Subho Basu

Subho Basu is an Associate Professor at McGill University specializing in modern South Asian history. His research examines colonial capitalism, labor movements, and post-colonial politics across India and Nepal.

Basu's publications investigate the complex intersections of class, religion, and regional identity in political mobilization. His books include Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal and Paradise Lost?: State Failure in Nepal (co-authored).

He currently supervises doctoral research on migration patterns, disaster impacts on Bengali society, tea plantation labor systems, and constitutional development in South Asia.