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Dipesh Chakrabarty

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College Dipesh Chakrabarty

Area of Study

Department of History

Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

Professor Chakrabarty's field specialties are modern South Asian history and historiography; subaltern, indigenous, and minority histories; history in public life and public life; theory and history; decolonization; and environmental history and the implications of climate change for human history.
Read more about his work here.