Contributors
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Faisal Devji is Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Landscapes of the Jihad (2005) and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (2008). Devji’s interests are in intellectual history and political theory, with an emphasis on religion, violence, and globalization. His current work is on Gandhi as a radical thinker as well as on the Mahatma’s rival Jinnah, the founder of modern Muslim politics.
Jonardon Ganeri is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in classical and early modern Indian philosophical thought and the intersections with contemporary analytical philosophy. His publications include Philosophy in Classical India (2001) and The Concealed Art of the Soul (2007). Currently, he is working on a book about philosophical practice in seventeenth-century Varanasi.
R. S. Khare is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he has taught courses and led multidisciplinary programs comparing the cultures and histories of India and Europe, and India and America. His publications include The Changing Brahmans (1970), The Untouchable as Himself (1984), and an edited volume, Caste, Hierarchy and Individualism: Indian Critiques of Louis Dumont’s Contributions (2006).
Sanjay Krishnan is Associate Professor of English at the University of California–Irvine. He is the author of Reading the Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain’s Empire in Asia (2007). His current research is on the writings of V. S. Naipaul and the emergence of the novel form in the global periphery.
Vinay Lal teaches history at the University of California–Los Angeles. His books include Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (2002), The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India (2003), and Of Cricket, Guinness and Gandhi: Essays on Indian History and Culture (2005). His most recent books are The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America (2008) and Political Hinduism (2009). He has collaborated with Ashis Nandy on three books, most recently the coedited volume, The Future of Knowledge and Culture: A Dictionary for the Twenty-First Century (2005), and his work has been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, and Korean. [End Page 449]
Sudesh Mishra teaches at Deakin University, Australia. He is is the author of Rahu (1987), Tandava (1992), Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller (1994), Preparing Faces: Modernism and Indian Poetry in English (1995), Diaspora and the Difficult Art of Dying (2002), and Diaspora Criticism (2006). He has embarked on a study of the ship, Leonidas, which transported Indian workers to Fiji in 1879.
Vijay Mishra is Professor of English Literature at Murdoch University, Perth. He holds doctorates from the Australian National University and from Oxford University. Among his publications are Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (with Bob Hodge, 1991), The Gothic Sublime (1994), Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998), Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002), and The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary (2007). He plays the Indian harmonium, is a Beatles fan, and reads Sanskrit.
Arun P. Mukherjee is Professor of English at York University, Toronto. Her current teaching interests are South Asian and minority Canadian literatures. Her books include Postcolonialism: My Living (1998) and Oppositional Aesthetics: Readings from a Hyphenated Space (1995). Her translation of Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan: A Dalit’s Life (2003), won the New India Foundation Prize for the finest book published in India during 2002–2003. Her translation of Dalit writer Sharan Kumar Limbale’s novel Hindu is in press.
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Divinity. She is also a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. Her publications include Women and Human Development (2000), Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006), and The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future (2007).
Vyjayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New School for Social Research in New York. She works on cities after globalization and her specific interest lies...
