Sudipta Sen

Sudipta Sen is professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies at the University of California, Davis. His work has focused on the early history of British expansion in India, and more recently on the history of climate change and the environment. He is the author of Empire of Free Trade: The English East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (1998) and Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (2002). His most recent book is Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River (2018). He is currently finishing a book on the history of law, crime, and punishment in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British India titled Lawless Subjects: Crime and Punishment in Early British India. Sen has received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for research and teaching at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2000), and the William Jones Memorial Medal from the Asiatic Society of India for his lifetime contribution to history and Asian studies.