Arko Dasgupta

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Arko Dasgupta

2024 Doctoral Scholar; Ph.D. Candidate in History at Carnegie Mellon University

Arko Dasgupta is a PhD candidate in history at Carnegie Mellon University and an Associate in Research in the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. His research interests include empire, race, Modern India, early Indian immigration in the United States, and the Civil Rights Movement. 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 a Kedia-Tayur Fellow in South Asian American History at Carnegie Mellon University. He has an MPhil in International Studies from Jamia Millia Islamia, an MA in Conflict Analysis & Peace Building from Jamia Millia Islamia, and a BA in Economics, Political Science, Sociology from St Joseph’s College, Bangalore. Access Arko’s website here: arkodasgupta.com

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