Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Author

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, former professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), has served as vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has also held research and teaching positions at St Antony's College at Oxford University, the University of Chicago and El Colegio de Mexico. His recent publications: The Colonial State: Theory and Practice, The Defining Moments in Bengal, 1920-1947, Vande Mataram: the Biography of a Song, Talking Back: the Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse, and now in seventh imprint, The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates Between Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941.