Sen took his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from
St. Stephen's College, Delhi and also pursued his PhD there. After a brief career in
Indian Civil Services, he took up teaching and research in 1984.[6]
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Sen, Amiya P: Hindu Revivalism in Bengal, Some Essays in Interpretation. 1872-1905. Delhi Oxford University Press. 1993
Sen, Amiya P: Swami Vivekananda. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2000
Sen, Amiya P: “Sri Ramakrishna and Middle Class Religion in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal. Exploring Some New Paradigms of Understanding” in Biswamoy Pati ed. Issuesin Modern Indian History. For Sumit Sarkar. Bombay. Popular Prakashan. 2000.
Sen, Amiya P: Three Essays on Sri Ramakrishna and His Times. Shimla, IIAS. 2001
Sen, Amiya P: Introduction to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay: Dharmatattwa. Translated by Apratim Ray. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2003.
Sen, Amiya P ed. Social and Religious Reform. The Hindus of British India. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2003
Sen, Amiya P: The Indispensable Vivekananda. An Anthology for Our Times. Ranikhet. Permanent Black. 2006.
Sen, Amiya P: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. An Intellectual Biography. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2008.
Sen, Amiya P.|: His Words: The Preaching and Parables of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Delhi. Penguin Viking. 2010.
Sen, Amiya P.: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa: The Sadhaka of Dakshineswar. Delhi. Penguin Viking. 2010.
Sen, Amiya P. ed. Bankim's Hinduism. An Anthology of Writings by BankimchandraChattopadhyay. Ranikhet. Permanent Black. 2011
Sen, Amiya P: Rammohun Roy. A Critical Biography. Delhi. Penguin Viking. 2012.
Sen, Amiya P: Religion and Rabindranath Tagore. Select Discourses, Addresses andLetters in Translation. Delhi. Oxford University Press.2014.
Sen, Amiya P :"Culture and Community Building . Select Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal" in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya ed. Indian Cultural Unity: A Reappraisal. Kolkata. Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. 2014.
Sen, Amiya P: "Hindu Reform Movements in British India" in Key Concepts in ModernIndian Studies. Eds Gita Dharampal-Frick, Monika Kirloskar Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahanavy Phalkey. New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2015.
Sen, Amiya P: "Hinduism and the Problem of Self-Actualisation in the Colonial Era: Critical Reflections". ''Heinrich Zimmer Lecture for 2015. South Asia Institute'' ''Papers.'' Heidelberg University.
Sen, Amiya P: "Debates within Colonial Hinduism" in Brian A. Hatcher ed. Hinduism in the Modern World. New York & London. Routledge. 2015.
Sen, Amiya P: "Swami Vivekananda's Vision of India" in Swami Vivekananda's Ideas and our Times. A Retrospect on his 150th Birth Anniversary. A CommemorativeVolume. ed. by Sandipan Sen et al. Ramakrishna Vidyamandira, Howrah. 2015
Sen, Amiya P: An Idealist in India. Selected Writings and Speeches of Sister Nivedita. Delhi. Primus Books. 2016.
Sen, Amiya P: "Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Vaishnava Revival in Bengal" in In Quest of the Historian's Craft. Essays in Honour of Professor B.B. Chaudhuri. Part II. Edited by Arun Bandopadhyay and Sanjukta Das Gupta. Delhi. Manohar. 2017.
Sen, Amiya P: "A Hindu Conservative Negotiates Modernity. Chandranath Basu (1844-1910) and Reflections on the Self and Culture in Colonial Bengal". in Rafael Klober and Manu Ludwig eds. Her Story. Historical Scholarship between South Asia and Europe. ''Festscrift'' in Honour of Gita Dharampal Frick.'' Heidelberg. Cross Asia Books. 2018.
Sen, Amiya P: Chaitanya. A Life and Legacy. Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2019.
Sen, Amiya P: "Theorising Bengal Vaishnavism. Bipinchandra Pal and New Perspectives on Religious Life and Culture" in Ferdinando Sardella& Lucian Wong eds. The Legacyof Vaishnavism in Colonial Bengal. London & New York. Routledge. 2020, pp. 33-56
Sen, Amiya P: "Hinduism under Interpretative Stress. A View from Nineteenth Century Bengal". in Sabyasachi Bhattacahrya Ed. Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal.1700-1950. Delhi. Primus Publications. Vol. 2. 2019, pp. 213-70.
Amiya P. Sen ed. Special Issue on Hinduism: "Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Developments" Religions 12, 85 (2021) ISSN 2077-1444
Amiya P. Sen : "Japan in India's Xenology: Negotiating Modernity, Culture and Cosmopolitanism in colonial Bengal in Madhu Bhalla ed. Culture as Power. Buddhist Heritageand Indo Japanese Dialogue. London and New York. Routledge. South Asia Edition. 2021
Amiya P. Sen: Vidyasagar. Reflections on aNotable Life. Delhi. Orient Black Swan. 2021
Amiya P. Sen: "The Idea of Social Reform and Its Critique among Hindus of Nineteenth Century India " in Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social Sciences ed. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. Centre for Studies in civilizations Vol.X, Part 5. Delhi.2007.
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Amiya P. Sen: "Sarada Devi. Holiness, Charisma and IconicMotherhood". Delhi. Niyogi Books. 2022