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Sumit Sarkar

Indian historian of modern India

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born
1939
died
2026
age at death
87
known for
historian, writer

1939 – 2026

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Sumit Sarkar was an Indian historian. He was the author of Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 (1973), Modern India (1989), and Writing Social History (1998), among others. Sarkar was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics.

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