Dipesh chakrabarty biography

Indian historian (born 1948)

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.^[1] He is the author of the seminal Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000).

Biography

Dipesh Chakrabarty attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.^[2]

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