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 He was born to [[Susobhan Sarkar]]. His maternal uncle was [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]].
-He completed his BA (Honours) in History at [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] and MA and Ph.D. in the same subject at the [[University of Calcutta]]. He taught for many years as a [[Lecturer]] at the University of Calcutta, and later as a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] at the [[University of Burdwan]]. He was completed his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at [[Wolfson College, Oxford]]. He was [[Professor]] of History at the [[University of Delhi]].<ref>[http://www.upscportal.com/store/author/sumit-sarkar]</ref>
+He completed his BA (Honours) in History at [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] and MA and Ph.D. in the same subject at the [[University of Calcutta]]. He taught for many years as a [[Lecturer]] at the University of Calcutta, and later as a [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] at the [[University of Burdwan]]. He completed his Post-Doctoral Fellowship at [[Wolfson College, Oxford]]. He was [[Professor]] of History at the [[University of Delhi]].<ref>[http://www.upscportal.com/store/author/sumit-sarkar]</ref>
-He was one of the founding members of the [[Subaltern Studies|Subaltern Studies Collective]], but later distanced himself from the project. He noted that arguments made by the later issues of the journal as well as books by [[Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|Partha Chatterjee]] in that they blanketly criticized the Enlightenment, the nation-state and secularism lined up with indigenist critiques that were at home with the Hindu right. In his view this error was traceable to a basic confusion in the early project that posed an absolute separation between the elite and subaltern domains.<ref>Sumit Sarkar, "The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies," in Writing Social History pp. 82-108</ref>
 ==Awards==
-He was awarded the [[Rabindra Puraskar]] literary award for his book Writing Social History by the [[West Bengal]] government in 2004. He returned the award in 2007 in protest against [[Nandigram violence|the expulsion of farmers]] from their land.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nandigram was more shocking than Jallianwala Bagh |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207162822/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1774467.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=2007-03-17 |access-date=2008-03-27 }}</ref>
+He was awarded the [[Rabindra Puraskar]] literary award for his book Writing Social History by the [[West Bengal]] government in 2004. He returned the award in 2007 in protest against [[Nandigram violence|the expulsion of farmers]] from their land.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nandigram was more shocking than Jallianwala Bagh |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1774467.cms |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=2007-03-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207162822/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1774467.cms |access-date=2008-03-27 |archive-date=7 December 2010 }}</ref>
 ==Controversy==
+He was one of the founding members of the [[Subaltern Studies|Subaltern Studies Collective]], but later distanced himself from the project. He noted that arguments made in the later issues of the journal as well as in books by [[Partha Chatterjee (scholar)|Partha Chatterjee]] blanketly criticized Enlightenment, the nation-state and secularism lined up with indigenist critiques that were at home with the Hindu right. In his view this error was traceable to a basic confusion in the early project that posed an absolute separation between the elite and subaltern domains.<ref>Sumit Sarkar, "The Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies," in Writing Social History pp. 82-108</ref>
 He contributed a volume to the ''Towards Freedom'' project of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]] (ICHR), publication of which was blocked in 2000 by the ICHR under the influence of then Indian government administered by the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] as alleged by Sarkar.<ref>{{cite news |title= Righting or rewriting Hindu history |url=http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/BB23Df01.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000925075754/http://atimes.com/ind-pak/BB23Df01.html |url-status=unfit |archive-date=2000-09-25 |work=[[Asia Times]] |date=2000-02-23 |access-date=2008-03-27 }}</ref> The publication of the volume was eventually allowed by the Government of India once the Congress party came to power after the general election of 2004.<ref>{{cite news |title= 'Towards Freedom' project revived |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/21/stories/2004092115021100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041114124741/http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/21/stories/2004092115021100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-11-14 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2004-09-21 |access-date=2008-03-27 }}</ref>