# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dipesh-chakrabarty
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:37:26.651Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dipesh-chakrabarty"
name: "Dipesh Chakrabarty"
slug: "dipesh-chakrabarty"
description: "Dipesh Chakrabarty is an Indian historian and leading scholar of 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 after Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity. He is the author of the seminal Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) and of the essay \"The Climate of History: Four Theses.\""
tagline: "Indian historian"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump