Sumit Chakrabarti

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a historian straddling the fields of culture studies and postcolonial studies. His areas of expertise are Nineteenth-Century Bengal, intellectual history, and postcolonial and cultural studies. His most recent monograph is titled The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude (Routledge, 2020) and the editor of the forthcoming Oxford World's Classics...See more

Sumit Chakrabarti is Professor in the Department of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is a historian straddling the fields of culture studies and postcolonial studies. His areas of expertise are Nineteenth-Century Bengal, intellectual history, and postcolonial and cultural studies. His most recent monograph is titled The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century: Life, Labour, Latitude (Routledge, 2020) and the editor of the forthcoming Oxford World's Classics edition of the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore. See less