Dictionary of Historical Places: Bengal, 1757-1947

Ranjan Chakrabarti, a Fulbright Scholar at Brown University (1994-5) and a Charles Wallace Fellow at SOAS (1997), is one of the earliest scholars in India to undertake research in the environmental and sports history of South Asia.  Dr Chakrabarti is currently Professor and Co-ordinator of the UGC Special Assistance Programme on Environmental History of South Asia in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.