Amarendra Kumar is an Associate Professor at Visva-Bharati, a central university and an Institute of National Importance (INI), in Santiniketan, West Bengal. He also taught at the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, Pune, for a decade, from 2000 to 2011. He completed his Masters and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), and in 2010, he was awarded PhD from Pune University for his thesis titled Maratha Navy: An Enquiry into Its Limitations and Contemporary Challenges. His goal is to connect Maratha naval history with the broader field of Indian Ocean studies. More recently his research on the Maratha Navy has been published in the Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare, and Oxford Handbook of Warfare in Asia (2024).