Saudiptendu Ray is a Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi. He has completed his Master's in Modern Indian History from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. He graduated with a degree in History from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. He also has a Master’s in Museology from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. He has worked with museums of national repute for close to seven years. At the Partition Museum, he documented the oral histories of more than a hundred partition survivors. He has worked on the Prime Minister’s Museum Project at NMML. At the National Museum, he has done extensive research on the evolution of firearms technology in the Indian subcontinent based on the collection of the museum. Additionally, his areas of interest are oral history, script writing and Indian military history.

Contributions 
India's Civilizational Marvels Goa’s Aguad Port and Jail Complex in Sinquerim have been in the limelight since April 2024 for hosting an exhibition showcasing India’s ancient couture, India’s epic tales and historical narratives, and the profound symbolism of the lotus in I...

Voices from Jallianwala Bagh The Jallianwala Bagh massacre on April 13, 1919, in Amritsar, Punjab, was a watershed moment between the era of moderate politics at the national level and the emergence of mass nationalist movements against British imperialism in India. On this day,...

Looking Back at General Zorawar Singh and his Campaigns: An Assessment Zorawar Singh was a prominent military commander and statesman in the army of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu and Kashmir. He played a pivotal role in defining the modern political boundaries of the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Zo...

Monographs/Compendiums 
The Ahom-Mughal Conflict The Mughal expansionist tendencies sowed seeds of animosity with the Ahoms. A desire for political supremacy and territorial expansion in the northeast appears to have been a guiding motive of the Mughals under Emperors Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Auran...

Event Reports 
Talk on Varna, Ashrama and the Indic Religious Tradition On July 10, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a talk on ‘‘Varna, Ashrama and the Indic Religious Tradition” by Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill Univ...

The Indic Religious Tradition and the Philosophical Tradition of India On June 24, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a talk on ‘The Indic Religious Tradition and the Philosophical Tradition of India’ by Prof. Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religi...

Vimarsh on Religion, Dharma and the Indic Religious Tradition On 17th June 2024, Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Vimarsh lecture on ‘Religion, Dharma and the Indic Religious Tradition’ by Prof. Arvind Sharma. Prof. Sharma, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), is the Bi...

The Story of Indian Warfare On June 12, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a talk on 'The Story of Indian Warfare' based on the book 'India’s Battlefields from Kurukshetra to Balakot' written by Col. Ajay Singh (Retd), an author of seven books. He is the...

Book discussion on Discovering India Through the Bharatiya Lens: Breaking the Colonial and Marxist Myth On May 15, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a discussion on the book titled ‘Discovering India Through the Bharatiya Lens: Breaking the Colonial and Marxist Myth,' a book by Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Bajaj published by Prakhar Goonj...

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