Sumantra Bose was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 7 June 1968 to Sisir Kumar Bose, a doctor, and Krishna Bose, a professor and writer. He grew up in Calcutta, where he studied for twelve years at the St. Xavier’s Collegiate School.
In the late 1980s, he went to the United States for higher studies. In May 1992, he graduated from Amherst College, Massachusetts, with a summa cum laude (highest honours), and was elected to the US’s national academic honours society, Phi Beta Kappa. Sumantra majored in political science at Amherst, with informal minors in history and economics. His senior honours thesis was awarded the Densmore Berry Collins Prize for the best thesis in political science.
An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict – from 1947 to the present. The India–Pakistan dispute over Kashmir is one of the world’s most incendiary conflicts. In decades of confrontation, at least 60,000 people have been killed – insurgents, civilians, and military and police personnel. In 2019, the dispute entered a dangerous new phase. India’s Hindu nationalist government, under Narendra Modi, repealed Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomous status and divided it into two territories subject to New Delhi’s direct rule. The drastic move was accompanied by mass arrests and lengthy suspension of mobile and internet services.
An authoritative, fresh, and vividly written account of the Kashmir conflict – from 1947 to the present.
The book has also been published in an India edition by Pan Macmillan, under the Picador imprint.
A comparative study of the rise, evolution and decline of secularism as a core principle of the state in its two major non-Western contexts—India and Turkey. 380pp
