From Executive Officer Joel Allen:

It is with a profound sense of loss that the History Program announces the passing of Prof. Satadru Sen on Monday, October 8, 2018.   Satadru (Ph.D., University of Washington) joined the Graduate Center in 2011 as an expert in South Asian history.  His scholarship was his passion; through it he sought to expose the inequities and hypocrisies wrought by colonial regimes in South Asia and in the Indian Ocean World.  His research ranged from the institutionalization of discipline and punishment to the global celebrity of a cricketer-turned-politician and its implications for understanding the experiences of subjects in imperial contexts. 
 
Satadru’s five single-authored monographs include Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands (Oxford University Press, 2000), Migrant Races: Empire, Identity, and K.S. Ranjitsinhji (Manchester University Press, 2005), Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India, 1860-1945 (Anthem Press, 2005), Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders (Routledge, 2010), and Restoring the Nation to the World: Benoy Kumar Sarkar and Modern India (Routledge, 2015).  In addition to these are two collections of essays and one co-edited volume.
 
We will dearly miss Satadru’s dedication to promising students, his penchant for activism of an intellectual stripe, and his sense of humor, however mordant.  Satadru is survived by his wife Amanda, his daughters Mira and Leila, scores of fellow historians, and thousands of edified readers.



Selected Publications

Benoy Kumar Sarkar: Restoring the nation to the world
(Routledge, 2015) 








 

Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders (Routledge Press)

Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945 (Anthem Press)

Migrant Races: Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji (Manchester University Press)

Disciplining Punishment: Colonialism and Convict Society in the Andaman Islands (Oxford University Press)










 

Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia (co-edited with James H. Mills, Anthem Press).