Sumit Guha
Background
Sumit Guha is an Indian-American historian and Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on long-term socio-economic, environmental, agrarian, demographic, and political histories of South Asia from the medieval to modern periods. He is the author of several seminal books, including Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present, Environment and Ethnicity in India, c. 1200-1991, Health and Population in So
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Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Garrison Hall (GAR) 1.104, 128 Inner Campus Dr Stop B7000, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Occupation:
• Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor Emeritus in History, University of Texas at Austin
Qualification:
• Ph.D. in History: University of Cambridge
• M.A. in History: Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
• B.A. (Hons.) in History: St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi
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About: - Sumit Guha is an Indian-American historian and Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on long-term socio-economic, environmental, agrarian, demographic, and political histories of South Asia from the medieval to modern periods. He is the author of several seminal books, including Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present, Environment and Ethnicity in India, c. 1200-1991, Health and Population in South Asia, History and Collective Memory in South Asia c.1200-2000, and Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1500-1900.