Sudipta Sen

Sudipta Sen is chair and professor of the Department of History and professor of Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University
of California, Davis. A historian of late Mughal and early British India and the British Empire, his recent work focuses on environmental history and the history of early British rule in India. Sen has taught at Beloit College, University of California, Berkeley and Syracuse University. A recipient of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize for his contribution to research and teaching at
the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, he was awarded the Sir William Jones Memorial Medal by the Asiatic Society of India for his lifetime contribution to history and Asian studies in 2022. His publications include Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making
of the Colonial Marketplace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998); Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (Routledge UK, 2002); Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale University Press, 2018; Penguin Random House, Delhi, 2019); Terra Aqua: The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia, co-edited with May Joseph (Taylor & Francis, 2022).