historian. He is the author of Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 (1973), Modern India (1989), and Writing Social History (1998), among others. He was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics."
tagline: "Indian historian of modern India (born 1939)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           6.227288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump