Arnab Dutta

Arnab Dutta is a lecturer of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has been, until recently, a PhD candidate of Global Intellectual History at the University of Groningen. He was also a visiting doctoral fellow at the Department of History of Ideas, Uppsala University, Sweden; European University Institute Florence, Italy; and Global Intellectual History Graduate School, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Drawing on a wide range of sources and concepts derived from the language-worlds of Bangla, Hindi, Sanskrit, English, German, French and Italian, his doctoral dissertation project explored the intellectual entanglements between Interwar Germany and British India. Currently, he is developing a postdoctoral research project on the global history of knowledge-transfer under the League of Nation’s International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.

Arnab has previously studied at Jadavpur University, India; and later on, completed his Erasmus Mundus Joint-Degree MA in European Studies from Göttingen, Groningen, and Uppsala. Arnab’s research interests are in Interwar Germany, and the cultural and intellectual history of Modern Europe and South Asia. Among others, he has been awarded with the Duke of Arenberg Award 2018; the International Weimar Award 2020 from the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany; and the Vossius fellowship in the history of humanities and sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.