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Upal Chakrabarti

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Upal Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Presidency University in Kolkata. His research interests focus on intellectual history, colonialism, political economy, agrarian studies, science studies, and governance. He received his PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age) His research has been published in journals like Modern Asian Studies, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and South Asian History and Culture. He is currently working with the British Library and the University of Chicago in preparing an archive of the institutional records of the Hindu/Presidency College—the first institution of western education in Asia—and editing a collection of essays on institutional micro-histories, science, disciplinarity, and pedagogy in colonial south Asia.