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abstract:

A world-historical transformation is under way in the early twenty-first century as Asia recovers the global position it had lost in the late eighteenth century. Yet the idea of Asia and a spirit of Asian universalism were alive and articulated in a variety of registers during the period of European imperial domination. This lecture will explore the intellectual, cultural and political conversations across Asia conducted during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such an exploration may give us fresh insights into the modern intellectual history of Asia as well as theories of universalism, cosmopolitanism and internationalism. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of the ethics of re-envisioning Asia in the contemporary moment.

Speakers’ Profile:

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and as the Founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Institute. Prior to taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard University in 2001, Bose was a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, and Professor of History and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Bose was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his Ph.D. His scholarship has contributed to a deeper understanding of colonial and post-colonial political economy, the relation between rural and urban domains, inter-regional arenas of travel, trade and imagination across the Indian Ocean, and Indian ethical discourses, political philosophy and economic thought. Bose’s many books include A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (with Ayesha Jalal, 4th edition, London and New York: Routledge, 2017), His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (Cambridge, MA: the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press and New Delhi: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2011), and The Nation as Mother and Other Visions of Nationhood (Penguin Books, 2017). Bose is currently writing a book titled Asia after Europe and is general editor of The Cambridge History of the Indian Ocean.

Sugata Bose is a Member of Parliament in India elected to the 16^th Lok Sabha in 2014 from the Jadavpur constituency in West Bengal and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.