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Dr Sunil Amrith, Harvard University
2 February 2015
The Bay of Bengal is an oceanic region linking India’s eastern coast with island and mainland Southeast Asia - at particular moments, and especially
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between the mid-19th and the mid-20th centuries, its coasts were as closely linked to each other as to the heartlands of the nation-states they ultimately formed part of. Dr Amrith’s talk focused on the period of most intensive connectedness across the Bay of Bengal, in the 1920s; and charted how and why those connections came undone so quickly, and apparently so completely, in the 1930s.
Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies and Professor of History at Harvard University. His work focuses on trans-regional movement of people, ideas, and institutions, particularly on the Bay of Bengal region, which straddles South and Southeast Asia.
