Arko Dasgupta is a PhD candidate in history with research interests in race, intellectual history, the American Civil Rights Movement, early Indian migration in the United States of America, Modern India, and the British Empire. He is currently working on his dissertation titled The Colour of Anticolonialism: Locating Antiracism in the Indian Freedom Struggle, 1893-1964. He is a Prafulla C Mukerji Fellow and one of two inaugural Kedia-Tayur fellows and previously held a Junior and, subsequently, Senior Research Fellowship of the University Grants Commission in New Delhi, India. He has an M.Phil. in International Studies from Jamia Millia Islamia. His writings have appeared in, among others, Perspectives on History (American Historical Association), Protest (Brill), PublicSource, Scroll.in, and The Wire.
