Vasant Kaiwar

Vasant Kaiwar (Department of History, Duke University) read history at Balliol College, Oxford, before proceeding to UCLA for his Ph.D. with Robert Brenner as his dissertation advisor. He has taught South Asian and world history at the State University of New York at Albany and Duke University.

He is the author of The Postcolonial Orient: The Politics of Difference and the Project of Provincialising Europe (Haymarket Books, 2015). An abbreviated version of the book was published in French as L'Orient postcolonial: Sur la "provincialisation de l'Europe" et la théorie postcoloniale. (Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 2013).

He has also published two co-edited books, Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation (Duke University Press, 2003) and From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference (Routledge, 2009). He co-founded and edited the journals, South Asia Bulletin from 1981 to 1993, and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 1993 to 2001.

He has also published a number of articles on postcolonialism, Eurocentrism, and Orientalism, most notably:

--"Post-colonialism, Eurocentrism, and the Question of Universalism," in World Orders Revisited, edited by Ulf Engel and Matthias Middell, Leipzig: University of Leipzig Press, 2010, pp.17-51.

-- "Silences in Postcolonial Thought", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XL No 34, August 2005, pp. 3732-3738.

-- "Des Subaltern Studies comme nouvel orientalisme," ContreTemps, no.12 (2005), pp.136-50.

-- "Towards Orientalism and Nativism: The Impasse of Subaltern Studies," Historical Materialism (Vol. 12 No. 2, 2004), pp. 189-247.