Talk:Sudipta Sen

By Sachi Anjunkar

Sudipta Sen is a Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at University of California, Davis as of April 2024. According to his university profile, his research interests are Late Mughal and British India, British Empire; Environment and Ecology.

In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."
3. "The geographic location of the Indus Civilization lies in what is now contemporary India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The use of "South Asia" to describe this shared civilizational heritage is thus entirely appropriate in some places of the framework, even though South Asia is a modern term, and some source materials use the term ‘Ancient India.' "

Publications

1. Sen, Sudipta. Empire of Free Trade. 1998.
2. Sen, Sudipta. A Distant Sovereignty. Routledge, 2016.
3. Sen, Sudipta. Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River. Yale University Press, 2018.