Author: Sharmadip Basu

Sharmadip Basu is a generalist who currently fashions himself as a historian of modern South Asia. While a keen observer of politics, his scholarly interest lies in studying the entanglements of music and modernity in the colonial context. He is an ex-Organizing Committee member of the New York-based South Asia Solidarity Initiative. Having previously taught at Syracuse University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he is at present Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.