Historian Sumit Sarkar, Key Voice Of Modern History, Dies At 87

Sumit Sarkar, a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective, returned his 2004 Rabindra Puraskar in 2007 to protest farmer treatment in Bengal.

His works include Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 (1973), Modern India (1989), and Writing Social History (1998), among others. He also co-edited Women and Social Reform in Modern India (2007) and Caste in Modern India (2013) with his wife, Tanika Sarkar.