Dipesh Chakrabarty

Dipesh Chakrabarty is a Bengali historian and postcolonial theorist born in 1948.

He studied physics and management in India before earning a PhD in history from the Australian National University.

Currently, he is a Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Chakrabarty's work spans subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and environmental history.

His notable contributions include "Provincializing Europe," which critiques Western historiography and its universalization of liberalism.

He has also made significant contributions to the study of working-class history in Bengal and the intersections of history and postcolonial theory.

Chakrabarty's recent work focuses on the implications of climate change for historical understanding.