Chowdhuri was a senior research fellow in international relations at the
Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London,
United Kingdom, and an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at India's
University Grants Commission. Earlier he taught at the universities of
Calcutta,
Rabindra Bharati,
London and
Oxford. Chowdhuri was a prolific writer with primary interests in nuclear issues and South Asian Politics. He was a columnist at
Project Syndicate, and
Asia Times Online, besides many news dailies across the globe. He was also known for his books
Nuclear Politics and
Leftism in India among others. Chowdhuri scholarship in
South Asian Studies was honoured in 2006 with the
Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society, the UK's highest society in
Asian studies. Chowdhuri died in 2016. ==References==