Sunil Amrith

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Amrith, Sunil S. (2006). Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9781403985934.
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2011). Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9780521727020. [10]
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2013). Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN   9780674287242. [11] [12]
  • Harper, Tim N.; Amrith, Sunil S., eds. (2014). Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139979474. ISBN   9781139979474.
  • Amrith, Sunil S. (2018). Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History. New York: Basic Books. ISBN   9780465097739. [13]
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    Sunil Amrith
    Born (1979-09-04) 4 September 1979 (age 44)
    Awards
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Cambridge