Sunil Khilnani
Sunil Khilnani (born New Delhi) is a Professor of Politics and Director of the King's College London India Institute. He is known for writing the book The Idea of India.[1][2] He was a 2010 Berlin Prize Fellow.
Life
Khilnani was born in New Delhi and grew up on the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia. He earned a first at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and PhD at King’s College, Cambridge.
He was Starr Foundation Professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies,[3] and Director of South Asia Studies.[4]
He is married to the writer Katherine Boo.
Works
Books
- Khilnani, Sunil (1993). Arguing revolution: the intellectual left in postwar France. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300057454.
- Khilnani, Sunil (1999). The idea of India. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. ISBN 9780374525910.
- Khilnani, Sunil; Kaviraj, Sudipta (2001). Civil society: history and possibilities. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521002905.
Chapters in books
- Khilnani, Sunil (2009), "Democracy and its Indian pasts", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik, Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 488–502, ISBN 9780199239979.
References
- ↑ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/worldwide/global/indiainstitute/people/sunilkhilnani/index.aspx
- ↑ Roy, Amit (17 April 2011). "In UK pipeline: a new-India institute". The Telegraph (Calcutta, India).
- ↑ http://casi.ssc.upenn.edu/khemka/khilnani
- ↑ http://www.sais-jhu.edu/academics/regional-studies/southasia/faculty/khilnani.htm
External links
- http://www.esmt.org/eng/about-esmt/review-of-open-lecture-with-sunil-khilnani/
- http://www.thenation.com/authors/sunil-khilnani
- http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/sunil-khilnani
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