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Rounak Bose is a doctoral student in History at the University of Delaware. His research explores the historical categories of caste, religion, law, and sovereignty in South Asia and the larger Indian Ocean world. Besides these specific interests, he is also curious about interdisciplinary questions that concern anthropology, literary studies, the digital humanities, and more recently, the history and politics of Machine Learning.
Rounak Bose is a doctoral student in History at the University of Delaware. His research explores the historical categories of caste, religion, law, and sovereignty in South Asia and the larger Indian Ocean world. Besides these specific interests, he is also curious about interdisciplinary questions that concern anthropology, literary studies, the digital humanities, and more recently, the history and politics of Machine Learning.
Faisal Devji's Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Yale UP, 2025) is a compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global histori…
Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work (U California Press, 2025) tells the story of how hired workers experienced and respo…
This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape …
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of dem…
What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the cinchona plantations of Ind…