Decolonisation and the Politics of Transition in South Asia

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay teaches modern Indian history at Victoria University of Welington in New Zealand. He has also taught at Calcutta University and Kalyani University in India. He is the author of Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal, 1872-1937 (1990). He is the editor of Bengal: Rethinking History. Essays in Historiography (2001) and a co-editor of Caste and Communal Politics in South Asia (1993) and Bengal Communities, Development and States (1994).