Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty | |
|---|---|
| দীপেশ চক্রবর্তী | |
| Born | 1948 (age 77–78) |
| Spouse | Rochona Majumdar |
| Awards | Toynbee Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Presidency College Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Australian National University |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Subaltern Studies, Postcolonialism |
Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948 in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian and leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, named after Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity. He is the author of the seminal Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) and of the essay "The Climate of History: Four Theses."