Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian from India who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.

He attended Presidency College and received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Calcutta. He also received a diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.

He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

His name is mostly associated as a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. He has recently made important contributions to the intersections between history and postcolonial theory (Provincializing Europe), which continues and revises his earlier historical work on working-class history in Bengal (Rethinking Working-Class History).

He is married to Rochona Majumdar, his second wife, who is an assistant professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, also at the University of Chicago.

[edit] Bibliography

Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002)
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000)
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal, 1890-1940 (1989)
Cosmopolitanism (2002, editor, with Carol Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, and Homi K. Bhabha)
Subaltern Studies (Vol. 9 editor, with Shahid Amin)

(Note: Many of his works will have separate and different publication dates for India and the US. Dates given are earliest publication dates, to give an indication of when the book was written more than when it was published.)