Sumantra Bose

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Sumanta Bose
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Amherst College (B.A.)
Columbia University (PhD)
OccupationPolitical scientist
Employer London School of Economics
Notable workKashmir: Roots of Conflict, Contested Lands
Parent(s) Sisir Kumar Bose, Krishna Bose

Sumantra Bose is an Indian political scientist and professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics. [1] He specialises in the study of ethnic and national conflicts and their management, with a particular focus on the Indian subcontinent (especially Kashmir) and the former Yugoslavia (in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Personal life

Bose is the son of Sisir Kumar Bose a pediatrician and legislator, and Krishna Bose, professor, writer and legislator. He is a grandson of Indian freedom fighter Sarat Chandra Bose. [2] Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University) and Sarmila Bose (b. 1959) are his siblings.

Bose was born in India and was educated in Indian schools. He went to the United States for further studies, graduating from Amherst College, Massachusetts, with a BA with highest honours in 1992. He followed it up with MA, M.Phil and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in political science at Columbia University, New York. [3] In 1999, he joined the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is now Professor of International and Comparative Politics. [4]

Publications

His publications include:

Reviewing Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, Sumit Ganguly noted an uneven, well-documented and an accurate dispassionate analysis of the origins of insurgency and the sentiments that gave birth to the Kashmir dispute. He noted Bose to display a "supple understanding of the political eddies and currents" that swirled in the pre-independence Kashmir. Notwithstanding the praises, he criticized the works as "far too chatty and anecdotal" in light of his noncritical reproduction of vast amounts of claims and assertions from partisan Kashmiri folks without cross-vetting them for reliability. Ganguly also criticized his willingness to believe that Pakistan will be conducive enough to partaking in his proposed solution to the conflict, which called for an all-stakeholders-dialogue between from both sides of the border, joint-acceptance of the Line-of-Control and a bilateral-management of the original unified state pending a political devolution in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. He concluded that Bose's notion of a military dominated state that had fostered unyielding public hostility towards India (esp. on the Kashmir issue) of being a ''viable, honest, and sensible negotiating partner to be chimerical". [5] Another review praised the book for its highly objective and well-researched scholarship and deemed it to be a.major contribution to Kashmir studies which may provide a valuable tool in settling the dispute. [6] Perry Anderson, in his essay The Indian Ideology , observes that while Bose's book is descriptive, its suggested solution is simply in favour of the status quo. He regards Bose as the leader of Indian scholars in diaspora whho have not used their right of free speech any better than their counterparts in India. [7]

Robert G. Wirsing reviewed Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace to be a remarkably "illuminating, interesting and valuable study'' that prescribed "one of the most substantial and compellingly articulated" consociational solution to the Kashmir dispute despite neglecting the strategic dimension of the dispute and going soft on the roles of religious identity in the prolongation of the conflict. [8]

A reviewer remarked that whilst Transforming India:Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy was a "stimulating and distinctive addition to the wave of publications about the 'new India'" it paid too little attention to political economy and fell short of other masterpieces in the field of Indian contemporary history or political science. [9] Norio Kondo, reviewing the same book agreed with the broader sentiments but disagreed with Bose's observations as to the time span of the emergence of federalization. He held it to be the broad time span between 1967 and 1977 rather than to be 1989; a particular year as Bose had pinpointed. Kondo also felt that the book would have benefited from a greater emphasis on political economy and an analysis of the heterogeneous north-eastern-insurgencies which were missing. Notwithstanding these limitations; Kondo found the book to be valuable for understanding the gradual yet "long-term federalization of India into a decentralized union of autonomous states". [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Sumantra Bose, The Conversation, retrieved 13 March 2023.
  2. ↑ Bose, Sumantra (23 August 2007). "The partition evasion". openDemocracy . Retrieved 16 December 2007.
  3. ↑ "Sumantra Bose biography" (PDF). European Parliament . Retrieved 30 November 2008.
  4. ↑ "Sumantra Bose". London School of Economics. Retrieved 30 November 2008.
  5. ↑ Ganguly, Sumit (1 January 2007). "Sumantra Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace". Journal of Cold War Studies. 9 (1): 144–146. doi:10.1162/jcws.2007.9.1.144. ISSN   1520-3972. S2CID   57558930.
  6. ↑ Hanif Siddiqi, Farhan (2004). "SAGE Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research". Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 33 (2): 427–429. doi:10.1177/03058298040330020908. S2CID   220926198.
  7. ↑ Perry Anderson (2013). The Indian Ideology. Verso Books. pp. 177–178. ISBN   978-1-78168-259-3.
  8. ↑ Wirsing, Robert G. (2004). "Reviewed work: Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace, Sumantra Bose". The International History Review. 26 (4): 906–908. JSTOR   40110632.
  9. ↑ Sumantra Bose (October 2017). "Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy (Review)". pacificaffairs.ubc.ca. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  10. ↑ Kondo, Norio (2016). "Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy by Sumantra Bose, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2013, 337 pp". The Developing Economies. 54 (1): 130–133. doi:10.1111/deve.12098. ISSN   1746-1049.
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