Dipesh Chakrabarty

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"The present book is intended to build from Chakrabarty's 'collapse', and, in focusing upon Asia and Africa, balance the strongly Eurocentric (or rather, Occicentric) treatment of Bonneuil and Fressoz and also of Brooke."--Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene (2017) by Gareth Austin

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Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian, who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, named for Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity.

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