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Sugata Bose is Gardiner Professor of History at Harvard University.
Fotografie: By Benjamin Robert Siegel - Own work, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21146593

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Geboortedatum
1956-09-07
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
India
Opleiding
University of Cambridge (PhD)
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Guggenheim Fellowship (1997)

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Hard going in the middle, but come on - everything you wanted to know about agrarian Bengal but were afraid to ask. Last two chapters are clutch. Read it alongside Chris Baker's book on the Tamilnad countryside and you'll know more about early twentieth century agrarian politics than any of your friends or neighbors.
 
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benjaminsiegel | Jul 30, 2016 |
There are great men and then there are immortal men who touch the lives of millions, make history and are remembered forever. Subhas Chandra Bose belongs to the latter category. A must read everyone in the age group of 8 to 80. Whatever may be your background, be it an aspiring leader or an ordinary cog in a giant industrial wheel, this book has something for everybody. He can be termed as India's Buddha, Ataturk, Garibaldi and Napoleon as he did play those roles in trying to bring about India's freedom from the absolutely evil British Empire.… (meer)
 
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danoomistmatiste | 2 andere besprekingen | Jan 24, 2016 |
There are great men and then there are immortal men who touch the lives of millions, make history and are remembered forever. Subhas Chandra Bose belongs to the latter category. A must read everyone in the age group of 8 to 80. Whatever may be your background, be it an aspiring leader or an ordinary cog in a giant industrial wheel, this book has something for everybody. He can be termed as India's Buddha, Ataturk, Garibaldi and Napoleon as he did play those roles in trying to bring about India's freedom from the absolutely evil British Empire.… (meer)
 
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kkhambadkone | 2 andere besprekingen | Jan 17, 2016 |
Although Sugata Bose has avoided the detailed reports of the various commissions set up by the Government of independent India to investigate the disappearance of Subhas Chandra Bose, which may feel misleading to a section of readers, the book is a truly remarkable biography, brilliantly written with a historian's dispassion.

Read the review of His Majesty's Opponent at
http://www.thebookoutline.com/2013/05/book-review-his-majestys-opponent.html… (meer)
 
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