About Soumyadeep Guha

I am a PhD candidate in the History Department at Binghamton University, New York. I am interested in historical research focusing on themes such as Agrarian History, History of Capitalism, History of Science and Tech, Global History, and their intersections. My specialisation is 19th and 20th-century India, the British Empire, and the US.

NBN Episodes hosted by Soumyadeep:

Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)

December 25, 2025

Capitalism

Sven Beckert
Hosted by Soumyadeep Guha

No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others,…

Maria Bach, "Relocating Development Economics: The First Generation of Modern Indian Economists" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

December 3, 2025

Relocating Development Economics

Maria Bach
Hosted by Soumyadeep Guha

Originating in the Nineteenth Century, the European idea of development was shaped around the premise that the West possessed progressive characterist…

Jessica Ratcliff, "Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2025))

July 28, 2025

Monopolizing Knowledge

Jessica Ratcliff
Hosted by Soumyadeep Guha

In the book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2025), author Jessica Ratcliff tr…

Gazi Mizanur Rahman, "In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

May 20, 2025

In the Malay World

Gazi Mizanur Rahman
Hosted by Soumyadeep Guha

Gazi Mizanur Rahman’s In the Malay World: A Spatial History of a Bengali Transnational Community (Cambridge University Press, 2024) offers the first s…