Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty is a professor of History. He holds a PhD degree in history from the Australian National University. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies and is one of the leading thinkers of postcolonial discourses, South Asian studies, and contemporary theory. He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago. Among his multiple writings, some of the popular ones are:

• Subaltern Studies Vol. 9 editor, with Shahid Amin (1997),
• Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000)
• Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002)