Binay Bhushan ChaudhuriBinay Bhushan Chaudhuri retired as Professor at the University of Calcutta. He was Professor of economic and social history at the university from 1960 to 1997. Across his decades-long career he has also been Visiting Fellow at the University of Heidlberg; the University of Michigan; the University of California at Berkeley; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme; the University of Rotterdam; Hitotsubashi University; School of Oriental and African Studies; and Kyoto University. His areas of expertise deal with colonial Indian history with a particular geographical focus on Bengal, and he has explored themes such as the commercialization of agriculture, the peasantry and agrarian relations, de-peasantization and dispossession, and tribal movements and rebellions. He is the author of numerous articles (and two important chapters in the Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. II) on these themes, as well as several books, including Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India; Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal, 1750-1900; and an edited volume, Economic History of India from Eighteenth to Twentieth Century. Read More Read Less