Professor Sumantra Bose is a comparative political scientist whose work focuses on the intersections of nationalism(s), democracy, and conflict in the South Asian subcontinent, the Balkans, and the Middle East.

He is the author of nine books, including The Modi Era: India and the Story of a Democracy in Eclipse (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2025), Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict (Yale, 2021; Picador India in the subcontinent, and updated Picador India paperback, 2024), Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Transforming India: Challenges to the World’s Largest Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2013), Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (Harvard, 2007), Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard, 2003), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002).

Professor Bose is a regular contributor of analysis, commentary, and expert opinion to a range of Indian and international mass media outlets. Born and raised in Calcutta, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1992, and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1998. Prior to joining Krea as Professor of International and Comparative Politics, he held a Chair at the London School of Economics & Political Science for nearly two decades.