Dipesh Chakrabarty is an Indian historian, born in 1948 in Kolkata, and a leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago and received the 2014 Toynbee Prize, awarded to social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity. His writing includes the book Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) and the widely cited 2009 essay The Climate of History: Four Theses.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionLeading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies 2 Notable WorkProvincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference 2 Connections
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Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe argued that historical categories developed to narrate European empire cannot be applied to the rest of the world without distortion.
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1. Bibliotheque nationale de France catalogue record: Dipesh Chakrabarty (Wikidata reference)
Wikidata Q251282, P569 date of birth, referenceQuote, Wikidata Q251282, P569 date of birth, reference
1948-12-15
2. Wikipedia: Dipesh Chakrabarty
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1948
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Kolkata, India
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Indian historian
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leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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