Amiya Prosad Sen

Amiya Prosad Sen (born 1952) is a historian with an interest in the intellectual and cultural history of modern India.^[1][2] Amiya P.Sen is currently Professor of Modern Indian History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has been Agatha Harrison Fellow to the University of Oxford^[3] and Visiting Fellow to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla,^[4] and the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. During 2007–08, he was Tagore professor at Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketan.

Sen took his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and also pursued his Ph.D there. After a brief career in Indian Civil Services, he took up teaching and research in 1984.^[5]

Publications

• Sen, Amiya P. (1993), Hindu revivalism in Bengal, 1872-1905: some essays in interpretation (Illustrated ed.), New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 456, ISBN 9780195631401 
• Sen, Amiya P. (1998), "Bhakti Paradigms, Syncretism and Social Restructuring in Kaliyuga: A Reappraisal of Some Aspects of Bengali Religious Culture", Studies in History (SAGE) 14: 89–126 
• Sen, Amiya P. (1999), "Universalism and Sri Ramakrishna:An Historical and Philosophical Reappraisal", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences VI (1): 79–100 

• Sen, Amiya P. (2000), "Sri Ramakrishna and Middle Class Religion in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal: Exploring some new paradigms of understanding", in Biswamoy Pati, Sumit Sarkar, Issues in modern Indian history: for Sumit Sarkar, Popular Prakashan, pp. 100–120, ISBN 9788171546589, http://books.google.co.in/books?id=S2Yn4LlujqsC&pg=PA100 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2001), Three essays on Sri Ramakrishna and his times, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, ISBN 81-85952-87-6 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2001), "Gandhi and Vivekananda", in Bindu Puri, Mahatma Gandhi and his contemporaries, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, ISBN 81-7986-628-0 
• Amiya Sen (2003), Narayani Gupta, ed., Swami Vivekananda, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 109, ISBN 0195645650 
• Sen, Amiya (2005), Social and Religious Reform: The Hindus of British India, USA: Oxford University Press, pp. 248, ISBN 9780195677027 
• Amiya Sen (2006), Indispensable Vivekananda, Orient Blackswan, pp. 242, ISBN 9788178241302, http://books.google.com/books?id=usBhrZcnJ78C&printsec=frontcover 
• Sen, Amiya P. (June 2006), "Sri Ramakrishna, the Kathamrita and the Calcutta middle classes: an old problematic revisited", Postcolonial Studies 9 (2): 165–177, doi:10.1080/13688790600657835 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2007), "The idea of Social reform and its critique among Hindus of Nineteenth Century India", in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social Sciences, X, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-568067-9 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2008), Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: an intellectual biography, Oxford University Press, pp. 133, ISBN 9780195695038 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2009). "Between History and Hagiography:Vivekananda's Ramakrishna". In Vijaya Ramaswamy & Yogesh Sharma. Biography as History. Delhi: Orient Blackswan. 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2010), Explorations in Modern Bengal c. 1800-1900, Primus books, ISBN 978-81-908918-6-8 
• Sen, Amiya P. (2010), "Gandhi, Gandhians and Random Thoughts on Indian development", in Keya Sengupta, Human Development: Multi Dimensional approaches to Human Well-Being, Delhi: Concept Publishing House, ISBN 978-81-8069-683-1 
• Sen, Amiya P. (April 2010). His Words: The Preaching and Parables of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Penguin Viking. pp. 280. ISBN 9780670084333. 
• Sen, Amiya P. (April 2010). Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar. Penguin Viking. pp. 192. ISBN 9780670082254. 
• Sen, Amiya P. Ed. Bankim's Hinduism. An Anthology of Writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. Delhi.Permanent Black. 2011

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