David Hardiman is a historian of modern India and a founding member of the subaltern studies group.[1][2] Born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Hardiman was brought up in England where he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1970 and received his D.Phil. in South Asian History from the University of Sussex in 1975.[1][3] He is an Emeritus professor of the Department of History at the University of Warwick.[4]