Sumit Sarkar

Sumit Sarkar (born 1939) is one of the foremost historians of modern India. He is the author of ''Swadeshi Movement'' ''in Bengal, 1903-1908'' (1973), ''Modern India'' (1989), and ''Writing Social History'' (1998), among others. He was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Group as well as one of its most important critics. Provided by Wikipedia