The Virtual Cosmopolitan of the Global Colonial Order

Partha Mitter: The Virtual Cosmopolitan of the Global Colonial Order

Dr. Sidhartha Maitra was a mathematician, engineer, and entrepreneur with a scientific appreciation of humanistic approaches and perspectives. Dr. Anuradha Luther Maitra established the series in memory of her late husband. She is an economist, entrepreneur, and generous friend to our campus, having taught at the university and served as UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustee for more than two decades, including a term as president.

Partha Mitter is a writer and historian of art and culture, specializing in the reception of Indian art in the West, as well as in modernity, art and identity in India, and more recently in global modernism. He studied history at London University and did his doctorate with E. H. Gombrich (1970). He began his career as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (1968-69) and Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge (1970-74).

In 1974 he joined Sussex as a Lecturer in Indian History, retiring in 2002 as Professor in Art History. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Ontario, Canada