{
  "id": 801408,
  "title": "Sumit Sarkar, eminent scholar of modern Indian history, dies at 87",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/sumit-sarkar-eminent-scholar-of-modern-indian-history-dies-at-87",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T19:10:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sumit-sarkar-eminent-scholar-of-modern-indian-history-dies-at-87/article71342624.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "His works include Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908 (1973), Modern India (1989), and Writing Social History (1998), among others. He also co-edited Women and Social Reform in Modern India (2007) and Caste in Modern India (2013) with his wife, Tanika Sarkar.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}