Fw: H-ASIA: AAS Honors Professor Sumit Sarkar for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studes

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Subject: H-ASIA: AAS Honors Professor Sumit Sarkar for Distinguished
Contributions to Asian Studes

> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> Professor Sumit Sarkar Honored by Association for Asian
> Studies at Honolulu Conference for Distinguished Contributions
> to Asian Studies
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> Ed. note: On Friday, April 1, at the Honolulu Convention Center
> the Association for Asian Studies presented a number of awards
> to scholars. Michael Paschal, Executive Secretary of the AAS
> has kindly shared with me the texts of the citations of these
> awards. Because of time contraints (I am transiting London on
> my way home from the BASAS conference in Southampton), I shall
> post the remainder of the AAS citations on April 15. In the
> meantime, congratulations to Professor Sumit Sarkar for the
> following award, which was presented by the AAS President,
> Professor K. Sivaramakrishnan. FFC
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> From: Frank Conlon
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> AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies
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> Sumit Sarkar
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> Sumit Sarkar, Professor Emeritus of Modern Indian
> History in Delhi University, India, began his distinguished
> research career with The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal that,
> several reprints later, continues to be reissued. His
> continuing work on nationalist politics made him a leading
> authority in the study of anti-colonial nationalism. Later,
> his exemplary immersion in vernacular sources led him to
> pioneer the field of social history in India in the
> collection published as Writing Social History (Oxford,
> Delhi, 1997). Having begun his career studying varieties
> of nationalism in India, he ended it with a call to look
> beyond the horizons of the nation-state. In yet another
> provocative collection of essays titled Beyond Nationalist
> Frames: Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History
> (Permanent Black and Indiana University Press, 2002) Sumit
> Sarkar's treatment of the historical growth of the Right-
> wing in Indian politics led him to locate it as a vibrant
> and growing force in conditions of economic globalization.
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> Having been spurred to study the historical
> antecedents of South Asian ethnocentrism and militarism,
> Sarkar pushed his own limits by studying the ways in which
> gender entered into and inflected these various brands of
> parochialism in a volume he co-edited with Tanika Sarkar,
> Women and Social Reform in Modern India (2008).
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> Professor Sarkar began his teaching career at Burdwan
> and Kolkata Universities in Bengal. With the exception of
> short-term teaching assignments at the Universities of
> Oxford, Cambridge, and Sussex, he devoted the majority of
> his time to mentoring and teaching at the Department of
> History in Delhi University from 1976 till 2009.
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