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Vinayak Chaturvedi

Associate Professor, History
School of Humanities

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2001, History

Phone: (949) 824-1260
Fax: (949) 824-2865
Email: vinayak@uci.edu

University of California
463 Krieger Hall
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
South Asia, Social and Intellectual History
   
Publications Books:

Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India (Berkeley & London: University of California Press, 2007).

South Asian Edition: Peasant Pasts: History, Politics and Nationalism in Gujarat (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008).

Ed., Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial (London & New York: Verso, 2000).

Articles:

'Rethinking Knowledge with Action: V.D. Savarkar, the Bhagavad Gita, and Histories of Warfare', Modern Intellectual History (Forthcoming)

'V.D. Savarkar and the Uses of History' in Crispin Bates, ed., Perception, Narration and Reinvention: the Pedagogy and Historiography of the Indian Uprising, (New Delhi: Sage Publishers, Forthcoming).

'Peasants Against Gandhi: Rethinking Criminality and Nationalism in Colonial India', Historische Anthropologie, volume 16, number 3 (2008), 373-94.

‘A Critical Theory of Subalternity: Rethinking Class in Indian Historiography', Left History, volume 12, number 1 (2007), 9-28.

‘The Making of a Peasant King in Colonial Western India: The Case of Ranchod Vira’, Past and Present, number 192 (2006), 155-185.

‘Eine kritische Theorie der Subalternität: Überlegungen zur Verwendung des Klassenbegriffs in der indischen Geschichtsschreibung’, WerkstattGeschichte 41 (2006), 5-23.

‘Of Peasants and Publics in Colonial India: Daduram’s Story, 1906-1996’, Social History, volume 30, number 3 (2005), 296-320.

‘Vinayak & Me: Hindutva and the Politics of Naming’, Social History, volume 28, number 2 (2003), 155-73.
   
Grant British Academy Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University, 2006. National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2006. Shorenstein Fellowship at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center, 2005-2006
   
Other Experience
Research Center
   
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Last updated 11/19/2009