Bandyopadhyay, Kausik

Kausik Bandyopadhyay teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata. Prior to this, he taught at Kidderpore College, Kolkata, and at the Department of History, North Bengal University. He was a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2010). A former Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2006 2009), he is the Academic Editor of Soccer and Society (London: Routledge). His areas of research interest include Social and Cultural History of Modern India, Popular Culture in South Asia, History of Sport and Contemporary South Asia.