Kumkum Chatterjee (née Banerjee; 12 June 1958, in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

– 13 December 2012, in

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) was an Indian American historian, best known for her works ''Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters'' (2008) and ''The Cultures of History in Early Modern India'' (2009). She was professor of history and

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