Sudhindra Bose

Sudhindra Bose (1883 – May 26, 1946), a pioneer in teaching Asian politics and civilization at the Iowa State University in the United States, was born in Keotkhali near Dacca, in the then Bengal Presidency.^[1]

Early life and education

Sudhindra Bose was born in Keotkhali and studied at Dacca Jubilee School, Hashara Kalikishore High English School, Munshiganj High School, and the Comilla Victoria School and Comilla Victoria College (where his brother Satyendranath Bose became principal) of

Academic career

Bose received a Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of Iowa in 1913.

From 1913 until his death in 1946, Bose was an instructor in the Department of Political Science at Iowa, first as Assistant in Political Science and then as Lecturer in Oriental Politics. He wrote four books between 1916 and 1934, as well as many articles for American and Indian periodicals.

In 1915, Bose published a rebuttal in the American Political Science Review to an article published by APSA president Frank J. Goodnow where Goodnow argued that monarchy was the most suitable form of government in China. Bose, on the other hand, argued that Asians yearned for democracy and challenged notions that Asians were fundamentally unlike Westerners in that regard.^[2]

Bose was a correspondent for the

He married Swiss fellow-student Anne Zimmerman in 1927. She taught French at the University of Iowa between 1944 and 1946 and wrote a biographical note on Sudhindra following his death.[4] He died May 26, 1946, of heart disease at the age of 63, in Iowa City, Iowa.^[5]

Publications

• Bose, Sudhindra (1918), Some aspects of British rule in India Monographs University of Iowa, vol. 5, The University, Iowa City, pp. 79–81
• Bose, Sudhindra (1920), Fifteen Years in America, Arno Press, New York

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