Subho Basu
Department of History
145 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, New York13244-1020
Personal Office 117 Eggers Hall
Tel : (315) 443-3802/ Fax: (315) 443-5876
E-mail : subasu@maxwell.syr.edu
Subho Basu is currently appointed as an Associate Professor in the Department of History, Syracuse University. After completing his Ph. D at Cambridge University, UK, he worked as Smuts Hinduja Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. Simultaneously, he was elected a fellow of Wolfson College at Cambridge University. In years following, he taught at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Illinois State University. He also obtained numerous visiting fellowships and lectureships at different international centers of learning such as the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, Victoria University, British Columbia, Canada and the Netaji Institute of Asian Studies, Calcutta, India. He co-edited with Suranjan Das Electoral Politics in South Asia and has widely published on labor history and contemporary Indian politics. Recently, the Oxford University Press- SOAS Series has published his monograph 'Does Class Matter?' His other works include a co-edited volume with Crispin Bates Rethinking Indian Political Institutions which is recently published by Anthem Press, London. Subho Basu and Crispin Bates are engaged in a new project on politics in India since independence. Their joint work will be published by Routledge in 2010. With noted political scientists Ali Riaz, Basu co-authored Paradise Lost: State Failure in Nepal. Subho Basu is currently working on two projects related to the construction of space, race, gender and nationalism and popular movement and the rise of Bengal Marxists.
