Shukla Sanyal is professor in the History Department at Presidency University, Kolkata. She also taught at the Department of History, University of Calcutta. Her research interests include the history of French Revolution with special focus on French rural society. She also works on the political culture of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengal specializing in the Revolutionary Nationalist movement of Bengal. Professor Sanyal is currently working on a project that explores the entangled histories of revolutionary ideologies of east and west with particular focus on twentieth-century Bengal.
