Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016) was an Indian

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

, political historian and

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such a ...

expert. He was a senior research fellow in international relations at the

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, and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at India's University Grants Commission. Earlier he taught at the universities of

Calcutta 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 ...

, Rabindra Bharati,

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and

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. Rai Chowdhuri was a prolific writer with primary interests in nuclear issues and South Asian Politics. He was a columnist at Project Syndicate, and

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, besides many news dailies across the globe. He was also known for his book
''Nuclear Politics''
an
''Leftism in India''
among others. His scholarship in

South Asian Studies Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

was honored in 2006 with the Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society, the UK's highest society in Asian studies.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chowdhuri, Satyabrata Rai International relations scholars Indian political scientists British political scientists Academic staff of the University of Calcutta Academics of the University of Oxford Academics of the London School of Economics Academics of the University of London Academics of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society 1935 births Living people Indian emigrants to England University of Calcutta alumni