Academic Background: B.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. in South Asian History, University of Chicago.
Research Interests: South Asian history, world history, postcolonial theory, and historiography.
Appointments: Professor of History, UCLA; former Director, UCLA South Asian Studies Program.
Publications: Author of The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Additional Contributions: Editor of India and the West book series; public intellectual with essays in The Indian Express.