Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Dipesh Chakrabarty
দীপেশ চক্রবর্তী
Born	1948 Kolkata, India
Awards	Toynbee Prize
Academic background
Alma mater	Australian National University
Academic work
Main interests	Subaltern Studies, Postcolonialism

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).