Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri was educated in Calcutta and Oxford (from where he received his doctoral degree), and taught history at the University of Calcutta for about four decades. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Heidelberg; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the University of California at Berkeley; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; the University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Hitotsubashi University and Kyoto University, Japan; and The Asiatic Society, Bangladesh. At present, he is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.