Neilesh Bose (Tufts University)

Neilesh Bose
Ph.D. candidate, History
Department of History
Tufts University
East Hall 010
Medford, MA 02155 USA

phone: 617-627-3558
email: neilesh.bose@tufts.edu

Description of work:

Research:

Dissertation interests include the confluence of modern 20th century 
ideologies of social justice, such as Marxism, and discourses of religion, 
esp. Islam, in the Bengali context, between the 1920s-1940s, until 
partition. Especially interested in how "aesthetic" types of sources, e.g. 
literature, poetry, song, drama, as well as traditionally "historical" 
sources, such as political pamphlets, political speeches, private 
writings, essays, and news discourse may combine. In this combination, I 
seek to question how categories such as "religion" and radicalism become 
defined.

Other interests include theater and performance in South Asia. Working on 
two projects related to this topic, including an anthology of diasporic 
South Asian plays and on-going work on Indian South African theater 
history and practice as it relates to contemporary politics in South 
Africa.

Teaching interests include religion and politics in modern South Asia, 
performance studies, and modern South Africa.