Sho Kuwajima is Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He studied at the Indian School of International Studies in 1962-66, and was Senior Fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research in 1988-90. He is the author of Muslims, Nationalism and the Partition: 1946 Provincial Elections in India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1998, and The Mutiny in Singapore: War, Anti-War and the War for India's Independence, Rainbow Publishers, New Delhi, 2006. He has also translated Swami Sahajanand Saraswati's Kisan Sabha ke Sansmaran (in Hindi) into Japanese, Sagano Shoin, Kyoto, 2002, and recorded his interview with an Indian peasant leader in 1966 as Sakshatkar: Bihar ke Kisan Neta Pandit Jadunandan Sharma se Batchit (in Hindi), Pratyaksh Prakashan, Patna, 2006. Besides, he is the editor of Life, Freedom and War: Twentieth Century South Asia, Aakar Books, Delhi 2010.
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