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South Asia Seminar

“The Empire and the Birth of Historical Research in India”

September 30, 2010

A talk by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Klimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Chicago.

Dipesh Chakrabarty photoDipesh Chakrabarty is a Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College. He is a founding member of the series Subaltern Studies and co-editor of Critical Inquiry and a founding-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies. Chakrabarty's research interests are in modern South Asian history and historiography, in postcolonial theory and its impact on history-writing, and in comparative studies of questions and politics of modernity.

Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Center for International Studies, the South Asia Language & Area Center and Committee on Southern Asian Studies.