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Dr Suvobrata Sarkar

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Assistant Professor, History
Rabindra Bharati University

Expertise

  • History and Philosophy Of Science

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Professional Recognition

2011

Indrani Roy Memorial Prize

Paschimbanga Itihas Sansad
2016

International Scholar

Society for the History of Technology
2017

International Scholar

Society for the History of Technology
2017

Short Research Grant

Charles Wallace India Trust
2017

Foreign Travel & Maintenance Grant

Indian Council of Historical Research
2017

Dr I G Khan Memorial Prize

Indian History Congress
2019

Maurice Daumas Prize

International Committee for the History of Technology
2023

Travel Grant for Data Collection Abroad

Indian Council of Social Science Research
2023

Short Research Grant

Charles Wallace India Trust

Community & Membership

2023

Steering Committee, Rabindra Bharati Research Week Programme

Member

Research Programme and Policy Development, Research Advisory Committee (RDC), Rabindra Bha

Member
2022

The Prevention of Caste Based Discrimination, Rabindra Bharati University

Member
2021

NAAC Steering Committee, Rabindra Bharati University

Member
2020

NAAC Sub-Committee, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University

Member
2017

Board of Research Studies in History, University of Burdwan

Member
2017

Board of Research Studies in History, University of Burdwan

Member
2017

Board of Research Studies in History, University of Burdwan

Member
2015

Under-Graduate Board of Studies in History, University of Burdwan

Member
2016

Committee for the Publication of a Booklet for the NAAC Team, University of Burdwan

Member
2019

Under-Graduate Board of Studies in History, Gour Banga University

External Member

Society for the History of Science Kolkata

2023
Life Member

Bio

Suvobrata Sarkar holds a doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. His research explores the history of technology in 19th and 20th-century South Asia. He is the author of Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Personal Details

  • Male
  • Assistant Professor , Rabindra Bharati University
  • Rabindra Bharati University, 56A B. T. Road
Ph.D.
Jawaharlal Nehru University 2014
M.Phil.
Jawaharlal Nehru University 2010
M.A.
Visva-Bharati University 2006
B.A. (Hons.)
Visva-Bharati University 2004
Assistant Professor Jun 2019 – Present
Rabindra Bharati University | History
Assistant Professor Jul 2014 – Jun 2019
The University of Burdwan | Department of History

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From Electric Telegraph to Telephone: Evolution of Communication Technology in Bengal, c. 1857-1943

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Municipal Engineering and the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study of Urban Planning, 1858-1947

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Scholarly Publications

Evolution of Electrical Engineering in Colonial Calcutta: Bhadralok Articulations on Education and Industrialization Interface

Open Access
book chapter

Edited Book

Open Access
book
Authors: Sahara Ahmed and Suvobrata Sarkar

On the need for an anticolonial perspective in engineering education and practice

Open Access
article
Authors: Srinjoy Mitra, Suvobrata Sarkar, and Agomoni Ganguli Mitra

History of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine in India

Open Access
editorial

The small voices of history: Subaltern technologists of colonial Bengal

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Suvobrata Sarkar

Academic engineering and India’s colonial encounter: Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur, a historical perspective

Open Access
book chapter

Contextualizing the Body: An Indian Experience

Open Access
editorial
Authors: Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar

Writing the history of the relations between technology, medicine and the body: Advent of ‘X-Ray’ in colonial Bengal

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Suvobrata Sarkar