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Sumantra Bose is a Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. 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).

Personal life

Bose is the son of Sisir Kumar Bose a pediatrician and Krishna Bose née Chaudhuri, professor of English, writer and politician, and a grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose. Sugata Bose (Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University) is his elder brother and Sarmila Bose (b. 1959) is his elder sister.

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

Publications

His publications include States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam Movement (Sage, 1994), Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002), Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003) and Contested Lands: War and Peace in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka (Harvard University Press, 2007).

A reviewer remarked that whilst 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.

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 notes that "Bose displays a supple understanding of the political eddies and currents" that swirled in pre-independence Kashmir. Notwithstanding it, he criticised 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 criticizes Bose for willing to believe that Pakistan will be conducive enough to partaking in his proposed solution to the conflict that called for a dialogue between all the stakeholders 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 notes 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".

Perry Anderson notes that Indian scholars in diaspora have not used their right of free speech any better than their counterparts in India. He identifies Sumantra Bose as their leader. Anderson observes that while Bose's book Kashmir: The Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003) is descriptive, its suggested solution is simply in favour of the status quo.

References

1. Bose, Sumantra (2007-08-23). "The partition evasion". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
2. "Sumantra Bose biography" (PDF). European Parliament. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
3. "Sumantra Bose". London School of Economics. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
4. "TRANSFORMING INDIA: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy | By Sumantra Bose | Pacific Affairs". pacificaffairs.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
5. Ganguly, Sumit (2007-01-01). "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.
6. Perry Anderson (2013). The Indian Ideology. Verso Books. pp. 177–178. ISBN 978-1-78168-259-3.

External links

• Articles at openDemocracy
• Homepage at LSE
• Sumantra Bose biography, and areas of specialization

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