Arup K. Chatterjee’s work is prominently featured in an Independence Day special research piece published by The Indian Express. The article authored by Nikita Mohta — “When a call for Indian independence echoed in London” — opens by citing Chatterjee’s Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India:
“Whether as flesh and blood or as commodities, Indians shaped the peripheries of London since Shakespeare,” academic Arup K Chatterjee writes in Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India.
The piece examines how Indians in London have been actors in political, cultural and commercial networks over centuries — a theme central to Chatterjee’s scholarship. The citations underscores the continuing relevance of his research on diasporic connections, metropolitan encounters, and the longue durée of Indo-British ties.
In addition to the Indian Express feature, Professor Chatterjee’s work has been widely referenced in public and academic discussions around migration, imperial history and cultural exchange. This recent spotlight is another recognition of the book’s contribution to understanding how the histories of India and Britain are entangled in metropolitan spaces and contemporary discourses of migration, identity, nationalism, and other themes of belonging.
Read the Indian Express piece here:
https://indianexpress.com/article/research/when-a-call-for-indian-independence-echoed-in-london-10188910/
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