Research interests

• History of Medicine and Public Health
• Political History of 20th century India

Research guidance:

• Number of researchers awarded M.Phil/ Ph.D degrees: 7
• Number of researchers pursuing M.Phil/ Ph.D: 7

List of publications:

Journals:

Imperialism, Insanity and Institutions: The Birth of European Insane Asylums in Colonial Calcutta 1757-1857 The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies October 2013 –March 2014 Nos 3 &4

Books/ book chapters:

Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939 (Anthem Press 2003)

Western Medicine and Colonial Society: Hospitals in Calcutta 1757-1860 ( Primus Books Forthcoming)