Manu Belur Bhagavan (born 1970) is an Indian American historian and professor of history and human rights atHunter College and theGraduate Center of theCity University of New York. He is also a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute. Bhagavan's research focuses on 20th-century India,intellectual history, human rights, andconstitutional history.^[1]

Manu Belur Bhagavan was born in 1970.^[2] He received his B.A fromCarleton College and Ph.D. from theUniversity of Texas at Austin.^{[citation needed]}

Bhagavan is a professor of history and human rights atHunter College and theGraduate Center of theCity University of New York. His teaching interests include modern South Asian history, human rights, and intellectual history. He has authored several books, includingThe Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (2012) andSovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India (2003).

Bhagavan has also edited or co-edited multiple volumes, includingIndia and the Cold War (2019) andHidden Histories: Religion and Reform in South Asia (2018). Bhagavan's essays and op-eds have appeared in various publications. His 2016Quartz essay on global authoritarianism gained international attention and was translated into German for theBerliner Republik magazine.^[3]

In 2006, Bhagavan received a fellowship from theAmerican Council of Learned Societies. He was elected as a member of thePacific Council on International Policy in 2017. In 2023, Bhagavan wrote a biography ofVijaya Lakshmi Pandit.^[4][5]

Bhagavan held the position of president at the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia, and chaired the Human Rights Program at theRoosevelt House Public Policy Institute. He frequently provides commentary in the media on topics concerning India, international relations, theUnited Nations, and human rights.^[6]

• Sovereign Spheres: Princes, Education, and Empire in Colonial India. New Delhi:Oxford University Press. 2003.ISBN 978-0-19-566399-0.^[7]
• India and the Quest for One World: The Peacemakers. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.ISBN 978-1-137-34983-5.^[8]
• India and the Cold War. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press. 2019.ISBN 978-1-4696-5117-0.^[9]
• Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: A Biography. Gurugram:Penguin Random House India. 2023.ISBN 978-06-7008-947-5.^[10]

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