Dipesh Chakrabarty, born in India, graduated in physics from the University of Calcutta, where he also studied business administration. He received his PhD in philosophy from the Australia National University in Canberra. He is currently Professor of History, Languages, and Civilization of Southeast Asia at the University of Chicago and a member of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. A scholar of the convergences of history and postcolonial thought as well as the transformations of mass politics in the Indian subcontinent, he is the author, among other titles, of Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies (2002). He has also co-edited several collective works, including: From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition (2007).