Dipesh Chakrabarty

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Dipesh Chakrabarty
দীপেশ চক্রবর্তী
Born1948 (age 77–78)
Kolkata, India
SpouseRochona Majumdar
AwardsToynbee Prize
Academic background
Alma materPresidency College
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Australian National University
Academic work
Main interestsSubaltern 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) and of the essay "The Climate of History: Four Theses."

Biography

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Dipesh Chakrabarty attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a postgraduate 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]

Chakrabarty has had an extensive program of visiting lectureships: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Institute, Princeton, USA (2002); Hitesranjan Sanyal Visiting Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, University of Calcutta (2003); Visitor, Humanities Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook (2004); Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Historical Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany (2005); Faculty, Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, University of California, Irvine (2005); Visiting Research Professor, University of Technology, Sydney (2005 and 2009); Visitor, Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (2005); Scholar-in-residence, Pratt Institute, New York (2005); Visiting Professor, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania (2006); Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting professor, University of Iowa (2007); Distinguished Visitor, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Minnesota (2007); Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2008–09): Katz Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle (2009); Hallsworth Visiting Professor, University of Manchester, England (2009); Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria (2010); Lansdowne Lecturer, Victoria University, Canada (2012); Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2013).[citation needed]

In 2014, Chakrabarty delivered the IWM Lectures in Human Sciences in Vienna; a public lecture at Cankaya Municipality (Ankara, Turkey); Principal's Distinguished Visitor, Queen's University, Canada; distinguished visitor, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, New York; visitor, University of Barcelona, Spain; visiting fellow, Humanities Research Centre, College of Arts & Social Sciences, Australian National University (2014);[3] GLASS scholar, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) – Humanities University of Leiden, (2015).[4]

He also served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize from 2014 to 2016.[5]

The academic Christine Fair has accused Chakrabarty of making an inappropriate sexual comment during her time as a student in 1994.[6] Fair also alleged that Chakrabarty made similar comments to others.[6] The University of Chicago released a statement in 2017 inviting students to formally report such allegations.[7] In 2021, the Graduate Employees' Organization at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign protested the university's decision to host Chakrabarty at a roundtable on criticism and interpretive theory, in response to Fair's allegations.[8][9] Following a legal defamation suit, Fair issued a public apology for several allegations against Chakrabarty and his wife.[10]

Honours

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2004: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[11]

2006: Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[12]

2010: Doctor of Letters or D.Litt. (Honoris Causa), University of London (conferred at Goldsmiths)[11]

2011: Honorary Doctorate by the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2011; Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta (conferred on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the institute in 2011)[13]

2014: Toynbee Prize, named for Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity.[2]

2019: Tagore Memorial Prize (Rabindra Smriti Purashkar) awarded by the Government of West Bengal, India for The Crisis of Civilization (2018).[11]

2021: Honorary doctorate by École Normale Supérieure.[11]

2021: Jadunath Sarkar Memorial Gold Medal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata, for contribution to History.[11]

2023: Prix Européen de l’Essai or the European Essay Prize for Après le changement climatique: penser l’histoire (Paris: Gallimard, 2023), the French translation of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021).[11]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Rethinking Working Class History (1989)
  • Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000)
  • Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002)
  • The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth (2015)
  • The Crises of Civilization: Exploring on Global and Planetary Histories (2018)
  • (With Ranajit Dasgupta) Some Aspects of Labor History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views (2019)
  • The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021)
  • One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023)

Edited volumes

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  • Cosmopolitanism (2002), editor with Carol Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, and Homi K. Bhabha
  • From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition (2007), editor with Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori
  • Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (2015), editor with Henning Trüper and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Selected articles

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  • "Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for 'Indian' Pasts?" Representations 37 (Winter 1992): 1–26.
  • "The Death of History? Historical Consciousness and the Culture of Late Capitalism." Public Culture 4.2 (Spring 1992): 47–65.
  • "Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital." Public Culture 12.3 (Fall 2000): 653–678.
  • "Where Is the Now?" Critical Inquiry 30 (Winter 2004): 458–462.
  • "The Climate of History: Four Theses." Critical Inquiry 35.2 (Winter 2009): 197–222.
  • "Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change." New Literary History 43.1 (Winter 2012): 1–18.
  • "Climate and Capital: On Conjoined Histories." Critical Inquiry 41.1 (Autumn 2014): 1–23.
  • "Humanities in the Anthropocene: The Crisis of an Enduring Kantian Fable." New Literary History 47.2–3 (Spring and Summer 2016): 377–397.

Books in Bengali Language

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  • ইতিহাসের জনজীবন ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ (আনন্দ পাবলিশার্স, 2011)[14][15]
  • মানবিকতা ও অ-মানবিকতা (অনুষ্টুপ, 2018)
  • মনোরথের ঠিকানা (অনুষ্টুপ, 2018)[16][17][18]
  • উন্নয়ন ও আধুনিকতা: বর্তমান-সর্বস্ব এই সময় (কলিকাতা লেটারপ্রেস, 2019)
  • সাম্প্রতিক ইতিহাস-ভাবনা: আমার ইতিহাসের আলপথ ধরে (তালপাতা প্রকাশনা, 2019)
  • বন্ধুর চিঠি বন্ধুকে (with রাঘব বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) (অনুষ্টুপ, 2019)
  • স্মৃতি সত্তা সংলাপ (নির্ঝর, 2020)
  • জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন ও বর্তমান অতিমারি: মানুষের ইতিহাসে একটি সন্ধিক্ষণ (লৌকিক প্রকাশন, 2021)

See also

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References

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  3. ^ HRC 2014 Visiting Fellows, Australian National University, accessed 24 July 2015
  4. ^ Dipesh Chakrabarty (Fall 2015), University of Leiden, accessed 24 July 2015
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Further reading

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  • Tanner lecture 2015: Human Condition in the Anthropocene Archived 1 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
  • UChicago Faculty Page

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