Sarong Revolution: The Myanmar Coup, Militarization, and Gendered Resistance in the Borderlands of Asia Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series

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Speaker:

Sumitra Thongdaijam, Department of English, Jamia Milia University                                                   

Chair:

Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University

Sugata Bose’s field of specialization is modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His books include His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) and A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.) In A Hundred Horizons, Bose crosses area studies and disciplinary frontiers as he bridges the domains of political economy and culture. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997. Bose is currently writing a book titled Asia after Europe: Decline and Rise of a Continent (under contract with Harvard University Press) and working as General Editor on The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean.