Sumit Sarkar
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| Alma mater | University of Calcutta Presidency College |
Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) is one of the foremost historians of modern India. He is a Marxist historian. He is the author of Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 (1973), Modern India (1989), and Writing Social History (1998), among others. He was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics.