Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, formerly Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati University, has also held teaching and research positions in St. Antony's College at Oxford, University of Chicago and El Colegio de Mexico. His recent publications include Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation (2011) and Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse (2011). He also edited Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography (2011).