Sugata Nandi, Lecturer
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Area of Specialisation: Modern History, Urban history, History of Crime and the law

Academic Profile
M.Phil (JNU, 2002), M.A. (JNU, 1997), B.A. (CU, 1995)

Area of Research
• Criminals in City Politics: The Goondas of Calcutta.
• Criminality in Urban Riots.
• Legal and Political Dimensions of the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946.
• Calcutta 1947-67: A city in public memory.
• Mass Politics and the Colonial State.

Ongoing Research Projects
The Politics of Personal Reminisce: Calcutta 1947-67

Teaching
• Europe in Transition,
• Modern Europe
• Delhi Sultanate (History of Afghan Rule in India)
• Modern India (Post Independence Nehruvian period)

Areas of Interest
• Urban history
• History of Criminality
• History of Surveillance
• Systems and the Historical Sociology of violence