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."
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]
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]
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
Books
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
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
"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.
↑ Humanities Jury, Infosys Science Foundation. "Infosys Prize – Jury 2016". Infosys Science Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017.
Dimova-Cookson, Maria (2012), "Subaltern studies, post-colonial Marxism, and 'finding your place to begin from': an interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty.", in Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria; Prokhovnik, Raia (eds.), Dialogues with contemporary political theorists, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.58–73, ISBN9780230303058
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