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About Rounak Bose
My name is Rounak Bose, and my pronouns are he/him. I am a doctoral student in History at the University of Delaware, and I moved to the United States in July 2024 from my hometown in the suburbs of West Bengal. I completed my Masters in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad in 2022, and since then up until last year, I had been working as a Research Assistant on an European Research Council project "India"s Politics in its Vernaculars". Throughout this time on the project, I worked as an ethnographer in the borderland regions of India and Bangladesh to look at the intertwining of circulations and mobilities with the low-caste religiosities of the Matua Namasudra sect. I was fortunate to work with a rich body of textual and performative archives of this sect and begin to look at how their religiosity intersected with the ways in which they negotiated their mobilities and circulations between the borders between India and Bangladesh and broader oceanic itineraries across the Indian Ocean. I had proposed a continuation of this work as my PhD topic, and I look forward to look into this further and contributing to broader historical questions of sovereignty, caste, religion, and ecology in the Indian Ocean.
Rounak Bose is a doctoral student in History at the University of Delaware. His research explores the historical categories of caste, religion, ecology, and sovereignties in South Asia and Indian Ocean networks. Besides these specific interests, his disciplinary interests revolve around public history, anthropology, literary studies, the digital humanities, and more recently, the history and politics of Artificial Intelligence. When not reading or writing in the university library, Rounak can be found taking long walks along Delaware's trails.
NBN Episodes hosted by Rounak:
November 22, 2025
Waning Crescent
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…
April 15, 2025
Empire of Labor
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…
March 5, 2025
American Imperialist
This biography of “African explorer” Richard Dorsey Mohun, written by one of his descendants, reveals how American greed and state power helped shape …
December 28, 2024
Cultivating Democracy
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of dem…
October 28, 2024
Quinine's Remains
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…