Benoy Kumar Sarkar

Satadru Sen is Associate Professor of South Asian History at the City University of New York. He is the author of Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders (2010), and other works on the history of discipline and race in modern India.

Sen develops a sensitive and rich critique of a cosmopolitan, modernist right-wing nationalist whose nationalism incorporated Bengali, Indian, and anti-British layers, cohabiting with western nationalisms and the world. [He] disentangles each strand with admirable suppleness and precision. An excellent book. — Sumit Sarkar, former Professor of History, University of Delhi A bold and stimulating piece of intellectual history. Sen restores one of the most fascinating, if neglected, figures of modern Indian history to current academic debates on Indian nationalism and its multifaceted global entanglements. — Harald Fischer-Tiné, Professor of Modern Global History, ETH ZürichSatadru Sen succeeds brilliantly in explaining Sarkar’s complex views and in situating them in their historical and cultural contexts . . . a valuable effort to broaden and complicate the history of Indian nationalism. — Chandak Sengoopta, Professor of History, University of LondonSarkar emerges from Satadru Sen's engaging account not as a giant cardboard cut-out figure, but as a complex thinker of nevertheless gigantic proportions. — Benjamin Zachariah, University of Heidelberg

• Introduction 1. An Indian Race 2. Wars of the Emasculated 3. A Romance of the State. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index