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Sumit Sarkar

Indian historian of modern India · India · On the map · Writers · Born 1939 · age 87

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.

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He was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics.

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Born 1939 · age 87